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10:05 AM ET, April 2, 2012

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Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing States poll: A shift by women puts Obama in lead  —  MILWAUKEE - President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side.
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Lois Romano / Politico:
Ann Romney is the Romney Democrats fear most  —  Ann Romney's unexpected rock star status has the political arena buzzing about how her husband's campaign will leverage her popularity in an election in which Michelle Obama — one of the most admired first ladies in history — will have an outsized and substantive portfolio.
Discussion: CNN
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama 49%, Romney 45% Among Registered Voters Nationwide
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Swing state poll makes key omissions
Discussion: Hot Air and The Raw Story
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Former President Clinton on Mitt Romney: Etch-a-Sketch “Is What He's Got to Do”  —  Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, currently faces a dynamic similar to the one President Bill Clinton faced during his first presidential run 20 years ago: a long, bruising primary, driving up his unfavorable ratings.
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Clinton: Flip-flops will doom Romney  —  On Good Morning America, Bill Clinton claims that Mitt Romney won't become the new comeback kid since no one really knows what he believes. … Then Clinton revives the Etch-a-Sketch gaffe, as Democrats will no doubt continually do.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama extends olive branch to Cantor after passage of jobs bill  —  President Obama has extended an olive branch to Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and invited him to the White House this week to attend a signing ceremony for bipartisan jobs legislation.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama allies launch ad campaign hitting back over gas prices  —  In case you needed another sign of how intense the battle over gas prices will get as the election heats up, the Obama-allied Priorities USA Action is going up with a new ad in seven swing states hitting back hard at a spot …
Discussion: American Prospect
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Facing voter anger at home, lawmakers play gas prices blame game
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Pink Slime Economics  —  The big bad event of last week was, of course, the Supreme Court hearing on health reform.  In the course of that hearing it became clear that several of the justices, and possibly a majority, are political creatures pure and simple, willing to embrace any argument …
Washington Examiner:
Spike Lee puts the ‘twit’ in Twitter  —  Just when you thought the controversy over the Trayvon Martin shooting couldn't get any worse, it got worse.  Or, more accurately, several parties helped make it worse.  —  Enter Marcus Davonne Higgins, a Los Angeles man no one's probably ever heard of …
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Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
Senior citizens continue to bear burden of student loans  —  New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that Americans 60 and older still owe about $36 billion in student loans, providing a rare window into the dynamics of student debt.  More than 10 percent of those loans are delinquent.
Discussion: US Politics and Via Meadia
William D. Cohan / Bloomberg:
About William D Cohan  —  Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street's Secrets?  —  Getting what should be public information about major Wall Street firms can be maddeningly difficult.  —  Bloomberg News discovered this in its ultimately successful effort to get information on the $1.2 trillion in …
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Keith Olbermann's Angry Email Trail Traces Breakup With Current TV  —  His bitter divorce from Al Gore's network followed months of escalating complaints to Current TV executives.  Howard Kurtz unearths the acrimonious correspondence.  —  It was a terrible marriage from the beginning.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Dubious donations (2012 edition)  —  Barack Obama has proved the greatest campaign fund-raiser of all time by a long shot.  In 2008 his campaign raised more than $750 million.  The Obama campaign even went the extra mile to raise campaign funds by failing to adopt standard protections against fraudulent and illegal giving.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
At Summit, Nations Move to Increase Aid for Syrian Rebels  —  ISTANBUL — The United States and more than 60 other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging $100 million to pay opposition fighters and the United States agreeing …
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BBC:
Syria rebel fighters ‘to be paid’
Discussion: Truthdig
 
 
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
As TV Viewing Habits Change, Political Ads Adapt
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The right's stealthy coup
Boston Globe:
Brown, Warren deadlocked, poll shows
Discussion: Politico and Ballot Box
Danny Westneat / Seattle Times:
Personal-contact politics: Gay man's letter-writing campaign
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and Gay Politics
Michael Klare / TomDispatch - Blog:
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Discussion: Daily Kos
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Priebus memo: Wis. recall strengthens GOP
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Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Rick Santorum on pressure to quit GOP race; Dean, Barbour preview general election
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Biden: Romney is “a little out of touch”
CNN:
Biden stands by Obama on ‘hot mic’ controversy
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Tongue-cutting at Al Jazeera
 

 
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