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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Is a Polished Performer, but He's Out of Position — Marco Rubio, who announced his bid for the presidency on Monday in a call to donors, has been called the “best communicator” in the Republican Party. Over and over and over again. — But he has little to show for it.
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Erick Erickson / Fox News:
Why Marco Rubio has a real shot at 2016 Republican nomination — Feb. 27, 2015: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks in National Harbor, Md. (AP) — Ted Cruz remains a conservative favorite in 2016. In 2012, the establishment backed his Senate opponent in Texas, then Lt. Governor David Dewhurst.
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Talking Points Memo and No More Mister Nice Blog
David McCabe / The Hill:
Rubio: I'm more experienced than Barack Obama was in 2008 — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Tuesday that he is more experienced than President Obama was when he started his presidential campaign, despite the fact that both launched campaigns as first-term senators.
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Political Wire and The Atlantic Online
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Rubio Takes Aim at the Left
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Marco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President
Marco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President
Chris Good / ABC News:
Marco Rubio Would Reopen Gitmo, Reverse Obama Foreign Policy
Marco Rubio Would Reopen Gitmo, Reverse Obama Foreign Policy
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mrctv.org/videos, Bloomberg Business, New York Times, Associated Press and BuzzFeed
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Just an Unrecognized Burrito Bowl Fan — Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign is all about “everyday Americans,” she made clear in announcing it on Sunday. — On Monday, she showed how unassuming she herself could be. — Driving to Iowa for her first campaign swing …
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Hot Air, Joe. My. God., Balloon Juice, Business Insider, CBS DC, The Democratic Daily and Twitchy
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Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Ex-Governor Will Lead New Fund at Bain Capital — The former governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, has joined the private equity firm Bain Capital as a partner to focus on socially oriented investments, a person briefed on the matter said on Monday. — Mr. Patrick, a Democrat …
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Hot Air and Political Wire
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Beth HealyGLOBE / BostonGlobe.com:
Former Gov. Deval Patrick to join Bain Capital
Former Gov. Deval Patrick to join Bain Capital
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OnPolitics, Washington Times and Balloon Juice
Michael Quander / WREG-TV:
Brutal attack at Memphis gas station caught on camera — MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Surveillance video showed a mob of rowdy high school students beating a man at a Crosstown gas station. — Police said a large group of Northwest Prep Academy students swarmed a BP gas station on Poplar and Cleveland.
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The Last Tradition and KFOR-TV
Alaska Airlines Blog:
Statement on Alaska Airlines flight 448 — Flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, returned to Seattle shortly after departure today after it was discovered that a ramp agent was still in the cargo hold. The aircraft was in the air for 9 minutes. — After landing, the agent …
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FOX31 Denver, Mediaite, New York Magazine, KFOR-TV, FOX2now.com and NPR
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution. — “Yo, @voxdotcom: Y'all should probably stop stealing people's charts without proper attribution,” he tweeted Monday.
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Poynter and FishbowlNY, more at Mediagazer »
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
How Vox aggregates — I started as a blogger in the pre-social web …
How Vox aggregates — I started as a blogger in the pre-social web …
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Poynter, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Mediaite and CNNMoney, more at Mediagazer »
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Unlike Hillary Clinton, the entire GOP field is either obscure or unpopular
Unlike Hillary Clinton, the entire GOP field is either obscure or unpopular
Discussion:
Joe. My. God. and Talking Points Memo
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP: Obama war request is dead — President Obama's proposal for the use of military force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is dead in the House, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy declared on Monday. — The California Republican said Obama's draft authorization for the use …
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Lawfare and emptywheel
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Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Clinton Campaign's Highest Suggested Donation Is $2,700 in English, but Only $250 in Spanish — The brand new 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton will embrace “small donors in early fundraising,” according to a Monday Politico story. The second-time presidential candidate wants to …
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Politico
Ashley Edwards / New York's PIX11:
EXCLUSIVE: Woman says Harlem tattoo parlor behind ‘Black Ink’ left her disfigured — HARLEM (PIX11) — Asabi Barner was a confident woman in her 30s. Her body was never something she felt a need to cover up, until now. — A tattoo coverup changed her life last year.
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KFOR-TV
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Owner of a Credit Card Processor Is Setting a New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year — The idea began percolating, said Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, after he read an article on happiness. It showed that, for people who earn less than about $70,000, extra money makes a big difference in their lives.
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FOX31 Denver, Addicting Info and The Week
Dave Majumdar / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Missile Could Make U.S. Attacks on Iran Nearly Impossible — For years, Team Obama crowed about keeping this advanced Russian missile out of Iran's hands. Now the Kremlin suddenly seems eager to hand it over to Tehran. — This nuke deal with Iran had better work.
Eli Stokols / Politico:
The GOP's plan to turn Hillary into Mitt Romney in a pantsuit — Republicans are readying a familiar template: The out-of-touch plutocrat who lives in a world of private planes, chauffeured vehicles and million-dollar homes. — Forget about the Arkansas days, the small-bore scandals …
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The Atlantic Online and Adweek
Post and Courier:
Passenger: Walter Scott was dear friend, ‘helped me to become a better man’ — Pictured is Pierre D. Fulton, the passenger in the vehicle with Walter Scott the day Scott was shot and killed by a North Charleston police officer as he fled after a traffic stop. Provided
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Mediaite, Raw Story and The Last Refuge
Jennifer Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Florida Senate Race Moves to a Toss Up — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's decision to seek the Republican presidential nomination and thus forgo a re-election bid creates the second open GOP seat of the cycle. It also becomes the first Republican seat in the Toss Up column.
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OnPolitics
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Ex-Blackwater Guards Given Long Terms for Killing Iraqis — WASHINGTON — One by one, four former Blackwater security contractors wearing blue jumpsuits and leg irons stood before a federal judge on Monday and spoke publicly for the first time since a deadly 2007 shooting in Iraq.
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Hillary Clinton / Salon:
Dangers of a Hillary Clinton campaign: The disastrous centrism she desperately needs to avoid — With the Big Announcement yesterday, Hillary Clinton officially entered the race that everyone assumes she's already won. Can you feel the excitement? No? Well, this shouldn't come as a shock …
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Al Jazeera English, Campaign for America's Future and Crooks and Liars
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
An Unabashedly Liberal Hillary Clinton
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Booman Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Liberal Values, The Hill, Reuters, New York Times and Washington Post