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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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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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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 …
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President Obama holds slight lead over Mitt Romney in Times-Union Florida poll
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Bloomberg:
Romney Negativity Muddies Message as Obama Leads in Poll
Romney Negativity Muddies Message as Obama Leads in Poll
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First Read, BuzzFeed, Los Angeles Times, Political Capital, The Moderate Voice and American Prospect
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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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3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack
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New Yorker, Outside the Beltway, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Daily Dish
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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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Report: Paul Ryan Goes Rogue and Refers to “Stench” Romney
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes
Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes
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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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than 2008
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than 2008
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Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Layers of Conspiracies — Just a brief set of additional points …
Layers of Conspiracies — Just a brief set of additional points …
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Salon
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
Police investigating racist pictures sent to Mia Love
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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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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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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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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Activist arrested in New York for defacing anti-Muslim poster
Activist arrested in New York for defacing anti-Muslim poster
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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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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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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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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.
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National Republicans Come Home To Todd Akin — There's a new trend sweeping the nation's top conservative leaders: line up behind embattled Missouri Senate nominee Todd Akin (R), and do it fast. This is a far cry from the immediate aftermath of Akin's “legitimate rape” comments, when his friends were few and far between.
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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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Washington Examiner:
Popular in Politics — The Weekly Standard's Jay Cost does a fine job addressing conservative claims that recent polls showing President Obama with strong leads over Mitt Romney here. Cost's bottom line: … But Cost's post only looks at this year's polls and then compares them to recent exit poll data.