TIME Staff

• The House passes info-sharing Internet security bill over the privacy concerns of the President.
• Obama, via Bill Clinton, actually suggests Romney wouldn’t have pulled the trigger on bin Laden:

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• Obama chats with Rolling Stone.
• He’s threatening to veto a cybersecurity bill over privacy concerns.
• Democrats and Republicans agree on keeping student loan rates low, so that’s the end of the story, right? Right?

• With a good chance of a Republican Congress and budget priorities free from the filibuster, Romney’s presidency could be transformational.
• Paul Krugman asks what ever happened to his beloved professor.
• Scott Brown will release 6 years of taxes, which puts the squeeze on both his opponent (Elizabeth Warren) and his advisers’ other

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• Recession and deportations have ground immigration from Mexico to a full stop.
• American Future Fund produces the requisite GSA attack ad:

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• Orrin Hatch falls less than 50 votes short of avoiding a Senate primary in Utah.
• The Times uncovers a Walmart bribery scandal in Mexico.
• There’s a minor Romney-son side story.
• It’s cybersecurity week in Congress.

• Signs increase that the recovery could falter.
• The Obama campaign prepares for war.
• GOP super duper PAC raises $100 million.

• Romney’s low favorable rating isn’t anything close to a disqualifier.
• His campaign warms up to the eating dog thing much faster than McCain’s would’ve.
• Campaigning to cut federal agencies hasn’t really worked.
• After a lot hyped divisions, both parties have already closed ranks.

• Presidential horserace numbers aren’t worth a lot at this point (spoiler: it will be close), but poll data do tell us something about partisan coalitions: race, class and gender will divide the electorate much like they did in 2008.
• Obama debuts Spanish-language ads.
• What the historical trend in government spending can tell us

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• Republicans hope to raise $800 million for Romney.
• Backyard candidness or not, there are holes in his tax plan.
• Obviously, the Buffett Rule falls to a filibuster.

• Obama and the DNC raised a combined $53 million in March.
• When donors get access, they bring lobbyists with them.
• At a closed-door fundraiser, Romney does what Obama and Ryan haven’t: says which tax deductions he’d end.

• Just to review yesterday’s umbrageathon: Ann Romney went on TV to respond to something a CNN employee said about her and stay-at-home moms; the rest of Team Romney took to the lowest medium known to man, the campaign reporter conference call; some people made good points about women, others just yelled like Steve Carrell in Anchorman;

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• On the politics of empathy: John Sides and Walter Kirn.
• There are more persuadable voters than you might think.
• Obama declines to issue executive order banning LGBT discrimination among federal contractors.