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12:40 PM ET, July 9, 2012

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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Donors arrive at Hamptons fundraisers with advice for Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event June 27 in Sterling, Va. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)  —  EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney's evening event at the home …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Anti-Romney/Koch Brothers Demonstration Is An Epic Failure  —  David Koch held a fundraiser for Mitt Romney this afternoon at his home on Long Island.  At this point in the election cycle, that's how the candidates are spending much of their time-attending fundraisers.
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Two arrested trying to crash Romney fundraiser, police say  —  Police and Secret Service agents guard the Long Island beachfront property of billionaire David H. Koch as protesters demonstrate against a fundraiser for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  It was one of three Romney fundraisers Sunday.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Wonkette
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Gibbs, Democrats hit Romney over offshore bank accounts  —  Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs ripped Mitt Romney on Monday for his personal finances.  —  Gibbs, who now acts as a campaign strategist for President Obama, said Romney's personal finances are relevant to his ability to deal with reforming the tax code.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Tim Mak / Politico:   Report: Mitt Romney protesters crash into cop boat
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y.
Discussion: odd time signatures
Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Majority feel Obama has changed country for worse  —  Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it's changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority.  —  A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states poll: Amid barrage of ads, Obama has edge
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Seeks 2013 Tax Cuts Within Limits  —  WASHINGTON — With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama campaign raises $71 million in June  —  In an email to donors, the Obama campaign announces that it has raised $71 million in June.  —  From Chief Operating Officer Ann Marie Habershaw: … To recap, that's a $35 million gap between Mitt Romney and Obama in June …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:   Obama Outraised In June By $35 Million
Eric Holder / CNN:
CNN Poll: Was politics behind Holder contempt vote?  —  Washington (CNN) - Most Americans approve of the decision by the House of Representatives to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, but a new national poll also indicates that a majority of the public thinks that House Republicans …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CNN poll shows majority approves of Holder contempt vote
Discussion: hogewash
Politico:
Dems face month of perilous votes
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP unnerved by Democrats' candid camera techniques  —  Politicians recognize they give up a degree of privacy when they run for office.  —  But Democrats are testing the outer limits of that understanding with a practice that raises questions about when campaign tracking becomes something more like stalking.
Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Discord at Supreme Court is deep, and personal  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  (CBS News) Discord at the Supreme Court is deep and personal after Chief Justice John Roberts' surprise decision to side with the liberal justices in upholding a large portion of the president's health care plan.
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
View Photo Gallery — The Supreme Court gets political …
Discussion: Law Blog
Stacey Singer / Palm Beach Post:
Worst TB outbreak in 20 years kept secret  —  State rushes closure of its only TB hospital in Lantana  —  Lilla Charline Burkhalter, 60, comes to the Clara White center for breakfast most mornings.  It was here, in the soup kitchen, that a man with active, coughing TB was recently identified …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Patrick Gavin / Reuters:
Donald Trump gets ‘statesman of year’ award  —  Real estate mogul.  Political pundit.  “Apprentice” host.  Birther.  Sometime presidential candidate teaser.  —  Also: “Statesman.”  —  That's the latest title to be bestowed upon Donald Trump when he receives the 2012 “Statesman of the Year” …
Discussion: Mediaite and msnbc.com
Arthur C. Brooks / New York Times:
Why Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals  —  WHO is happier about life — liberals or conservatives?  The answer might seem straightforward.  After all, there is an entire academic literature in the social sciences dedicated to showing conservatives as naturally authoritarian, dogmatic …
Emily Ramshaw / The Texas Tribune:
Perry: TX Won't Implement Key Elements of Health Reform … Texas will not expand Medicaid or establish a health insurance exchange, two major tenets of the federal health reform that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month, Gov. Rick Perry said in an early morning announcement.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
E.J. Dionne Jr.  —  An economics of national pride  —  The path to the White House passes through the blue-collar communities in Ohio where President Obama campaigned last week — and the middle-class suburbs of Colorado where he did well four years ago.  —  The two states illustrate …
 
 
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Jeff Jarvis / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists and liberal critics blast the NYT and other US news outlets for “sanewashing”, false equivalence, and more, and call for sharper political reporting

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