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9:50 AM ET, June 5, 2012

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Robin Bravender / Politico:
Wisconsin recall: Democrats prepare for recall recount  —  Brace yourself: Wisconsin Democrats say they are preparing for the event that the hotly contested recall race could drag on for weeks, or even longer.  —  Floating the prospect of a recount is, of course, a message that bolsters …
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Robin Bravender / Politico:
Wisconsin Dems sidestep labor debate in recall  —  MILWAUKEE — The bitter battle over union rights in Wisconsin sent masses of angry protesters flooding into the streets, placed the state at the center of a national debate over Big Labor's power and sparked the historic recall to topple GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove and National Review
Washington Examiner:
Wisconsin labor fight started ugly, ended ugly  —  Protesters chant ‘shame’ in protest after the House voted to pass the state's controversial budget bill in the Wisconsin assembly chamber on March 10, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin.  (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Discussion: Hot Air
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Wisconsin Governor Recall Election Is Today
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Gov. Walker knocks Obama for shying away from Wisconsin recall
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Wisconsin's resentment factor
Ezra Klein:
The Keynesian case for Romney  —  Even if you disagree with every one of Mitt Romney's policies, there's a chance he's still the best candidate to lift the economy in 2013.  —  That's not because he has business experience.  For all his bluster about the lessons taught by the private sector …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama joins Dem blitz before Senate vote on equal pay measure
BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton: Romney Presidency Would Be Calamitous For The World  —  Last week he complimented Romney, today he doesn't pull any punches.  —  (AP / Ronald Zak)  —  Former President Bill Clinton warned of global danger in the event Mitt Romney wins in the fall — a shift in tone …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giffords's potential successor runs from Obama  —  When it comes to President Barack Obama and the special House election to succeed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, there's the personal and then there's the political.  —  The personal: Days after bullets pierced his thigh and cheek in the shooting rampage …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Ballot Box
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
OVERNIGHT CAMPAIGN: Proxy battles and recall matches
New York Post:
Team O turns tone-deaf  —  Remember how all the buzz about the 2008 campaign was how young and fresh and new and exciting and YouTube-y and Internet-y and Will.I.AM-y the Obama campaign was?  Well, the Obama 2012 campaign is turning into . . . a raffle.  Or a school auction.  Or something.
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and Betsy's Page
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years  —  Trends in American Values: 1987-2012  —  OVERVIEW  —  As Americans head to the polls this November, their values and basic beliefs are more polarized along partisan lines than at any point in the past 25 years.
Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Clark County GOP erects billboard touting Ron Paul, deriding Mitt Romney  —  It sits at Decatur and Russell in Las Vegas, a stark reminder of the Ron Paul takeover of the Republican Party in the state's largest county.  —  The message is unmistakable: Ron Paul is like Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney is like George W. Bush.
Discussion: Ballot Box and Washington Post
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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE - THE VETTING - SENATOR BARACK OBAMA ATTENDED BILL AYERS BARBECUE, JULY 4, 2005  —  As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama disavowed any connection with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground radical who was one of Obama's early backers and his colleague …
Shiv Malik / Guardian:
Unemployed bussed in to steward river pageant  —  Coachloads of jobless people brought in to work unpaid on river pageant as part of Work Programme  —  Call for inquiry into use of unpaid jobseekers as jubilee stewards  —  A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London …
New York Post:
Boastful babbling a gift to our foes  —  Last week's media bombshell that we'd infiltrated the Iranian nuclear program with a super-secret computer virus made it undeniable: There's been way too much aired about sensitive US operations over the last year or so.  —  Someone ought to tell Team Obama.
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Therapy Survivor Calls Out Ex-Gay Advocate's Bullying On Dr. Drew  —  Last night on his HLN show, Dr. Drew interviewed Janet Boynes, friend of Marcus and Michele Bachmann, about her ex-gay identity and advocacy.  She unsurprisingly reiterated her belief that “change is possible through …
Discussion: Good As You
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Crossroads GPS knocks Obama on debt, economy in new $7 million buy  —  A new $7 million ad buy from a prominent conservative group accuses President Barack Obama of “reckless spending” and will air across key swing states in the November election.  —  The commercial, funded …
Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Have We Reached an Economic Tipping Point for the President?  - Today's Q's for O's WH - 6/4/2012  —  TAPPER: Who specifically is “rooting for failure”?  —  CARNEY: I think that when you have a situation where action is not being taken on Capitol Hill where it is obvious …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy  —  The secretive government agency that flies spy satellites has made a stunning gift to NASA: two exquisite telescopes as big and powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope.  They've never left the ground and are in storage in Rochester, N.Y.
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
US: Israel ‘supportive’ of new Iranian sanctions if nuclear talks fail  —  An Obama administration official says that Israel is “supportive” of future U.S. sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program if negotiations between Tehran and six world powers fail.
Reuters:
Fear factors: What worries Romney backers  —  Mitt Romney has done the unthinkable: silenced the legions of conservatives who saw him as too starched, too ideologically wobbly and too Richie Rich to win a few months ago.  —  Now comes the hard part: getting those same conservatives …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Edges Obama in Battle for Middle-Income Voters
Discussion: Hot Air and Campaign 2012
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Muslim Yelling “Allahu Akbar” Beheads His Wife In Front of Their Six Children Before Throwing …
Discussion: Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit
Sylvia Westall / Reuters:
Kuwaiti gets 10 years for Twitter blasphemy
Kate Taylor / City Room:
Gay Rights Groups to Join Others in Condemning Stop-and-Frisk
The Atlantic Online:
Tiananmen Square, Then and Now  —  Twenty-three years ago today …
Discussion: Gawker
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A speech I'd like to hear Obama deliver
William Bergstrom / Politico:
Andrew Cuomo proposes lower pot possession charge
Discussion: Associated Press and ThinkProgress
Susanne Craig / DealBook:
Goldman Sachs Cuts a Little Deeper
Discussion: New York Magazine and Felix Salmon
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
Obama a socialist? Many scoff, but claim persists
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Messina: We're Doing Great! Oh, and We May Lose Wisconsin.
Billy House / NationalJournal.com:
Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Romney Would Save $5 Million In Taxes If He Wins The Election
Discussion: PERRspectives
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Heritage Foundation ‘Expert’ Cannot Cite Any Examples Of Actual Voter Fraud
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina GOP Platform Says Government Should Be Able To Discriminate Against Gays
Discussion: The Raw Story
 

 
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