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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 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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
July panic for Obama — for good reason — Why has the Obama team been publicly wailing about losing out to Mitt Romney in the money race? Why would the president accuse his opponent of not merely being wrong or unqualified but criminal? After all, the polls are tied, so why so much worry in Obamaland?
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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David Frum / david-frum:
Romney: Too Weak? — This is powerfully said by Josh Marshall on Friday the 13th, a bad day for Mitt Romney: — I'm not sure how many people watching this spectacle even remember that it's nominally about whether Romney is responsible for outsourcing Bain did post-February 1999 or its investment …
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John Cassidy / News Desk:
Why Won't Romney Release More Tax Returns? — I'm following Mitt Romney's example and vacationing in New England this week, but the Sunday-morning talk shows make it to out to Cape Cod, and I couldn't quite go cold turkey. In addition to much rehashing of Friday's Bain Capital story …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney tries to regain momentum with new focus on Obama's ‘political payoffs’
Peter J. Boyer / The Daily Beast:
Romney's Palin Problem: Where's Her Convention Invite?
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney rips Obama camp's ‘dishonesty’
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Bain Quatrain
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Policy and the Personal — A lot of people inside the Beltway …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Analysis: Obama, Romney and a turn in the debate on jobs
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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 — Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) has reemerged as a viable vice presidential candidate who would check many of the boxes Mitt Romney is looking for in a running mate. — He's an experienced legislator who has earned respect …
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Treasury probe cites officials for soliciting prostitutes, accepting industry 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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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Nick Wiltgen / National and Local Weather Forecast …:
2012 Drought Rivals Dust Bowl … This year's drought ranks among the 10 largest drought areas of the past century, the National Climatic Data Center is expected to announce today. — Preliminary data computed from the Palmer Drought Severity Index shows that 54.6 percent of the contiguous 48 states …
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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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