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David Frum / CNN:
Mitt Romney's painfully bad week — Editor's note: David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including a new novel, “Patriots.” — (CNN) — By any measure, the Mitt Romney for president campaign has had a painfully bad week.
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Bloomberg:
Romney's Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses — By Anthony Luzzatto Gardner 2012-07-15T22:30:01Z — Mitt Romney touts his business acumen and job-creation record as a key qualification for being the next U.S. president. — What's clear from a review of the public record during …
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CNN:
Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney — Editor's note: David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has been an adviser to four presidents. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Romney's Account of His Departure From Bain Undercut By...Romney Testimony — In a previously unreported remark, Romney indicated he went through a “transition” at Bain after heading to Utah in February 1999. — Mitt Romney, his campaign, and Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Politifact: Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas — “Mitt Romney's companies sent jobs overseas.” — Is that statement true or false? — It passed mostly unnoticed, but on Friday, a well-respected fact-checking organization — one cited by the Romney campaign itself on occasion …
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David Frum / david-frum:
Romney: Too Weak? — This is powerfully said by Josh Marshall …
Romney: Too Weak? — This is powerfully said by Josh Marshall …
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Peter J. Boyer / The Daily Beast:
Romney's Palin Problem: Where's Her Convention Invite?
Romney's Palin Problem: Where's Her Convention Invite?
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney tries to regain momentum with new focus on Obama's ‘political payoffs’
Romney tries to regain momentum with new focus on Obama's ‘political payoffs’
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain
The Bain Quatrain
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Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Romney campaign accuses Obama of ‘political payoffs’
Romney campaign accuses Obama of ‘political payoffs’
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
TPM Editor's Blog
TPM Editor's Blog
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Policy and the Personal — A lot of people inside the Beltway …
Policy and the Personal — A lot of people inside the Beltway …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Probe cites officials for soliciting prostitutes, accepting gifts, FOIA docs reveal — Treasury Department officials have been cited for soliciting prostitutes, breaking conflict-of-interest rules and accepting gifts from corporate executives, according to the findings of official government investigations.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Pawlenty Looked at as Romney Running Mate — EAGAN, Minn. — It was four years ago this summer, when Tim Pawlenty ranked high on the list of John McCain's potential running mates, and Mr. Pawlenty and his wife, Mary, were plowing through a voluminous questionnaire probing deep into their finances …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
John Thune rising: GOP senator on Romney's veepstakes and his future
John Thune rising: GOP senator on Romney's veepstakes and his future
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Orlando Sentinel:
‘Witness 9’ tells prosecutors Zimmerman molested her for years — A woman told authorities that while they were children, murder suspect George Zimmerman sexually molested her for a decade, according to prosecution records released today. — The woman, identified only as “witness 9,” …
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New York Post:
Obama wedding registry fund-raising strategy not a hit with brides — President Obama's bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop. — The desperate initiative …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Democrats threaten to go over ‘fiscal cliff’ if GOP fails to raise taxes — Democrats are making increasingly explicit threats about their willingness to let nearly $600 billion worth of tax hikes and spending cuts take effect in January unless Republicans drop their opposition to higher taxes for the nation's wealthiest households.
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Tammie Fields / Tampa Bay Fl News:
Lt. Governor speaks out about sex scandal accusations — Lt. Governor Carroll made the comments Saturday in Orange Park, at the opening of a campaign office for Mitt Romney. — Carletha Cole claims she walked in on a sexual encounter between Carroll and Carroll's travel aide, Beatriz Ramos.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Latest Word on the Trail? I Take It Back — The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. — They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under …
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
JPMorgan just gave a calamitous economic forecast for Obama — Just out from JPMorgan: … Basically, this is a forecast for stagnation for the rest of this year and through 2013. Also note that the forecast sees monthly job growth at just 100,000 a month in the third quarter, with the unemployment rate averaging 8.2%.
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Jason Lange / Reuters:
Retail sales fall for third straight month in June — (Reuters) - Retail sales fell in June for the third straight month, the longest run of consecutive drops since 2008 when the country was mired in recession. — Sales slipped .5 percent, with declines across a wide swath of industries …
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Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Retail Purchases In U.S. Unexpectedly Decrease 0.5%
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Turn Against John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court — Democrats now positive about both — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' opinions of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts are now much more negative than they were seven years ago, with the most recent reading coming soon …
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Wall Street Journal:
It's True: Corporations Are People — What else could they be? Buildings don't hire people. Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer. — Here's a new party trick. Want to be accused of being a member of a satanic cult?
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WESH-TV:
Deputies shoot, kill man after knocking on wrong door — FDLE looking into deputy-involved shooting — Lake County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed a man they assumed was an attempted murder suspect on Sunday, but they now know they shot the wrong man.
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