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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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Racial Politics: Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’
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Mediaite and Election 2012

Dems: GOP staffers mocked Warren with chants, ‘chops’
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New York Magazine, Balloon Juice and The Fix

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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Pew Research Center …, The New Republic, The Fix, emptywheel, Little Green Footballs, GOP 12, Outside the Beltway, Battleground Watch, Althouse, Hot Air, Washington Wire, Naked Politics, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Business Insider, Taylor Marsh, The Hinterland Gazette, Politico, Election 2012 and National Review
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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.
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CNN, Washington Post, First Read, American Prospect, Outside the Beltway, The New Republic and The Other McCain


Romney Campaign Challenges The Polls — Adviser says internal polling says the race is much tighter than the public polls suggests. “We are, by any stretch, within the margin of error in Ohio,” says Beeson. — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters — DAYTON, Ohio — Amid a flurry …
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The Fix, Election 2012 and CANNONFIRE

Why Isn't Romney Up by Ten Points?
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Washington Monthly, Vodkapundit, The Talking Dog and CANNONFIRE

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?”
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Paul Ryan Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees: ‘It Is Time To Get The Real Refs’
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The Raw Story and The Stranger …

Union-buster Walker calls for return of union refs
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Associated Press and Booman Tribune

WH on Bad Call at Football Game: ‘Pressing Matter,’ ‘Astounding’ and ‘Very Distressing’
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ESPN and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Union-Busting GOP Governor Scott Walker Demands Return Of Unionized NFL Referees
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New York Magazine, The Atlantic Online and emptywheel

Bill Clinton: NFL refs blew the call!
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JSOnline, thenation.com/blogs/163256 and NBC 10 Philadelphia

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 …
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ABCNEWS, CBS New York, Weekly Standard, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Daily Dish, The Lede, Weasel Zippers and The Agonist
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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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CNN, Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, The Week, Wake up America, The Heritage Foundation, Hot Air, New York Times, Newsy, This Just In and Radio Iowa


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.
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BuzzFeed, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Daily Kos


In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated”
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Wake up America, Business Insider, americanthinker.com, CBS News, Foreign Policy, Althouse, Newsy and Weekly Standard

Muslim-led nations seek global ban on insults of Muhammad
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Pirate's Cove, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Jawa Report

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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RedState, driftglass, Booman Tribune, Right Wing Nut House, The Agonist, Taylor Marsh, Marbury and Prairie Weather
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Brooks Misses the Boat — David Brooks' latest critique of the conservative movement (which reads an awful lot like the first draft of a post-election thumb-sucker on What Went Wrong) covers a lot of familiar ground for anyone familiar with intra-conservative debate over the years.
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No More Mister Nice Blog

Madonna strips for Obama, offers profanity-laced endorsement — Madonna offered a profanity-laced endorsement of President Obama at her concert Monday night, which involved the singer stripping down to her underwear to reveal the president's name written on her body.
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NewsBusters.org blogs and The Daily Caller
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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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Angry Black Lady Chronicles and The Raw Story

Madonna gives odd Obama endorsement
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Mediaite, Towleroad News #gay and Weasel Zippers


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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Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Politico, USA Today, The Hinterland Gazette and The Raw Story
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Defining Wonkishness Down — I'm noticing a pattern in coverage of Paul Ryan. Yesterday's NYT and WaPo gripe-collecters on how conservatives wanted to “unleash” the candidate were a taster. The next wave of Ryan story is the “the wonk is loosed” piece. When you see just how the “wonkishness” is being defined, it's fairly amusing.

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 …
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Daily Kos and The Maddow Blog
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NEWS FLASH — RYAN: PREVENTING GAY PEOPLE FROM MARRYING IS A ‘UNIVERSAL HUMAN’ VALUE | Paul Ryan reiterated his opposition to marriage equality, during a town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday. “The things you talk about like traditional marriage and family and entrepreneurship.
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The Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette

Police: Teen admits vandalizing NYC pol's office — NEW YORK — Police say a teenager has admitted vandalizing the campaign office of New York Congressman Michael Grimm. — NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says the eighth grader told a school counselor that he and a friend had broken a window …
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The Hill, Talking Points Memo and Politicker
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Mitt Romney Was Joking About Airplane Windows — The internet was tickled silly yesterday when it learned that Mitt Romney lacks an even basic understanding of the airplanes he has flown on probably thousands of times at this point in his 65-year life. It seemed almost unthinkable that a guy …

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.
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Political Capital, Washington Examiner and First Read


The website where Mitt Romney's winning in a landslide — At UnSkewed Polls, “liberal media bias” is removed from every survey that shows Obama ahead. Guess who wins? — I present UnSkewedPolls.com, the best new website on the political Internet. UnSkewed Polls finally removes the …
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Business Insider, Examiner, Nice Deb and Lawyers, Guns & Money