memeorandum: Messina: Forget The Tied National Polls, We're Winning (Zeke Miller/BuzzFeed)

11:00 PM ET, September 22, 2012

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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.

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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 …

Discussion: American Power, Doug Ross, New York Times, The Jawa Report, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate GOP furious newspaper got better briefing on Libya — Senate Republicans are furious the Obama administration rebuffed their attempts to learn details of the Benghazi attack, only to give the coveted information to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Michelle Malkin

Mark Steyn / National Review:

Bowing to the Mob — I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the single “O” logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs and protein wisdom

Politico:
Obama to address Muslim unrest

Discussion: Power Line

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.

Discussion: Moe Lane

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.

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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.

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Brad DeLong

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

CNN Reveals Finding Ambassador Christopher Stevens' Journal And Discloses Reporting With It … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Anderson Cooper, CNN, Libya, Video, Chris Stevens, Christopher Stevens, Cnn Ambassador Journal, Cnn Chris Stevens, Cnn Stevens Journal, J Christopher Stevens, Libya Attack …

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CNN:
CNN finds, returns journal belonging to late U.S. ambassador

Discussion: Mediaite

Arwa Damon / CNN:
Decrying attack, protesters overtake Islamist group's HQ in Benghazi

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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.”

Discussion: The Rightnewz and The Lonely Conservative

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.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

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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