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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.
Daily Mail:
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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CNN Reveals Finding Ambassador Christopher Stevens' Journal And Discloses Reporting With It
CNN Reveals Finding Ambassador Christopher Stevens' Journal And Discloses Reporting With It
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP furious newspaper got better briefing on Libya
Senate GOP furious newspaper got better briefing on Libya
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
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.
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
‘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.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
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.
Paul Krugman:
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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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
A New Inning, Late in the Game — THE way Kevin McClatchy figured it, he had to choose. He could indulge his dream of presiding over a big-time professional sports team, or he could be open about his sexuality. The two paths didn't dovetail. — He went with sports, and in February 1996 …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
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.”
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The Rightnewz and The Lonely Conservative
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
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.
Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama campaign prefers Hank Aaron to Scott Walker — President Obama will not be greeted by Gov. Scott Walker at the airport in Milwaukee on Saturday, but a campaign spokeswoman said he doesn't mind. — Instead, Obama will be joined by Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewer Hank Aaron at a fundraising stop.
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North Miami / NMB:
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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