memeorandum: Police Search for Jimmy Hoffa's Body in Michigan Driveway (Matthew Jaffe/ABCNEWS)

9:40 AM ET, September 27, 2012

Top Items:

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 …

Discussion: Slate, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast and CNN

Rush Limbaugh:
Don't Let Bogus Polls Depress You

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Doug Ross, his vorpal sword, Nice Deb and Politico

Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Romney Is Flailing in Ohio

Discussion: The Reaction, The Caucus and Reuters

John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
JUICED: PRO-OBAMA POLLS RELY ON RECORD DEM TURNOUT

Discussion: 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

Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Da Tech Guy's Blog

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 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Weekly Standard

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 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

CNN:

Sources: FBI can't get to Benghazi — (CNN) — More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and americanthinker.com

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.

Discussion: New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Politico, The Stranger …, The Caucus and Business Insider

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Romney Campaign Now Says They Probably Won't Do Their Tax Cuts After All

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Firedoglake, The Daily Beast and Brad DeLong

Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Campaign: No, We're Not Backing Off Our Tax Plan

Discussion: Brad DeLong

Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's ‘Them’ Problem

Discussion: The Maddow Blog, Shakesville and The Agonist

CNBC:

Durable Goods Orders Sink Even as Jobless Claims Fall — New durable goods orders in August fell by the most since the recession and a separate reading on the broader U.S. economy came in much weaker than expected. But weekly jobless claims sank to a two-month low, in a hopeful sign for the labor market.

Discussion: Hot Air and americanthinker.com

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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller and Taylor Marsh

Barry Wilner / ABCNEWS:
With Goodell at Table, NFL Ref Talks Heat Up

Discussion: The Agonist

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 …

Discussion: CNN, Scared Monkeys and The Agonist

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 …

Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools and Washington Examiner

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.

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Reaction and The Democratic Daily

Erick Erickson / RedState:
On Polls and Polling — I do not believe the polls are all wrong.

Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air, American Power, HillBuzz.org and GOP 12

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 …

Discussion: The Talking Dog and Guardian

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 …

Discussion: Prairie Weather, Hot Air, Examiner, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway

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.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

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 …

Discussion: Washington Wire and The Buzz Florida Politics Feed

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 …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos

Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:

Romney ‘I Dig It’ Trust Gives Heirs Triple Benefit — In January 1999, a trust set up by Mitt Romney for his children and grandchildren reaped a 1,000 percent return on the sale of shares in Internet advertising firm DoubleClick Inc. — If Romney had given the cash directly …

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.

Discussion: Right Wing News, Questions and Observations, The Agonist and Hullabaloo

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.

Discussion: Addicting Info

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.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney: ‘Pleased With Some Polls, Less So With Other Polls’

Discussion: The Buzz Florida Politics Feed

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:

Study: Twitter view of Akin has not recovered since ‘rape’ comments — One month later, online opinion of Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) has not recovered since his widely condemned remarks about “legitimate rape” in August. — Around 1.5 billion people heard about Akin through that controversial interview …

Discussion: Ballot Box and Prairie Weather

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.

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, New York Post, Algemeiner.com and The Gateway Pundit

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 …

Discussion: Israel Matzav and Algemeiner.com

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

My “mental health” problems, revealed! — Note: Inside baseball. Read at your own peril. — Some folks on Twitter yesterday expressed concern/confusion/dismay over my repeated and pointed attempts to contact both Michelle Malkin and Allah Pundit — with limited success.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money