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9:40 AM ET, October 1, 2012

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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 …
Discussion: National Review
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Leads on Expectations - But the Race Itself Stays Close  —  Registered voters by 2-1 think Barack Obama will win the upcoming presidential debates and go on to prevail in the November election.  But expectations aside, the race remains close, with strengths and vulnerabilities for both candidates in the campaign ahead.
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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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Obama: I'm just an ‘OK’ debater  —  Las Vegas - Barack Obama wants you to know that he's a really not so great as a debater.  —  As part of his week-long effort to lower expectations ahead of Wednesday's first Obama-Romney debate in Denver - an obligatory ritual even the campaigns find tiresome …
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Aurora survivor offers debate topic
Discussion: CNN
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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Kbh / Keith Hennessey:
The Washington Post's hatchet job on Paul Ryan  —  Today's Washington Post contains an election-season hatchet job on Paul Ryan by reporter Lori Montgomery, “Amid debt crisis, Paul Ryan sat on the sidelines.”  I would expect a story like this on the Newsweek or Huffington Post sites …
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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) …
NY Daily News:
Lindsay Lohan tussles with congressional staffer in Manhattan hotel room over cellphone photos, tells cops he choked her  —  California man Christian LaBella initially arrested and charged with assault and harassment in W Hotel Union Square scuffle, but now both of them are facing charges.
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.
BuzzFeed:
How The Economy Collapsed (As a Political Issue)  —  Republicans and Democrats no longer have the same facts.  It's the perceptual bias, stupid.  —  Via: people-press.org  —  The big issue of the 2012 election — the American economy — has been settled.
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.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Media Equation: Challenging the Claims of Media Bias - the Media Equation  —  In the last few days, conservatives have become agitated about Mitt Romney's drop-off in the polls.  So did they think the stumble was because of the ill-fated “47 percent” slip of the lip …
BBC:
Historian Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95  —  Eric Hobsbawm joined the Communist Party aged 14  —  Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95, his family have confirmed.  —  He died in the early hours of Monday morning at the Royal Free Hospital in London …
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Esther Addley / Guardian:   Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95
Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
Dispatch Poll: Brown opens lead on Mandel  —  Incumbent Democrat leading in almost all demographic sectors  —  Ohio's U.S. Senate race has gone from a dead heat to a double-digit lead for incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown in the Dispatch Poll.  —  The first-term senator …
Discussion: Politico and The Argo Journal
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Gallup:
Obama Beats Romney as Better for Middle-Income Americans  —  Candidates are tied in perceptions of who would most benefit small-business owners  —  PRINCETON, NJ — More Americans believe middle-income earners would be better off in four years if President Barack Obama is re-elected than if Mitt Romney wins, by 53% to 43%.
Discussion: GOP 12, Politico and PoliticusUSA
Liz Alderman / New York Times:
Right-Wing Extremists' Popularity Rising Rapidly in Greece  —  ATHENS — The video, which went viral in Greece last month, shows about 40 burly men, led by Giorgos Germenis, a lawmaker with the right-wing Golden Dawn party, marching through a night market in the town of Rafina demanding that dark-skinned merchants show permits.
Reuters:
Mitt Romney advisers clash over Libya  —  Instead, the Republican ticket will leave calls for an investigation to Capitol Hill, where both Republicans and Democrats have complained about the briefings they have received.  “Let Congress do it: It's a bipartisan thing, and that's a better place for us to be,” a Romney adviser said.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
What will be this year's October surprise?  —  October, the month of political surprises, has arrived.  —  From Henry Kissinger's 1972 “peace is at hand” declaration to Mark Foley's 2006 sex scandal to the Wall Street bailout of 2008, U.S. elections have a long and colorful history …
Discussion: Politico
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
NBC's David Gregory Misquotes Obama, Falsely Claims President Said ‘Al Qaeda Has Been Defeated’  —  This morning on Meet The Press, David Gregory twice asserted that, in May, President Obama declared that “al Qaeda has been defeated.”  Gregory used that claim to advance a theory that Obama …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and The Raw Story
 
 
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Sayed Salahuddin / Washington Post:
Three NATO soldiers killed in Afghan suicide bombing
Reuters:
The parallel universe where Mitt leads all polls
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Danny Hakim / New York Times:
With New Delays, a Growing Sense That Gov. Andrew Cuomo Will Not Approve Gas Drilling
Discussion: ANIMAL, Politicker and Prairie Weather
Sheldon Alberts / Ballot Box:
The Hill Poll: Voters switch, saying Obama is set to win second term
Owen Jones / The Independent:
Whatever happened to the Labour Party?
Discussion: Spectator, Guardian and The Agonist
Angela Couloumbis / Philly.com:
Pa. judge backs most of voter ID law
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Thomas Grove / Reuters:
Azerbaijan eyes aiding Israel against Iran
Discussion: Algemeiner.com and Via Meadia
 Earlier Items: 
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Philips pulls presidential debate sponsorship
Discussion: Say Anything
Helen Murphy / Reuters:
Chavez to Obama: I'd vote for you, and you for me
Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
Riverside County GOP registration surge raises questions of fraud
CBS News:
Arnold married same-sex couples while Calif. gov.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and The Raw Story
Josh White / Washington Post:
Lee Boyd Malvo, 10 years after D.C. area sniper shootings: ‘I was a monster’
Discussion: New York Magazine
 

 
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