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LiveBlog for Friday, May 18, 2012

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John Register, National Co-Chair of Obama for America, calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about what’s at stake for veterans in this election

Tina Dupuy, managing editor for Crooks & Liars, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the GOP’s War on Women and the LGBT Community

Mary Phillips-Sandy, Editorial Producer of Comedy Central’s Indecision Blog, calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT to tell us about the election blog and the latest polls

• Sexy Liberal John Fugelsang calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT from South Florida for a half hour of Fridays with Fugelsang

• Mitt Romney yesterday doubled down on his repudiation of a proposed ad campaign attacking President Obama for his ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, telling reporters such a campaign would have been “the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign.”

• After four months of paperwork, hype and speculation, the last piece of the Facebook IPO is in place: Facebook said it has priced its IPO at $38 a share. Shares were released last night to buyers, who can resell them on the open market beginning on today.

Disco queen Donna Summer has died, a family spokesperson told the AP. She was 63. Summer died of cancer Thursday morning in Naples, FL.