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George Wenschhof

Obama Super Pac Priorities USA Releases New Campaign Ad



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Obama Leads Romney 49% - 43% - in latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of registered voters.  You can read more here.

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Romney Falls Short on Foregn Policy - presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney addressed the VFW yesterday and will embark on a short overseas trip where he will vist Israel, Poland and Britain.  To date, Romney has offered few details, if any, of how he would be different than President Obama in the area of foreign policy.  The NY Times has a nice editorial today.  You can read it here.

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Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) Says Constitutional Amendment Needed to Address "Citizens United" Supreme Court Decision - “Since the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United, we have seen the rapid rise of super PACs and unprecedented influence buying by wealthy individuals seeking to advance their agendas,” Durbin said at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, which he chairs.

“It’s increasingly clear that the only way to really reform our system is to pass a constitutional amendment to regulate how we finance our elections,” Durbin, the chamber’s Majority Whip, added.  You can read more here.
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Warren Leads Brown in Massachusetts Senate Race - MassInc Polling Group has it Elizabeth Warren 40% and Republican Senator Scott Brown 38%.  The margin of error is 4.4%.  You can read more here.

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Mobil Devices, Tablets, Personal Computers Rival TV For Political News - the presidential campaigns have spent hundreds of millions on television ads already, yet one in three who have seen a campaign ad on youtube have not seen the same ad on TV.  One-third of likely voters have not watched TV in the last month.  Google has an interesting chart on how people consume the news today.  You can see it here.

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