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4:10 PM ET, August 9, 2012

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Josh Tyrangiel / Business Week:
Exclusive Romney Interview: On Humility and Tax Returns  —  Much of the case you make to voters is that you're a successful entrepreneur and a successful executive, and thus you'll make a successful president.  Why were you so successful as a businessman?  —  Well, I had the privilege …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Super-PAC founder defends controversial Romney attack ad  —  The founder of the pro-Obama super-PAC Priorities USA Action defended the group's controversial ad that links Mitt Romney to the death of woman who couldn't afford cancer treatments.  —  “The point of this ad is that — you know …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Debate over dead woman is clarifying moment in prez race  —  Priorities USA Action has released a widely discussed ad that implies Mitt Romney's Bain Capital is to blame for the death of a laid off steelworker's wife.  I think the ad goes too far, given the following factors: Joe Soptic's wife died five years after his plant closed.
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama's Campaign of Lies Reaches Despicable Low
Discussion: JOSHUAPUNDIT
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Romney on not releasing more tax returns: 'I'm not a business'
Wall Street Journal:
Why Not Paul Ryan?  —  Romney can win a big election over big issues.  He'll lose a small one.  —  The whispering over Mitt Romney's choice of a running mate is getting louder, and along with it we are being treated to the sotto voce angst of the GOP establishment: Whatever else Mitt does …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Why do conservatives want Paul Ryan to be vice president?  —  The Wall Street Journal editorial page has joined the growing movement of influential conservatives uniting behind hero wonk Paul Ryan for vice president.  “The larger strategic point,” they counsel, “is that Mr. Romney's best chance …
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:   Goldman Sachs Leads Split With Obama, As GE Jilts Him Too
Detroit Free Press:
State charges 4 McCotter ex-staffers with forging petitions, faking signatures in election fiasco  —  Four staffers of former U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter, R-Livonia were charged today in connection with the false nominating petitions that led to McCotter's departure from Congress.
Jim Meyers / NewsMax.com:
Trump Declines Prime Time GOP Convention Speech  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Technocrati  —  Forward Article  —  Donald Trump has declined an offer to deliver a prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention …
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CNN:
DNC announces new bus tour to stalk Romney  —  (CNN) - The Democratic National Committee is rolling out another bus tour to trail Mitt Romney's own over the weekend through key battle ground states, harping on the Republican candidate's economic policies as throwing “the middle class under the bus.”
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Democrats to follow Romney on swing-state tour in ‘Romney Economics’ bus
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Paul A. Rahe / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Landslide on the Horizon  —  When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession of political prognostication, I pay close attention to their attempts to dissect the polling data and predict what is to come.  But I also take everything that they say with a considerable grain of salt.
New York Post:
City officials pull the plug on vibrator giveaway, leaving thousands dissatisfied  —  They must have rubbed Mayor Bloomberg the wrong way.  —  City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues  —  CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Matt Hoagland, the county leader of a group of young North Carolina Republicans, is busy trying to ramp up enthusiasm for Mitt Romney at the grass-roots level.  So there are a few things he avoids mentioning …
CBS Miami:
Exclusive: For The First Time, Cannibal Victim Speaks  —  MIAMI (CBS4) - Two months after he was viciously attacked on the MacArthur Causeway by the so-called Miami Zombie, Ronald Poppo succinctly summed up the events that captured the country's attention.  —  “He attacked me,” Poppo said of Rudy Eugene.
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Man with Bible threatens to rape woman during ‘Gay Day’ in Michigan  —  Police in Grand Rapids, Michigan say that there was nothing they could do after Bible-preaching protesters threatened to rape and murder pro-LGBT activists at a “Gay Day” event over the weekend.
Discussion: WWMT-TV, MLive.com and Wonkette
Daily Mail:
Man who claimed he was beaten for being gay admits he made it all up after police receive video of him hitting HIS OWN head after back-flipping off a curb  —  A young man who told police he was beaten up in a would-be hate crime appeared in court today admitting that he made the entire incident up.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Editor Fired Following Harassment Accusation  —  CONWAY, Ark. — The gathering, Marc Smirnoff said, was intended as a morale-boosting retreat for his staff at The Oxford American magazine, a July 4 overnight party at a mountain cabin that would fuel the creative intellect.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
GLENN GREENWALD  —  Mark Halperin of Time provides some important insight into the behavior of his colleagues  —  Few media behaviors are more pitiful than the intense fixation over the “Veepstakes”: a word that is at once nauseatingly vapid and yet incomparably valuable as a symbol of our nation's pointless, juvenile political media.
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
Stephen Marche / Esquire:
The Contempt of Women  —  The rise of men.  And the whining of girls.  —  In the constantly progressing and deteriorating and rapidly revolving kaleidoscope of misunderstanding and disgust and hunger that constitutes gender relations in the twenty-first century, a new gesture has emerged to define us …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Was Romneycare A War On Religion?  —  Mitt Romney continues to attack President Obama for policies he supported as governor of Massachusetts with a new ad Thursday morning that accuses the administration of waging “a war on religion.”  —  The commercial claims that an Affordable Care Act …
Cincinnati.com:
Deli owner: Take my store out of Obama ad  —  Krause's will lose business, she says  —  The owner of Krause's at Findlay Market said she was misled about the filming of an Obama TV ad.  / The Enquirer/Jane Prendergast  —  The owner of a specialty deli at Findlay Market wants …
Discussion: Politico and USA Today
Evan Soltas:
The Recession and Its Causes  —  In a post today, Matt Yglesias borrows Brad deLong's graph to show that “the back-and-forth swing of business investment has been the main motor of the recession...But the chart also shows us that contrary to a lot of myth-making, the recession is not identical to the downturn in housing.”
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
Scotts Miracle-Gro goes out on a limb with political donation  —  In an election year filled with secret campaign money, the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has made the unlikely choice to go public with a big political donation.  —  The Ohio-based company, familiar as the producer …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Bloomberg:
Blink!  U.S. Debt Just Grew by $11 Trillion  —  By Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns 2012-08-08T22:30:26Z  —  Republicans and Democrats spent last summer battling how best to save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.  They are spending this summer battling how best to not save $2.1 trillion over the next decade.
Eric Scheiner / CNSNews:
Pelosi ‘Swears’ Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House  —  (CNSNews.com)- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women's Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.
 
 
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
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David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Media Matters takes to the airwaves
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Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
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Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Admits There's ‘No Proof Today’ Of Claims Made In Romney Welfare Reform Ad
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Women, white people: Is that what campaign 2012 is coming down to?
Discussion: The Agonist