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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don't Get Pregnant — This post has been updated. — Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape …
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate: ‘Legitimate rape’ rarely causes pregnancy
Todd Akin, GOP Senate candidate: ‘Legitimate rape’ rarely causes pregnancy
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Midwest Democracy and Jammie Wearing Fools
Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
Obama camp - We are intentionally limiting crowd size at rallies — The presumptive GOP presidential and vice presidential nominees Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan are attracting thousands of supporters to their campaign rallies since Mr. Romney named Mr. Ryan to the bottom of the ticket.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gibbs: Biden remark no more racial than Boehner saying ‘unshackle Wall Street’ — Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on Sunday defended Joe Biden, saying a recent comment that GOP economic policies would put people “back in chains” was not racially motivated and claiming it was no different …
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CNN, Little Green Footballs, The PJ Tatler and The Hinterland Gazette
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Giuliani questions whether Biden has the ‘balance’ to be president
Giuliani questions whether Biden has the ‘balance’ to be president
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The Hinterland Gazette and New York Magazine
Carlo Muñoz / The Hill:
Biden not a ‘liability’ despite recent gaffe, says Obama campaign
Biden not a ‘liability’ despite recent gaffe, says Obama campaign
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Wake up America
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Ohio GOP Election Board Member: Our Voting Process Shouldn't Accommodate Black Voters — Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted's recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly among low-income and minority communities.
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The Hinterland Gazette, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Dayton, Ohio …
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Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
Voting in Ohio | Fight over poll hours isn't just political — One of Deidre Reese's most precious childhood memories is going to the polls with her family. — “It was a hard-fought-for right,” she says. “There was a time that we certainly could not do that.”
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Hullabaloo, Plunderbund and ThinkProgress
Niall Ferguson / The Daily Beast:
Niall Ferguson: Hit the Road, Barack — The president has broken his promises, and Romney-Ryan's path to prosperity is our only hope. — I was a good loser four years ago. “In the grand scheme of history,” I wrote the day after Barack Obama's election as president, “four decades is not an especially long time.
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Paul Krugman, The Moderate Voice, The Hinterland Gazette, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Daily Beast
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Supported Economic Stimulus Under Bush: ‘You Have To Spend A Little To Grow A Little’ — GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan spent much of the last week trying to explain why he signed multiple letters seeking $20 million in stimulus funds for an energy company in his district.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite and The Impolitic
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CNN:
Obama team defends People, ET interviews — (CNN) - Interviews with People magazine and Entertainment Tonight are just as important as sit-downs with national news media, President Barack Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Sunday. — “Not more important, but equally important …
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Outside the Beltway and Politico
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ABCNEWS:
On ‘This Week’: Stephanie Cutter and Kevin Madden
On ‘This Week’: Stephanie Cutter and Kevin Madden
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The Other McCain and The Political Carnival
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gibbs: Ryan should ‘thank’ Obama for strengthening Medicare
Gibbs: Ryan should ‘thank’ Obama for strengthening Medicare
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Politico, Taylor Marsh and Jammie Wearing Fools
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Racism by Political Party … Here is data asking whites the question Do you Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage (this is from 2002, the latest year available for this question). — Favor Laws Against Interracial Marriage — Democrat — Ind — Repub — Other — TOTAL — YES
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The Monkey Cage
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Romney Adviser Says GOP Would Extend Medicare's Solvency By Raising The Eligibility Age — Earlier this week, Mitt Romney pledged to restore Obamacare's savings in the Medicare program — a move that would move up the insolvency date of the program's trust fund from 2024 to 2016.
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Brad DeLong
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Dem. Senator: Obama Led SEALs Mission to Kill Bin Laden — Yesterday, when introducing President Obama at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, said that the president “led the mission that brought Osama bin Laden to justice”:
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The Gateway Pundit, Doug Ross and The Right Scoop
Joe Lawler / Metromix Des Moines:
Hank Williams Jr. brings country hits and political jabs to the fair — Are you ready for some political commentary? — Country legend Hank Williams Jr. played to a crowd of nearly 8,500 at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand Friday night. — You may recall, criticism of President Barack Obama …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / New York Times:
Obama's (Perceived) Transformation — EARLIER this month, Ann Coulter took to the airwaves of the Fox News network to denounce the dastardly machinations, large mendacity and mad villainy currently employed by the American president. Barack Obama was “a liar,” Coulter said, a …
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Applesauce, The Hinterland Gazette, Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Grover Norquist: George H.W. Bush ‘Lied’ to the American People — Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist dismissed recent criticism of his tax pledge from former President George H.W. Bush, saying the 41st president had “lied” to the American people by raising taxes while in office.
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Washington Monthly