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Manu Raju / Politico:
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney — Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she was a “better candidate.”
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands of More Pages to Pick Through, Distort, and Lie About' — Earlier today, Mitt Romney spoke with National Review Online about life on the trail, his meeting with Dick Cheney,and his upcoming trip to Europe.
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National Review:
Release the Returns — Mitt Romney is steadfastly resisting calls to release additional years of his personal tax returns, arguing — not without good reason — that this demand is part of a fishing expedition by the Obama campaign, which hopes to exploit Romney's personal wealth …
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Townhall.com, The Daily Dish, Riehl World View and Outside the Beltway
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Did Mitt Romney pay any federal taxes at all in 2009? — On the issue of Mitt Romney's tax returns, my colleague George Will put it simply: “The cost of not releasing the returns are clear. Therefore, he must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them.”
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Joshua Green / Business Week:
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns? — As George Will and many others have noted, there must be something truly damaging in Romney's pre-2010 tax returns for him to willingly endure the criticism and scrutiny that has accompanied his refusal to release them — a refusal he reiterated on Friday …
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Ron Paul to Mitt Romney: Release tax returns — Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns, adding to the pressure on the GOP nominee to share personal financial information with the public. — “Politically, I think that would help him,” …
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now
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National Review, Washington Post, Associated Press and The Hill
Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
TPM2012 — John McCain: I Didn't Pick Romney Because 'Sarah Palin …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Romney appears in final stages of running-mate decision
Romney appears in final stages of running-mate decision
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: Cheney motivated to stop defense cuts because of Halliburton ties
Reid: Cheney motivated to stop defense cuts because of Halliburton ties
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Weasel Zippers
Callum Borchers / Boston Globe:
John Kerry's office blasts Mitt Romney over inaccurate claims about tax returns
John Kerry's office blasts Mitt Romney over inaccurate claims about tax returns
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Michael Tomasky on Romney's Veep and Convention-Speaker Trap
Michael Tomasky on Romney's Veep and Convention-Speaker Trap
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msnbc.com:
Romney surrogate Sununu: ‘I wish this president would learn how to be an American’ — By NBC's Garrett Haake and Michael O'Brien — Follow @GarrettNBCNews Follow @mpoindc — Updated at 9:51 p.m. ET: The Romney campaign ratcheted up its language on Tuesday in a conference call on which former …
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NY Daily News:
Top Romney surrogate John Sununu, the fomer N.H. Gov., apologizes after charging that Obama needs …
Top Romney surrogate John Sununu, the fomer N.H. Gov., apologizes after charging that Obama needs …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Star of Pro-Obama Super PAC Ad Unleashed: ‘Obama Is a Jerk, a Pantywaist, a Lightweight, a Blowhard’ — The star of a pro-Obama super PAC ad is speaking out against ... President Barack Obama. — “I could really care less about Obama,” Donnie Box says of President Obama, according to In These Times.
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Mike Elk / Working In These Times:
Laid Off Steelworker in Anti-Romney Ad Says He Is Not Voting for Obama — “We didn't know who the hell Mitt Romney was when all that stuff started,” says former GS Technologies steelworker Donnie Box of Kansas City, Missouri. “It wasn't until later we found out who Romney was.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Mitt Romney ad pulled from YouTube
Mitt Romney ad pulled from YouTube
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
George W. Bush: ‘8 years was awesome’ — In case there was any doubt, George W. Bush made it abundantly clear in a recent interview that although it was “awesome” being president for eight years, he doesn't miss life in political office. — “Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Romney Knocks It Out of the Park — By all accounts, Mitt Romney was sensational today in Pennsylvania. His theme was Barack Obama's revelatory “you didn't build that” speech. Over the lunch hour (here in the Midwest), Twitter was burning up with commentary from those who were watching Romney's speech live.
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Wake up America
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Wasserman Schultz Has Unreported Second Home in NH, Lives Large on the High Seas — DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and President Barack Obama's re-election campaign team have been waging a coordinated effort against Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney by repeatedly casting aspersion …
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Doug Ross and The Lonely Conservative
K. Allan Blume / Baptist Press News:
‘Guilty as charged,’ Cathy says of Chick-fil-A's stand on biblical & family values — CARY, N.C. (BP) — Dan Cathy oversees one of the country's most successful businesses. As president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Cathy leads a business with 1,608 restaurants that had sales of more than $4 billion dollars last year.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Capitalism Debate — Let's say you are president in a time of a sustained economic slowdown. You initiated a series of big policies that you thought were going to turn the economy around, but they didn't work — either because they were insufficient or ineffective.
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OnTheRedCarpet.com Entertainment News:
Mark Hamill: Mitt Romney is ‘not actually human’ (Video) — Mark Hamill says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is “not actually human” and that people who don't vote to re-elect Barack Obama in the upcoming November election are “insane.” — The 60-year-old actor …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads in Iowa — PPP continues to find Barack Obama as the favorite in Iowa, although the race in the state is a good deal closer than it was in both 2008 and on our last poll in early May. Obama leads by 5 points, 48-43, after previously holding a 10 point advantage at 51-41.
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Behind Jeers for Clinton in Egypt, a Conspiracy Theory With U.S. Roots — Tuesday, 10:03 a.m. The news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's motorcade was pelted with shoes and tomatoes by Egyptian protesters, who also taunted her by chanting “Monica!
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Bachmann defends her witch hunt
Bachmann defends her witch hunt
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
National Review Writer Stands By Racial Slur — One might expect National Review Online (NRO), the conservative commentary outlet, to be particularly sensitive to any racist language given two recent dust ups — one writer was recently fired for penning a screed against black people …
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Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Hullabaloo and National Review
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
How did vaunted Romney Death Star break down? — More Photos — Popular in Politics — A few days before the January 31 Florida Republican primary, a number of Mitt Romney's top aides took to the pages of the New York Times to brag about how they had destroyed Newt Gingrich.
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New York Magazine, American Prospect and National Review
Stephanie Warsmith / Akron Beacon Journal:
Obama campaign sues Ohio over early voting restrictions — President Barack Obama's campaign filed a lawsuit in Columbus this afternoon, seeking to restore the three days of early voting prior to Election Day that the GOP-controlled legislature eliminated, the campaign announced in an exclusive interview with the Beacon Journal today.
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