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Paul Ryan says he didn't vote for the defense cuts he voted for

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Paul Ryan's floor statement on passing the Budget Control Act: “The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy."
Remember when Paul Ryan voted last year for the Budget Control Act that triggered automatic cuts in defense spending if Congress couldn't come up with a different plan? Turns out, according to Paul Ryan, voting for the Act wasn't really voting for the Act. Just try to figure out what he's saying here.
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Romney campaign claims again that it is not losing, when it is

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President Barack Obama talks with patrons during a stop at Lechonera El Barrio restaurant in Orlando, Fla., Aug. 2, 2012.
The candidate that is not losing.
Spinning, spinning, spinning the news that Ohio is falling out of Mitt Romney's reach, a senior Romney campaign adviser responds to Rich Lowry over at the National Review:
It’s horses**t. Nobody in Boston thinks we’re going to lose. We’re in a tight race. We had a 4-5 point bounce after our convention and it evaporated when they had theirs. Now they have a 4-5 bounce.
They had a 1.9 point bounce. President Barack Obama has a 5.5 point bounce. And counting.
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Now Romney hopes activist judges will set abortion policy for him

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at his Illinois primary night rally in Schaumburg, Illinois, March 20, 2012. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES  - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
Why can't someone else make these decisions for me?
It's not exactly news that Mitt Romney has taken every position on reproductive rights, short of marching in the streets to demand free abortion on demand. (And given how badly he's losing, don't rule that out just yet.)

So Mitt's latest attempt to flip-flop his way around the issue—this time, during an exercise in hackery with Very Serious Journalist David Gregory—isn't news, exactly, as much as it's the latest episode in Mitt's...

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Obama campaign raises more than Romney in August

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President Obama pushes his jobs plan. Mitt Romney speaks to empty Ford Field
It's not just money: People also like Obama more than Mitt
For the last three months, Mitt Romney has made a big deal about outraising President Obama. Given that it was just about the only quantifiable metric showing indisputably good news for his campaign, you can understand why. But now he can't even use that bit of spin to boost his campaign because in August, for the first full month since wrapping up the primary, Mitt Romney didn't raise as much money as the president, pulling in...
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