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Former president Bill Clinton was the big speaker during last night’s prime-time Democratic Convention festivities, and he devoted the bulk of his nearly 50 minute speech to defending Obama’s record-very thoroughly.

In the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama gave a home run of a speech, wowing pundits and firing up the crowd.

Bryce Covert of the Roosevelt Institute and Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review debate the gender wage gap.

On Morning Joe today, Chris Matthews gave quite the scolding to RNC chair Reince Priebus: “It is an embarrassment to your party to play that card…This stuff about getting rid of the work requirement for welfare is dishonest-everyone’s pointed out it’s dishonest…And you are playing that little ethnic card there. You can play your games […]

Zack Beauchamp of ThinkProgress and Michael Brendan Dougherty of The American Conservative debate the moral philosophy of abortion.

Republicans have passed new voter ID laws in Pennsylvania and other states. Is this just a way to drive down Obama’s tally-as well as the Democratic vote in down-ticket races? Glenn Loury and Mark Kleiman debate.

In his new ad, “Long History”-one of several new ads revolving around swing-state hot topic Medicare-Mitt Romney says some…questionable things about Obama’s policies. Jamelle Bouie has more on this topic here.

The Obama campaign has been conducting a full-court press on Romney’s economic record, and they just debuted an ad that hits the Republican candidate on his gubernatorial record.

The women’s health organization launched a $1.4 million ad buy against Mitt Romney yesterday, the same day it formally endorsed President Obama.