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1:45 PM ET, May 7, 2012

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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Poll: Obama, Romney in dead heat  —  A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds a dead heat in the presidential race six months before the election.  —  Mitt Romney edged out President Barack Obama 48 percent to 47 percent among likely voters …
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Mark Halperin / Swampland:
The View from One Prudential Plaza: Why the Obama Campaign Is So Confident About Beating Romney  —  President Obama pauses while speaking at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012  —  Barack Obama's decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty darn well.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states' poll: Big challenges loom for Obama, Romney  —  Six months out, it's a tie.  —  The first USA TODAY/Gallup Swing States Poll since the GOP settled on a presumptive nominee shows big challenges for each side: Mitt Romney in generating enthusiasm and a personal connection with his supporters …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama-Romney Race Competitive in 2012 Swing States  —  Obama currently holds advantage on strength of support and enthusiasm  —  PRINCETON, NJ — In the first USA Today/Gallup swing-state poll conducted since Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee, Romney and President Barack Obama …
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
It's the Economy, Smartypants
Discussion: Mother Jones and ABCNEWS
James Hohmann / Politico:   Battleground Poll: Obama, Romney in dead heat
Politico:
Republican poll analysis: The race to November begins
Discussion: CNN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Those Revolting Europeans  —  The French are revolting.  The Greeks, too.  And it's about time.  —  Both countries held elections Sunday that were in effect referendums on the current European economic strategy, and in both countries voters turned two thumbs down.
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Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Analysis: Greek, French voters reject German-led austerity
Drew Katchen / msnbc.com:
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: I believe in same-sex marriage  —  Vice President Joe Biden's declaration Sunday on “Meet the Press” that he's “absolutely comfortable” with gay marriage continued to reverberate Monday.  —  On Morning Joe, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan echoed Biden.
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
A Scramble as Biden Backs Same-Sex Marriage
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Arne Duncan Endorses Marriage Equality
Washington Wire:
What Did Joe Biden Actually Say on Gay Marriage?
Discussion: Politicker and Wall Street Journal
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Was Arrested For Disorderly Conduct In 1981  —  The charges were dropped after Romney threatened to sue.  “I was not a disorderly person,” Romney said.  —  Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh.  —  It's a little reported anecdote, but in 1981 presumptive Republican Presidential …
Brian Topp / Globe and Mail:
With Hollande's defeat of Sarkozy, France dodges a bullet  —  On election day in Paris, Place de la Bastille (home of the left) was full and Place de la Concorde (home of the right) was empty.  As sure a sign as any that the Socialist Party was about to win the presidency, as it went on to do.
Discussion: The Reaction
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Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
Why Ron Paul's big wins in Maine and Nevada matter  —  When Ron Paul delegates show up at the Republican National Convention in August, they may be strong enough to throw the event into disarray - just at the moment Mitt Romney needs to show the GOP united behind him.
Discussion: Business Insider and Hit & Run
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace  —  KABUL — The United States has for several years been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups, a bold effort to quell violence …
Adweek:
Secret Meeting Has ‘Washington Post’ Buzzing As paper struggles, big-name journalists meet with the paper's top business exec By Lucia Moses  —  Washington Post staffers are buzzing about a secret meeting between some 10 big-name Post journalists including Dana Priest, David Finkel and Carol Leonnig …
Michelle Kosinski / msnbc.com:
Prostitute at center of Secret Service scandal: Agents were ‘stupid brutes’  —  MADRID, Spain — A woman identifying herself as the Colombian prostitute at the center of a scandal involving U.S. Secret Service personnel has called the group of agents “stupid brutes” who put partying above President Barack Obama's security.
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers  —  At America's top schools, graduates leave without reading our most basic writings on the purpose of constitutional self-government.  —  It would be difficult to overstate the significance of The Federalist for understanding the principles …
Discussion: Power Line
Dave Umhoefer / PolitiFact:
Behind the rhetoric: Why Scott Walker was able to raise unlimited funds  —  Democrats and their recall allies decry the law that has helped Gov. Scott Walker out-raise his opponents combined by $11 million dollars without regard to normal campaign contribution limits.
Discussion: FreakOutNation
Pamela Owen / Daily Mail:
Did dinosaurs cause climate change?  Huge creatures may have contributed to their own demise because they produced so much flatulence, say scientists  —  Dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much flatulence, according to leading scientists.
 
 
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