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Missouri Senate: McCaskill (D) 48%, Akin (R) 38% — What a difference one TV interview can make. Embattled Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill has now jumped to a 10-point lead over her Republican challenger, Congressman Todd Akin, in Missouri's U.S. Senate race.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Huckabee digs in behind Akin — Todd Akin hasn't had many high-profile supporters with him in the trenches this week, but Mike Huckabee became an important and emphatic exception Thursday afternoon, sending a message to his own supporters accusing Republican elites of trying to drum a good man out of a winnable Senate race.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Akin mess could be watershed moment for conservative movement … Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's insensitive and ignorant comments about rape and pregnancy could cost Republicans a majority in the Senate. But in time, the episode may be remembered as an important development for the conservative movement.
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Mother Jones, Power Line, Washington Monthly and A plain blog about politics
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Huckabee Goes All In for Akin
Huckabee Goes All In for Akin
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GOP 12, The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Kate Nocera / Politico:
Todd Akin in Tampa with top social conservatives
Todd Akin in Tampa with top social conservatives
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CNN, Little Green Footballs, afa.net, Washington Post, National Review and Election 2012
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Recasts Path to Senate Majority — Without Missouri
GOP Recasts Path to Senate Majority — Without Missouri
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Washington Monthly, About.com Conservative …, Business Insider and Power Line
John Cook / Gawker:
The Bain Files: Inside Mitt Romney's Tax-Dodging Cayman Schemes — Mitt Romney's $250 million fortune is largely a black hole: Aside from the meager and vague disclosures he has filed under federal and Massachusetts laws, and the two years of partial tax returns (one filed and another provisional) …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Gawker posts 950 pages of confidential Bain documents — Gawker.com on Thursday posted 950 pages' worth of confidential financial documents related to Mitt Romney. — The document dump includes, in the words of website, “internal audits, financial statements, and private investor letters …
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Gawker, Algemeiner.com and The Daily Dish
John Cook / Gawker:
The Bain Files: The Documents
The Bain Files: The Documents
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Business Insider, Little Green Footballs and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
John Cook / Gawker:
Mitt Romney's Endless ‘Retirement’ Package
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Gawker's worthless ‘Bain files’
Gawker's worthless ‘Bain files’
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Salon, Gawker, News Desk, FT Alphaville and The Daily Dish
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion — Denver TV reporter Shaun Boyd wanted to ask Mitt Romney about Todd Akin and the abortion controversy roiling the GOP Thursday. But the Romney campaign refused. — In a broadcast on Thursday …
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Daily Kos and Election 2012
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Romney prohibits Q's on Akin and abortion
Romney prohibits Q's on Akin and abortion
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ThinkProgress and The Political Carnival
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
DNC's agenda — Sandra Fluke is now officially on the Obama …
DNC's agenda — Sandra Fluke is now officially on the Obama …
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LifeNews.com, Hot Air, National Review, Conservatives4Palin and The Lonely Conservative
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Do Conservatives Now Want Social Issues “Truce?” Let Them Go First.
Do Conservatives Now Want Social Issues “Truce?” Let Them Go First.
