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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Obama: You can't change Washington from the inside (Updated) — A surprising comment from President Barack Obama, at the Univision forum in Florida earlier, on things he has learned after four years: “You can't change Washington from the inside.” — It's a tricky thing to claim outsider status …
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The Right Scoop:
BOOM! Romney tells crowd we'll give Obama a chance to change Washington from the outside in November! — Fantastic Romney response to Obama's claim that he can't change Washington from the inside, that it can only be changed from the outside. Romney tells the crowd that Obama has already thrown …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum — CORAL GABLES, Fla. - President Barack Obama on Thursday faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run.
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Washington Free Beacon:
Obama: 'You Can't Change Washington from the Inside' — President Obama has learned something during his presidency: You can't change Washington from the inside. — “The most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside,” he told a Univision forum Thursday.
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama: “You Can't Change Washington From The Inside”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney pounces on Obama's remark about changing Washington
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Mark Murray / First Read:
Polls: Obama ahead in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin — President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin, reaching the key 50 percent support threshold in all three battlegrounds, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these states.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads by 7 in Wisconsin — PPP's newest Wisconsin poll finds Barack Obama opening back up a wide lead in the state. He has 52% to 45% for Mitt Romney. This is the largest lead we've found for Obama in the state since February. Our previous two polls had shown just a single point separating the two candidates.
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Boston Globe:
Scott Brown, Harry Reid clash after Republican raises possibility of missing tonight's debate — WASHINGTON — Senator Scott Brown raised the possibility he might miss tonight's lead-off debate with Elizabeth Warren because of the Senate voting schedule, before Democratic leaders challenged …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Warren-Brown Post-Debate Analysis
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama administration airs ads in Pakistan, condemning anti-Islam film — The Obama administration is airing ads on Pakistani television condemning the anti-Islamic film “The Innocence of Muslims,” a State Department spokeswoman confirmed Thursday. — “As you know, after the video came out …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What working class whites really think about dependency and redistribution — It's been widely observed that Mitt Romney's attacks on Obama over Medicare, welfare, dependency and “redistribution” are about driving up Romney's share of working class white support.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Whoa: Devastating CBS News Benghazi Report Slams Obama Administration — There were so many critical elements of this CBS News report on Libya, I wasn't sure which one to highlight in a juicy headline. Just watch: — Let's count the revelations embedded within this minute-and-a-half long clip:
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama campaign continues to raise debate expectations for Romney — The Obama campaign released a new memo Thursday meant to raise expectations for Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential debates. — “He's quick, polished, and ready with a punchy attack against the President,” …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Pawlenty Is Leaving Romney Campaign for Lobbying Post
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Pawlenty to take over as Financial Services Roundtable CEO
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Supporters Clash With Protesters In Florida — “Get a job.” “I'm proud to be one percent.” — SARASOTA, Fla. — Supporters and opponents of Mitt Romney faced off outside of the Republican nominee's rally here in an at-times-violent confrontation.
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Jack Shafer:
Willard Milhous Romney — Be careful about writing Mitt Romney's political obituary before they fill him with formaldehyde and pour him into his mahogany condo. Like that other frequent Republican presidential candidate, Richard Nixon, Romney has a remarkable talent for stepping into it …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, driftglass, Business Insider, The Hill and Mother Jones
Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Republicans at risk of losing the House? — Conditions through August showed a 2% lead on the generic Congressional ballot for Democrats. As of September 20th, in the wake of the Democratic convention, the lead has widened to 4.0 +/- 2.0%. Although it has yet to be appreciated by pundits …
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Mother Jones, Washington Monthly and The American Conservative
Casey Michel / Talking Points Memo:
Rick Perry Blames Separation Of Church And State On Satan — In a conference call with fellow evangelicals earlier this week, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) shared his thoughts on the origins of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. Rather than tracing the idea …
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Texas on the Potomac, Trail Blazers Blog and Wonkette
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Guess who's trashing Obama campaign signs in Austin, Texas? — Texas may be a red state but the capital of Austin is Obama country. It's thus not unusual to see myriad Obama campaign signs in nice neighborhoods — displayed on one manicured front lawn after another.
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Obama slammed on Fast and Furious in Spanish-language TV interview: Shouldn't you ‘fire’ Holder? — Interviewers on Spanish-language television network Univision grilled President Barack Obama about the Operation Fast and Furious scandal plaguing his administration in an interview on Thursday.
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CNN:
Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history — (CNN) — Dave Matthews supported Barack Obama in the presidential race of 2008, and he's supporting him again in 2012 — but not without reservations. — The multi-platinum Grammy winner laments, “I wish there was a third party, but right now …
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Washington Post:
Georgette and Lyn: A tale of two sisters — “I don't know much about Lyn,” Barbara Walters says, adding that her friend Georgette “gives very interesting cocktail parties for friends. Her sister usually coordinates it.” — Fire and ice — In Tampa, the Romney campaign offered …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonkette
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Maps App Takes Reality Distortion to a Whole New Level — Apple may some day deliver a mobile mapping application that bests Google's, but the new Maps app in iOS 6 — the latest iteration of its mobile operating system — isn't it. Not yet, anyway.
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Too Shall Pass, but What Follows Is Crucial — Romney has had a bad week, but he can recover—if he tells voters more clearly what he would do as president. — It's over. Gov. Mitt Romney's statements last week about the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, followed by the release …
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Fiona Govan / Telegraph:
Elderly woman who botched religious fresco demands royalties — The elderly Spanish woman who ruined a religious fresco with her botched restoration is now demanding royalties from her work after it became an unlikely tourist attraction. — Ecce Homo by 19th-century painter Elías …
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New York Magazine, Althouse, Gothamist and ABCNEWS
Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
In New Policy, The Times Forbids After-the-Fact ‘Quote Approval’ — The New York Times is drawing “a clear line” against the practice of news sources being allowed to approve quotations in stories after the fact. — The practice, known as quote approval, “puts so much control over the content …
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BBC:
Kingswear's Dart Princess ferry thief ‘Jack Sparrow’ jailed — A woman who shouted “I'm Jack Sparrow” at police as she stole a ferry was lucky she was not injured, the owners of the vessel said. — Alison Whelan referred to the movie pirate character as she took the Dart Princess on the River Dart in Devon.
Timothybella / CBS DC:
Study: Only 15 Percent Of Democrats Believe Economic News Is Bad — WASHINGTON (CBSDC) - With just 47 days before the general election and Mitt Romney attempting to pivot the focus of the election back on the state of the economy, citizens with Democratic leanings are actually doing an about-face …
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Tim Devaney / Washington Times:
Chick-fil-A no longer will fund traditional-marriage groups — Chick-fil-A stopped funding traditional-marriage groups in an effort to open a new Chicago restaurant, but the company initially kept quiet about the decision, prompting gay rights groups to speculate that the company feared a backlash from conservative customers.
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Politico:
Democrats surge in key Senate campaigns — Democratic candidates in some of the most critical Senate races in the country are surging, putting the party in its best position of the election cycle to keep its majority in November. — The reasons range from the post-convention bounce led …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN, FiveThirtyEight, American Prospect and Outside the Beltway
Sean Trende / RealClearPolitics:
State of the Race, Part 2: Why Romney Wins — This is the second in a three-part series on the state of the race. Yesterday, I laid out the reasons why Barack Obama will win the presidency. Today, I press the case for Mitt Romney. — The basic argument for why Romney is being written off far too early is pretty simple.
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