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James Hohmann / Reuters:
Battleground Poll: Race still tight — The presidential race is tight enough nationally that a strong performance in Wednesday's debate by Mitt Romney could put him in the lead. — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters shows President Barack Obama ahead 49 percent …
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Reuters:
The parallel universe where Mitt leads all polls — To talk with any working Republican political operative these days is to hear the same tale of woe: a grim accounting of the past few weeks, a dash of gallows humor and a measure of hope that President Obama is still beatable.
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rubber hose, ABCNEWS and Booman Tribune
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 30: Romney Down a Touchdown? — You can think of a general election campaign as being divided into four quarters. — The first one consists of the presidential primaries. What matters in this stage is not only who gets nominated, but how well they position themselves for the remainder of the race …
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Washington Post, The Stranger …, National Review, Associated Press and The Moderate Voice
Craig Unger / Salon:
GOP's October surprise? — Source reveals “Jimmy Carter Strategy” to make Obama seem weak on defense in campaign's final month — According to a highly reliable source, as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama prepare for the first presidential debate Wednesday night …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones and The Daily Dish
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Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
A New Course for the Middle East — Restore the three sinews of American influence: our economic strength, our military strength and the strength of our values. — Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered.
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Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice, americanthinker.com, FP Passport, CNN, ABCNEWS, American Prospect, The Fix, The Agonist, Wake up America, Business Insider, The Mahablog, Hot Air, Rumproast, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, The Week, AEIdeas, Washington Monthly, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Fox News Insider
Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Obama vs. Obama at debates — LAS VEGAS — President Barack Obama's most dangerous opponent in the trio of upcoming presidential debates isn't Mitt Romney. — It's himself. — The president has been working on blunting his barbs nearly as much as he's been trying to sharpen …
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
U.S. Gov't Employees Among Top Campaign Contributors to Obama; Bankers Among Top Contributors to Romney — (CNSNews.com) - U.S. government employees and their families have thus far contributed $396,550 to President Barack Obama's reelection campaign, making them one of the top five sources …
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protein wisdom, Weasel Zippers and Instapundit
Felix Salmon:
Victimized billionaires — Why do billionaires feel victimized by Obama? Chrystia Freeland asks that question in the New Yorker this week, and comes back with answers we've all heard before: in short, it's not the policies, it's the rhetoric. — Of course, this doesn't stand up to scrutiny; it never did.
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The Monkey Cage, Brad DeLong and The Daily Beast
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Chrystia Freeland / New Yorker:
SUPER-RICH IRONY … - SPORTS - PHOTO BOOTH - DAILY SHOUTS - PAGE-TURNER - DAILY COMMENT - AMY DAVIDSON - JOHN CASSIDY - ANDY BOROWITZ - RICHARD BRODY
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FT Alphaville, New York Magazine, The Confluence, DealBook and Business Insider
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Paul Ryan Legend Dissipates — Before we discuss our tax plan, I would like to point out that my eyes are extremely blue. — Paul Ryan's selection as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential candidate is subjecting him to all manner of strange new indignities, such as questions about public policy …
Lauren Peterson / Barack Obama:
Brittany: “A face of one of the 47%” — Hello! My name is Brittany and I live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. I am 25 years old (but I will be 26 on October 3rd!). I am a registered Democrat and I have been voting since I was 18. I am one of the 47% of Americans who fall under Mitt Romney's definition …
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National Review and The PJ Tatler
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama uses Down syndrome to hit Romney … In its latest effort to slap Mitt Romney's “47 percent” comment, the Obama campaign on Monday tapped a young woman with Down syndrome to pull at the heartstrings of undecided voters. — The Obama-Biden campaign's web page featured a “letter of the week” …
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Babalú Blog and The Daily Caller
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Real Referendum — Republicans came into this campaign believing that it would be a referendum on President Obama, and that still-high unemployment would hand them victory on a silver platter. But given the usual caveats — a month can be a long time in politics, it's not over until …
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Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather, Paul Krugman, Hullabaloo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
After Obama guidance, Lockheed won't issue layoff notices this year — Lockheed Martin said Monday it will not issue employee layoff notices this year, ending an election-year showdown with the Obama administration. — The company said it based its decision on new guidance issued Friday …
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Politico, Michelle Malkin, Say Anything and Jammie Wearing Fools
Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office — As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) …
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protein wisdom, The Rightnewz, Weasel Zippers, TBogg, Patterico's Pontifications and Jammie Wearing Fools
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
White House Hack Attack — Hackers linked to China's government broke into one of the U.S. government's most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.
