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10:10 PM ET, June 1, 2012

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton hits a home run in Wisconsin.  Will it be enough?  —  Bill Clinton, in his speech in Wisconsin just now, framed the recall election as a stark choice between unity and division, between cooperation and conflict, and between shared prosperity and right wing winner-take-all economics.
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BuzzFeed:
The Number That Will Matter In Wisconsin  —  In the epic showdown between Big Blue and Big Red, Walker's margin may be the number being watched from Chicago and Boston.  A Walker blowout means trouble for the president.  —  Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (L) and Republican Wisconsin Governor …
Rodney Hawkins / CBS News:
Bill Clinton: Praising Romney's business record doesn't connote endorsement
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Rush Limbaugh
Tim Mak / Politico:
Bill Clinton slams Scott Walker agenda
Discussion: msnbc.com
Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
Democrats Cool On Wisconsin
CNN:
Poll: Obama-Romney race tied; Obama supporters appear more energized  —  Washington (CNN) - The race for the White House remains very close, according to a new national poll, partly because neither President Barack Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney have a clear advantage on issue number one - the economy.
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ABCNEWS:
Obama Returns to Chicago Home to Sleep, Cook, ‘Putter in My Backyard’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The New Jobs Report: Ooof
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Bill Clinton, predicting Obama win, calls Romney's business career ‘sterling’
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Romney smiles at Clinton compliment
Justin Sink / The Hill:   Romney: Jobs report is ‘harsh indictment’ of Obama's presidency
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Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman's bond revoked in shooting of Trayvon Martin  —  In a new motion, prosecutors accused Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the judge during a bond hearing about money they collected for his defense.  —  Prosecutors allege Zimmerman's wife knew about the donations her husband …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Bond Revoked  —  Here is a plot twist:  —  URGENT: A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours.  —  Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester said that George Zimmerman and his wife …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
CNN:
Judge revokes Zimmerman's bond
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Shakesville
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Miserable May jobs report suggests U.S. in recession red zone  —  [THIS POST WILL UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PAGE AS EVENTS UNFOLD ...]  —  The May jobs report was a complete and utter disaster for the economy and, perhaps, President Obama's chances for reelection.
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
The road not taken  —  About a year ago, the job market looked …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Creates 69,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate 8.2%
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran  —  WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …
Brian McGrory / The Boston Globe:
Warren: 'I won't deny who I am'  —  Elizabeth Warren, outside her childhood home in Norman, Okla., last year.  She said her parents had to elope because her father's family disapproved of her mother's Native American ancestry.  —  She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: ELOPED? ELIZABETH WARREN'S PARENTS MARRIED IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
Exclusive: One Million Moms Deletes ‘Green Lantern Is Gay’ Post After Flood Of Pro-Gay Comments  —  Just a few minutes ago, One Million Moms on their Facebook page issued a “warning,” linked to an ABC News story, reporting that D.C. Comics character Green Lantern is gay …
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ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.
Discussion: The Hill and GOP 12
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Democrat Van Hollen tells Jeb Bush he should be criticizing his brother
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush, Grilled on Capitol Hill, Differs from Party on No-Tax Pledge
Discussion: Taking Note
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias  —  They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.  —  Here's the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney.
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Obama on nudity, drag-racing and how to write: 20 details from Maraniss' ‘Barack Obama: The Story’  —  In the forthcoming biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” due in bookstores June 19, David Maraniss tells the largely untold story of Obama's family, his life growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia …
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are  —  Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.  —  One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins  —  Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.
People.com:
Rielle Hunter's Tell-All Memoir Coming Out this Month  —  Rielle Hunter, the former mistress of John Edwards and the mother of their 4-year-old daughter, has written what the publisher promise to be a revealing memoir hitting the shelves later this month.  —  What Really Happened: John Edwards …
Discussion: msnbc.com, Politico and The Hill
Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog:
The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time  —  The law professor equivalent of career hits is the “number of times cited” in journals.  The stat is a measure of influence, not stroke, but a high citation count open doors, just the same.  Institutions consider them when doling out grant awards …
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Conservative editor: Young Americans ‘so frickin’ stupid' they shouldn't get to vote  —  Appearing in a video published online on Thursday, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for the neoconservative National Review Online website, explains that he believes letting 18-year-old Americans vote is a big mistake that should be taken back.
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Zombie Apocalypse: CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Zombies, Alexander Kinyua, Ronald Poppo, Rudy Eugene, Cdc, Cdc Denies Zombies, Cdc Zombie Apocalypse, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Weird Science, Zombie Apocalypse , Weird News
 
 
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Clinton: Mitt comments were twisted
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Romney worth between $190 and $250 million
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Friend Whitaker Denies Wright Allegation of Bribe
Discussion: Hot Air
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