memeorandum: Obama's Stunning Ohio Turnaround (Alec MacGillis/The New Republic)

11:15 AM ET, September 26, 2012

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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 …

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)

Discussion: Washington Wire, GOP 12, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, The Fix and Battleground Watch

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 …

Discussion: American Prospect, The Caucus and Mediaite

Florida Times Union:
President Obama holds slight lead over Mitt Romney in Times-Union Florida poll

Discussion: Battleground Watch

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 24: Deep Red Polling Mystery

Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: New York Times, The Maddow Blog, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh, The Iowa Republican, The Hinterland Gazette, Shakesville, Paul Krugman, Balloon Juice and AEIdeas

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:

Report: Paul Ryan Goes Rogue and Refers to “Stench” Romney — Are we now witnessing the second Vice President on a Republican ticket in four years “go rogue”? Is Paul Ryan fed up with what some see as his Romneyization by the Romney camp? Is he following 2008 Vice Presidential nominee's advice to “go rogue”?

Discussion: CANNONFIRE

Roger Simon / Politico:

Paul Ryan vs. The Stench — He did a PowerPoint presentation for the crowd. According to the National Journal, be began thusly: " 'I'm kind of a PowerPoint guy, so I hope you'll bear with me,' Ryan told the audience as he began clicking through four slides, which showed graphs depicting U.S. debt held …

Discussion: The Raw Story and Mock, Paper, Scissors

Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:

Love Claims The Lead — Well, this is an interesting turn of events. — Mia Love's campaign released internal polling numbers that show the race for Utah's 4th District seat have taken a dramatic swing, giving her a big lead over Democrat Jim Matheson. — Love's polling firm …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Washington Examiner and The Gateway Pundit

Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Police investigating racist pictures sent to Mia Love

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools, The Gateway Pundit, TBogg and The Lonely Conservative

Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
GOP Rising Star Mia Love: “Anchor Baby”?

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and ImmigrationProf Blog

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 …

Discussion: Hit & Run, protein wisdom, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler, Wizbang, Weasel Zippers and Conservatives4Palin

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bombshell: US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, Patterico's Pontifications and CNN

NBC / World News:
Libyan president to NBC: Anti-Islam film had ‘nothing to do with’ US Consulate attack

Discussion: Foreign Policy, americanthinker.com, Jihad Watch and Freedom's Lighthouse

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 “weighing” the polls for partisan identification creates …

Discussion: National Review, The Monkey Cage, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Battleground Watch and Gallup

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 …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and Election 2012

Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA TO UN: IT'S NOT MY FAULT STEVENS IS DEAD

Discussion: MRCTV, Macsmind, Washington Post, Nice Deb, First Draft, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air and Facebook

CNN:
What we learned from our interview with Mitt Romney

Discussion: Hot Air and Politico

Associated Press:
Romney, Obama Descend on Battleground Ohio

Discussion: CNN

Investor's Business Daily:

Democrat Senate Hopeful Warren Exposed As Complete Fraud — Politics: Democrat Elizabeth Warren has framed her race in Massachusetts against Sen. Scott Brown around integrity and intellect, as if she's a cut above other pols. In fact, she's beneath even the sleaziest.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Massachusetts, Brown Attacks Warren's Character

Discussion: Boston Globe, Blue Mass Group, Hot Air, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos

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.)

Discussion: Deseret News and The Lonely Conservative

Henry J. Gomez / Plain Dealer:
‘Dirty Jobs’ host Mike Rowe to appear Wednesday with Mitt Romney at Bedford Heights event

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The PJ Tatler and The Lonely Conservative

Eric Posner / Slate:

The World Doesn't Love the First Amendment — The vile anti-Muslim video shows that the U.S. overvalues free speech. — The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have to get used to freedom of expression.

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Questions and Observations, National Review, Pirate's Cove, New York Times, Hot Air, Opinionator, The Crawdad Hole, Hit & Run, The Other McCain, The Agonist and The Daily Dish

Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:

Mitt Romney Stops Supporters from Chanting ‘Ryan’ to Ensure They Say His Name Too — In Vandalia, Ohio, today, after Mitt Romney thanked running mate Paul Ryan for his stump speech, rally attendees instinctively began chanting “Ryan, Ryan,” as rally attendees are wont to do.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Towleroad News #gay and Wonkette

Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes

Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Raw Story

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Says Obama Did Not Raise Taxes ‘In His First Four Years’

Discussion: The Maddow Blog, Weekly Standard, Mediaite and Election 2012

New York Post:

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Woman defaces ‘anti-jihad’ ad in Times Square station — Cops busted a lone protester — angry with subway ads equating enemies of Israel as “savages” — as she spray-painted over one of the controversial signs today. — A Post camera crew captured the bizarre conflict …

Discussion: Guardian, ABCNEWS, Gothamist, Atlas Shrugs, Gawker, New York Magazine, Jihad Watch, Belmont Club, Mondoweiss and Jammie Wearing Fools

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:

Romney Negativity Muddies Message as Obama Leads in Poll — Republican Mitt Romney's negative ratings are preventing him from capitalizing on President Barack Obama's vulnerabilities in the race for the White House, according to a new poll that gives the incumbent a lead heading into the first of three presidential debates.

Discussion: First Read, BuzzFeed, Los Angeles Times, Political Capital, The Moderate Voice and American Prospect

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:

CNN's Acosta to Romney: ‘If You Somehow Beat Obama,’ How Would You 'Assure Blacks You'd Be Their President Also?' — CNN's Jim Acosta on Tuesday's Situation Room asked what many will think was a truly offensive question. — “If you were to somehow beat the first African-American president …

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit

Arthur Delaney / The Huffington Post:

Sheila Bair Book Says Obama Foreclosure Prevention Program ‘Cheated Borrowers’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Bull By The Horns, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair Book, Fdic, Hamp, Home Affordable Modification Program, Obama Foreclosures …

Discussion: Firedoglake