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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 …
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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)
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 25: Romney's Narrow Path Without Ohio
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 24: Deep Red Polling Mystery
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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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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”?
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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 …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Defining Wonkishness Down — I'm noticing a pattern in coverage of Paul Ryan.
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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 …
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Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Police investigating racist pictures sent to Mia Love
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
GOP Rising Star Mia Love: “Anchor Baby”?
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bombshell: US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack — Five days after the attack on the Benghazi consulate that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, the Obama administration sent UN Ambassador Susan Rice onto five Sunday talk shows …
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NBC / World News:
Libyan president to NBC: Anti-Islam film had ‘nothing to do with’ US Consulate attack
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
WE KNEW IT WAS AL QAEDA
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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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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA TO UN: IT'S NOT MY FAULT STEVENS IS DEAD
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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 …
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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.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Massachusetts, Brown Attacks Warren's Character
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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.)
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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.
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes
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The Daily Beast and The Raw Story
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Says Obama Did Not Raise Taxes ‘In His First Four Years’
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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 …
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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.
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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Victoria McGrane / Washington Wire:
Seven Zingers in Sheila Bair's New Book
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. GOP orders affiliate to remove offensive Obama photos — RICHMOND — Virginia Republican Party officials on Tuesday ordered their Mecklenburg County affiliate to remove photos portraying President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman and a thug from its Facebook page.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hinterland Gazette
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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Hot Air and First Read
John Giokaris / Townhall.com:
Presidential Polls 2012: Skewed Polling and Biased Media Coverage Give Obama False Advantage Over Romney … Editor's Note:This piece originally appeared at PolicyMic. — From its double standard on how the mainstream media has covered both campaigns, to the 2008-Democrat heavy polling models they use …
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