Morning Must Reads: Fall

Marco Rubio gives a big speech in California and, if he wasn’t enough of a conservative heartthrob already, saved Nancy Reagan from falling. Not all Republican elites are dissatisfied with the presidential crop. Another Democrat wouldn’t do better than Obama. Romney plans a jobs speech.

Rick Perry’s Complicated Relationship with Latinos

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In San Antonio on June 23, Rick Perry addressed the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ annual meeting. He was optimistic, focused on Texas’ booming economy, and reminded the crowd – Republicans and Democrats – about his most high-profile Latino appointments, including Eva Guzman, the state’s first Latina supreme court justice, and the [...]

The Death of the Fairness Doctrine

“I would encourage you,” Rush Limbaugh wrote to President Obama in 2009, “not to allow your office to be misused to advance a political vendetta against certain broadcasters whose opinions are not shared by many in your party.” That, Limbaugh said, was what the President would be doing if he supported FCC rules regarding “so-called” [...]

22%

The share of potential Iowa caucus-goers who say they’d support Rick Perry in next year’s contest according to a new survey from Public Policy Polling.

Romney on Biden

–Mitt Romney’s reaction to Joe Biden’s statement in China that the one-child policy is one “I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing.”

Where GOP Presidential Hopefuls Hang Their Hats

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Mitt Romney recently made news when he decided to bulldoze his oceanfront home in California and rebuild it as an 11,000 square foot, two-story behemoth.  TIME looks at the abodes of some of the GOPers trying to make the jump from their houses to the White House in 2012.

Morning Must Reads: President

Libya vindicates “lead from behind” White House. Huntsman continues to knock Perry and Romney. The Huntsman campaign wants you to know he is anti-Obama, too. In Gallup’s very early general election head-to-head match ups, Romney, Perry, Bachmann and Paul are all within the margin of error against the President. The historical data is worth noting:

Has the Tea Party’s Power Peaked?

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Host to one of the purest strains of conservatism in the nation (ranked only behind Mississippi and Wyoming by Gallup), Utah is the perfect Tea Party test tube. Its primary system, which relies on a nominating convention where party delegates get a say before candidates go to a popular vote, distills the purest form of [...]

Obama on Libya

–President Obama responding to the news that Libyan rebels have overrun Tripoli.

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