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Brad Malt / Mitt Romney for President …:
NOTE FROM TRUSTEE BRAD MALT — This morning, Gov. and Mrs. Romney filed their 2011 tax return with the IRS. At 3:00pm today, the Romney for President campaign will be posting the 2011 return online. — The complete 2011 tax return, with full schedules, statements, and attachments …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney to release 20-year tax rate ‘summary,’ 2011 taxes today — In a Friday afternoon news dump, Mitt Romney's campaign is preparing to release his 2011 tax return, along with a 20-year summary of his tax rates from 1990 through 2009, his team just said. — The 20-year piece is a new plan …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Releases 2011 Tax Returns — Mitt Romney paid $1.95 million in taxes on his 2011 investment income of $13.7 million, his campaign revealed on Friday, making good on Mr. Romney's promise earlier this year to eventually release his full returns for that year.
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Chris Wallace doubts Noonan's conservatism — In an interview with POLITICO today, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace questioned Peggy Noonan's “conservative bona fides,” following her recent editorials criticizing of Mitt Romney's campaign. — “Peggy Noonan has bashed George W. Bush, based Mitt Romney, wasn't crazy about McCain.
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Noonan: Romney Needs a New CEO — How to save a listing campaign, the Baker Way. — “Nothing is written.” That was T.E. Lawrence to the Arab tribesmen in Robert Bolt's screenplay, a masterpiece, of “Lawrence of Arabia.” You write no one off. Nothing is inevitable. Life is news—"What happened today?"
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O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Ann Romney, to critics in GOP: “You want to try it? Get in the ring.” (AUDIO) — Ann Romney says fellow Republicans who've criticized her husband need to “stop it” and realize “how lucky” the party is to have Mitt Romney as its nominee. — Ann Romney spoke late this afternoon to about 200 people …
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Joe Biden - not Mitt Romney, President Obama, Bill Clinton or Clint Eastwood - most watched …
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Headwinds for Romney in Latest Poll Results
Headwinds for Romney in Latest Poll Results
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sununu: 'I wouldn't hire Peggy Noonan to run a campaign'
Sununu: 'I wouldn't hire Peggy Noonan to run a campaign'
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Ann Romney To Mitt Critics: ‘Stop It’
Ann Romney To Mitt Critics: ‘Stop It’
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Lymari Morales / Gallup:
U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High — Fewer Americans closely following political news now than in previous election years — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
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Ryan Gets Booed At The AARP — On Friday afternoon, Paul Ryan addressed the AARP's National Annual Conference in New Orleans. The GOP vice presidential candidate attacked Obamacare for taking $716 billion out of Medicare — the very same cuts he included in his budget …
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Heartland Monitor Poll: Obama Leads 50 Percent to 43 Percent — President Obama has opened a solid lead over Mitt Romney by largely reassembling the “coalition of the ascendant” that powered the Democrat to his landmark 2008 victory, the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll has found.
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Emily Ekins / Reason:
Obama Leads Romney 52-45 In New Reason-Rupe Poll; In Three-Way Race Obama Leads Romney 49-42, Johnson Gets 6 Percent
Obama Leads Romney 52-45 In New Reason-Rupe Poll; In Three-Way Race Obama Leads Romney 49-42, Johnson Gets 6 Percent
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Poll shows Obama overtaking Romney in key swing states
Poll shows Obama overtaking Romney in key swing states
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Cash Low, Romney Striving to Find New Large Donors — Mitt Romney entered the final months of the presidential campaign with a cash balance of just $35 million, racing to find new large donors and rally low-dollar contributors in August even while he raised tens of millions of dollars for the Republican Party.
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Tarini Parti / Politico:
RNC has big cash advantage over DNC
RNC has big cash advantage over DNC
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's embassy cover story dissolves — It is a measure of how skewed the reporting is and how intellectually inconsistent is most of the “analysis” from the mainstream media that while Mitt Romney's comment on the embassy attacks held the attention of the press for days …
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Obama's Shaky Libya Narrative
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Clinton fails to convince Republicans on administration's account of Libya attack
Clinton fails to convince Republicans on administration's account of Libya attack
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President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration” — Asked about the Fast and Furious program at the Univision forum on Thursday, President Obama falsely claimed that the program began under President George W. Bush.
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Until Republicans Fix This Problem, They Can't Fix Any Problems — The inability to judge arguments on their merits and separate fact from fantasy is what ails the conservative movement. — Reuters — After years spent reporting on the Bush Administration, Ron Suskind began to understand …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Disdain for Workers — By now everyone knows how Mitt Romney, speaking to donors in Boca Raton, washed his hands of almost half the country — the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes — declaring, “My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take …
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Sept. 20: Obama's Convention Bounce May Not Be Receding — President Obama's position inched forward in the FiveThirtyEight forecast on Thursday. His chances of winning the Electoral College are 76.1 percent, according to the forecast, up from 75.2 percent on Wednesday.
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Historically, Obama Isn't in Strong Shape
Morning Jay: Historically, Obama Isn't in Strong Shape
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Romney: What About Your Gaffes? — Mitt Romney's campaign has been notable for its reliance on President Obama's gaffes. It built its entire convention theme around Obama's slightly disjointed disquisition about infrastructure ("You didn't build that") and has, at other points …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What John McLaughlin Sees in the Polls Right Now — I reached out to Republican pollster John McLaughlin for yesterday's piece on how undecided voters are likely to break, and he made some separate comments about polls, their impact on motivation for each side, and how the campaigns …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
The poll result that explains the election — Washington has been a bit perplexed by President Obama's small but persistent lead in the polls. His administration would seem to fail the “Are you better off than you were four years ago” text. And presidents who fail that test lose, right?
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Barry Chin / Boston Globe:
In crucial first debate, Scott Brown challenges Warren's Native American heritage claim — Republican US Senator Scott Brown questioned Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's claim of Native American heritage in the opening moments of a lively high-stakes television debate tonight.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
DeMint might throw Akin a lifeline — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he will consider throwing his weighty financial support behind Rep. Todd Akin (R), the Missouri Senate candidate who has been shunned by party leaders in Washington. — DeMint said the National Republican Senatorial Committee …
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