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If you have difficulty viewing this newsletter, click here to view as a Web page. Click here to view in plain text. Thursday, July 5, 2012 EARLIER ON THE FIX Mitt Romney raised more than $100 million in June Republicans grow bored with 2012 campaign North Carolina moves to "Lean Romney" in Fix electoral map How Medicaid expansion will play in 2016 (or 2020) Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. dealing with severe 'physical and emotional ailments' Does Mitt Romney have a staff problem? Rangel opponent files for re-vote in increasingly tight primary Ann Romney: Obama's strategy is 'let's kill this guy' Mitt Romney's tax gamble on health care WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is featured in a new ad touting Rep. Todd Akin (R) as the best Republican to take on Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (D). Akin faces businessman John Brunner and state Treasurer Sarah Steelman in the Aug. 7 primary. * Majority PAC, a super PAC supporting Democratic Senate candidates, is up with a new ad in Ohio attacking state Treasurer Josh Mandel (R). "No Show," like many previous Democratic ads, focuses on the fact that Mandel missed 14 consecutive meetings of the state's Board of Deposit. Mandel faces Brown this fall. * Nebraska Democratic Senate candidate Bob Kerrey wants his Republican rival, state Sen. Deb Fischer, to agree to a special debate on health care. Fischer turned down a candidate forum at Creighton University last week. * Newly-minted Republican Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, appeared at a College Republicans event in Virginia today. Asked if he was a Romney surrogate now, Davis told the Washington Examiner, "I don't think there is a place where you get an official surrogate card. If there is, they haven't told me about it." * The League of Conservation Voters is out with a $115,000 mail campaign attacking New Mexico Senate candidate Heather Wilson (R) for voting while in Congress for energy bills that shielded producers of the chemical MTBE from liability for contaminating drinking water. The group has put has now spent $367,031 on this race, where Wilson faces Rep. Martin Heinrich (D). * Brad Pitt's mother was in fact the author of a letter to the Springfield News-Leader endorsing Romney and opposing gay marriage. "Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama," she wrote. Pitt was raised in Springfield, Missouri. THE FIX MIX For the Olympics. With Rachel Weiner and Aaron Blake. Get The Washington Post, your way. Want to stay on top of the latest news, features, commentary and more? Here's how: Mobile: Alerts: Social Media: Applications Web site E-mail SMS RSS Feeds Facebook Twitter SEND TO A FRIEND UNSUBSCRIBE E-NEWSLETTER CENTER GET HELP Washington Post Digital E-mail Customer Care 1150 15th Street NW Washington, D.C. 20071 © 2012 The Washington Post Privacy Policy