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Sorry, But Mitt Romney's Nickname Is Not “The Stench” — Not everyone grasped that Paul Ryan isn't really going around referring to Mitt Romney as “Stench,” as a Politico satire suggested. “Yes, the Stench!” exclaims O'Donnell. — When Roger Simon wrote in Politico Wednesday that Paul Ryan's …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's ‘Them’ Problem — Presidential elections are decided in the first-person plural and the second person. Anyone operating in the third person is in trouble. — Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday released an ad featuring the candidate speaking straight to the camera …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Romney Campaign Now Says They Probably Won't Do Their Tax Cuts After All — WESTERVILLE, OH - SEPTEMBER 26: Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives at a campaign rally at Westerville South High School September 26, 2012 in Westerville, Ohio.
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Firedoglake, TaxVox, The Daily Beast and Brad DeLong
Roger Simon / Politico:
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench — Paul Ryan has gone rogue. He is unleashed, unchained, off the hook. — “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he'll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director …
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Bloomberg:
Politico's Paul Ryan Satire: The Joke's on Them — A report this morning by Politico chief political correspondent Roger Simon includes this bombshell about Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan: … The “stench” reference comes from a quote that Craig Robinson …
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Althouse, Jammie Wearing Fools, BuzzFeed and Business Insider
New York Times:
Polls Show Obama Is Widening His Lead in Ohio and Florida — COLUMBUS, Ohio — For weeks, Republicans in Ohio have been watching with worry that the state's vital 18 electoral votes were trending away from Mitt Romney. The anxiety has been similar in Florida, where Republicans are concerned …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Why Romney is losing must-win Ohio — (CNN) — Polls show Mitt Romney trailing President Barack Obama in just about every one of the swing states where the 2012 campaign is being waged. — But Romney appears to be in deeper trouble in Ohio than elsewhere, an alarming development for Republicans …
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Quinnipiac University:
Obama Has Big Leads In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll Finds — Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results — Clip Information and Download: — FLV File - For Website (1920x1080 / 61.7MB)
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 25: Romney's Narrow Path Without Ohio — With President Obama consistently holding a lead in polls of Ohio, Mitt Romney may need to devise a strategy to win the Electoral College without it. — Mr. Romney has a few plans by which he might do so, but they are narrowly drawn …
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
WE KNEW IT WAS AL QAEDA — Sources say intelligence agencies knew within a day that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the attacks in Benghazi, Libya—they even knew where one of the attackers lived. Eli Lake reports. — Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate …
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack
3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack
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New Yorker, Outside the Beltway, nation.foxnews.com and The Daily Dish
Byron Tau / Politico:
W.H.: Obama sees attack as terrorism
W.H.: Obama sees attack as terrorism
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
National Republicans re-open door to spending money on Akin — The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a statement Wednesday clarifying its support for Rep. Todd Akin in the Missouri Senate race and suggesting it might spend money to help elect him, after saying a month ago that it would not do so.
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Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, Hotline On Call and AEIdeas
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
NRSC Takes A Fresh Look At Todd Akin — With the deadline passed for Todd Akin to drop out of the Missouri Senate race, the National Republican Senatorial Committee says it's taking a fresh look at the contest. — “There is no question that for Missourians who believe we need to stop …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama — The case against casting a ballot for the president — even if you think he's better than Mitt Romney — Tell certain liberals and progressives that you can't bring yourself to vote for a candidate who opposes gay rights, or who doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, and they'll nod along.
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Gawker, Crooked Timber, Outside the Beltway, Hit & Run, The Agonist and Marginal Revolution
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Are the Polls Tilted Toward Obama? — Republicans, by and large, are frustrated with recent polls of the presidential election because they think Democrats are being oversampled. Many pollsters respond by saying that “weighting” the polls for partisan identification creates …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than in 2008
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than in 2008
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Will This Video Sink Tommy Thompson's Wisconsin Senate Hopes? — Footage from June shows the GOP candidate promising to “do away with Medicaid and Medicare.” — Memo to Republicans: Just stay away from cameras, all cameras. And if you can, travel back in time and implement this advice in April or so.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and JSOnline
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Cherokee chief: Scott Brown staffers ‘racist’ — The head of the Cherokee Nation called staffers for Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown “downright racist” Wednesday for making “tomahawk chop” motions and yelling “war whoops” at a rally Saturday for the Republican's reelection, and called on Brown to apologize.
