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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 …
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, Taegan Goddard's …, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones and Election 2012
Florida Times Union:
President Obama holds slight lead over Mitt Romney in Times-Union Florida poll
President Obama holds slight lead over Mitt Romney in Times-Union Florida poll
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American Power and Battleground Watch
Michael R. Crittenden / Washington Wire:
Ad Seeks to Show Romney's Compassion
Ad Seeks to Show Romney's Compassion
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Towleroad News #gay and GOP 12
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 and The Daily Dish
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Bombshell: US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack
Bombshell: US knew Stevens assassination was work of terrorists within 24 hours of attack
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nation.foxnews.com, NewsBusters.org blogs and Patterico's Pontifications
Byron Tau / Politico:
W.H.: Obama sees attack as terrorism
W.H.: Obama sees attack as terrorism
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Weasel Zippers and National Review
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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BuzzFeed:
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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Crooks and Liars, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Reality-Based Community, Gawker and Mediaite
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Roger Simon's Paul Ryan Goes Rogue and Refers to “Stench” Romney Turns Out Was “Satire” (Updated)
Roger Simon's Paul Ryan Goes Rogue and Refers to “Stench” Romney Turns Out Was “Satire” (Updated)
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Politico, Mock, Paper, Scissors and Slate
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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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than 2008 — This morning, surveys from the New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac puts Obama ahead by 10 in Ohio, up by 12 in Pennsylvania, and up by 9 in Florida. — Since the issue of whether the party ID within polling samples …
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Talking Points Memo and Weasel Zippers
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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Hit & Run, The Agonist and Marginal Revolution
Fars News Agency:
American Peace Activists Meet with Iranian President in New York — TEHRAN (FNA)- Members of Veterans For Peace, along with other US peace activists, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. — Addressing the meeting, veterans For Peace President Leah Bolger stressed VFP's commitment …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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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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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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Reuters, Jammie Wearing Fools, The Gateway Pundit, TBogg and The Lonely Conservative
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
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 …
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
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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Newsy and Sense of Events
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
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Giuliani: Obama Should Tell Iran 'I'm Going To Bomb You' — Seeing that Mitt Romney's campaign has struggled to substantively differentiate itself from President Obama's Iran policy, it has turned to strange claims about making the military option in preventing Iran from getting a nuke more “credible.”
Talking Points Memo:
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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Politico, New York Magazine, Associated Press, The Fix and First Draft