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3:50 PM ET, July 17, 2012

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Manu Raju / Politico:
McCain: Palin was ‘better candidate’ than Romney  —  Mitt Romney's tax returns had nothing to do with Sen. John McCain's decision to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, according to the Arizona Republican, saying he chose the former Alaska governor because she was a “better candidate.”
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney on Tax Returns: 'I'm Simply Not Enthusiastic about Giving Them Hundreds or Thousands of More Pages to Pick Through, Distort, and Lie About'  —  Earlier today, Mitt Romney spoke with National Review Online about life on the trail, his meeting with Dick Cheney,and his upcoming trip to Europe.
Mj Lee / Politico:
Ron Paul to Mitt Romney: Release tax returns  —  Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should release more of his tax returns, adding to the pressure on the GOP nominee to share personal financial information with the public.  —  “Politically, I think that would help him,” …
Joshua Green / Business Week:
What's Romney Hiding in His Tax Returns?  —  As George Will and many others have noted, there must be something truly damaging in Romney's pre-2010 tax returns for him to willingly endure the criticism and scrutiny that has accompanied his refusal to release them — a refusal he reiterated on Friday …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Michael Tomasky on Romney's Veep and Convention-Speaker Trap
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
DNC uses conservatives to hit Romney on tax returns
Discussion: CNN
Agence France Presse:
Romney stands firm: no new tax returns
msnbc.com:
Romney surrogate Sununu: ‘I wish this president would learn how to be an American’  —  By NBC's Garrett Haake and Michael O'Brien  —  Follow @GarrettNBCNews Follow @mpoindc  —  The Romney campaign ratcheted up its language on Tuesday in a conference call on which former New Hampshire governor …
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BuzzFeed:
Romney Backer Wishes Obama “Would Learn How To Be An American”  —  Sununu grabs the third rail.  The Romney campaign lets the dogs out.  —  Source: youtube.com  —  In a brutal campaign conference call Tuesday organized by Mitt Romney's campaign, several of the candidate's surrogates went …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney surrogate: Obama should ‘learn how to be an American’
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney surrogate: Obama spent youth ‘in Hawaii smoking something’
Discussion: Politico and Indecision Forever
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign: Obama Can't Create Jobs ‘Because He Spent His Early Years In Hawaii Smoking Something’
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Daily Kos
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Raising Taxes on Rich Seen as Good for Economy, Fairness  —  OVERVIEW  —  By two-to-one (44% to 22%), the public says that raising taxes on incomes above $250,00o would help the economy rather than hurt it, while 24% say this would not make a difference.  Moreover, an identical percentage …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads in Iowa  —  PPP continues to find Barack Obama as the favorite in Iowa, although the race in the state is a good deal closer than it was in both 2008 and on our last poll in early May.  Obama leads by 5 points, 48-43, after previously holding a 10 point advantage at 51-41.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama switches off his teleprompter  —  President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.  —  At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Welcome to ‘Panthers Stadium’  —  National Democrats have repeatedly touted their stand against taking corporate money for their convention in September, and so it was striking to see two emails from the DNC host committee referring to the Charlotte venue where President Obama will speak as “Panthers Stadium.”
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Capitalism Debate  —  Let's say you are president in a time of a sustained economic slowdown.  You initiated a series of big policies that you thought were going to turn the economy around, but they didn't work — either because they were insufficient or ineffective.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Romney Overreacting to Bain Attacks?  —  Mitt Romney's campaign has begun to push back against the notion that President Obama's critiques on his tenure at Bain Capital have damaged him.  A memo released by Mr. Romney's pollster, Neil Newhouse, suggests that the margin between Mr. Romney …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
How did vaunted Romney Death Star break down?  —  More Photos  —  Popular in Politics  —  A few days before the January 31 Florida Republican primary, a number of Mitt Romney's top aides took to the pages of the New York Times to brag about how they had destroyed Newt Gingrich.
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Romney appears in final stages of running-mate decision  —  (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears to be in the final stages of deciding who to pick as his vice presidential running mate, with speculation growing that he has narrowed his choice down to a short-list of three.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Bachmann defends her witch hunt  —  The Minnesota representative offers “evidence” of Islamic infiltration of the U.S. government in a 16-page letter  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann defended her attempt to root out “deep penetration” by the Muslim Brotherhood into the U.S. government Friday …
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
John Rocker is still throwing heat  —  Look out, George Will.  Watch your back, Charles Krauthammer.  There's a new conservative columnist in town: former Major League Baseball pitcher John Rocker.  —  Rocker, who last pitched in the majors in 2003, was known more for his talk off the field …
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and Outsports
Matt Bai / New York Times:
How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game?  —  “A hundred million dollars is nothing,” the venture capitalist Andy Rappaport told me back in the summer of 2004.  This was at a moment when wealthy liberals like George Soros and Peter Lewis were looking to influence national politics …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
The Super PAC That Aims to End Super PACs
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Paul Ryan rips Obama's comment that 'if you've got a business — you didn't build that.  Somebody else made that happen'  —  It was Rep. Paul Ryan's wife, Janna, who first saw — via Twitter — President Obama's recent comments about American entrepreneurs, that “if you've got a business — you didn't build that.
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
The Elton John-Rush Limbaugh bond  —  To the shock of many (given the gap in their political ideologies), Elton John performed at Rush Limbaugh's wedding in 2010 and, in a new interview with USA Today, the performer opened up about his friendship with the conservative talk show host.
Discussion: USA Today and Towleroad News #gay
Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant  —  She told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due in October.  —  FORTUNE —Marissa Mayer, the Google (GOOG) executive who today was named Yahoo's (YHOO) new chief executive, is pregnant.  —  Mayer told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due October 7.
Sarah Kliff / Washington Post:
Could one word take down Obamacare?  —  Section 1401 of the Affordable Care Act is, on the surface, just as exciting as it sounds.  It outlines in excruciating detail the eligibility requirements for an American to receive a tax subsidy to assist in purchasing health insurance.
 
 
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