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CNN, The Democratic Daily and Daily Kos
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Jeffrey Bell / Weekly Standard:
How to Make 2012 into 1980 — When Republican strategists like Karl Rove cite 1980 as a model for this year's election, they usually have in mind two main elements: Ronald Reagan's question in the late October presidential debate about whether voters felt better off than four years earlier …
Jon Cohen / The Fix:
Most are negative about Mitt Romney's “47 percent” comments — A majority of Americans have unfavorable views of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's comments — caught on film at a fundraiser — regarding the “47 percent” of people who don't pay federal income taxes and simply would not vote for him …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Beast, Taegan Goddard's …, Mother Jones and Election 2012
Jonathan Amos / BBC:
Hubble captures extraordinary view of Universe — The image took more than 500 hours to build — The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date. — Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching …
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mikeroweWORKS:
The First Four Years Are The Hardest... My name is Mike Rowe and I own a small company in California called mikeroweWORKS. Currently, mikeroweWORKS is trying to close the country's skills gap by changing the way Americans feel about Work. (I know, right? Ambitious.)
BuzzFeed:
Mormons Plan To Fast For Romney — Conservative Mormons circulate an e-mail calling for a day of fasting and prayer on September 30th for Romney to do well in the debates. Asking God to rain blessings on a struggling candidacy. — Mitt Romney and his wife Ann arrive for services …
Randall / histsociety.blogspot.co.uk:
Eugene D. Genovese (1930-2012) — To mark the passing of Eugene D. Genovese (1930-2012), I post here an excerpt from a recent forum in Historically Speaking (November 2011) on this influential historian's work and career, alongside that of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007).
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Sam Stanton / Sacto 9-1-1:
UC pepper-spray settlement about $1 million — By Sam Stanton, Denny Walsh and Andrea Gallo — The University of California regents have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit over last November's pepper spraying of UC-Davis students, part of a deal that also calls …
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KXTV, The Raw Story, Joe. My. God. and New York Magazine
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Andy Williams, Crooner of ‘Moon River,’ Dies at 84 — Andy Williams, the affable, boyishly handsome crooner who defined both easy listening and wholesome, easygoing charm for many American pop music fans in the 1960s, most notably with his signature song, “Moon River,” died on Tuesday night …
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Media Decoder, his vorpal sword and Taylor Marsh
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies — “Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren't paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren't paid for, a prescription drug plan …
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New York Times, National Review, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and First Read
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
New Jersey Governor Blows Off Questions About Failed Foreclosure Prevention Program — As ThinkProgress has reported, several states took their share of the $25 billion foreclosure fraud settlement and used it to balance their budgets instead of providing help to homeowners.
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Crooks and Liars, Wonkette and ABC 7 Eyewitness News
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Obama to Crash Debate Prep in Nevada as Campaigns Lower Expectations — Chris Kleponis/AFP/Getty Images; Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images — BOWLING GREEN, O.H. — President Obama will head to Henderson, Nev., on Sunday for three days of debate prep behind closed doors, ABC News has learned.
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Los Angeles Times, The Maddow Blog, Jammie Wearing Fools and Weasel Zippers
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Pennsylvania Eases Voter-ID Requirements, As Trial Judge Reviews State's Law — In a last-minute effort to protect the restrictive voter ID law now under review by a trial judge, Pennsylvania officials announced Tuesday they would relax requirements for obtaining a photo ID.
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professional.wsj.com and The Raw Story
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Executive Producer of ‘Today’ Says Ouster of Ann Curry Was His Call — Commenting publicly for the first time about the decision to remove Ann Curry from the “Today” show's co-anchor position after only a year on the job, Jim Bell, the show's executive producer, said Wednesday that it “was absolutely my call.”
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FARRAKHAN and RAMSEY CLARK Hold Meeting With Ahmadinejad (Photos) — Guess who's coming to dinner? — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with religious leaders and social groups in New York City on Tuesday night. — Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan and former Democratic …
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The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Matthew Lavoie / nam.org:
Small Businesses and Manufacturers: Government a Barrier, Not a Help, to Economic Growth — NEW SURVEY PAINTS BLEAK PICTURE FOR AMERICAN ENTERPRISE WEEKS BEFORE 2012 ELECTIONS