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Charlie Crist / Tampa Bay Times:
Former Gov. Charlie Crist: Here's why I'm backing Barack Obama — I've studied, admired and gotten to know a lot of leaders in my life. Across Florida, in Washington and around the country, I've watched the failure of those who favor extreme rhetoric over sensible compromise …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Crist endorses Obama (Updated) — His hug of President Obama got him in trouble during his senate run as a Republican, and now former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is making the most of it, endorsing the president in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed in which he excoriates his own former party …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Former GOP Gov. Crist endorses Obama — Former Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist on Sunday endorsed President Obama, calling him the “right leader for our times.” — “I applaud and share his vision of a future built by a strong and confident middle class in an economy that gives us …
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Michael O'Brien / First Read:
Hurricane impending, Republicans cancel first day of convention — Updated 7:10 p.m. - TAMPA, Fla. — Republicans announced Saturday that they had effectively canceled the first day of its convention for safety concerns associated with an impending hurricane.
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
RNC chairman: Convention will go ‘full steam ahead on Tuesday’ — Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus, who announced Saturday night that the GOP would cancel Monday's convention events due to Tropical Storm Isaac, said he wasn't worried that the fallout from the storm might diminish the party's message.
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BREAKING: GOP delays start of convention until Tuesday — Tampa, Florida (CNN) - The Republican National Convention has cancelled the program's first day due to Tropical Storm Isaac, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus announced Saturday. — The convention will convene …
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ABCNEWS:
On ‘This Week’: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Gov. Bob McDonnell — Antonio Villaraigosa and Gov Bob McDonnell on This Week (City of Los Angeles/State of Virginia) — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, chair of the Republican Platform Committee, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NYT's Abramson rebuts Brisbane charge — The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane. — In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers “share a kind of political …
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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:
Success and Risk as The Times Transforms — “WHY on earth would you want this job?” — Two years ago, I set out to answer this question in my inaugural public editor column — if only because so many people at The New York Times had asked it. Now, as I complete my term and hand the baton …
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John Noble Wilford / New York Times:
Neil Armstrong | 1930-2012: Neil Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies at 82 — Neil Armstrong, who made the “giant leap for mankind” as the first human to set foot on the moon, died on Saturday. He was 82. — His family said in a statement that the cause was “complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.”
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Brendan Sasso / Blog Summaries:
Obama: Neil Armstrong ‘among the greatest of American heroes’
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Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, dies
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Neil Armstrong, first man to step on the moon, dies at 82
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney pulls '08 clip for Medicare pushback — It's the weekend before a political convention in Florida and both presidential campaigns are escalating the air war over — what else? — Medicare. — After the Obama campaign released its second attack ad yesterday accusing Mitt Romney …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama's second, harder Medicare attack
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Economist:
So, Mitt, what do you really believe? — Too much about the Republican candidate for the presidency is far too mysterious — WHEN Mitt Romney was governor of liberal Massachusetts, he supported abortion, gun control, tackling climate change and a requirement that everyone should buy health insurance …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Jeb Bush: GOP ‘Needs To Change... Reach Out To A Much Broader Audience Than We Do Today’ — This morning on NBC, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush delivered a pointed critique of the modern Republican party. Bush acknowledged that that the GOP “needs to change” and “reach out to a much broader audience.”
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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
The NYPD Explains Why Their Bullets Wounded Nine People Yesterday — It's official. The New York Police Department have admitted that all nine people wounded yesterday in the Empire State Building shootout were from bullets they fired at Jeffrey Johnson. — CNN's David Ariosto reports …
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
That's the message in the skies above today's Romney/Ryan rally in Powell, [Oiho] Ohio. Courtesy of Jan Crawford at CBS News, here's a banner ad that's being flown overhead: — Maeve Reston at the LA Times says MoveOn.org is responsible for this. That makes sense, because they're super-smart.
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Kevin McDermott / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Poll shows Akin's slide in Missouri Senate race — U.S. Senate challenger Todd Akin's support in Missouri has plummeted since his remarks a week ago about “legitimate rape” and pregnancy, putting him 9 points behind Sen. Claire McCaskill in a race he was previously winning, according to a new Post-Dispatch/News 4 poll.
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Nick Carey / Reuters:
Missouri conservatives rally to Akin, blast Republican “establishment”
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