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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.
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Weekly Standard, Outside the Beltway and The Back Channel
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 …
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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?
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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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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Favorability Lower Than George W. Bush, Poll Finds
Mitt Romney Favorability Lower Than George W. Bush, Poll Finds
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Examiner and Business Insider
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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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
MSNBC Caught Doctoring Clip From Romney/Ryan Rally
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The PJ Tatler and NewsBusters.org blogs
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 …
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The Atlantic Online, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, Greg's Opinion and AMERICAblog
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.
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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 …
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 …
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Mother Jones, Democratic Strategist, Los Angeles Times, The Moderate Voice, The Mahablog and Crooks and Liars
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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The Daily Caller, Politico, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, American Power, Hot Air and nation.foxnews.com
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Kerry, Rice position themselves on Benghazi attack
Kerry, Rice position themselves on Benghazi attack
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The Moderate Voice and ABCNEWS
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 …
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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 …
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The Jawa Report and Instapundit
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
M.T.A. Amends Rules After Pro-Israel Ads Draw Controversy
M.T.A. Amends Rules After Pro-Israel Ads Draw Controversy
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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.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Corrente and The Raw Story
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Webb drops the hammer on Romney — Jim Webb's departures from party orthodoxy are frequent. As recently as last November, the retiring Virginia Democratic senator was reluctant to commit to campaigning for President Barack Obama. — So Webb's bladework today on Mitt Romney was as unexpected as it was memorable.
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The Maddow Blog, The Daily Dish, Election 2012 and The Reality-Based Community
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 …
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The Moderate Voice and LAWSONRY
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.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Poetic Justice of Romney's Self-Immolation — A stake through the heart. — I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again, but I may never have been as wrong as I was when I initially predicted that Mitt Romney's heinous diatribe against 47 percent of America would have little direct impact on the election.
Roger Simon / Politico:
Mitt Romney: King of comedy — It is time to cut Mitt Romney some slack. It is wrong to criticize him until you've walked a mile in his living room. — That last line was a joke that someone posted on Twitter. Jokes have power. When a politician makes a joke, he can make a point …
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Dems Darken Image of Black Republican House Candidate — A printed mailer sent out by the Utah Democratic party features what appears to be a darkened photo of Republican House candidate Mia Love. Below is the image of the mailer: — Here's the original photograph, in color:
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Elizabeth Warren 2002 - Working on at least 10 private legal matters — Defenders of Elizabeth Warren's failure to obtain a Massachusetts law license have argued that Warren did not operate an office for the practice of law or maintain a systematic and continuous presence in Massachusetts …
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americanthinker.com, Riehl World News and Wonkette
Los Angeles Times:
Art stolen from Jeffrey Gundlach is recovered; 2 arrested — On a tip, police find most of Gundlach's $10-million art collection at an automobile stereo shop in Pasadena and the last piece at a Glendale home. — This week, bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach offered a near-record $1.7-million reward …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Austerity Madness — So much for complacency. Just a few days ago, the conventional wisdom was that Europe finally had things under control. The European Central Bank, by promising to buy the bonds of troubled governments if necessary, had soothed markets.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama eCard for Women: ‘Can I Borrow $18,000 to Help Pay for My Birth Control?’ — The Obama campaign has created a series of electronic greeting card aimed at women voters. “President Obama summed up the Republican Party's approach to women's health when he said 'they want to take us …
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