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Tim Mak / Politico:
White House confirms cyberattack
ABCNEWS:
Fast and Furious Scandal: New Details Emerge on How the U.S. Government Armed Mexican Drug Cartels — Pools Of Blood On The Streets Of Villas De Salvarcar After A Massacre In Which Operation Fast And Furious Guns Were Allegedly Used (Univision) — On January 30, 2010 …
Journalism.org:
THE EXPLOSION IN MOBILE AUDIENCES AND A CLOSE LOOK AT WHAT IT MEANS FOR NEWS — By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel and Laura Houston Santhanam of PEJ and Leah Christian of the Pew Research Center — SEE THE INFOGRAPHIC OF FINDINGS — TAKE THE FUTURE OF MOBILE NEWS INFOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE
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And / WBUR:
Warren Maintains Narrow Lead In Latest WBUR Senate Poll — Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren prepare for their first debate with moderator Jon Keller on Sept. 20 in Boston. (AP) — BOSTON — The latest WBUR poll of 504 likely voters (PDFs - topline …
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Blue Mass Group, Taegan Goddard's …, Election 2012 and The Fix
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Obama Tops 70 Percent Support Among Latinos — President Barack Obama's already-lofty level of support among Latino voters has reached a new high, according to the latest weekly tracking poll from Latino Decisions released Monday. — The poll shows Obama earning the support of 73 percent …
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Little Green Footballs and Outside the Beltway
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Denies Appeal From Anti-Gay Marriage Group — National Organization for Marriage may be forced to disclose funders in Maine fight. No action yet on Proposition 8, Defense of Marriage Act cases. — Image by Gary Cameron / Reuters — WASHINGTON, D.C. …
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Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Payroll Tax Cut Unlikely to Survive Into Next Year — WASHINGTON — Regardless of who wins the presidential election in November or what compromises Congress strikes in the lame-duck session to keep the economy from automatic tax increases and spending cuts, 160 million American wage earners …
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FT Alphaville, The Caucus, Wonkblog, Outside the Beltway and Taylor Marsh
Johan Nylander / The Swedish Wire:
Women erased from Saudi IKEA catalog — Ikea's catalog is printed in 198 million copies and looks almost the same in 27 languages and in 38 countries. With one big exception. In the Saudi Arabian version of the catalog almost all women have been erased, Swedish newspaper Metro said.
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The Daily Caller, TheBlaze.com, Weasel Zippers, Jammie Wearing Fools and FP Passport
Agence France Presse:
Boko Haram chief issues video threat over anti-Islam film — By by Aminu Abubakar (AFP) - 2 hours ago — KANO, Nigeria — The suspected leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has issued a threat in a YouTube video over a US-made anti-Islam film that has sparked widespread protests in the Muslim world.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
David Shuster / The Huffington Post:
The ‘Live TV’ Suicide: Forgive Shep Smith, But Boycott Buzzfeed … Fox News , General Electric , Shep Smith , Buzzfeed , Car Chase , Journalism Ethics , Live Tv , Media Ethics , Shep Smith Car Chase , Tv Suicide , Media News — In my 23 years in journalism, I've never seen a self-proclaimed …
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National Review and TheBlaze.com
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Another domino falls as Hollande pushes France into depression — If French President François Hollande thinks he can assuage the bond markets by dishing out tax-heavy austerity instead of genuine reform, he has been given very bad advice. — 'Francois Hollande proposes nothing credible …
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Babalú Blog, Angry Bear and National Review
Lee Enterprises / magicvalley.com:
Legislator's Wife Injured in Home Explosion — An Idaho state representative's wife was injured Saturday after a room converted to a gun safe exploded at her home. — Amy Wood, wife of Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, was taken by air ambulance to an unspecified Utah hospital suffering from second-degree burns to her face and hands.
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Crooks and Liars, Suburban Guerrilla, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS
BuzzFeed:
Donald Trump's Libyan Hindsight — He made the case for Libya intervention, now he says he knew all along. Prediction: He will not acknowledge the contradiction. — Andrew Kaczynski — a half hour ago — respond
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