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Quinnipiac University:
Women Give Obama An Edge Over Romney, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds Likely Voters Pick President To Win Debate 2-1 — Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results — Clip Information and Download: — FLV File - For Website (1920x1080 / 66.3MB)
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Allison Sherry / Denver Post:
Mitt Romney would honor Obama administration's illegal immigrant work permits — Young illegal immigrants who receive temporary work permits to stay in the United States under an executive order issued by President Barack Obama would not be deported under a Mitt Romney administration …
Ed Fischer / CBS Philly:
Judge Rules Photo ID Won't Be Required For Pennsylvania Voters This Year — HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) — A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge has ruled that the state's controversial new voter ID law will stand, but voters without a valid picture ID card will still be able to cast their vote and have it counted this November.
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The Rightnewz, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Gateway Pundit
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
UPDATED: Pennsylvania Court Hands Down Partial Victory Over Voter ID
UPDATED: Pennsylvania Court Hands Down Partial Victory Over Voter ID
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Crooks and Liars
Angela Couloumbis / Philly.com:
Pa. court rules voters can cast regular ballots without ID
Pa. court rules voters can cast regular ballots without ID
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rubber hose, Eschaton and The Hinterland Gazette
Sterling Beard / Ballot Box:
Judge rules Pennsylvania voter ID law can't be enforced for this year's election
Judge rules Pennsylvania voter ID law can't be enforced for this year's election
Marc Levy / Associated Press:
Judge halts Pa.'s tough new voter ID requirement
Judge halts Pa.'s tough new voter ID requirement
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Firedoglake, Election Law Blog, Wonkette, The Maddow Blog, Mother Jones and ABCNEWS
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
The Flaws That Will Bring Down Obama's Health-Care Plan — The debate over President Barack Obama's health-care law has taken another twist. Now conservatives and libertarians are defending it, while the administration tries to toss part of the legislation out.
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Althouse
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Sara R. Collins, Ph.D. / The Commonwealth Fund Blog:
Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election: How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up
Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election: How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN and New York Magazine
Brett Norman / Politico:
Report: Mitt Romney plan leaves 72M uninsured
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Bombed Twice in Run-Up to 9/11 Anniversary — Jihadists twice set off explosives at the consulate prior to the incident that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and announced threats on Facebook about escalating attacks on Western targets in the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary …
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Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, The Daily Beast, Mediaite, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Scott Brown Shot Himself In The Foot During Debate With Elizabeth Warren — Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren covered her face as the crowd booed her challenger, Republican Scott Brown. Brown had just hailed Justice Antonin Scalia as his “model” Supreme Court justice …
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Crooks and Liars, AEIdeas and Suburban Guerrilla
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David Catanese / Politico:
In debate, Scott Brown veers away from GOP
In debate, Scott Brown veers away from GOP
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Taylor Marsh and CNN
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Polls Raise Chance of Electoral College Tie — As of Monday's FiveThirtyEight forecast, there were 21 states that Barack Obama was projected to have at least an 85 percent chance of winning on Nov. 6. The list includes three important states, Ohio, Wisconsin and New Hampshire …
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Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and Prairie Weather
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Crossroads launches $16 million buy in Senate, presidential contests — American Crossroads and its affiliate Crossroads GPS are going up today with their biggest paid media push so far in the 2012 cycle, with a $16 million one-week buy on TV and radio in eight presidential battlegrounds and four Senate contests, POLITICO has learned.
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CNN, Post on Politics, American Crossroads and Taegan Goddard's …
Fox News:
2 US Border agents shot, 1 killed, near major drug corridor in Arizona — DEVELOPING: Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot, one fatally, Tuesday morning in an area in south Arizona known as a major drug-smuggling corridor, authorities said. — The identities of the agents were not immediately released …
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The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Infowars, The Hinterland Gazette and Scared Monkeys
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Can Romney turn this contest around? — In baseball, a game without a clock, each player on a team that is behind by a bunch of runs is advised to “stay within yourself.” That baseball lingo means: Do not try to do too much. Instead, get 'em on, get 'em over, get 'em in. There are no five-run home runs.
