Walker leads by 3 points  —  PPP's final poll on the Wisconsin recall finds Scott Walker ahead, but also a race that's tightening.  Walker leads Tom Barrett 50-47.  That's down from 50-45 on a PPP poll conducted three weeks ago and it's also down from a 52-45 lead that Walker posted in a Marquette Law poll released last week.

Obama's 2008 Donors Don't Give In 2012  —  Nearly 90% of the Americans who gave $200 to Obama's 2008 campaign haven't re-upped this year.  Disillusionment, and hard times: “I wish he was the socialist they accused him of being,” says one.  —  Donors who gave $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 but have not yet in 2012, by location.

Poll: Romney's favorable rating jumps, but Obama still more popular  —  Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney's favorable ratings are on the rise, but a new national poll indicates that President Barack Obama remains more popular than his Republican challenger.  —  According to a CNN/ORC International …

This Republican Economy  —  What should be done about the economy?  Republicans claim to have the answer: slash spending and cut taxes.  What they hope voters won't notice is that that's precisely the policy we've been following the past couple of years.  Never mind the Democrat in the White House …

Cuomo Seeks Cut in Frisk Arrests  —  Wading into the debate over stop-and-frisk police tactics, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to ask legislators on Monday for a change in New York State law that would drastically reduce the number of people who could be arrested for marijuana possession as a result of police stops.

Website vows to rock the — what?!  —  Users can register to vote through the site ‘Rock the Slut Vote.’  —  Nobody said political activism was easy.  Just ask Susan Emry, a 56-year-old mother of two living in San Luis Obispo, Calif., who decided earlier this year to help elect progressive candidates this November.

IAEA sees demolition at Iran site, new talks set  —  (Reuters) - Satellite images indicate that buildings are being demolished and soil removed at Parchin, an Iranian military site the U.N. nuclear watchdog wants to visit, its chief said on Monday.  —  Yukiya Amano's comments …

War in the White House: attorney general Eric Holder and top Obama adviser David Axelrod ‘had to be separated’  —  Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general and David Axelrod, his top political adviser had to be separated after squaring up during a furious row over attempts to impose White House operatives in the justice department.

Radio Host Neal Boortz To Retire, Will Be Replaced By Herman Cain  —  Long-time conservative radio talker Neal Boortz will announce his retirement today, according to a report.  The announcement that contains Boortz's retirement also says that former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain will replace him early next year.

New minority label at CUNY: ‘Jewish’  —  Something isn't kosher about a CUNY scheme to single out Jews, angry professors charge.  —  Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have broken out Jews into a separate minority group: “White/Jewish.”

Budget Control Act Military Cuts Raise Concerns  —  SUMTER, S.C. — Senator Lindsey Graham rode last week like Paul Revere from South Carolina's wooded upstate to its gracious Lowcountry to its sweltering midsection, offering a bureaucratic rallying cry for his military-heavy state — the defense cuts are coming.

Four guilty of Danish plot over Muhammad cartoons  —  The trial of the four men took place in Glostrup, outside the capital Copenhagen  —  Four men have been found guilty by a Danish court of planning a terrorist attack on the offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen.

State Senator Thomas Duane, a Gay Rights Advocate, to Retire  —  State Senator Thomas K. Duane, who first burst onto the political scene two decades ago, when he disclosed during a successful bid for City Council that he was H.I.V. positive, and later made his mark as the first openly gay member …

Romney Team Declares War With Boos and a Surprise Event  —  At Mitt Romney's Boston headquarters, there was pure glee.  —  Word had just leaked that David Axelrod, the chief strategist for President Obama's campaign, would arrive the next morning to attack Mr. Romney on the steps of the State House, a half-mile away.

Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines  —  A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned.  Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles.  The German government has known …