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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
USAT/Gallup Poll: Paul Ryan gets low marks for VP — Americans don't believe Mitt Romney hit a home run with his choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, with more of the public giving him lower marks than high ones. — Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman …
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
POLITICO-GW Battleground Poll: Tied up — The race for the White House remained in a dead heat just before Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds. — The poll, conducted in the days leading up to the Ryan announcement …
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - and their Wives! - Open Up to PEOPLE — However tough and tight the race against President Obama gets this fall, Janna Ryan predicts that her husband Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney can count on one thing: fun. — PEOPLE was first to sit down with the freshly minted …
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Matt Miller / Washington Post:
Understanding the Ryan plan — The striking thing about Paul Ryan's ascent is the gulf between his proposals and the way the media have characterized them. Since Mitt Romney named Ryan to the ticket on Saturday, the news has been filled with talk of the “ fiscal conservative ” (NPR) " …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Mitt Romney cancels Florida campaign stop, citing exhaustion — Mitt Romney is cancelling a planned campaign stop Monday in Orlando after a whirlwind weekend in which the presumptive Republican nominee introduced Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate.
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — YOU SEE IT FIRST RIGHT HERE — “...Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer's plans to …
Paul Ryan / CNN:
New Romney TV ad second straight to attack Obama on welfare — (CNN) - Mitt Romney's first television commercial since announcing House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate brings back a claim first brought up last week: That President Barack Obama is altering …
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Brad Plumer / Washington Post:
What Paul Ryan's budget actually cuts — and by how much
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about Paul Ryan
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CBS News:
Romney & Ryan: The first interview
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Forget the budget: Paul Ryan is hot!
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
GOP again turns to Kristol ball
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Romney's presidential pick
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Romney, Ryan play offense on Medicare in 60 Minutes appearance
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
Game-changing pick for Romney, worst nightmare for Obama
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Paul Ryan: The Next President of the United States?
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Christine Delargy / CBS News:
“60 Minutes”: Romney, Ryan answer critics of Medicare position
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Presidential debate moderators announced — The Commission on Presidential Debates has decided on the moderators for this year's debates, sources confirm to POLITICO. — PBS's Jim Lehrer will host the first presidential debate on October 3 in Denver, Colo. CNN's Candy Crowley will host the second …
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Commission on Presidential Debates:
Format — The format for the debates, announced on July 25, 2012, will be: — First presidential debate — The debate will focus on domestic policy and be divided into six time segments of approximately 15 minutes each on topics to be selected by the moderator and announced several weeks before the debate.
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Paul Krugman:
The Ryan Role — Mark Kleiman points us to a lamentable but revealing column by William Saletan, which illustrates perfectly how the essentially ludicrous Paul Ryan has gotten so far - namely, by playing to the gullibility of self-proclaimed centrists, who want to show their “balance” by finding a conservative to praise.
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Michelle Obama: Barack's not a ‘superhero’ — “He's not a superhero; he's a human. So he needs your help,” the First Lady said. AP Photo — Close — First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband isn't a “superhero” and that President Barack Obama will need all the help he can get in order to be reelected.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama camp: 1,000 attended ‘half-full’ fundraiser
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama Has ‘Sunday of Fun’ at Gwen Stefani's Home
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New York Post:
Anthony Wiener and wife move into $3.3M Manhattan apt. — Anthony Weiner's wife not only took him back, she took him back in style — moving with the shamed pol into a luxurious, $3.3 million Manhattan pad owned by a deep-pocketed Democratic donor, The Post has learned.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Paul Ryan's Ayn Rand Reader: Lesson One … - One Thing the 2012 Dream Team Has On the 1992 Dream Team - Yglesias: Is Taco Bell Trying To Turn Itself Into Chipotle? - From Glenn Beck to Ira Glass: Great Magazine Stories About Talk Radio - You Won't Believe the Nasty Things Guys Say to Women Playing Video Games
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Jessica Pressler / New York Magazine:
122 Minutes With Jamie Dimon — The JPMorgan Chase CEO is really, really, really sorry. Except when he's not. — E — ven here, on his own turf, they are giving Jamie Dimon a hard time. — “Um, yeah, my question is kind of broad?” begins a gawky guy who identifies himself as a Tufts student interning in Client Solutions.
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Ed Hammond / Financial Times:
Spanish commercial property on the brink — The Spanish and Italian commercial property markets have all but collapsed with the number of transactions in both countries falling more than 90 per cent in the three months to July as investors worry about the future of the eurozone.
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