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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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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 — Should President Obama be trying to persuade voters that the economy is recovering? — Some Democratic strategists think that could jar against public perceptions that things aren't really getting better.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Are the Democrats Delusional On Abortion? — The Democrats apparently think they have hit the jackpot with Todd Akin's moment of stupidity, but I'm not so sure. How, exactly, are they going to take advantage of Akin's blunder? By talking ceaselessly about abortion.
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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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Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Clinton stars in new Obama ad — (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton takes center stage in a new ad released by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Thursday. — The former president, who's been a top surrogate for Obama this year, largely praises Obama in the spot …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
DNC's agenda — Sandra Fluke is now officially on the Obama …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Do Conservatives Now Want Social Issues “Truce?” Let Them Go First.
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Kate Nocera / Politico:
Todd Akin in Tampa with top social conservatives
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Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Recasts Path to Senate Majority — Without Missouri
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Deroy Murdock / National Review:
Akin: Face the Wrath of the GOP Convention
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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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Ryan Micro-Bump In Florida, Wisconsin, But Not Ohio, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll Finds — FLORIDA: Obama 49 - Romney 46, compared to Obama 51 - 45 percent August 1 — OHIO: Obama 50 - Romney 44, unchanged from August 1 — WISCONSIN: Obama 49 - Romney 47, compared to Obama 51 - 45 August 8
Colby Itkowitz / Morning Call:
Morning Call/Muhlenberg Poll: Paul Ryan doesn't move race in Pennsylvania — The first poll of Pennsylvania voters since Mitt Romney made Paul Ryan his running mate found the pick did nothing to move the race. — President Barack Obama maintains his lead in the lean-blue state …
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Romney, Obama tied up in three swing states
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Matt Higgins / CBS Tampa:
Mayor: ‘Absolutely Prepared To Call Off’ GOP Convention If Isaac Threatens Tampa — TAMPA (CBS Tampa/AP) — Tampa's mayor warns that the Republican National Convention could be canceled if Tropical Storm Isaac heads for the city. — Mayor Bob Buckhorn told CNN that he is more concerned …
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RNC: We have plan for Isaac
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Dan Gilgoff / CNN:
Cardinal Dolan to offer closing prayer at Republican Convention
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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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Rebecca Trounson / Los Angeles Times:
Eroding middle class falls to 51%, survey finds
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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 …
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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Energy loan watchdog an Obama donor — WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran Wall Street executive who performed an independent review that exonerated the Obama administration's program of loans to energy companies contributed $52,500 to re-elect President Barack Obama in the months since completing …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility
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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 Halper / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama: ‘Get to the Polls on November the 2’ — Michelle Obama, speaking yesterday at a campaign event in Florida: … The presidential election this year is November 6.
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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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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama: Team Romney coming on strong, playing dirty, time to ‘put them away’ — President Obama joined a group of former NBA stars at a fundraiser at New York's Lincoln Center Wednesday night. With Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Walt Frazier, Bill Bradley and other basketball legends sitting nearby …
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
President Obama: Todd Akin ‘Somehow Missed Science Class’
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Mark Oppenheimer / New York Times:
Dan Savage and Brian Brown Debate Gay Marriage Over the Dinner Table — THE ancient Greek symposium, which combined drinking with elevated discussion, was often held in a private house; at Parisian salons, conversation frequently took place in the bedroom. Once upon a time …
Journalism.org:
THE MASTER CHARACTER NARRATIVES IN CAMPAIGN 2012 — PRESS COVERAGE OF THE CHARACTER OF THE CANDIDATES IS HIGHLY NEGATIVE, AND NEITHER OBAMA NOR ROMNEY HAS AN EDGE — On the eve of the conventions, the portrayal in the news media of the character and records of the two presidential contenders …
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BuzzFeed:
What The Obama Campaign Is Thinking — An expanding electorate to counter Romney's cash, and while “media and ads mean less in the fall,” says an Obama aide at a background briefing. Middle class people will frame the podium in Charlotte. — Image by KEVIN LAMARQUE / Reuters
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Brentin Mock / Colorlines:
How the Right's Building a ‘Poll Watcher’ Network for November — Bill Ouren, True the Vote's national elections coordinator, is presenting before a group of about 50 recruits in Boca Raton, Fla. He stands beneath a banner bearing his organization's name, alongside that of the Koch brothers …
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MiamiHerald.com:
FBI, Miami-Dade police target Democratic primary candidate with possible ties to Congressman David Rivera — Federal agents are investigating the finances of a little known candidate and potential connections to U.S. Rep. David Rivera. — MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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