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8:40 PM ET, June 12, 2012

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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Obama Is Losing A Stunning Amount Of African-American Support In North Carolina  —  WATCH: What Obama's Embarrassing Primaries  —  In Kentucky And Arkansas Last Month Mean  —  President Barack Obama is rapidly losing support among African-American voters in North Carolina …
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Spike Lee: Obama win not a sure thing  —  Spike Lee is predicting a tough road to reelection for President Obama.  —  “This thing is not a lock,” the filmmaker told GQ in a recent interview.  “It is not a lock that President Obama is getting a second term and people have to really rekindle the enthusiasm that we had the first time.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney holds small lead in NC  —  PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama 48-46.  It's a small lead but still significant in that it's the first time we've found Romney ahead in our monthly polling of the state since October.
Washington Examiner:
Now union members are deserting Obama
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and Gallup
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Jewish Support Drops 22 Points in New York
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Politico:
Obama: Debt, deficits were ‘baked into the cake’
Deborah Charles / Reuters:
Michelle Obama to Ann Romney: have fun campaigning
Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Black Support for Obama Ebbs In North Carolina
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Mark Anthony Green / GQ:
Nobody's Martyr: A GQ&A with Spike Lee
Discussion: Mediaite and Pat Dollard
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman's wife arrested, charged with perjury  —  At her husband's bond hearing, Shellie Zimmerman was asked repeatedly about money.  Among the questions: How much did the couple collect in donations through the PayPal account George Zimmerman set up on his website?
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: George Zimmerman's wife arrested on perjury charge  —  Shellie Zimmerman is accused of lying under oath at her husband's bail hearing.  Mug shot:  —  You can read the full statement of probable cause HERE.  ABC News is reporting that bond has been set at $1,000.
Casey Glynn / CBS News:
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman, arrested for perjury
msnbc.com:
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of Trayvon Martin killer, arrested on perjury charge
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and JustOneMinute
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Zimmerman ‘does not properly respect the law,’ judge says in order revoking bond
Discussion: Daily Kos
Democracy Corps:
Shifting the Economic Narrative  —  What is clear from this fresh look at public consciousness on the economy is how difficult this period has been for both non-college-educated and college-educated voters - and how vulnerable the prevailing narratives articulated by national Democratic leaders are.
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BuzzFeed:
Clintonites Hit The Panic Button For Obama  —  Carville, Greenberg, Penn, and Schoen all say the re-elect is off course.  The Obamans have always loved criticism from Clintonworld.  —  (Getty Images / MANDEL NGAN)  —  Former aides to President Bill Clinton are calling for a dramatic shift …
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Did He Get the Memo?  Obama Sticks to Script on Stump  —  (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)  —  BALTIMORE - As some high-profile Democrats question the focus of his pitch for a second term, President Obama today stuck closely to his well-worn script, telling a group of 500 donors …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Dems call for fresh message, warn of ‘impossible headwind’
Discussion: Mediaite
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Dems block McCain resolution on special counsel for leaks  —  Senate Democrats blocked a resolution introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to introduce an outside special counsel to investigate a number of recent military and intelligence leaks.
Discussion: CNN, CBS News and Michelle Malkin
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Sen. Cornyn calls on Holder to resign
Fox News:
Senator calls for Holder's resignation amid challenges over leak probe, Fast and Furious
Discussion: Hot Air
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Holder: ‘I Stuck by My Guns’
Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Althouse
CBS Miami:
Doctors Release Pictures Of Causeway Cannibal Victim  —  MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Doctors have released photographs of Ronald Poppo, more than two weeks after the homeless man had much of his face chewed off during an attack by so-called Causeway Cannibal Rudy Eugene over the Memorial Day weekend.
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Kyle Munzenrieder / Riptide 2.0:
New Photos of Ronald Poppo, Face-Eating Victim, Released Post-Surgery
Discussion: Runnin' Scared and Gawker
Tim Mak / Politico:
Jeb Bush comments have blogs in uproar  —  Conservatives in the blogosphere lashed out at Jeb Bush for saying that Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would not have fit well in the modern Republican Party, ripping the former Florida governor as a “RINO” and dismissing his “steaming pile of nonsense.”
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Michael Stafford / Cagle Post:
Why I Gave Up On Being a Republican
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Times Have Changed, It's OK to Lie  —  Last month David Corn noted that Mitt Romney was claiming that “government” would control half the economy once Obamacare was up and running.  He's still saying it, and today Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post gives it a score of four Pinocchios and says Romney should drop it.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Follower Problem  —  If you go to the Lincoln or Jefferson memorials in Washington, you are invited to look up in admiration.  Lincoln and Jefferson are presented as the embodiments of just authority.  They are strong and powerful but also humanized.  Jefferson is a graceful aristocratic democrat.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds sue Florida over voter purge  —  The Justice Department, as promised, filed suit Tuesday against the State of Florida over its plan to purge voter rolls.  —  The lawsuit says Florida's proposed purge violates federal law blocking such moves within 3 months of an election, like the primary coming up on August 14.
Discussion: The Hill
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Kevin Bogardus / Ballot Box:
AFL-CIO to fight voter ID laws in six battleground states
Arlington, Va.:
Actor Kal Penn Meets With Young Obama Supporters in Arlington  —  Actor Kal Penn met with more than 100 young supporters of President Obama in Rosslyn and on Columbia Pike last night.  —  At Cafe Asia in Rosslyn, Penn spoke to a young professionals event about the importance of the upcoming presidential election.
Politico:
Obama: GOP campaign fits in a single tweet  —  OWINGS MILLS, Md. — President Obama accused the Republicans of running a campaign focused exclusively on blame.  —  “You can pretty much put their campaign on a tweet and have some characters to spare,” Obama said at a fundraiser outside of Baltimore.
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
The Fiscal Legacy of George W. Bush  —  Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul.  He is the author of “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform - Why We Need It and What It Will Take.”
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Obama: GOP stuck me with a steak dinner tab  —  President Obama subtly attacked Mitt Romney for being wealthy, suggesting that he hasn't “spent time in the real world” and so has not received the necessary preparation to occupy the White House.  —  “Those of us who have spent …
Joe Scarborough / Politico:
Why I voted for Ron Paul  —  I operate on instinct.  So I should not have been surprised by my own gut reaction to the absentee ballot that lay before me on the kitchen table.  —  I scanned the list for Republican primary candidates and let instinct take over.  —  Mitt Romney?  Not on your life.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
First-Ever Trans Senate Witness: ‘To Be Unemployed Is Very Devastating, Demeaning, And Demoralizing’  —  This morning, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would extend employment protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Reuters:
Top conservative says read my lips: Don't sign ‘no new tax’ pledge  —  Spinners and Winners  —  As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes.  Like almost every other Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign …
New York Post:
Anti-gay Muslim cries bias  —  The NYPD wouldn't hire him — because he is anti-gay, a Police Academy reject complains in a startling new discrimination lawsuit.  —  The would-be cop from Brooklyn — identified only as “Farhan Doe” — is a Muslim-American who believes homosexuality is a sin …
 
 
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Eliza Newlin Carney / Roll Call:
FEC Approves Use of Text Messaging to Donate to Campaigns
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Iraq and Iran: A Partnership Made in America
Discussion: We Meant Well
Daniel Gross / The Huffington Post:
Five More Reasons to Reject the NRA's Dark Vision
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Nick Valencia / CNN:
Georgia official: KKK won't be allowed to ‘adopt’ highway
Discussion: Sky Dancing
Jaquetta White / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Times-Picayune lays off nearly one-third of its staff
Eric Henderson / CBS Minnesota:
Man Not Allowed To Distribute Bibles At Pride Fest
Brad Plumer / Ezra Klein:
China could be hiding an entire Japan's worth of carbon emissions
Discussion: Via Meadia
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Is Mitt Romney Afraid Of Gary Johnson?
Discussion: CNN and Hit & Run
 Earlier Items: 
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
$1.1 million-plus Gates grants: ‘Galvanic’ bracelets that measure student engagement
Discussion: Daily Pundit and Joanne Jacobs
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Sherrod Brown: Government does create jobs, and we Democrats need to say so
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Ballot Box
Emily Heil / Washington Post:
White House softball team smoked by pot lobby's bats
Discussion: Wonkette
Wall Street Journal:
Laffer and Moore: Obama's Real Spending Record