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12:55 AM ET, August 24, 2012

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Rasmussen Reports:
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.
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Huckabee Goes All In for Akin  —  In an email that just went out to his supporters, the former Arkansas governor blasts the GOP establishment and says it is vital for conservatives to stand by his friend Todd. … Big-time DC and Missouri Republicans had hoped Huckabee could be the tool to get Akin to drop out.
Wall Street Journal:
McCaskill Relishes Akin Flap
Discussion: Riehl World News
Talking Points Memo:   Huckabee Backs Akin, Lashes Out At GOP
The Caucus:   Even if Akin Wanted to Quit Race, It Would Be Difficult
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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Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
What I Learned at Bain Capital  —  My business experience taught me how to help companies grow—and what to do when trouble arises.  When you see a problem, run toward it before the problem gets worse.  —  The back-to-school season is here, and as parents take their children to shop for school supplies …
Discussion: Fortune and Government Executive
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Gawker's worthless ‘Bain files’  —  “Confidential” doesn't equal “important.”  —  FORTUNE — Gawker today published what it's calling The Bain Files, hundreds of pages of audited financials and private placement memoranda for old Bain Capital funds.  Let me save you some time …
John Cook / Gawker:
Mitt Romney's Endless ‘Retirement’ Package
Discussion: The Hill and Algemeiner.com
John Cook / Gawker:
The Bain Files: The Documents
Discussion: Business Insider and Guardian
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign Forbids Local Reporter From Asking About Akin, Abortion  —  This post has been updated.  —  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.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Romney prohibits Q's on Akin and abortion
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Mitt Romney Makes Reporter Agree Not To Ask About Todd Akin Or Abortion
Discussion: Gawker, CBS Denver and First Read
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Team Obama breaks precedent to try to spoil Romney's convention in Tampa
Paul Purpura / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Rev. Grant Storms, critic of Southern Decadence, convicted of obscenity for public masturbation  —  The Rev. Grant Storms, the former “Christian patriot” pastor whose marches against homosexuality at New Orleans' Southern Decadence festival briefly put him in the national spotlight …
Michael Grunwald / Swampland:
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama  —  TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era.  It reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Race for the White House tightens  —  Less than a week before the Republican convention begins, the race for the White House is a virtual tie.  According to a Fox News poll of likely voters, the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket receives the backing of 45 percent, while the Barack Obama-Joe Biden ticket garners 44 percent.
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, RedState and Ballot Box
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Obama Remains Women's Presidential Pick; Romney, Men's
Discussion: The Hill, The PJ Tatler and GOP 12
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Botched Restoration of Jesus Fresco Shocks Spain  —  MADRID — A case of suspected vandalism in a church in a northeastern village has turned out to be probably the worst art restoration project seen in Spain.  —  An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring …
Discussion: Jesus' General
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.
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.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Study: Romney criticism of controversial cancer ad effective with swing voters  —  A new study by Vanderbilt University found that an ad from Mitt Romney criticizing President Obama over a super PAC attack that insinuated the presumptive Republican nominee was responsible for the death …
David Gibson / Washington Post:
Cardinal Timothy Dolan's GOP convention blessing prompts debate  —  The news that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the nation's most prominent Catholic prelate, will deliver the closing blessing to the Republican National Convention in Florida next week was seen as a huge coup for Mitt Romney, the party's presumptive nominee.
Christian Newswire:
Family Groups Urge FOX NEWS to Stop Providing Unchallenged Prime Time to Agitator  —  Bill O'Reilly ignores repeated requests to drop SPLC's Wayne Besen from show  —  Contact: Regina Griggs, Executive Director, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays, 804-453-4737, pfox@pfox.org
Financial Times:
Republicans eye return to gold standard  —  The gold standard has returned to mainstream US politics for the first time in 30 years, with a “gold commission” set to become part of official Republican party policy.  —  Drafts of the party platform, which it will adopt at a convention in Tampa Bay …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Belmont Club
New York Times:
News Analysis: Romney Would Give Reins to States on Drilling on Federal Lands  —  By proposing to end a century of federal control over oil and gas drilling and coal mining on government lands, Mitt Romney is making a bid for anti-Washington voters in key Western states while dangling the promise …
Christine Roberts / NY Daily News:
The unkindest cut of all: German rabbi faces charges for performing newly outlawed circumcision procedure  —  The rabbi will be the first to face potential legal action following controversial ruling that banned the ritual for causing ‘bodily harm’ to a child.
 
 
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