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How Romney Packed The Univision Forum — Tense moments as the campaign demands to bus in supporters and to retape an introduction. “A little bit of disrespect,” complains Univision's Salinas. — Romney at Univision and Facebook's “Meet the Candidates” forum, moderated by Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos.


Scroll down to watch video from Wednesday' show — New revelations: On Wednesday, Anderson Cooper, left, told Senator John McCain, right, that a ‘source familiar with Ambassador Stevens’ thinking' said the envoy was worried about security — Mystery source: Cooper admitted two days later …
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The Gateway Pundit and NewsBusters.org
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CNN Reveals Finding Ambassador Christopher Stevens' Journal And Discloses Reporting With It
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OBAMA TO CONDEMN CHRISTIAN FILMMAKER BEFORE UNITED NATIONS — Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking “Innocence of Muslims” than any terrorist network ever could've hoped for, but the President's indefensible scapegoating …
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Bowing to the Mob — I see the Obama campaign has redesigned …
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Messina: Forget The Tied National Polls, We're Winning — Says swing state dynamics favor Obama. — Image by Charles Dharapak / AP — Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told reporters on Saturday that despite national tracking polls showing the president and Romney tied, Obama is still winning.
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‘The Worst Thing That Has Happened to Our Democratic Election System’ — Andrew Cohen has been doing a formidable job of covering what is otherwise a substantially under-covered theme in this election year: the efforts to disenfranchise large numbers of voters, especially in swing states.


Romney the giver — The big news from tax returns — We learned yesterday that last year Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on an income of $14 million — and gave $4 million to charity. — The year before, he made $21.6 million, paid $3 million in taxes and gave $3 million to charity.

Mitt Romney Says, “I Am The Confidence Fairy!” — I've coined a few successful turns of phrase over the years, but none, I think, as successful as the confidence fairy — a term I used to refer to the belief that things like austerity in the face of depression would actually be expansionary, because of ... CONFIDENCE.
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Palin to Romney-Ryan: ‘Go Rogue’ — In a statement to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin offers some advice for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, this year's Republican ticket for president and vice president, respectively.
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his vorpal sword, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, CNN, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, National Review, The Caucus, Mediaite and Connecting.the.Dots


Chris Matthews Says ‘Unemployment Was Well Past 10%’ When Obama Took Office - It Was Only 7.8% — “When your guy left town, Dubya - who nobody asked him to come back by the way at the Republican convention - unemployment was well past ten percent and skyrocketing.”


First Lady: Voting Rights Is ‘Movement of Our Era’ — Michelle Obama says protecting the right to vote has become the nation's most important civil rights issue. — The first lady tells a gathering of black lawmakers and leaders that they owe it to those who fought and died for equal rights …
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Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister offers bounty — The port city of Karachi saw widespread violence and bloodshed on Friday — A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.
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New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Newsy and Washington Post


FBI checks envelopes used in probe of Rep. David Rivera — The FBI is checking envelopes that were stuffed with cash in a campaign run by a suspected front man for Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera. — MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM — A key witness in a federal grand jury case involving U.S …
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