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12:55 PM ET, May 17, 2012

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New York Times:
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama  —  WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney ‘Repudiates’ Conservative Group's Planned Rev. Wright Attacks  —  In an exclusive interview with Townhall, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rebuked a conservative group that is reportedly planning to assail President Obama over his 20-year relationship …
Politico:
Romney repudiates Jeremiah Wright plan  —  Mitt Romney's campaign says it wants no part of a plan by Republican strategists to attack President Obama by highlighting his ties to pastor Jeremiah Wright.  —  “It's clear President Obama's team is running a campaign of character assassination,” said Romney Campaign Manager Matt Rhoades.
New York Times:
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright  —  A group of high-profile Republican strategists has put forward a plan that calls for running commercials linking Mr. Obama to incendiary comments by his former spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., whose race-related sermons …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
McCain, Romney Camps Decry Super-PAC Proposal to Attack Obama on Rev. Wright
Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Kos
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Campaign Rejects Using the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Obama
Discussion: Business Insider
Maggie Haberman / Politico:   Romney campaign manager: Our focus is the economy
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States.  —  Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July …
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Washington Post:
Census: Minority babies are now majority in United States  —  For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation's babies are members of minority groups, according to new census figures that signal the dawn of an era in which whites no longer will be in the majority.
Discussion: Feministe, Althouse and National Review
Hope Yen / Associated Press:   Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births
ABCNEWS:
Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ‘Scheme’  —  Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward  —  Eduardo Saverin can escape the United States, but he can't slip Facebook.  —  “Everything I do in my personal life, in my professional life, it's completely there,” said Mr. Saverin, a Facebook co-founder, in his first major interview.
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Romney Raises $40.1 Million in April, Nearly Matching Obama  —  Mitt Romney almost matched President Obama in fund-raising during April after securing his party's presidential nomination and joining forces with the Republican National Committee, the campaign will announce on Thursday.
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
RNC, Romney campaign will erect new organization to bypass state GOP
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney and RNC raise $40.1 million in April
Discussion: Daily Kos
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
Rep. Mike Coffman: Obama in his heart ‘not an American’  —  “I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.  I don't know that,” Coffman said.  “But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American.  He's just not an American.”
DealBook:
JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50%  —  The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank's initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the losses.  —  When Jamie Dimon …
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Elizabeth Warren Expresses No Confidence in Current Bank Accountability Measures
New York Post:
RFK Jr.'s wife hangs herself  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Mary arrive at Sen. Ted Kennedy's funeral in 2009.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, who battled her husband's rumored philandering by turning to alcohol and prescription drugs, hanged herself in a barn …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Case - Keeping Hate Alive At The Times  —  The NY Times can't quite bring itself to report on the latest news in the Zimmerman case - Zimmerman's medical file shows he was banged up and Martin's autopsy showed bloody knuckles - so they hand the mike to the Ben Crump …
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Jim Tankersley / NationalJournal.com:
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality  —  If you're plugged into the Internet, chances are you've seen a TED talk - the wonky, provocative web videos that have become a sort of nerd franchise.  TED.com is where you go to find Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explaining why the world has too few female leaders …
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Jim Tankersley / Restoration Roundtable:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
Discussion: Business Insider
Mj Lee / Politico:
Scott Walker: Tom Barrett getting ‘desperate’  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday blasted rival Tom Barrett's campaign as “desperate” less than three weeks before he is set to face off against the Milwaukee mayor in the June 5 recall election.  —  “This is a desperate statement …
Discussion: Associated Press, Althouse and CNN
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Poll: Scott Walker widens lead in Wisconsin
Discussion: CNN
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney's Bill Clinton strategy  —  Dee Dee Myers, a White House spokeswoman during Clinton's first term, said Romney will need to find a better messenger than himself to speak to Democrats disaffected by Obama.  —  “I don't think Democrats or even Democratic-leaning independents turn …
Reuters:
Plans to strike Iran “ready,” says U.S. Israel envoy  —  (Reuters) - U.S. plans for a possible military strike on Iran are ready and the option is “fully available”, the U.S. ambassador to Israel said, days before Tehran resumes talks with world powers which suspect it of seeking to develop nuclear arms.
Jake Shermanand Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Health care reform: GOP preps plan for ruling on law  —  House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law.  —  If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear …
 
 
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PR Newswire:
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
House GOP's Energy Dept. loan probe could ensnare two Cabinet secretaries
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 Earlier Items: 
ABCNEWS:
Dinner for 2? Romney Spox Throws a Question at Biden at Dinner Run-In
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats' Odds of Retaining Senate Improve
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Obama pulls ahead of Romney as presidential race heats up
Dylan Byers / Politico:
No media love for asymmetric polarization
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
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