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5:10 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 …
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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  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) charged Senate Republicans on Monday of gumming up the Senate's judicial confirmation process in order to embarrass President Obama, and said he plans to file cloture …
Manu Raju / Politico:   Harry Reid vows floor fight for judicial nominees
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.
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CNN:
Foxworthy on hunting with Romney: More dangerous than Cheney
Discussion: GOP 12
CNN:
Romney: If battle to convention, ‘signaling our doom’
Discussion: Politico
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.
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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 …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: 141 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh  —  ThinkProgress has obtained an internal memo from Premiere Radio Networks listing 96 national companies that have “specifically asked” their advertisments not be played during the Rush Limbaugh Show.  Premiere is the distributor of Limbaugh's program.
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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Campaign Responds To Dutch Euthanasia Outrage
Joshua Keating / FP Passport:
In his heart, Rick Santorum knows that Dutch people are forcibly euthanized
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
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
Poll shows American support for US involvement in Afghanistan tanking  —  Nearly 60 percent of all Americans think the war in Afghanistan is no longer worth fighting, with more than 50 percent saying U.S. troops should withdraw even if Afghan forces are not ready to fend for themselves.
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for Afghanistan Shooting
Discussion: Indecision Forever
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.
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Stearns On Obama Birth's Certificate: ‘The Question Is, Is It Legitimate?’  —  New video of a February town hall shows Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) pandering to birthers and raising questions about the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate.  —  When Stearns met with constituents …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Longtime GOP lawmaker questions legitimacy of Obama birth certificate
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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.
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
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 …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
U.S. on pace for $1 trillion deficit  —  The federal government set a new monthly record deficit of $232 billion in February and has notched a total of $581 billion in the first five months of the fiscal year, according to the Treasury Department's official count released Monday.
Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Republican Compares Women to Cows, Pigs, And Chickens  —  Republican Georgia State Representative Terry England  —  A speech from a Georgia Republican state representative surfaced last week in which he compared women seeking abortions of stillborn fetuses to cows and pigs.
Discussion: Jezebel
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
JEREMIAH WRIGHT ON DERRICK BELL, JESUS, AND THE JEWS: A SERMON OBAMA COULD NOT HAVE MISSED  —  Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's incendiary Chicago pastor, admired radical Harvard Law School professor Derrick Bell, inviting him to speak at Trinity United Church of Christ and referring to him from the pulpit.
 
 
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Lane Kenworthy / Consider the Evidence:
Is decoupling real?  —  Since the 1970s, income growth …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Economist's View
Eric Pianin / Ezra Klein:
Student loans seen as potential ‘next debt bomb’ for U.S. economy
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Liberal groups, unions vow to expose corporate donors
Discussion: Power Line
Katie Kieffer / Townhall.com:
Blitzing the Department of Education
Discussion: Hot Air
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney: NFL owners ‘friends of mine’
Discussion: CNN
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Center-right leaders, Bush alums form religious conscience group
Jordan Zakarin / Hollywood Reporter:
Congress Joins Weinstein's ‘Bully’ Rating Fight With MPAA as 20 Members Sign Teen's Petition
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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