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Mother Jones
New York Times:
Polls Say Medicare Is Key Issue in 3 Swing States — The Romney-Ryan proposal to reshape Medicare by giving future beneficiaries fixed amounts of money to buy health coverage is deeply unpopular in Florida, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to new polls that found that more likely voters …
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Colby Itkowitz / Morning Call:
Morning Call/Muhlenberg Poll: Paul Ryan doesn't move race in Pennsylvania
Morning Call/Muhlenberg Poll: Paul Ryan doesn't move race in Pennsylvania
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Ballot Box, Politico and Election 2012
Quinnipiac University:
Ryan Micro-Bump In Florida, Wisconsin, But Not Ohio, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York …
Ryan Micro-Bump In Florida, Wisconsin, But Not Ohio, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York …
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Risky Convention Gambit
Obama's Risky Convention Gambit
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Betsy's Page and Hotline On Call
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Obama has slight lead over Romney in new nationwide poll
Obama has slight lead over Romney in new nationwide poll
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Washington Post
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Team Obama breaks precedent to try to spoil Romney's convention in Tampa — Bucking protocol, President Obama and the Democrats are planning a full-scale assault on Republicans next week during their convention. — Presidential candidates have traditionally kept a low profile during …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: The Obama campaign's theory of the presidential race
The Morning Plum: The Obama campaign's theory of the presidential race
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Salon, CNN, ABCNEWS, American Prospect, Washington Monthly, The Maddow Blog, Brad DeLong, Prairie Weather and The Fix
Matt Higgins / CBS Tampa:
Mayor: ‘Absolutely Prepared To Call Off’ GOP Convention If Isaac Threatens Tampa
Mayor: ‘Absolutely Prepared To Call Off’ GOP Convention If Isaac Threatens Tampa
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Politico and The PJ Tatler
Juana Summers / Politico:
Paul Ryan to Obama: ‘Put up or shut up’ on sequester — FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Speaking south of Fort Bragg military base here, Paul Ryan said the White House should “put up or shut up” and lay out just how painful the sequester will be. — “The House has already passed, as well as the Senate …
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Election 2012, The New Republic and Hot Air
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Amanda Marcotte / American Prospect:
No, National Review. Mitt Romney Is Not a Sex Symbol.
No, National Review. Mitt Romney Is Not a Sex Symbol.
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Applesauce, Mediaite and National Review
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Holds Event Criticizing The Military Spending Sequester He Voted For
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Fear of a Black President — As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America's original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” …
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The Other McCain, American Power and Nice Deb
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period.
Racism Plays a Big Part in our Politics. Period.
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Washington Monthly
Justin Fishel / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Bin Laden raid tell-all author revealed, questions raised whether ex-Navy SEALs have freedom of speech — The author of a recently announced insider account of the raid that killed Usama bin Laden has been identified to Fox News as a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL Team 6 member …
Rob Kauder / KXLY-TV:
Ambassador Crocker arrested for hit and run, DUI — Author: Jeff Humphrey, KXLY4 Reporter , jeffhu@kxly.com — Ambassador Ryan Crocker, one of the most decorated State Department diplomats in the last half century, was arrested on August 14 by the Washington State Patrol for hit-and-run and DUI in Spokane Valley.
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Talking Points Memo and Wonkette
Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Romney says his Mormon tithing shouldn't be public — • Mitt Romney says in a new interview that one of the reasons he's distressed about disclosing his tax returns is that everyone sees how much money he and his wife, Ann, have donated to the LDS Church, and that's a number he wants to keep private.
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Firedoglake, The Hill, emptywheel, Daily Kos, Business Insider and Election 2012
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Barack Obama actually said this — Pete Souza / White House (Obama addresses staff) — Barack Obama has become accustomed to being the center of attention. For many like him, that's one of the biggest appeals of politics, the television exposure it attracts and the power that seems to come with that instant recognition and fame.
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RedState
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Audio: Obama Says “That Fetus or Child” Was “Just Not Coming Out Limp and Dead” — Here's an audio recording of Barack Obama arguing as an Illinois state senator in 2002 against legislation protecting infants who had survived an attempted late-term abortions:
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LifeNews.com, The PJ Tatler, Politico and Doug Ross
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility — WASHINGTON — Early in the Obama administration, a lobbyist for the Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation proudly called it “the president's utility.” And it was not just because it delivers power to Barack Obama's Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.
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JustOneMinute, American Power, iOwnTheWorld.com, The Caucus, The Lonely Conservative and Washington Free Beacon
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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Energy loan watchdog an Obama donor
AP Exclusive: Energy loan watchdog an Obama donor
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Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, protein wisdom and americanthinker.com
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
The Lost Decade of the Middle Class — Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier — CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW — As the 2012 presidential candidates prepare their closing arguments to America's middle class, they are courting a group that has endured a lost decade for economic well-being.
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CNN:
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Welcome, everybody. Our “Starting Point” this morning, serious threat, tropical storm Isaac is barreling toward Florida.
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Daily Kos
BuzzFeed:
Obama Supporter Suggests Anti-Mormon Whisper Campaign — “I'm thinking that even though we don't LIKE campaigns to get nasty, we in the south (TN) come to EXPECT it,” a “team member” writes on the campaign Dashboard. The campaign removes the post after an inquiry.
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