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The Hinterland Gazette, Mediaite and Balloon Juice
Dennis Romboy / Deseret News:
Latest poll: Mia Love pulls ahead of Jim Matheson in 4th District race — SALT LAKE CITY — Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love has overcome a double-digit deficit to overtake Rep. Jim Matheson in Utah's hotly contested 4th Congressional District, the latest Deseret News/KSL poll shows.
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Weekly Standard, Reuters, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Hotline On Call and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Are You Kidding Me? Romney's Garbage Man Blasts Him In New Political Ad — A new anti-Mitt Romney ad from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees features Richard Hayes, the garbageman who deals with the Romneys' trash at their oceanfront mansion in La Jolla, California.
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The PJ Tatler, The Moderate Voice, Right Wing News, The Impolitic, National Review and The Huffington Post
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Leaders at Work on Plan to Avert Mandatory Cuts — WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach agreement on a comprehensive deficit reduction deal rather than a short-term solution.
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Firedoglake, Wonkblog, Economix, Business Insider, americanthinker.com, EconLog and Paul Krugman
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart Tears Into Obama Admin's Contradictory, Uncoordinated Response To Libya Attack — The recent White House debacle surrounding the Libya attack spurred Jon Stewart to unveil a new segment on Monday night: “Do You Guys Ever Talk To Each Other Or...” (The apparent answer would be a decided “no.")
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nation.foxnews.com, CBS Philly and The Raw Story
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Is Leading in Swing States — Across most of the presidential battleground states, particularly in the Midwest, President Obama's lead rests on a surprisingly strong performance among blue-collar white women who usually tilt toward the GOP. — A National Journal analysis …
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Washington Monthly, The Mahablog and Hullabaloo
New York Times:
U.S. Scales Back Plans for Afghan Peace — KABUL, Afghanistan — With the surge of American troops over and the Taliban still a potent threat, American generals and civilian officials acknowledge that they have all but written off what was once one of the cornerstones of their strategy to end the war here …
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Daniel W. Drezner, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Riehl World News and Prairie Weather
weaskamerica.com:
Horse races — We wrap up our latest round of polls with Missouri and Nevada. — Missouri — NOTE: A reader just let us know that we originally misspelled Todd Akin's name. It has been corrected, and we apologize for the error. — The Show Me State has shown America a fair amount of political upheaval in the last 12 months.
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The Argo Journal and Taegan Goddard's …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Debate Moderators Are Subject to Partisan Rancor — When Jim Lehrer takes the stage in Denver on Wednesday night, the tens of millions of people watching will see the same imperturbable voice of reason they have come to know in his quarter century as the country's go-to referee for the presidential debates.
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New York Times:
Bain's Offshore Strategies Grew Romneys' Wealth — Buried deep in the tax returns released by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign are references to dozens of offshore holdings with names like Ursa Funding (Luxembourg) S.à.r.l. and Sankaty Credit Opportunities Investors (Offshore) IV, based in the Cayman Islands.
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Daily Kos, DealBook and The Reaction
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Ralph Reed's Group: An Obama Victory Means “He Can Complete America's Destruction” — The nonprofit run by the ex-Christian Coalition leader blankets voters with grab-bag of right-wing Obama hatred. — Last week, Mother Jones reported on a controversial mailer from the Faith and Freedom Coalition …
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The Daily Dish, Balloon Juice and Crooks and Liars
Politico:
10 quotes that haunt Barack Obama — Ahead in the polls, looking strong in key swing states: This must be exactly what Barack Obama dreamed his reelection campaign would look like, five weeks from Election Day and on the eve of the first debate. — But, as the president and his team well know …
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Questions and Observations
Michael Burleigh / Telegraph:
Eric Hobsbawm: A believer in the Red utopia to the very end — The grotesque facts never got in the way of Eric Hobsbawm's devotion to communism — Eric Hobsbawm dogmatically refused to accept that the Bolshevik Revolution had been a murderous failure — A few decades ago I almost …
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New York Times, Spectator, Ed Driscoll and Guardian