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5:35 PM ET, May 9, 2012

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Rick Klein / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage  —  President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.  In an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage  —  Updated President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.  “At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Obama Embraces Marriage Equality  —  President Obama has come out in support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people in an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts this afternoon: … Watch it:  —  His endorsement comes less than a week after Vice President Joe Biden embraced …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
President Obama's calculated gamble on gay marriage  —  President Obama's decision to express support for gay marriage in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts is a decision that comes with real political risk.  —  President Obama declares his support for gay marriage in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News.
Log Cabin Republicans:
Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans  —  (Washington, DC) - Log Cabin Republicans respond to President Barack Obama's latest evolution on the freedom to marry.  —  “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One …
New York Times:
Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
An Obama Gay Marriage Timeline  —  President Obama may come out in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage today in an interview with the ABC News.  It's been a long and winding road there.  —  Obama in 1996: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”
E.J. Graff / American Prospect:
I Am Gobsmacked
Discussion: pandagon.net
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lugar's Demise and the Constitutional Crisis  —  The defeat of Richard Lugar in the Indiana Republican Senate primary is the kind of event that would have been shocking just a half-dozen years ago, and has since grown routine.  Incumbent senators used to have almost no fear that they might …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Sen. Danforth (R) Says GOP Becoming ‘Increasingly Inconsequential,’ ‘Intolerant’  —  Former Ambassador to the UN and U.S. Sen. John Danforth (R-MO)  —  In 2010, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) told the New York Times that “If Dick Lugar, having served five terms …
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Richard Mourdock: ‘Bipartisanship Ought To Consist Of Democrats Coming To The Republican Point Of View’  —  Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) crushed Sen. Dick Lugar (R) in yesterday's GOP Senate primary in Indiana, ending the 36-year career of one of the few Republican senators left …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Moderate Republicans Fall Away in the Senate
Melinda Henneberger / Washington Post:
Dick Lugar, poor loser?
Discussion: Wonkette
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Romney in Colorado: “I do not favor civil unions”  —  DENVER — Mitt Romney, who's now a sure bet to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee this fall, commented about gay marriage and civil unions during an interview with FOX31 Denver's Jeremy Hubbard Wednesday.
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Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
Asked About Gay Marriage, Romney Doesn't Answer
Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC chairman: Obama ‘played politics,’ GOP ‘clear’ in opposition to same-sex marriage
Discussion: CNN
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: The margins told the story  —  Voters arrive at Overbrook Elementary School in Charleston to cast their votes in the primary election, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. … *** The margins told the story: The overall results went largely as expected last night in Indiana, North Carolina …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Obama Loses West Virginia Delegates To Prison Inmate
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
TO EXPLAIN OBAMA'S WV HUMILIATION, DEMS ACCUSE THEIR OWN OF RACISM
Bill Dedman / msnbc.com:
Conservative author Jonah Goldberg drops claim of two Pulitzer nominations  —  On the dust jacket of his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” best-selling conservative author and commentator Jonah Goldberg is described as having “twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”
Naomi Schaefer Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Academic Mob Rules  —  Instead of encouraging wide discussion, the Chronicle of Higher Education fires a blogger.  —  Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a cover story called “Black Studies: ‘Swaggering Into the Future,’” in which the reporter described how …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NOW president returns fire on Limbaugh  —  Terry O'Neill, the president of the progressive National Organization for Women (NOW), is returning fire on conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, who yesterday called her organization a “faux feminist group” and its members “femi-nazis,” …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus: Limbaugh boycott cost ‘millions’
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Billy Graham and Amendment One  —  One of the odder phenomena surrounding the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina was the last-minute emergence of the Rev. Billy Graham, the retired, chronically-ill 93-year-old evangelist, as a supporter of the amendment.
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Mass. Dems file ethics complaint against Brown (Updated)  —  The Massachusetts Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Scott Brown, alleging that Brown has used official resources for campaign purposes.  —  The complaint focuses on footage of Brown's half-court shot …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and The Gateway Pundit
Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
Sarkozy, Obama, Romney, Ron Paul and the recent European elections  —  In the past few weeks, a number of elections in Europe have offered telling signs for American politics about the effect of the current pain on voters.  —  Two consistent patterns are emerging in virtually every European country …
Holly Bailey / ABCNEWS:
Romney: Obama's policies are ‘old’ and ‘outdated’  —  For the second day in a row, Mitt Romney painted President Obama as someone who is leading the country based on “old” and “outdated policies”—arguing that he, not Obama, is the candidate able to get America “growing and thriving again.”
Discussion: CNN and Yahoo! News
 
 
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Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves Export-Import bill in bipartisan vote despite fire from right
Discussion: RedState
Stephanie Banchero / Wall Street Journal:
School-Standards Pushback  —  Conservative Groups Oppose …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Democrats withdraw Trayvon amendment
Kate Nocera / Politico:
GOPer: Don't ax Planned Parenthood
Daily Mail:
‘Targeted because they were not part of your community or religion’: Judge blasts sex grooming …
Discussion: Melanie Phillips and Telegraph
Robert Johnson / Business Insider:
This 39-Year-Old Woman Enlisted Five Years Ago And Is Already An American Hero
Discussion: This ain't Hell …
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Reuters:
Florida nabs white supremacists planning “race war”
John Miller / CBS News:
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Arthur C. Brooks / Wall Street Journal:
Arthur Brooks: America and the Value of ‘Earned Success’
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