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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser — Mitt Romney wanted the full tape. Here it is. — On Monday and Tuesday Mother Jones published exclusive video that captured Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder.
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Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:
A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign — SALT LAKE CITY - Mitt Romney's traveling press secretary walked to the back of the candidate's plane midflight on Tuesday and teasingly asked a pair of journalists in an exit row if they were “willing and able to assist in case of an emergency.”
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Sen. Brown denounces Romney comments — Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) came out in opposition to Mitt Romney's controversial remarks on the “47 percent.” — Brown, who has been distancing himself from elements of the Republican Party, joins GOP Senate candidate in Connecticut Linda McMahon in coming out against the statements.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
47 Skidoo — Uh-oh, Romney's lost the election again. — “What is 47?” asks the FAQ page at the website of the 47 Society. Answer: “In short, 47 appears to be the quintessential random number of the universe. In other words, when a number appears randomly, more often than not, that number is 47.”
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Slate, Washington Wire, The Huffington Post and Althouse
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
A Note on Romney's Arrogant and Stupid Remarks — So we have in 2012 two presidential candidates who—when they thought they were speaking privately to their fellow 1 percenters—have shown contempt for fellow Americans. — Here's Barack Obama, on April 6, 2008, in San Francisco:
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John Whitesides / Reuters:
Romney struggles to steady campaign after secret videos — (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney struggled on Tuesday to steady his reeling White House campaign after a secretly recorded video showed him dismissing President Barack Obama's supporters as victims who are too dependent on government.
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Examiner, The PJ Tatler, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Young Turks … and Forbes
CNN:
Eastwood: If they were ‘dumb enough to ask me...’
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Politico, Firedoglake, ExtraTV.com, TMZ.com, Gothamist, Daily Kos and The Raw Story
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Romney Has Support Among Lowest Income Voters
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Politico, The Hinterland Gazette, New York Magazine and AEIdeas
Rush Limbaugh:
A Golden Opportunity for Mitt Romney
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
Conservatives Agree: Romney's Right
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Foreshadowing Libya? — In the newly released full Mojo/Romney tapes …
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BuzzFeed and Crooks and Liars
David Frum / The Daily Beast:
The Sinister Message Behind Romney's “Gaffe”
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Mother Jones, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hullabaloo, NationalJournal.com and The Daily Dish
CNN:
Romney sticks by his ‘47%’ remarks, hits back
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The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Politico and Election 2012
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Marc Leder, Romney fundraiser, speaks out
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ThinkProgress, Philly.com, The Visible Measures Blog, Scared Monkeys and Daily Kos
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Conservatives Agree: Romney's Wrong
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Economix, The Week, Hit & Run, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Politico, The New Republic, CNN, NPR, Power Line and Middle Earth Journal, more at Mediagazer »
Tony Romm / Reuters:
Mitt Romney ‘47 percent’ recording may have been illegal
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Politico, BuzzFeed, The Week and NewsBusters.org blogs, more at Mediagazer »
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
The Data Behind Romney's 47% Comments
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Vodkapundit, Speakeasy and JustOneMinute
NBC's Michael Isikoff / First Read:
How the Romney video leaked: For Carters, it was personal
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American Power, Pat Dollard and emptywheel
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Romney advisor predicts ‘victims’ remark will blow over
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Ballot Box, Politico, Hot Air, Washington Post, Mediaite, The Hill and Hullabaloo
Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama leads Romney nationally by 5 points — Fueled by increased optimism about the economy and nation's direction, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 points among likely voters and now sees his job-approval rating reaching the 50 percent threshold for the first time since March …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Massachusetts Miscellany —PPP's newest Massachusetts poll …
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Politico and Weekly Standard
Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama up 8 points over Romney in Virginia
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The Democratic Daily, Taylor Marsh, CNN, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, Politico and Ballot Box
Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama's approval on foreign policy drops
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
James Taranto / Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Time for an Intervention — What should Mitt Romney do now? He should peer deep into the abyss. He should look straight into the heart of darkness where lies a Republican defeat in a year the Republican presidential candidate almost couldn't lose. He should imagine what it will mean for the country …
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alicublog and Brad DeLong
Talking Points Memo:
Mary Matalin: Thanks To Romney, We Can Single Out ‘Parasites’ — Conservative commentator Mary Matalin hailed Mitt Romney's “47 percent” line on CNN as good news for Republicans. — “There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites,” she said.
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The Agonist, Balloon Juice and Hullabaloo
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight Forecast: G.O.P. Senate Hopes Slipping — Democrats are now favored to retain control of the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast, breaking a summer stalemate during which control of the chamber appeared about equally likely to go either way.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Rosalind Rossi / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Public Schools teachers' strike over — The Chicago teachers' strike is over. — The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates voted Tuesday to end its strike after seven days, meaning classes will be in session Wednesday for 350,000 Chicago Public Schools students.
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Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and Joanne Jacobs
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Bryan Caplan / EconLog:
Will False Belief in the SIVH Destroy Romney's Candidacy? — Many people believe that voters' positions are determined by their objective self-interest. I call this the SIVH - the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis. A massive body of evidence shows that the SIVH is just plain wrong.
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Hit & Run
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'There's More Than Enough Blame to Spread Around' — In a sit down interview with late night host David Letterman that will be aired later this evening, President Barack Obama continued a trend of blaming others for the problems this country faces. — “There's more than enough blame …
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Weasel Zippers
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
NEWSPAPER AD REVENUES COLLAPSE TO 1950 LEVELS — There are three important things to keep in mind when looking at this gorgeous graph: … Sometimes it doesn't feel like we're winning, because the corrupt media still has the power to create its own reality - to create the illusion …
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Power Line and Nice Deb
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers to Jesus' Wife — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife ...’”
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Pat Dollard, The Atlantic Online, CNN and The Daily Caller
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner / Energy & Environment:
EPA's four-gallon minimum mandate — The latest mandate handed down from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is so ridiculous, even I was shocked. The EPA has now mandated how much gasoline you must buy at certain gas stations. Say hello to the Obama Administration's four gallon minimum.
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Mother Jones and National Review
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Puts Voter ID Law In Jeopardy — Last month, a Pennsylvania trial judge upheld that state's Voter ID law, in an opinion that relied at least in part on Nineteenth Century precedent which claimed that vote suppressing laws may be permissible to protect against 'rogues …
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emptywheel and Firedoglake
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