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06.29.12 | 1:59 pm
Oops

Romney misstates own position on immigration. Campaign tells TPM no change in his immigration policy.

06.29.12 | 1:31 pm
What’s That You Say, Mitt?

In a Newsmax interview, Romney seems to shift his position on what illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children would have to do to secure permanent legal status. Benjy Sarlin reports.

06.29.12 | 12:21 pm
Let No Disaster Go Un-Politicized

Colorado’s devastating wildfire is still raging, and conservatives know just who to blame for it.

06.29.12 | 11:54 am
Colorado Wildfires

An incredible bird’s-eye view of one of the Colorado wildfires.

06.29.12 | 11:34 am
An Offer They Can’t Refuse?

Exclusive: See the invite Morgan Stanley execs sent to employees inviting them to a special Mitt Romney fundraiser.

06.29.12 | 11:32 am
Very Interesting

A snap Gallup poll says voters are split down the middle on yesterday’s historic Supreme Court decision: 46-46. Independents narrowly support it, 45% to 42%.

06.29.12 | 10:05 am
All You Need To Know about the Mandate/Tax Thing

At the risk of stating the obvious: if you construe the mandate as a ‘tax’, it only applies to people who do not have health care insurance and refuse to get it after receiving subsidies that allow them to buy it.

How many people is that?

06.29.12 | 9:34 am
Who Pays?

It’s very clear now that the immediate consequence of the Supreme Court’s health care ruling will be another Pavlovian “tax!” chant from the GOP.

We’ve run through how this is only true in a narrow technical sense. A perfectly executed mandate — like an ideal carbon or cigarette tax — would raise $0. The goal is to change behavior not to generate revenue. This is not, in spirit, the sort of “tax increase” Republicans want you to believe it is, and to the extent they’re right, well then Mitt Romney raised the exact same tax in Massachusetts. Read More

06.29.12 | 9:29 am
CNN Launches Internal Review

CNN is launching an internal probe of botched court ruling report.

06.29.12 | 9:24 am
The Race So Far

A good perspective-inducing look at the presidential horse race polls over the course of 2012 to date. Read More