memeorandum: Obama draws battle lines over middle-class tax cuts (Bill Plante/CBS News)

9:10 AM ET, July 9, 2012

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Donors arrive at Hamptons fundraisers with advice for Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event June 27 in Sterling, Va. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) — EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - As protesters assembled on a beach in advance of Mitt Romney's evening event at the home …

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

It Must Have Been Grand — This weekend Team Romney held a round of big dollar fundraisers out in the Hamptons, where New York's rich and super-rich spend their weekends and summers. And if the word went out not to conform to stereotype, well ... apparently no one got the word.

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

Romney Donor Says ‘Lower Income’ People 'Don't Understand What's Going On' — Today, Mitt Romney is holding a series of fundraisers in the Hamptons, culminating with a huge event at the home of billionaire David Koch. The LA Times is on the scene and reporter Maeve Reston caught up with a donor on her way into one of the events.

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Digby / digbysblog.blogspot.co.uk: Our betters, fretting in the Hamptons

CNN:
TRENDING: Protesters demonstrate outside of Koch fund-raiser for Romney

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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:

Hill Poll: Majority feel Obama has changed country for worse — Two-thirds of likely voters say President Obama has kept his 2008 campaign promise to change America — but it's changed for the worse, according to a sizable majority. — A new poll for The Hill found 56 percent …

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Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states poll: Amid barrage of ads, Obama has edge

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Mark Landler / New York Times:

Obama Seeks 2013 Tax Cuts Within Limits — WASHINGTON — With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his re-election chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000.

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Bill Plante / CBS News:

Obama draws battle lines over middle-class tax cuts — CBS News has confirmed that President Obama will call on Congress Monday to pass a temporary, one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people who make less than $250,000 a year. — The tax cuts are set to expire on January 1.

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Obama to call for one-year extension of some Bush-era tax rates — President Obama will call for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax rates for people who earn less than $250,000 per year. — Obama will make the announcement at an event in the East Room on Monday, the White House confirmed to The Hill.

Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions for those making less than $250,000

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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

E.J. Dionne Jr. — An economics of national pride — The path to the White House passes through the blue-collar communities in Ohio where President Obama campaigned last week — and the middle-class suburbs of Colorado where he did well four years ago. — The two states illustrate …

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Jan Crawford / CBS News:

Discord at Supreme Court is deep, and personal — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — (CBS News) Discord at the Supreme Court is deep and personal after Chief Justice John Roberts' surprise decision to side with the liberal justices in upholding a large portion of the president's health care plan.

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

GOP unnerved by Democrats' candid camera techniques — Politicians recognize they give up a degree of privacy when they run for office. — But Democrats are testing the outer limits of that understanding with a practice that raises questions about when campaign tracking becomes something more like stalking.

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Barney Jopson / Financial Times:

Amazon ‘robo-pricing’ sparks fears — High-speed trading tools pioneered in the stock market are increasingly driving price movements on Amazon as sellers use them to undercut and outwit each other. — Prices change as often as every 15 minutes as some of the 2m sellers on the site join …

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

Bill Kristol: Romney camp has reason to ‘worry’ — Political analyst Bill Kristol on Sunday added to conservative criticism of Mitt Romney's campaign, saying it was a troubling sign that Obama was still ahead in the polls despite a still weak economy. — “President Obama has had three …

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John Roberts / Fox News:
DNC, RNC chairs debate economy; key lawmakers on effort to repeal ObamaCare

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Danny Hakim / New York Times:

Cuomo's Father Speaks of Presidential Future for Son — ALBANY — Mario M. Cuomo never ran for president, but he seems to be warming to the idea that his son might. — One recent Saturday, Mr. Cuomo, the former governor, showed up at his former residence, the Executive Mansion …

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