Top Items:
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:
Power Line, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, CNN, National Review, The PJ Tatler, The Daily Caller, First Read and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Tight race nationally as first debate approaches — On the eve of the first presidential debate, President Obama leads or is at parity with Mitt Romney on virtually every major issue and attribute in what remains a competitive general election, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Obama Leads on Expectations - But the Race Itself Stays Close
Obama Leads on Expectations - But the Race Itself Stays Close
Discussion:
National Review, Business Insider, GOP 12, The Page, Mediaite and Jammie Wearing Fools
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.
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 …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, Paul Krugman, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather, Hullabaloo and Lawyers, Guns & Money
RELATED:
Kbh / Keith Hennessey:
The Washington Post's hatchet job on Paul Ryan
The Washington Post's hatchet job on Paul Ryan
Discussion:
Betsy's Page, The Daily Caller, National Review and Washington Post
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:
Salon, The PJ Tatler, Guardian and NewsBusters.org blogs
RELATED:
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Paul Ryan Legend Dissipates
The Paul Ryan Legend Dissipates
Discussion:
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Exclusive: Paul Ryan plays off latest poll numbers, exudes confidence ahead of debates
Exclusive: Paul Ryan plays off latest poll numbers, exudes confidence ahead of debates
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars and PoliticusUSA
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 …
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, CNN, Washington Wire, Sister Toldjah and First Read
RELATED:
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Obama: I'm just an ‘OK’ debater
Obama: I'm just an ‘OK’ debater
Discussion:
Villainous Company, CNN, New York Post and New York Magazine
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 …
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
ABCNEWS and Booman Tribune
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.
RELATED:
Tim Mak / Politico:
White House confirms cyberattack
Michael A. Walsh / New York Post:
Wheels coming off — Team O's Libya dissembling — With a little more than a month to go before a crucial national election, the wheels are coming off the Obama administration's national-security credentials. — The coordinated attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi …
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.
Discussion:
The Daily Dish, Villainous Company and Riehl World News
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 …
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:
The Moderate Voice, GOP 12, Taylor Marsh, PoliticusUSA and Politico
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) …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, TBogg, Patterico's Pontifications and Jammie Wearing Fools
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
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
If Romney's Losing, Why Do the Media Act Like He's Already the President? — At Breitbart.com, Joel B. Pollak makes a powerful case that the media have “treated [Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney as the incumbent,” in the process overlooking any responsibility President Obama may have for the current state of the country.
Discussion:
Instapundit
RELATED:
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
ROMNEY'S CHALLENGE: HE IS ALREADY THE INCUMBENT
ROMNEY'S CHALLENGE: HE IS ALREADY THE INCUMBENT
Discussion:
The Lonely Conservative, Riehl World News, Hot Air, Say Anything and Althouse
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.