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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 Goodin / Ballot Box:
GOP concerned Ryan could cost party House and Senate seats — Republicans strategists are worried that Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) addition to the presidential ticket will cost their party House and Senate seats this fall. — Their concern: Democrats will successfully demonize Ryan's budget plan …
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ThinkProgress, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Booman Tribune and Politico
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Brutal: CNN Torches DWS on Medicare Falsehoods — Let me say this right up front: Congratulations to Wolf Blitzer for being a relentless, responsible journalist. If you value the truth, this interview is a pleasure to watch. If you have even an ounce of human compassion for the in-over-her-head target …
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Hot Air, Weekly Standard and ThinkProgress
Orlando Sentinel:
Romney campaign cancels Monday visit to Orlando — Although Mitt Romney was supposed to visit Orlando on Monday, the campaign announced late Sunday that the presumed Republican presidential nominee was too exhausted to make the trip. — The news came after Romney spent what one campaign official …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Gov. Chris Christie to deliver keynote at GOP convention
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Jeff Spross / ThinkProgress:
Ron Wyden Pushes Back Against Being Linked To Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan
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Roll Call, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Firedoglake
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Paul Ryan Origin Story Is a Heaping Pile
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New York Times
Alexandra Sifferlin / CNN:
Paul Ryan's workout: Is P90X for you?
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BuzzFeed:
Ryan Heckled At First Solo Event — A talk at the Iowa State Fair turns chaotic. Protester allegedly assaults volunteer. — Heckler at Ryan event in Des Moines, Iowa. — Source: p.twimg.com — DES MOINES, Iowa — Paul Ryan's remarks at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines today turned …
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Politico:
Paul Ryan's voting record: Big-spending conservatism — Paul Ryan rose to the top of the political ranks on his reputation as a conservative budget hawk. But his voting record shows him to be far from a pure fiscal conservative. — Ryan voted for the $700 billion bank bailout …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
BuzzFeed:
New Senior Romney Advisor Called Ryan Entitlement Reform Plans “Irresponsible...A Bad Idea”
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New York Times, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Colorlines, PoliticusUSA and The Hinterland Gazette
Krissah Thompson / Washington Post:
Janna Ryan steps lightly into national spotlight
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Hecklers in Iowa disrupt Ryan's first solo campaign event
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CNN, Politico and The Other McCain
BuzzFeed:
Romney Won't Say Where He Disagrees With Ryan On Medicare
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Paul Ryan Insider Trading Rumor Quickly Debunked — It had the makings of a scandal: Paul Ryan traded banking stocks during the financial crisis the same day as a meeting with top Treasury Department officials, a Virginia blog wrote Monday. But the rumor, which spread rapidly across …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden Invokes Paul Ryan's Deceased Father to Question VP Candidate's Values — Vice President Joe Biden invoked Paul Ryan's deceased father to question the Republican vice presidential candidate's values: — “My dad used to have another saying, for real,” Biden said.
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Politico, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Speaker.gov, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Marooned In Marin and NewsBusters.org blogs
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Paul Ryan Used His Office To Profit From the Financial Crisis
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and The Other McCain
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's constitutional amendment would bar Paul Ryan from the presidency
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
Reflections on Paul Ryan's Transactions in Individual Bank Stocks in 2008
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Obama for America, New York Magazine and Angry Bear
BuzzFeed:
Romney's Three-Year Business Experience Requirement Would Disqualify His Own Running Mate
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and The Raw Story
Eric Platt / Business Insider:
Paul Ryan's Bank Transactions Were Not Insider Trading
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com:
Boehner's Office Says Obama Avoiding Personal Responsibility For Drought — On its website and in an email Monday, House Speaker John Boehner's office said President Obama needs to take personal responsibility for the drought ravaging the Midwest. — Obama, “continues to blame anyone …
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Paul Krugman:
Romney/Ryan: The Real Target — So, let me clarify what I believe is really going on in the choice of Paul Ryan as VP nominee. It is not about satisfying the conservative base, which was motivated anyway by Obama-hatred; it is not about refocusing on the issues, because R&R are both determined …
Martin Hesse / Spiegel Online:
Euro Crisis — Currency's Days Seen Numbered — Investors Prepare for Euro Collapse — Banks, companies and investors are preparing themselves for a collapse of the euro. Cross-border bank lending is falling, asset managers are shunning Europe and money is flowing into German real estate and bonds.
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National Review
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Gave ‘Single Girl’ a Life in Full (Sex, Sex, Sex) — Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of “Sex and the Single Girl” shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it — and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent …
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CNN:
3 killed in shootings near Texas A&M University — (CNN) — A Texas constable and two others were shot dead Monday in about a half an hour of gunfire near Texas A&M University, police said. — Scott McCollum, assistant chief with the College Station police department …
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Francisco Alvarado / Riptide 2.0:
Mitt Romney is Stumping In Miami at Eatery Owned By Convicted Coke Smuggler … Today, Mitt Romney is foregoing a Miami political campaign tradition by skipping over Versailles restaurant in Little Havana. Instead, Mittens will be hobnobbing with a convicted cocaine smuggler.
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David Shepardson / detroitnews.com:
Treasury: U.S. to lose $25 billion on auto bailout — Washington -The Treasury Department says in a new report the government expects to lose more than $25 billion on the $85 billion auto bailout. That's 15 percent higher than its previous forecast. — In a monthly report sent to Congress on Friday …
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Sally Johnson / Associated Press:
Christie to give RNC keynote — Chris Christie, the sometimes abrasive but always entertaining governor of New Jersey, is set to be announced Tuesday as the keynote speaker for the Republicans' national convention later this month. — Christie, who considered a 2012 presidential bid …
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