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CAMPAIGN 2012 37 minutes ago

‘Middle Class Joe’ Biden Attacks Romney on Bain

Vice President Joe Biden says Republican Mitt Romney’s equity experience “no more qualifies [him] to be president than being a plumber.” But he also admits he earns a good living himself and has “a beautiful house,” a reference to the vice president's official residence.

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CAMPAIGN 2012 4:00 p.m.

RNC Accuses Obama Camp of Booker 'Cover-Up'

The debate over Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital blew up into a full-scale ad war on Tuesday.

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CAMPAIGN 2012 3:46 p.m.

Donna Dewitt says she was just having fun when she put Haley's face on a pinata.

A labor official in South Carolina found a unique way of taking out her frustration with the state’s governor, Nikki Haley: put her face on a piñata and give it a whack.

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2012 Decoded 3:13 p.m.
Hotline On Call 2:40 p.m.

Bysiewicz Emulating Elizabeth Warren

If Susan Bysiewicz wants to be the Elizabeth Warren of Connecticut, she might want to pick up the pace.

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Hotline On Call 2:17 p.m.

Liljenquist's Playbook for Upsetting Hatch

With five weeks left until Utah's Senate Republican primary, Sen. Orrin Hatch and underdog Dan Liljenquist have charted very different paths to victory. Liljenquist is signaling a newly aggressive phase of his campaign with a TV ad and the promise of more criticism of the six-term senator, while Hatch is trying to stay above the fray, focusing is on turning out early voters and putting a major cash advantage to good use.

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CAMPAIGN 2012 1:20 p.m.

Obama Capitalizing on Hollywood Allies

Two contests have emerged this summer to support Obama's re-election campaign, one involving an event with Bill Clinton and another, with Sarah Jessica Parker, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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HEALTH CARE 12:47 p.m.

Could Romney Be Considering Tax Breaks for Health Insurance?

Mitt Romney is about to release his own health care plan, one using tax breaks to try to encourage people to get health insurance, according to a columnist writing for Bloomberg.

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2012 Decoded 12:47 p.m.
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Gwen Ifill: Gwen's Take

History's Romance: Why Politics Past Beats Politics Present

May 21, 2012

Is it just my imagination, or have politics and politicians grown smaller?

Matthew Dowd: Common Sense

What Palin Can Teach Obama About Seizing the Moment

May 17, 2012
The president could learn from her well-honed habit of following her gut instincts.
Charlie Cook: Charlie Cook's The Cook Report

The Folly of Crowds

May 17, 2012
Not all opinions are created equal. If you’re a political prognosticator, you learn which ones you can ignore.
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