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After reading Jane Mayer's latest, New Yorker reader Ry Cooder sent her a new song about Willie Horton:
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Give Steve King his liberty back!
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Santorum Sees a Guillotine, by @:
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RT @: Hannah Goldfield (@), TNY fact-checker, on the art of fact-checking:
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Jane Mayer digs deeper into Obama's decision to embrace a Super PAC:
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Santorum could be for real, @ says:
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Ryan Lizza
Must read: Jane Mayer on Larry McCarthy, creator of the 1988 Willie Horton ad now helping direct the Romney Super PAC:
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RT @: Margaret Talbot on : "The narrowness of today’s ruling is telling":
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Ryan Lizza
New details from WH memos: Citizens United "provides powerful rhetorical opportunity 2 decry influence of corp $ in politics" nyr.kr/yVic5N
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.@ on Obama's Super PAC decision and the story behind it:
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France has discovered Callista Gingrich, @ reports:
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Why the Prop 8 decision won't work as a Republican wedge issue this year:
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RT @: The one swing voter left: "young, female, secular, and hit hard by recession" @ @
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The New Yorker
Jane Mayer: the man behind such famous negative campaign ads as the Willie Horton ad is now going all out for Romney:
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RT @: Adam Gopnik offers the Jets fan's view of a game between two evils:
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RT @: What are the most interesting New Yorker articles of all time? (I said Trillin's "Covering the Cops.")
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It's Sheldon Adelson's election; the rest of us are just spectators:
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Nicholas Schmidle on the continuing saga of a man sentenced to die, exonerated, then convicted again:
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.@ on why today's jobs report made it a "Super Friday" for Obama: