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6:30 PM ET, September 28, 2012

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Fars News Agency:
Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama  —  TEHRAN (FNA)- According to the results of a Gallup poll released Monday, the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than US President Barack Obama.
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Iranian news agency duped by Onion  —  No joke.  Iran's semi-official government news agency on Friday picked up a bogus poll story by The Onion that said a majority of rural white Americans would rather go to a baseball game with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than President Barack Obama.
Politico:
In the end, it's Mitt  —  It isn't the chair or the ho-hum convention.  Or the leaked video.  Or Stuart Stevens.  Or the improving economy.  Or media bias.  Or distorted polls.  Or the message.  Or Mormonism.  —  It's Mitt.  —  With Republicans everywhere wondering what has happened …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Whose Idea Was It to Nominate Romney, Anyway?  —  In what you might regard as an unhealthy sign for Mitt Romney's campaign prospects, conservatives have turned to debating the question of who is to blame for nominating this man in the first place.  Arch-conservatives Erick Erickson …
Becket Adams / TheBlaze.com:
ANOTHER MSNBC SCANDAL?  BLAZE READERS AT CAMPAIGN EVENT CLAIM NETWORK MISLED IN VIDEO OF RALLY CHANT (WITH AUDIO COMPARISON)  —  On Wednesday, MSNBC aired a clip of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leading what looks like a failed “Romney-Ryan” chant at a campaign stop in Ohio on Tuesday …
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Caught Doctoring Clip From Romney/Ryan Rally … This breaking story comes straight from The Blaze.  —  A clip from a recent Romney/Ryan rally has recently been played over and over at MSNBC highlighting what appears to be an embarrassing moment on the campaign trail for Governor Romney.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 27: The Impact of the ‘47 Percent’  —  After a secretly-recorded videotape was released on Sept. 17, showing Mitt Romney making unflattering comments about the “47 percent” of Americans whom he said had become dependent on government benefits, I suggested on Twitter that the political impact …
Talking Points Memo:
Todd Akin Suggests Employers Should Be Able To Pay Women Less  —  Todd Akin appeared to endorse allowing employers to pay women less than men at a town hall on Thursday.  —  Gender discrimination in compensation has been illegal in the United States since the passage of the 1963 Equal Pay Act.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wonkette
Elspeth Reeve / The Atlantic Wire:
Just How Racist Is the ‘Obama Phone’ Video?  —  There was a video leading the Drudge Report on Thursday afternoon of a poor black woman with messed-up teeth saying she's voting for President Obama because he gave her a free phone, and perhaps you have some questions about it.  Questions like: Is this video racist?
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Go large, Mitt  —  In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system.  Barack Obama handled it coolly.  John McCain did not.  Obama won the presidency.  (Given the country's condition, he would have won anyway.  But this sealed it.)
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First Read:
First Thoughts: After nine battleground polls
Tom Benning / Trail Blazers Blog:
George W. Bush posts better favorability ratings than Mitt Romney in new Bloomberg survey  —  Former President George W. Bush smiles as he arrives on the 18th hole at the end of the Bush Center's Warrior Open golf tournament this week in Irving.  (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Andrew Goldman / New York Times:   John Sununu's a Teddy Bear
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Akin consultant compares his fortitude to cult-leader David Koresh  —  • BY KEVIN McDERMOTT > kmcdermott@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8268  —  UPDATE 1:48 p.m.: Akin spokesman Ryan Hite has responded with a one-line written statement: “It was a stupid comment to make.”
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Bloomberg:
Obama Cabinet Flunks Disclosure Test With 19 in 20 Ignoring Law  —  On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama ordered federal officials to “usher in a new era of open government” and “act promptly” to make information public.  —  As Obama nears the end of his term …
Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation  —  A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns.  It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part …
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Attackers Bragged to Qaeda Bosses  —  Conversations monitored by U.S. intelligence show Ansar al-Sharia jihadists boasted to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and others—more evidence the assault was not a spontaneous reaction to the anti-Muslim video.
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Kerry, Rice position themselves on Benghazi attack
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ABCNEWS
Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
NYC PROHIBITS CONTROVERSIAL SUBWAY ADS IN WAKE OF ISLAMIST'S VANDALISM  —  Just one day after an Islamic activist attempted to cover over private property in spray paint (and a woman who got in her way), the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York has announced they will amend their rules …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Instapundit
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Million Wingnut March  —  There's been a steadily building discussion, albeit shrouded in some mystery, about the potential impact on Election Day (and to some extent, before it) of right-wing “volunteer poll watchers” who are promising to descend on minority neighborhoods to make sure …
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Romney's Plan to Win Virginia: Lyme Disease  —  On Thursday evening, Anahita Nemat, a conservative PR specialist living in Northern Virginia, tweeted out this photo, with the description: “Received my first mailer from @MittRomney & @PaulRyanVP today.  It talks about Lyme Disease.  Huh?  I'm confused!
Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast:
With ‘Dreams From My Real Father,’ Have Obama Haters Hit Rock Bottom?  —  A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham, the president's late mother, is being mailed to swing-state voters.  A look at the film and Dinesh D'Souza's book, Obama's America.  —  So this is what it's come to.
Susan Taylor Martin / Tampa Bay Times:
Friend of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan pleads guilty to campaign violations  —  In a stunning development just weeks before the November election, one of U.S. Rep Vern Buchanan's longtime friends and another man pleaded guilty Thursday to making illegal campaign contributions.
Emily Anne Epstein / Daily Mail:
Pictured: The ‘beautiful’ family slain hours after church by ‘mentally ill father tormented by the prospect of Obama winning the election’  — Albert, Kathleen, Mathew and Christopher Peterson were found dead Tuesday in their Herndon, Virginia home  — A friend of the family …
CNN:
Romney, Obama speak with Netanyahu  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone on Friday, the day after the Israeli leader publicly urged the international community to draw a …
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Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Obama, Netanyahu Discuss Iran in Phone Call
Miranda Leitsinger / U.S. News:
US immigration chief: Same-sex ties are family ties  —  Same-sex couples will be considered “family relationships” in immigration proceedings, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a move that could help stem the deportation of those in gay or lesbian binational relationships.
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Inside The Planning Of A James O'Keefe “Sting”  —  The conservative provocateur planned a sting of SEIU in 2010 — based off information from a source of John Fund's, with Foster Friess as a potential investor.  It didn't end up working out.  (Updated below)  —  Source: images.politico.com
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
What Cutting Medicaid Means: A Personal Story  —  TNR readers are familiar with Harold Pollack, the University of Chicago professor who writes frequently about health care and social policy.  Like all good public intellectuals, Harold is a policy omnivore—as comfortable discussing …
Discussion: The Agonist and Hullabaloo
ThinkProgress:
Explaining Today's Great Jobs News  —  Our guest blogger is Heather Boushey, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress Action Fund.  —  New data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the private-sector added 450,000 more jobs as of March 2012 than previously thought.
Sjones / CNSNews:
Katie Couric Voted ‘The Worst Reporter in History of Man’  —  (CNSNews.com) - At the Media Research Center's 25th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night, former CBS News anchor Katie Couric was voted “The Worst Reporter in the History of Man.”  —  Couric barely edged out fellow former CBS News anchor Dan Rather.
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: 2012 Debates— This Is It, Mitt  —  How Romney can make the most of his face-off with Obama.  —  “Governor, the success or failure of your entire presidential campaign will come down to what happens between the hours of 9 and 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3.  We're at a hinge point in history.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Rep. West features opponent's mug shot in harsh television ad  —  Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) released a biting new ad in the battle to keep his House seat that features a mug shot of his opponent while showing the lawmaker serving in the Army.  —  The 30-second spot compares what West …
Discussion: Reuters and Election 2012
 
 
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Andy Newman / City Room:
Dolphin Stranded in Queens Dies After Attempts to Save It
Discussion: ANIMAL and New York Magazine
Young Professionals / foreignpolicyi.org:
FPI National Survey: Foreign Policy Matters in 2012
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Muslims in Michigan to Rally Against First Amendment
Discussion: Detroit News and Weasel Zippers
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Couples who share the housework are more likely to divorce, study finds
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Billionaire Soros pledges $1.5 mln to Democratic ‘Super PACs’
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Los Angeles Times:
Art stolen from Jeffrey Gundlach is recovered; 2 arrested
David J. Lynch / Bloomberg:
Wealthy Americans Gain Even as Republicans Decry Redistribution
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: 79 percent say all Americans should pay income taxes
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Austerity Madness
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Webb drops the hammer on Romney
Roger Simon / Politico:
Mitt Romney: King of comedy
Discussion: CNN, Rumproast, Mediaite and TheBlaze.com