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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
6 Conservatives Who Think The Media Is Fixing The Polls For Obama — With six weeks until Election Day, new polling from Quinnipiac, the New York Times and CBS News shows President Obama leading in crucial swing states including Ohio, Florida and Iowa. As Obama's lead grows …
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Slate, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast and CNN
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Rush Limbaugh:
Don't Let Bogus Polls Depress You — RUSH: Folks, there are a couple of polls out there today that are just outrageous. One is the CBS/New York Times poll. The other is the Washington Post poll. I'm telling you: They are irresponsible. They are designed to do exactly what I have warned …
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Weekly Standard, Doug Ross, his vorpal sword, Nice Deb and Politico
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Romney Is Flailing in Ohio
Romney Is Flailing in Ohio
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The Reaction, The Caucus and Reuters
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
JUICED: PRO-OBAMA POLLS RELY ON RECORD DEM TURNOUT
JUICED: PRO-OBAMA POLLS RELY ON RECORD DEM TURNOUT
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The Daily Caller, Doug Ross, Israpundit, Da Tech Guy's Blog, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Matthew Sheffield / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Quinnipiac Pollster Admits: ‘Probably Unlikely’ That Electorate Will Feature Massive Dem Skew
Quinnipiac Pollster Admits: ‘Probably Unlikely’ That Electorate Will Feature Massive Dem Skew
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The PJ Tatler and Da Tech Guy's Blog
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, The Daily Beast and Brad DeLong
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney camp goes all in on ad touting concern for ordinary Americans — A Democrat familiar with ad buy information tells me that starting Friday, the new ad the Romney campaign rolled out today will begin airing at full throttle in all of Romney's media markets in nine swing states, and it will be the only Romney ad running in them.
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New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Politico, The Stranger …, The Caucus and Business Insider
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign: No, We're Not Backing Off Our Tax Plan
Romney Campaign: No, We're Not Backing Off Our Tax Plan
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Brad DeLong
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's ‘Them’ Problem
Mitt Romney's ‘Them’ Problem
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The Maddow Blog, Shakesville and The Agonist
BuzzFeed:
Sorry, But Mitt Romney's Nickname Is Not “The Stench”
Sorry, But Mitt Romney's Nickname Is Not “The Stench”
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Wall Street Journal:
The Libya Debacle — The more we learn, the more Benghazi looks like a gross security failure. — In his United Nations speech on Tuesday, President Obama talked about the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya and declared that “there should be no doubt that we will be relentless …
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Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
From video to terrorist attack: a definitive timeline of administration statements on the Libya attack — “We are still doing an investigation.” — In any kind of confused overseas event, initial reports are often wrong. But the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi …
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The Daily Caller
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Defiant Romney: 'I'm going to win Ohio, become the next president' — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday he was unconcerned by new polls that showed him trailing by double digits in the crucial swing state of Ohio, and pledged that he would win both the state and the presidency.
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Politico, CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Reaction and The Democratic Daily
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
On Polls and Polling — I do not believe the polls are all wrong.
On Polls and Polling — I do not believe the polls are all wrong.
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Mediaite, Hot Air, American Power, HillBuzz.org and GOP 12
Associated Press:
Refs due back Thursday night — NEW YORK — So long, replacement refs. The NFL's regular crews will be back on the field starting Thursday night. — After two days of marathon negotiations — and mounting frustration among coaches, players and fans — the NFL and the referees' union announced …
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americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller and Taylor Marsh
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Polling Alternative Plans Expansion — Dean Chambers, the man behind Unskewedpolls.com, looks to “unskew” the media and politics. His numbers have given Republicans “a boost of confidence.” — Chambers designed this graphic for his blog to demonstrate why he believes …
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Hot Air, Examiner, Business Insider, Crooks and Liars and Outside the Beltway
Philip Dorling / Sydney Morning Herald:
US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’ — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses a UN in event in New York via video link from the Ecuadorian embassy in London. — THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States - the same legal category …
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The Talking Dog, Guardian and CANNONFIRE
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
WATCH: Samuel L. Jackson debuts profanity-laced pro-Obama ad — He's hoping this scary bedtime story will make you run to the polls. — Samuel L. Jackson, whose video reading of the book “Go the F—k to Sleep” went viral on the Internet, is releasing a pro-Obama ad today in the spirit of Dr. Seuss …
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Jammie Wearing Fools and Washington Examiner
Matthew Jaffe / ABCNEWS:
Police Search for Jimmy Hoffa's Body in Michigan Driveway — “Where is Jimmy Hoffa's body?” is a question that has spawned thousands of theories. Now, one Michigan police chief believes a break in the famous cold case could be close at hand. — James Berlin, the police chief in Roseville …
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CNN, Scared Monkeys and The Agonist
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
AP editor cites Bachmann fact-checking ‘quota’ — Fourteenth in a series of endless, tireless, exhaustive, hairsplitting, obsessive, resounding, never-before-attempted and conclusive posts on the fact-checking industry. — In a panel of fact-checking all-stars this morning at the National Press Club …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
Shira Toeplitz / Roll Call:
DCCC Moving TV Resources to More Competitive Races — House Democrats shifted resources away from six races as the party continues to move money to more promising targets. — According to two sources who monitor ad buys, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee cut its reservations …
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Washington Wire and The Buzz Florida Politics Feed
Tim Graham / NewsBusters.org blogs:
CNN and MSNBC Pundit Arrested for Vandalizing Anti-Muslim Ad In N.Y. Subway System — The New York Post reported Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy has been arrested for defacing an anti-Muslim ad in the New York subway system. The video shows her spraying pink paint on the ad while a supporter of the ad tries to block her.
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The Lonely Conservative, New York Post, Algemeiner.com and The Gateway Pundit
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
US ECONOMY GREW 1.3 PERCENT IN SECOND QUARTER — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at an even more sluggish pace in the April-June quarter than previously believed as farm production in the Midwest was reduced by a severe drought. — The overall economy grew at an annual rate …
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CNBC, GOP 12 and americanthinker.com
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama's two-minute, direct-to-camera ad — In a new commercial that has the feeling of a closing argument, President Barack Obama outlines a four-point agenda to restore “economic patriotism,” moving to crystallize a positive economic message for the last weeks of the campaign.
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Taylor Marsh
George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
“Questionable” Palm Beach County voter registration forms forwarded to state attorney for review — The Republican Party of Florida is dumping a firm it paid more than $1.3 million to register new voters, after Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Susan Bucher flagged 106 “questionable” …
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Talking Points Memo, Salon, The Impolitic and Naked Politics
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day — “Frankly at this early stage, polls go up, polls go down.” — Mitt Romney, quoted by ABC News, apparently not aware the election is 41 days away.
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney: ‘Pleased With Some Polls, Less So With Other Polls’
Mitt Romney: ‘Pleased With Some Polls, Less So With Other Polls’
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The Buzz Florida Politics Feed
Nina Chestney / Reuters:
100 mln will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate - report — (Reuters) - More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday.
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Questions and Observations, Pirate's Cove, The Agonist and Hullabaloo
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Sex scandal hits PA on eve of statehood bid — Abbas instructs PA security forces to put on hold investigation into sex scandal involving Palestinian minister until he returns from NY. — PA President Mahmoud Abbas refused to open an investigation into a sex scandal involving …
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Israel Matzav and Algemeiner.com
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Illinois Court Permits Religious Pharmacists To Refuse To Dispense Emergency Contraception — An Illinois appeals court upheld a ruling Friday that exempted pharmacists with religious objections from prescribing emergency contraceptives, finding that the medical professionals were protected by state law.
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