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9:55 AM ET, August 13, 2012

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Christine Delargy / CBS News:
“60 Minutes”: Romney, Ryan answer critics of Medicare position  —  CBS News chief Washington correspondent and anchor of “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer sat down with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on Sunday for their first interview since the Republican presidential nominee announced Ryan as his running mate.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
GOP again turns to Kristol ball  —  Once again, Bill Kristol gets his way — and once again, watch out.  —  For two consecutive presidential cycles now, the founding editor of the Weekly Standard has successfully led the conservative media drumbeat for a bold vice presidential pick: In 2008 …
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - and their Wives!  - Open Up to PEOPLE  —  However tough and tight the race against President Obama gets this fall, Janna Ryan predicts that her husband Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney can count on one thing: fun.  —  PEOPLE was first to sit down with the freshly minted …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Paul Ryan: Randian poseur  —  Mitt Romney couldn't have chosen a better example of the fakery at the heart of today's GOP  —  Paul Ryan was born into a well-to-do Janesville, Wisc. family, part of the so-called “Irish mafia” that's run the city's construction industry since the 19th century.
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Forget the budget: Paul Ryan is hot!  —  Overlooked (understandably) in Saturday's analysis and news that Rep. Paul Ryan would be Mitt Romney's vice presidential nominee was one mostly — but not entirely — unimportant aspect: Paul Ryan is kind of hot.  —  Upon hearing the news of Ryan's nomination …
James Downie / Washington Post:
No, Paul Ryan is not ‘courageous’  —  Across the political spectrum, even among many liberals who otherwise are rubbing their hands with glee over Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate, pundits and politicians are praising Romney's move as a “courageous” and “bold” pick.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Romney finds safety in CBS and Schieffer
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Romney Picked Ryan Over Advisers' Early Doubts
Beth Reinhard / NationalJournal.com:
Ryan Could Make Wisconsin a True Battleground
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade
Paul Ryan / CNN:
Emotional homecoming for Ryan
Discussion: Reuters and Politico
John Roberts / Fox News:
John McCain, Debbie Wasserman Schultz react to Paul Ryan joining GOP ticket
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign Doubles Down: He ‘Would Have Signed’ The Ryan Budget
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How did they do it? Romney campaign explains how it kept the biggest secret in politics
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Republicans Who Criticized Obama As Foreign Policy Novice, Say Romney's Missing Experience Is A Plus
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
POLITICO-GW Battleground Poll: Tied up  —  The race for the White House remained in a dead heat just before Mitt Romney announced Paul Ryan as his running mate, a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground poll finds.  —  The poll, conducted in the days leading up to the Ryan announcement …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Michelle Obama: Barack's not a ‘superhero’  —  “He's not a superhero; he's a human.  So he needs your help,” the First Lady said.  AP Photo  —  Close  —  First Lady Michelle Obama says her husband isn't a “superhero” and that President Barack Obama will need all the help he can get in order to be reelected.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama camp: 1,000 attended ‘half-full’ fundraiser  —  CHICAGO — Republicans quickly jumped on a report that President Obama's largest fundraiser here Sunday was only “half full,” but the crowd for the event was larger than the Obama campaign had initially anticipated.  —  “At Obama fundraiser in Chicago.
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION — YOU SEE IT FIRST RIGHT HERE  —  “...Everything I said at the 2008 convention about then-candidate Obama still stands today, and in fact the predictions made about the very unqualified and inexperienced Community Organizer's plans to …
Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:
Darrell Issa to Sue Eric Holder Monday  —  House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa plans to sue Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday for refusing to provide documents related to the “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling operation.  —  “The committee expects to file …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:   Book: Holder went on 'Reefer Madness'-like campaign to distract from Fast and Furious
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Erskine Bowles says Ryan budget “sensible ... honest, serious”  —  Why is this important?  Erskine Bowles has a long pedigree as a Democratic budget thinker — and presidential adviser.  When Barack Obama needed to pick the co-chair for his deficit committee, which he roundly ignored in the end …
Ed Hammond / Financial Times:
Spanish commercial property on the brink  —  The Spanish and Italian commercial property markets have all but collapsed with the number of transactions in both countries falling more than 90 per cent in the three months to July as investors worry about the future of the eurozone.
 
 
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