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First Thoughts: Here we go again
Wed May 16, 2012 9:10 AM EDT
Here we go again: Boehner raises prospect of another debt-ceiling showdown… That carries potential risks and rewards for Boehner and the GOP… Romney focuses on cutting spending, but where’s the beef?... Bain Capital story chases Romney as he campaigns in Flori …
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Programming notes
Wed May 16, 2012 9:09 AM EDT
*** Wednesday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on the renewed debt fight, California’s budget breakdown and more… U.S. Senate candidate Craig James on whether the GOP primary race in Texas will have surprises like Nebraska and In …
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2012: The outsiders
Wed May 16, 2012 9:08 AM EDT
Crossroads GPS says it’s going up with a $25 million ad buy on broken Obama promises. The ad focuses on housing, taxes, health care, the deficit. “We need solutions not just promises,” an announcer says. “When the head of JPMorgan Chase met with shareholde …
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Obama: To-do list
Wed May 16, 2012 9:07 AM EDT
“President Barack Obama pushes his legislative ‘to-do list’ on Wednesday,” the AP reports. “He'll start with a visit to a company in the Washington area where he'll stress the need to invest in small business and increase new hiring. He wants Congres …
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Romney: Easy wins in Nebraska, Oregon
Wed May 16, 2012 9:07 AM EDT
“Mitt Romney won the Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries on Tuesday, adding to his delegate haul in his march toward the GOP presidential nomination,” MSNBC.com’s Mike O’Brien writes. The Des Moines Register: “Warning of a ‘prairie fire of …
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Veepstakes: 'I got this'
Wed May 16, 2012 9:06 AM EDT
CHRISTIE: The New Jersey governor (R) and Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) made a video for the Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club, making light of Booker’s heroics and Christie’s potential to be veep. In the end, Booker takes a call from (supposedly) Mitt …
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MORE 2012: Fischer pulls off the upset
Wed May 16, 2012 9:03 AM EDT
NEBRASKA: State Sen. Deb Fischer’s “late surge, perhaps unprecedented in modern-day Nebraska political history, upended a Senate race that appeared to be settled as recently as 10 days ago with the GOP prize within the grasp of Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning,&r …
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Bush: Embrace change over 'so-called stability' in Arab Spring
Tue May 15, 2012 3:46 PM EDT
A stone's throw away from the White House, former President George W. Bush said today the world is in an "extraordinary" time for freedom and that the changes of the Arab Spring should be embraced despite the uncertain future that comes with them. Bush said those who say the dan …
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Obama talks gay marriage, Title IX, smoking, more on 'The View'
Tue May 15, 2012 1:33 PM EDT
With an eye on the critical women’s vote, President Obama started his appearance on The View by saying, “I like hanging out with women. What can I tell you?” The president also touched on gay marriage, JP Morgan, smoking, and how he’s just the &ldquo …
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VIDEO: First Read Minute: Who do you believe?
Tue May 15, 2012 11:10 AM EDT
As President Obama and Mitt Romney continue the general election campaign, NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss Obama's event with Ricky Martin, Romney's new web video highlighting unemployed Iowans and the Senate race in Nebraska. Video edited by NBC's Matt Loffman.
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Bush pollster recommends GOP moderate on gay marriage, rights
Mon May 14, 2012 11:32 AM EDT
George W. Bush pushed for a federal ban on same-sex marriage during his 2004 re-election run. But Bush has since said he favors civil unions, and now, days after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, his pollster from that race is recommending Republicans …
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Programming notes
Mon May 14, 2012 9:08 AM EDT
*** Monday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on same-sex marriage, sequestration, 2012 and more… National Journal’s Jim Tankersley and CNBC’s Becky Quick on the J.P. Morgan mess and what more it could do to the markets… …
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2012: Will gay marriage matter?
Mon May 14, 2012 9:06 AM EDT
How much will gay marriage matter? AP goes to Ohio to find out: “[S]ix months from an election that will decide whether the president keeps his job, a question hovers over the moment: Was it, somehow, a game-changer? In three very different regions of a state where the elec …
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Romney: Is there a Romney Doctrine?
Mon May 14, 2012 9:05 AM EDT
On Sunday, the New York Times wrote that Romney’s foreign-policy statements have left many GOP observers scratching their heads. “Dozens of subtle position papers flow through the candidate’s policy shop and yet seem to have little influence on Mr. Romney’ …
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Obama: The battle over Bain
Mon May 14, 2012 9:05 AM EDT
The AP: “President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credenti …
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Veepstakes: Fangs
Mon May 14, 2012 9:04 AM EDT
“The time has come for would-be vice presidential candidates to bare their fangs,” National Journal writes. “Republican senators Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, John Thune and Kelly Ayotte all attacked President Obama within the past week. They appeared on Sunday talk …
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Congress: Same as it ever was
Mon May 14, 2012 9:03 AM EDT
“Congress is producing little this election year that will become law, yet both parties are churning out bills designed to make the other side look bad,” the AP notes. Did you know Rep. Kristi Noem got her college degree a week ago? And she’s trying to use it ag …
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VIDEO: The Week That Was
Fri May 11, 2012 4:52 PM EDT
It was the week President Obama and Mitt Romney were not expecting. NBC's Domenico Montanaro discusses Obama's support for gay marriage and an article about Romney in prep school.
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VIDEO: The Week Ahead: Mathmatology 101
Fri May 11, 2012 4:50 PM EDT
Commencement season, Romney raises money in Florida, Obama raises money in New York with Ricky Martin, the G-8 Summit, and Andy's new "insider" strategy. He's really got the nomination "locked up."
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Romney: U.S. 'on the verge of a manufacturing resurgence'
Fri May 11, 2012 4:46 PM EDT
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Standing in a factory here in a pivotal swing state, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney made the case that American manufacturing is on the brink of a comeback, but made no mention of the $2 billion loss by one of Wall Street's most recognizable b …
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VIDEO: Romney gets emotional
Fri May 11, 2012 3:13 PM EDT
By NBC's Morgan ParmetGov. Mitt Romney becomes teary eyed when he tells an audience in Charlotte, N.C., talking about how a community came together to help his niece when her husband was called up to the National Guard. Transcript:
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Michelle Obama to Va. Tech: Don't let violence define school
Fri May 11, 2012 2:58 PM EDT
Five years after the campus shootings that killed 32 and wounded 17, First Lady Michelle Obama urged graduating students at Virginia Tech not to let the 2007 violence define their school. "There will always be folks who judge you based on things that you say or do; folks who def …
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VIDEO: First Read Minute: The best-laid plans
Fri May 11, 2012 11:32 AM EDT
NBC's Domenico Montanaro discusses the political news that drove this week, including President Obama's support of gay marriage and a Mitt Romney responding to a story about his behavior 50 years ago in prep school.
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First Thoughts: An off-script week
Fri May 11, 2012 9:17 AM EDT
Both campaigns were taken off script this week. The Obama campaign didn’t think this week would be about gay marriage when it began, and the Romney campaign certainly didn’t think it would have to be talking about doing “stupid things” 50 year ago about hi …
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Programming notes
Fri May 11, 2012 9:16 AM EDT
*** Friday’s Daily Rundown lineup: Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healy (R-MA) on running with Romney… NBC’s David Gregory on the week that was (and wasn’t) for both President Obama and Romney… NBC’s Kristen Welker on last night’s cash bash at G …
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