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1:45 PM 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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Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Nasty robo-calls in Wisconsin?  —  Some voters say they've received calls telling them they don't need to vote if they signed the recall petition  —  With both sides counting on dramatic turnout, Tom Barrett's campaign is charging Scott Walker supporters with dirty tricks.
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Notes on Wisconsin  —  Notes on Wisconsin: 1) Tomorrow's recall may not be the “second most important election this year,” as some observers have claimed.  It may be the first; 2) The ramifications for American government, which are profound, vastly outweigh ramifications …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Late Polls Find Walker Is Still Favored  —  Two polls released over the weekend suggest that Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican, remains the clear favorite to win Tuesday's recall election.  —  Although the contest is fairly close, polls of gubernatorial races are ordinarily quite reliable in the late stages of a race.
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
NOTABLES:  — TOTAL RECALL: Today, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …
Michelle Malkin:
Decision day in Wisconsin: Democratic fleebaggers prepare for the worst
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Reuters
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Intrade Has Walker's Chances over 90%; NY Times in Panic Mode
Meg Jones / JSOnline:
Mailings that list voting records set off some neighbors
Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Hot Air and Politico
Washington Examiner:
Wisconsin labor fight started ugly, ended ugly
Discussion: Hot Air
The Boston Globe:
Romney's solar slam at Obama backfires  —  A Lowell-based solar technology company that received $1.5 million in state loans when Mitt Romney was governor has filed for bankruptcy, opening the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to charges of hypocrisy.
Discussion: Washington Post
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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.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton: Romney adopted 'Europe's economic policies'
Discussion: The Hill, msnbc.com and NewsBusters.org
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Dire CBO report projects US debt will be double GDP by 2037  —  U.S. debt is on track to be nearly twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warned Tuesday.  —  The new CBO report states that increased entitlement spending driven …
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Michael D. Lemonick / Time:
NASA Gets Two New Hubble Telescopes — Absolutely Free  —  It hardly bears mentioning that the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most extraordinarily successful scientific instruments of all time.  Since 1993, when the telescope's flawed mirror was set right by a set …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
How Romney Pushed State Health Bill  —  Emails Show Governor Defending Insurance Mandate for Massachusetts Residents  —  When Mitt Romney left office as Massachusetts governor, his aides removed all emails from a server computer in the governor's office, and purchased and carted off hard drives …
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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 …
David Shepardson / detroitnews.com:
Romney vows quick U.S. exit from GM  —  He says Obama delays stock sale to avoid embarrassment of big losses  —  Washington — Republican Mitt Romney believes President Barack Obama is holding on to the government's stake in General Motors to avoid an embarrassing financial loss before the election …
Commentary Magazine:
Please Excuse My President  —  Few things are more difficult in politics than confronting failure and learning from it.  It is especially difficult when a leader you have championed, and in whom you have placed your highest hopes, turns out to be less than he seemed.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
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.
Roger Simon / Politico:
Bill Clinton is out of control  —  Bill Clinton has to be the smartest guy in the room even when he's not in the room.  —  Clinton is not on Barack Obama's campaign staff, is not a trusted adviser, does not set Obama's strategy.  —  But Bill Clinton is pretty good at sabotaging Obama's strategy.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and CNN
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  CHART: The Gobsmacking Drop In Government Spending Under Obama  —  The conventional wisdom that President Obama has overseen a dramatic surge in government spending has always been shaky.  But it faces perhaps its starkest rebuttal in new figures that reveal the sharpest decline …
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: Advocate and Good As You
Robert J. Barro / Wall Street Journal:
Robert Barro: Why This Slow Recovery Is Like No Recovery  —  The U.S. economy lost about 10% relative to trendline growth.  To make up the shortfall, we need to average more than 3% growth a year for several years.  —  Last week's dismal jobs report showed little change in payroll employment …
Discussion: Cato @ Liberty and Betsy's Page
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 …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Newsweek hires Atlantic's Megan McArdle  —  Megan McArdle, the Atlantic's libertarian economics blogger, is joining Newsweek & The Daily Beast, POLITICO has learned.  —  McArdle, who is currently on book leave, has blogged about business and economics for the Atlantic since 2007.
Discussion: TBogg
 
 
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Jen Christensen / CNN:
LGBT donors back President Obama, big time
Bloomberg:
Wall Street CEO Pay Rises 20% With KKR'S Kravis No. 1
Discussion: US Politics and ThinkProgress
Erin McLaughlin / ABCNEWS:
Police Stop, Handcuff Every Adult at Intersection in Search for Bank Robber
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Althouse
Tim Mak / Politico:
Claire McCaskill touts ‘Paycheck Fairness’
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Scott Stump / msnbc.com:
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Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Dean Baker / Guardian:
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 Earlier Items: 
The Boston Globe:
Science out of context  —  BP's demand for e-mail will erode …
Aubrey Whelan / Washington Examiner:
Occupiers quietly fade from McPherson Square
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Clark County GOP erects billboard touting Ron Paul, deriding Mitt Romney
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Crossroads GPS knocks Obama on debt, economy in new $7 million buy
Discussion: GOP 12, CNN and Taylor Marsh
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
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
A speech I'd like to hear Obama deliver