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2:50 PM ET, September 25, 2012

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Sen. Scott Brown staffers caught on video chanting Indian war whoops, making tomahawk chops  —  Rally video surfaces after campaigns release ads about Warren's heritage  —  Staffers for Sen. Scott Brown chanted Indian “war whoops” and made “tomahawk chops” during a rally for the Republican senator this week in Boston.
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Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Dems: GOP staffers mocked Warren with chants, ‘chops’  —  At least two Republican staffers, including a member of Scott Brown's US Senate office, apparently mocked Elizabeth Warren's claims to Native American ancestry by making tomahawk chops and war whoops outside one of Brown's campaign events …
Washington Post:
Washington Post polls: Obama lead in Ohio, edge in Fla. hamper Romney path to victory  —  President Obama has grabbed a significant lead over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Ohio and holds a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by The Washington Post.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney's problem: Ohio, Ohio, Ohio  —  Of all the hurdles in Mitt Romney's path, there is none as daunting - or as alarming to other members of his party - as the state of Ohio.  —  This morning's Washington Post poll found Obama leading Romney by 8 points in the Buckeye State.
Peter Kirsanow / National Review:
Why Isn't Romney Up by Ten Points?  —  Today Rasmussen has Obama up 47-46.  Gallup has Obama up 48-46.  —  Yet according to some Sunday talk show pundits, the Romney campaign is in disarray and Obama is almost assured of victory in November.  And it seems this assessment is shared even by some …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Pluralities Say Press is Fair to Romney, Obama
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Washington Post:
President Obama's 2012 address to U.N. General Assembly (Full text)  —  Video: President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York Tuesday, urging leaders to condemn the violence over an anti-Muslim film in the Middle East that led to the death of U.S. ambassador to Libya.
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New York Times:
Obama's Speech to the United Nations General Assembly — Text  —  Following is a text of President Obama's speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, as released by the White House:  —  Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentleman …
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
The President continues to offer up apologies....When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide...  In his speech today to the United Nations, President Obama stated six times that the attacks across the Islamic world are attributed to a silly video.
Guy Taylor / Washington Times:
Muslim-led nations seek global ban on insults of Muhammad
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Hot Air
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Mind  —  When I joined the staff of National Review as a lowly associate in 1984, the magazine, and the conservative movement itself, was a fusion of two different mentalities.  —  On the one side, there were the economic conservatives.  These were people that anybody …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Brooks Misses the Boat
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP takes aim at ‘skewed’ polls  —  The Romney campaign and other Republicans say polls showing President Obama with a significant lead over their candidate are inaccurate.  —  They argue many mainstream polls skew in Obama's favor because of sample sizes that base 2012 turnout projections on 2008 …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Maddow Blog and BuzzFeed
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Thomas Burr / Salt Lake Tribune:
Harry Reid: Mitt Romney is not the face of Mormonism  —  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he agrees with a fellow Mormon who wrote recently that Mitt Romney has “sullied” the LDS faith and that the GOP presidential candidate is “not the face of Mormonism.”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Reid: I agree Romney has ‘sullied’ Mormonism
Discussion: New York Magazine
Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:
Madonna: Obama Is ‘A Black Muslim In The White House,’ Deserves Votes (VIDEO) … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Madonna, Video, Madonna MDNA Tour, Political Hollywood, Madonna Barack Obama, Madonna Obama, Madonna Obama Black Muslim, Madonna Obama Endorsement, Madonna Obama Muslim, Madonna Obama Tattoo, Mdna, Mdna Tour, Entertainment News
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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Ralph Nader: Obama's a ‘war criminal’  —  It's no surprise that Ralph Nader isn't a fan of former President George W. Bush.  After all, the longtime activist ran against him in both 2000 and 2004.  But Nader's even less a fan of President Barack Obama, if only because he thinks Obama was capable of so much more.
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Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Biden Campaigns in GOP-Voting Virginia Suburb
Discussion: CNN
Alicia Cohn / The Hill:
Ryan criticizes refs for call in disputed Green Bay Packers game  —  GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Tuesday criticized the replacement referees who made a disputed call that caused the Green Bay Packers to lose the Monday Night Football game.  —  “You guys watch that Packer game last night?”
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Bill Clinton: NFL refs blew the call!
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Bill Clinton: ‘Red flag’ on Mitt Romney's plan  —  Mitt Romney's refusal to get into the specifics of his tax overhaul should raise a “red flag,” former president Bill Clinton said Tuesday, adding he doesn't think Romney can avoid a middle-class tax hike.  —  “We know what Governor Romney says …
Discussion: Associated Press, CNN and Daily Kos
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Romney's refusal to share tax plan specifics a ‘red flag’
Discussion: Politico
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
News and Opinion Blogs  —  Obama on the NFL replacement refs  —  By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel  —  It turns out President Barack Obama was a tad concerned about the NFL's replacement refs, even before the Green Bay Packers' stunning loss to Seattle.
Politico:
President Obama's audacity-free campaign  —  Audacity is so 2008.  —  Barack Obama, reconciling the contradictory realities of Mitt Romney's hard fall with a race that remains stubbornly inside the margin of error, is running as the kind of careful, poll-watching politician he disdained …
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Matea Gold / Los Angeles Times:
Obama campaign had twice the staff as Romney last month at same cost
Noah Smith / noahpinionblog.blogspot.it:
I'm from the economics profession, and I'm here to help.  —  EconoTrolls: An Illustrated Bestiary  —  In your journey through the Econ Blogosphere, you will be beset by a great many curious and interesting species of EconoTroll.  At first you may be intimidated by their voluminous use of insider jargon …
Discussion: EconLog
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
‘Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones’: The Strikes' Effect on Life in Pakistan  —  Interviews with the civilians terrorized daily by American foreign policy  —  Tribesmen sit with Sadaullah Khan, a man from Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, who says he lost both legs and one eye in a 2009 drone strike on his house.
New York Times:
A Measure of Change: Arab Spring Proves a Harsh Test for Obama's Diplomatic Skill  —  WASHINGTON — President Hosni Mubarak did not even wait for President Obama's words to be translated before he shot back.  —  “You don't understand this part of the world,” the Egyptian leader broke in.
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Ralph Reed's Group Compares Obama Policies to Nazi Germany  —  In a “voter registration” mailer, the outfit founded by the ex-Christian Coalition leader also refers to Obama's “Communist beliefs.”  —  Ralph Reed.  Gage Skidmore/Flickr  —  A mailer blasted out by the Faith and Freedom Coalition …
 
 
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David Weigel / Slate:
Defining Wonkishness Down  —  I'm noticing a pattern in coverage of Paul Ryan.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Biden prepares for debate with first practice session
Discussion: Politico
Elizabeth Titus / Politico:
Booker prediction: Texas Gov. Castro
Discussion: Texas on the Potomac
Elizabeth Hartfield / ABCNEWS:
Mass. Senate Race: Elizabeth Warren Represented Coal Mining Co.
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Obama has strong lead in Pa., Mercyhurst U. poll finds
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New York Times:
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
‘Ending Our War on Schedule’
Discussion: Wired and Washington Free Beacon
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Howard Stern Interviews Obama Supporters 2012
Discussion: Power Line and Conservatives4Palin
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Pennsylvania Voter ID Law In Jeopardy As Next Court Case Opens
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Portman: Obama will be ‘formidable’
Discussion: Mediaite, GOP 12 and Influence Alley
 

 
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