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2012 Election

In Search of the Changing American Voter

By TIME Staff June 21, 2012

Mark Penn in this week’s issue of TIME, available online to subscribers:

The 137 million voters registered to go to the polls this November will not look like the 131 million who voted for President in 2008. And they are vastly different from the 96 million who voted the year Bill Clinton was re-elected. The U.S. has been changed by

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Morning Must Reads: Dial

By TIME Staff June 20, 2012

The Fed meets to weigh further stimulus.
Jamie Dimon’s House testimony in 11 tweets.
The Obama Administration’s drone death figures are wrong.

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Morning Must Reads: Vetted

By TIME Staff June 19, 2012

Bloomberg polls Obama’s deportation waivers, finds likely voters favor it 2-1.
Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq withdraws after affair reports.
Report: Rubio’s not being vetted for veep.

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Morning Must Reads: Weight

By TIME Staff June 18, 2012

Greek elections favor the pro-bailout party, meaning no exit for now.
Romney can’t say he’d roll back Obama’s DREAM by fiat.
The President explains himself in these pages.
A visit with the uninsured and unaware.

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Morning Must Reads: Clerks

By TIME Staff June 15, 2012

Obama tries to make Romney’s policies the incumbent.
Do gaffes matter? I suspect you know what I think.
Now is the time when we analyze the far-reaching implications of Obama using “Mr. Romney” instead of “governor.”

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Morning Must Reads: Fall

By TIME Staff June 14, 2012

Obama will take another crack a making economic contrast work.
Romney puts “the private sector is doing fine” on TV.
Jim Messina’s crash course with corporate titans.

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Morning Must Reads: Risk

By TIME Staff June 13, 2012

Jamie Dimon was complacent about risk.
Here’s what he’ll tell Congresss today.
Here’s what Occupy the SEC thinks Congress should ask him.
Noam Scheiber re-argues the point that Mitt Romney has taken up: health reform displaced more stimulus.

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Morning Must Reads: Change

By TIME Staff June 12, 2012

Median family net worth has dropped to early ’90s levels (from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010).
No matter what the court decides, three major health insurers will keep parts of Obamacare. (Covering preventive care and young adults saves them money.)
People try too hard to define Obama.

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Morning Must Reads: Wrong

By TIME Staff June 11, 2012

A Senate Gang of TBD begins work to disarm Congress’s time bomb.
In North Dakota, an entirely different kind of fiscal conundrum.
Presidential elections are mostly a spectator sport in the United States of Battleground America.
After seeing about 50 of these stories, I figure it’s worth warning you: They’re very, very misleading.

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Morning Must Reads: Forecast

By TIME Staff June 08, 2012

Nate Silver’s first election forecast pegs Obama as roughly a 60% favorite.
Romney and the RNC out-raise Obama and the DNC for the first time: $77 million in May.
Ben Bernanke offers no hint of new monetary stimulus. And why would he? Congress applies more political pressure on price stability than on employment.

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A Life in Photos: Justice Anthony Kennedy

By TIME Staff June 07, 2012

From his boyhood in Sacremento to the bench in Washington, TIME traces the life of the Supreme Court’s pivotal swing vote.

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Morning Must Reads: La Jolla

By TIME Staff June 07, 2012

Surrounded by gay couples and choom gangs, the Romneys settle into La Jolla.
The Mitt Romney e-mail hacker is very, very sorry.
Labor’s decline has been slow, but long-running.

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Morning Must Reads: Fallout

By TIME Staff June 06, 2012

Don’t read too much into what happened last night in Wisconsin–that’s the press corps’ job!
Bad news for Obama, bad news for liberalism, bad news for unions, and bad news for politicians who don’t want to be slapped in the face.
The story of the recall fight in goofy signs.