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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's ‘60 Minutes’ wipeout — Once is a bad day, but twice in a row should worry Democrats. President Obama followed his gaffe-ridden Univision interview with an outing on Sunday on “60 Minutes” that is destined to wind up in a series of Mitt Romney ads.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
CBS Doesn't Air Obama Admitting Mistakes in Campaign Ads — Tonight, CBS aired a 60 Minutes interview with President Obama. But curiously enough, the news magazine show did not air a clip of Obama admitting to interviewer Steve Kroft that some of his campaign ads contain mistakes and that some even “go overboard.”
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Hillary Clinton Aide Tells Reporter To “F**k Off” And “Have A Good Life” — As the State Department's story about what happened in Benghazi crumbles, Clinton's personal spokesperson, Philippe Reines, loses his temper. “Have a good day. And by good day I mean F**k Off.” — Clinton and Reines in China in 2010.
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Elizabeth Warren's law license problem — The debate last Thursday night between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren covered ground mostly known to voters. — But there was one subject most people watching probably did not know about, Elizabeth Warren's private legal representation …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
ELIZABETH WARREN ADMITS SHE IS NOT LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS
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President Obama pulls ahead of Mitt Romney — President Barack Obama has opened a national lead in a tight race that's been static for much of the year. — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters finds little good news for Mitt Romney but a race that remains competitive.
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GOP analysis: Mitt winning in middle — In early August, with our Republican analysis of the POLITICO-George Washington University Battleground Poll, we wrote “... this election will remain close until the final weeks of the campaign. There will be ups and downs for both campaigns throughout …
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Vodkapundit and Washington Examiner
James Hohmann / Politico:
Poll: Obama ticks up on Romney in tight race
Poll: Obama ticks up on Romney in tight race
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Weekly Standard, Conservatives4Palin and The Lonely Conservative
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The Statistical State of the Presidential Race — With fewer than 45 days left in the presidential campaign, it's no longer a cliché to say that every week counts. And there are a few polling-related themes we'll be watching especially closely this week.
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elections.gmu.edu, A plain blog about politics, Taegan Goddard's …, Balloon Juice and Joe. My. God.
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President Obama: The Democrats' Ronald Reagan — With his first term behind him, Obama is poised to be as significant a president as Reagan—tackling the deficit, spearheading immigration reform, and jolting the GOP back to sanity. — As the fall has turned crisper, a second term for Barack Obama has gotten likelier.
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney, On 60 Minutes, Cites Emergency Room As Health Care Option For Uninsured … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Mitt Romney, Video, Mitt Romney Health Care, Mitt Romney 60 Minutes, Mitt Romney Health Insurance, Mitt Romney Healthcare, Mitt Romney Uninsured, Romney 60 Minutes, Romneycare, Politics News
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Mitt Romney pulls in $6 million at Beverly Hills fundraiser — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives in Los Angeles during what is primarily a fundraising swing through California. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press / September 22, 2012)
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Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
What's Wrong With Pennsylvania? — On June 30, 2011, an enthusiastic Mitt Romney arrived here in the heart of the Lehigh Valley determined to make Pennsylvania a presidential battleground state. — Standing before the closed Allentown Metal Works, Romney told reporters …
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John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Puncturing Myths about the White Working Class
Puncturing Myths about the White Working Class
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Public Religion Research … and Brad DeLong
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Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They're Old Wall Posts. — Updated. Some Facebook users are seeing private messages written in 2009 and earlier showing up on viewable Timelines as messages “Posted by friends.” — TechCrunch has investigated more …
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Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
Is Facebook Publishing People's Private Messages, Or Are We All Freaking Out Over Nothing?
Is Facebook Publishing People's Private Messages, Or Are We All Freaking Out Over Nothing?
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Transcript: Mitt Romney Talks to ABC News About Obama Foreign Policy, Campaign Reset — Image credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak — ABC News conducted a short interview with Mitt Romney today in Denver, Colorado. She asked him about his criticism of the President Obama on foreign policy …
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Ryan: 'We're going to beat him' — By Craig Gilbert of the Journal Sentinel — Talking at length about a Republican campaign that has been feverishly second-guessed, Paul Ryan professed all will be well in the end. — “We're going to beat him,” he said of President Barack Obama.
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Mitt Romney's transition efforts intensifying — Mitt Romney's campaign may be struggling, but his transition operation is moving full steam ahead. — The GOP presidential candidate's Washington team is intensifying its efforts, moving into official office space and holding meetings on Capitol Hill.
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BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan: Cayman Islands “The Place You Hide Your Money” — Democrats often hit Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for having an offshore bank account in the Cayman Islands. In 2010, during a speech to the Chamber of Commerce, his running mate Paul Ryan called the Cayman Islands …
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Guardian, Taylor Marsh, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney campaign to change message — Mitt Romney's campaign on Monday said it would debut a new “change in message” that looked not just to criticize President Obama's record, but to paint a contrast for voters of the next four years. — “We are talking not only on the president's performance …
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The Daily Beast, GOP 12 and Election 2012
Orlando Sentinel:
State Rep. Mike Horner ends campaign after being named in racketeering, prostitution case — State Rep. Mike Horner of Kissimmee ended his re-election campaign today after being named as a client in a racketeering and prostitution case. — Horner, a two-term Republican …
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Analysis: For Romney, some troubling signs among older voters — (Reuters) - Even before his running mate was booed by a lobbying group for older Americans on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was losing support among such voters, whose backing is crucial to his hopes of winning the November 6 election.
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Mitt and the threat of abandonment — Romney might face the same indignity — abandonment — as the last Republican to challenge an incumbent, Bob Dole — On Sunday's “Meet the Press,” David Brooks and Joe Scarborough took turns criticizing Mitt Romney's messaging and strategy.
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, Capital New York, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Politico
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Tough new ad shows Sen. Brown going on offense in Mass. Senate race — Two new ads out from Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) campaign illustrate the contrasting two-part strategy the senator is launching as he remains behind in some polls just six weeks out from the election.
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown launches ad about Elizabeth Warren's Native American controversy
Scott Brown launches ad about Elizabeth Warren's Native American controversy
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Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, WBUR and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Ad Age Picks the Top 10 Female Ad Icons of All Time — From the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl to Progressive's Flo, We Choose the Most Memorable Women of the Last 100 Years … Morton Salt Umbrella Girl — This venerable ad icon was originally an afterthought, one of three substitute ideas …
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Shakesville and Althouse
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Optimism Cure — Mitt Romney is optimistic about optimism. In fact, it's pretty much all he's got. And that fact should make you very pessimistic about his chances of leading an economic recovery. — As many people have noticed, Mr. Romney's five-point “economic plan” is very nearly substance-free.
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Romney's Latest Myth: Obama Wants To Force Workers Into Unions! — During a Sunday evening conference call with a group of Iowans, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney warned voters that President Obama wants to force everyone into organized unions.
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Firedoglake and Alan Colmes' Liberaland