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7:30 AM ET, March 13, 2012

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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: Obama's approval rating sinks to new low  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  (CBS News) President Obama's approval rating has hit the lowest level ever in CBS News polling, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times survey.
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New York Times:
Obama Approval Rating Shows Serious Slip in New Poll  —  Despite improving job growth and an extended Republican primary fight dividing his would-be opponents, President Obama is heading into the general election season on treacherous political ground, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Obama Fares Worse Among Women after Month-Long Contraception Mandate Battle  —  Washington Post poll contradicts Washington Post narrative about female voters.  —  How's the great contraception mandate battle of 2012 playing out?  If you read the Washington Post's news coverage …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Concedes: He Can't Win The Nomination Outright  —  Winning by losing?  Strategy memo is less a “path to victory” as it is a path to a contested convention.  —  Santorum talks with supporters during a stop at Sweet Peppers Deli, Sunday, March 11, 2012, in Tupelo, Miss.  —  (AP / Eric Gay)
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Republicans' war on the TelePrompter — and its limits  —  From the start of the 2012 presidential race, the most consistent — and popular — criticism of President Obama by the GOP candidates has not been on the economy, health care or foreign policy.  It's been on the incumbent's use of a TelePrompter.
CNN:
Foxworthy on hunting with Romney: More dangerous than Cheney
Discussion: GOP 12
CNN:
Romney: If battle to convention, ‘signaling our doom’
Discussion: Politico
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Specter says Obama ditched him after he helped pass health law  —  Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.
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Meredith / Senate Democrats:
Cloture filed on 17 Judicial nominations  —  Today Senator Reid filed cloture on the following 17 Judicial nominations.  Under the rule, the first vote would occur 1 hour after the Senate convenes on Wednesday, March 14.  —  Cal.#408, Gina Marie Groh, of West Virginia; Cal.#441, David Nuffer, of Utah;
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: Republicans clogging judicial confirmation process to embarrass Obama
Manu Raju / Politico:   Harry Reid vows floor fight for judicial nominees
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Syndicator Suspends National Ads For Two Weeks  —  Radio-Info.com reports that Premiere Networks, which syndicates the Rush Limbaugh show, told its affiliate radio stations that they are suspending national advertising for two weeks.  Rush Limbaugh is normally provided …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh losing more advertisers?  —  Think Progress gets its hands on an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks that lists nearly 100 national companies that have asked that their advertisements not be played on the Rush Limbaugh show — companies that have not been publicly named until now.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
White House won't change Afghan plan  —  The White House signaled Monday it will not change its timetable for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan after a U.S. soldier allegedly killed 16 civilians there, including nine children.  —  The administration's renewed commitment to its strategy …
Discussion: Politico
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
Discussion: Indecision Forever
Tim Carmody / Wired:
The Damning Backstory Behind ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW  —  It sounds like something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia.  But it's absolutely real — and a completely problematic treatment of a problem that otherwise probably wouldn't be mentioned in any of the panels at South by Southwest Interactive.
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Wisconsin election officials have now closed in on a proposed date for holding the the state's wave of recalls: June 5, an extension of one week.  —  The Government Accountability Board (GAB), the non-partisan agency that oversees elections in the state, met Monday to approve recalls against four Republican state senators.
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG and JSOnline
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Justice Department bars Texas voter ID law
JSOnline:
Judge rules Wisconsin's voter ID law unconstitutional
Discussion: New York Times and The Maddow Blog
Peter Schroeder / Ballot Box:
Rep. Bachus battles super-PAC in toughest primary challenge of his career  —  Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) is facing one of the toughest primary challenges of his two-decade career Tuesday, thanks in part to a Texas-based super-PAC that has already taken down a fellow incumbent.
Discussion: Politico
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Obama Admin Finalizes Rules: $1 Abortions in ObamaCare  —  It's official.  The concern pro-life organizations had about the ObamaCare legislation funding abortions has been confirmed, as the Obama administration has issued the final rules on abortion funding governing the controversial health care law.
Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized  —  A few weeks ago, a video circulated online of Rick Santorum claiming that 1 in 20 deaths in the Netherlands are caused by involuntary euthanasia.  According to Santorum, elderly Dutch wear bracelets that say …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Campaign Responds To Dutch Euthanasia Outrage
Sasha Issenberg / Slate:
Early Bird Gets the Delegates  —  Romney's mastery of early voting made it nearly impossible for his less-organized, less-moneyed rivals to ever beat him.  —  The political media may have welcomed the closing of polls on recent evenings in Florida, Michigan, Arizona, and Ohio with an air of suspense …
Scott Wong / Politico:
Marco Rubio builds A-Team to control image, bio  —  Rubio's PAC also employs Malorie Miller, who worked for Jeb Bush when he was Florida governor and led the Rubio campaign's online messaging, fundraising and grass-roots outreach, as well as Alberto Martinez, a Tallahassee-based operative …
James Crugnale / Mediaite:
Former McCain Strategist Steve Schmidt On Game Change: Notion Of Palin Being President Frightens Me  —  Former McCain senior campaign strategist Steve Schmidt sat down with MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday morning and spoke candidly about his role in the 2008 presidential campaign, saying HBO's Game Change was largely true.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Liberal groups, unions vow to expose corporate donors  —  Liberal interest groups, watchdogs and unions on Monday threatened to boycott, protest and publicly embarrass corporations that spend money trying to sway the outcome of the November election.  —  Gathered Monday at the Washington headquarters …
Discussion: Power Line
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Welfare queens and college sluts  —  CNN, you really need to examine your hiring policies.  Your “analyst” Dana Loesch wrote this piece of drivel on her site yesterday: … I assume that CNN knows that Fluke wasn't testifying about herself and they know that she wasn't talking about her own sex life …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Eschaton
 
 
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Saul Loeb / National Post:
Dick Cheney cancels Toronto trip, says Canada is too dangerous
Discussion: National Review
Lane Kenworthy / Consider the Evidence:
Is decoupling real?  —  Since the 1970s, income growth …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Economist's View
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
U.S. on pace for $1 trillion deficit
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Blitzing the Department of Education
Discussion: Hot Air
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
JEREMIAH WRIGHT ON DERRICK BELL, JESUS, AND THE JEWS: A SERMON OBAMA COULD NOT HAVE MISSED
Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens
Discussion: Jezebel
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney: NFL owners ‘friends of mine’
Discussion: CNN
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Center-right leaders, Bush alums form religious conscience group
Discussion: ThinkProgress