memeorandum: Sept. 22: Little Agreement Among Pollsters on ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ (Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight)

8:20 PM ET, September 23, 2012

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CNN:

Obama: I bear ‘full responsibility for everything’ — (CNN) - President Barack Obama discussed his frustration with gridlock in Washington, saying his “biggest disappointment” in his nearly four years in office has been the failure to oversee change in the nation's political climate.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

Robert Gibbs / CNN:

Gibbs: Romney has advantage in debates — (CNN) - A senior Obama campaign adviser said Mitt Romney has a leg up on President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential debates. — “Mitt Romney I think has an advantage, because he's been through 20 of these debates in the primaries over the last year,” Gibbs said Sunday on Fox News.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Politico and Taegan Goddard's …

Amie Parnes / Ballot Box:
RNC chair: ‘Not the best week’ for Romney

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, Politico and CNN

Elizabeth Flock / US News:

Mitt Romney Calls U.S.A. a ‘Foreign Country’ in His Tax Returns — Maybe Mitt Romney thinks he lives in Switzerland? — When the former Massachusetts governor released his official 2011 tax return Friday, he (or whoever actually filled out the form) appeared to have mistakenly referred to the United States as a foreign country.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, The Reaction and The New Civil Rights Movement

Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
GOP pushes Romney to break from White House's Afghan strategy

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Times, CNN, americanthinker.com, The Agonist and Prairie Weather

Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Graham: Election about economy, not Romney's tax returns

Discussion: CNN

Daily Mail:

More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes as miserable economy takes its toll — Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study. — The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened …

Discussion: Babalú Blog

Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:

Suicide is now the leading cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame — An extremely disturbing new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that suicides have replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S …

Mike Allen / Politico:

State Department: CNN ‘indefensible’ on late ambassador Christopher Stevens's diary — The State Department - in a harsh, detailed statement - is accusing CNN of an “indefensible” invasion of the privacy of Christopher Stevens, the late U.S. ambassador to Libya, after finding his seven-page journal in the consulate where he was killed.

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit and NewsBusters.org

Associated Press:
US State Dept. blasts CNN report on Christopher Stevens' diary

Discussion: protein wisdom and Althouse

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
CNN's Use Of Christopher Stevens' Journal Is ‘Disgusting’: State Dept.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Newsy, Gawker, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, nation.foxnews.com, Philly.com and CNN, more at Mediagazer »

Wall Street Journal:
Family Protests CNN's Use of Slain Envoy's Journal

Discussion: Hot Air, The Other McCain, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, Deadline.com, Daily Mail, Taylor Marsh, The Lonely Conservative and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »

Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:

President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 percentage points in Ohio Newspaper Poll — President Barack Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in the race for battleground Ohio, a poll commissioned by The Plain Dealer and the state's other major newspapers shows.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Conservatives4Palin, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS

Reuters:

Iran readies domestic Internet system, blocks Google — (Reuters) - Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security but which many Iranians fear is the latest way to control their access to the web.

Discussion: Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch and AllThingsD, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Obama Campaign's Flag Poster No Longer Appears In Store — An Obama for America flag print that was released last week no longer appears in the campaign stores. — The item, known as “Our Strips: Flag Poster” redesigned the American flag using the Obama for America logo.

Discussion: Power Line

James Glanz / New York Times:

The Cloud Factories: Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image — SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt. — The company had been packing a 40-by-60-foot rental space …

Discussion: The Verge, VentureBeat, Cafe Hayek and Gizmodo

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Sept. 22: Little Agreement Among Pollsters on ‘Enthusiasm Gap’ — Saturday brought a light volume of polling data, and the FiveThirtyEight forecast was not much changed. Barack Obama's chances of winning the Electoral College are 77.5 percent, according to the model, slightly improved from 76.9 percent in Friday's forecast.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, UPI and Prairie Weather

New York Post:

Shalom & welcome to NYC, A'jad! — Feel the love, Mahmoud — and taste the gefilte fish. — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived last night at the Warwick Hotel in Midtown in advance of his annual hate-spewing address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday — and The Post tried to deliver him a gift fit for a despot.

Discussion: New York Magazine