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8:25 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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BuzzFeed:
After A Twitter Win, Romney Meets The Online Right  —  A united front against Obama and the liberal media.  But: Huffington Post broke news of the meeting.  —  At the Republican National Committee yesterday, conservative online writers and bloggers who arrived to meet with Romney were also shown …
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Washington Examiner:
Klein: Obama is winning the general election  —  The general election unofficially began nearly a month ago, and so far President Obama is winning.  —  This has nothing to do with poll numbers.  Sure, Obama enjoys a statistically insignificant 3.7 percent edge over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Meets With Conservative Media Off The Record
Joe Picard / The Hill:
Obama administration hits back on notion that it abandoned Chen in China  —  The Obama administration pushed back Thursday evening on the notion that U.S. diplomats abandoned Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng when they let him leave the Beijing embassy on Wednesday.
Discussion: Eschaton
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Melinda Liu / The Daily Beast:
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton's Plane
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen
Justin Sink / The Hill:
In Virginia, Bachmann endorses Romney
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Politico
David Harsanyi / Human Events:
Who the hell is “Julia” and why am I paying for her whole life?  —  In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can “Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime — and how Mitt Romney would change her story.”
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
‘Julia’  —  Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:  —  4 months: Julia's mother decides that giving birth will be hard on her figure.  She kills Julia.  Under Barack Obama, her right to do so is absolutely nonnegotiable.  —  10 years: Trapped in a failing …
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?  —  Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud  —  This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC).
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Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia  —  President Obama leads former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Virginia but commonwealth voters are evenly divided on the White House's major policies, a new Washington Post poll shows.  —  Obama is ahead of Romney …
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Why it matters that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog  —  There was a brief media firestorm yesterday when Vanity Fair broke the news that Obama's famous “New York girlfriend” was a fiction.  She appears in his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, described in some detail by her appearance, voice and mannerisms.
Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Horror!... Neo-Nazi #Occupy Phoenix Protester Goes On Shooting Rampage - 5 Dead  —  Back in October we reported that Neo-Nazi Jason Todd Ready was patrolling the #Occupy Phoenix camp with AR-15′s.  —  Neo-Nazi Jason Todd (J.T.) Ready pictured on left patrolling the Occupy Phoenix protest …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:   The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: … Just because the Cleveland 5 …
ABCNEWS:
Bachmann: 'He Can't Beat Obama ... Not Going to Happen'  —  Michele Bachmann has finally decided to endorse Mitt Romney - 119 days after she dropped out of the race.  —  The endorsement will come at a joint Romney-Bachmann appearance on Thursday.  No doubt Bachmann will talk about the importance …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Perry: ‘God help us’ if Romney loses
Discussion: CNN
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries  —  “Maybe CNN is just like an emergency room.”  —  That is what a longtime CNN employee theorized last year, during one of the channel's predictable defeats in the Nielsen ratings.  —  When elections and explosions happen, people tune in to CNN …
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Feels Heat on Ratings
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Another Misleading Edit Costs Another NBC News Employee Her Job  —  Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based NBC News correspondent, is no longer working for the network, TVNewser has learned.  —  Luciano last reported for NBC News March 31.  Until that point, she had been reporting mainly on the Trayvon Martin story.
Morgan Korn / Yahoo! Finance:
T. Boone Pickens: Biggest Deterrent To U.S. Energy Plan Is Koch Industries  —  Investor T. Boone Pickens has made a fortune over the years running an energy-oriented hedge fund, and in recent years he's been placing big bets on the natural gas and wind industries.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
BuzzFeed:
Conservative Activist: More Navy SEALs to Attack Obama  —  Joel Arends, the man behind the ad hammering the White House for “taking so much credit” on Bin Laden, believes more Special Forces operators will come out against Obama.  Arends objects to the term “swift boat.”
Discussion: Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
GOP voters want Santorum, Rubio for VP  —  Republican voters would like to see Rick Santorum or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) standing at Mitt Romney's side this fall, a new poll found.  —  A Reuters-Ipsos poll released Thursday found Santorum and Rubio are the top choices among Republican voters to be Romney's running mate.
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Gingrich says he's already endorsed Romney, still critical
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The freaky quadruple deaky “tanning mom” clip  —  It's come to this.  —  Via Mediaite, I've been looking around all day for a palate cleanser.  And now, at last, I've found it.  Trust me: Whatever you have on your news palate right now, this'll clean it right out.  Doesn't matter how important it is.
Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rajan on Lessons from Recession  —  Tyler Cowen can't heap enough praise on this paper from Raghuram Rajan.  —  I am loathe to use such language, but at this late date I think it helps to be direct.  The paper reads to me like nonsense on stilts.  Ostensibly its about the ineffectiveness …
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker  —  The Republican National Committee is getting ahead of President Obama's official campaign kickoff in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday with a media blitz labeling his re-election drive the “Hype & Blame” tour.  —  The RNC will sell “Hype & Blame 2012” …
Shaun Waterman / Washington Times:
Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites  —  Russia's most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would preemptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing system continue to stall.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Colin Powell Says Iraq ‘Blot’ Teaches Need for Skepticism
Paul Krugman:
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Romney blasts Obama for opposing D.C. voucher program
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CNN:
Study: Campaign ads much more negative than four years ago
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