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9:50 AM ET, July 9, 2012

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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
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.
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.
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y.
Discussion: odd time signatures
Digby / digbysblog.blogspot.co.uk:   Our betters, fretting in the Hamptons
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Swing states poll: Amid barrage of ads, Obama has edge  —  When it comes to campaign ads in the presidential race, there are two Americas.  —  In most of the country, just about the only time campaign ads for the presidential candidates are on TV is when there's a news story about the ads.
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.
Jessica Yellin / CNN:
Obama to call for Bush tax cut extensions for those making less than $250,000
Discussion: Business Insider and The Hill
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:   Obama to call for one-year extension of some Bush-era tax rates
Sara Murray / Washington Wire:
Underdog?  Romney Victory Fund Raises $106.1 Million  —  After raising just over $106 million last month, Mitt Romney's campaign and its Republican allies still maintain they're the underdog, according to memos to be released Monday.  —  The Romney Victory effort — Mr. Romney's campaign along …
Discussion: Politico, USA Today and Washington Post
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Bill Kristol: Romney camp has reason to ‘worry’
John Roberts / Fox News:
DNC, RNC chairs debate economy; key lawmakers on effort to repeal ObamaCare
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Politico
Eric Holder / CNN:
CNN Poll: Was politics behind Holder contempt vote?  —  Washington (CNN) - Most Americans approve of the decision by the House of Representatives to censure Attorney General Eric Holder, but a new national poll also indicates that a majority of the public thinks that House Republicans …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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 …
David Horovitz / The Times of Israel:
Iran plans to expand, not suspend, its nuclear program, position paper obtained by Times of Israel says  —  Iranian document, whose authenticity cannot be independently verified but accords with other recent reports, sets out Tehran's ‘need’ for a ‘backup’ enrichment facility and 4 more research reactors
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Alan M. Dershowitz / Jerusalem Post:
Op-ed: NJDC doesn't speak for me on Adelson!  —  It's hard to find anyone who has done as much for the Jewish community as Sheldon Adelson, Alan Dershowitz writes, following Nat'l Jewish Democratic Council's call to stop accepting donations from Adelson.  —  David Harris, the president …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
 
 
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