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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 …
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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)
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney, scourge of millionaires
The Morning Plum: Mitt Romney, scourge of millionaires
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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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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
House: U.S. Embassy in Libya asked for extra security, request denied … Vehicle damaged in attack on British Ambassador / House Oversight and Government Reform Committee — House investigators warned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to expect a hearing into their finding that that American staff …
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USA Today:
Shifting Libya attack story raises red flags
Shifting Libya attack story raises red flags
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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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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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Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Key Part of Voter ID Law in Pennsylvania Is Delayed for Election
Key Part of Voter ID Law in Pennsylvania Is Delayed for Election
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Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
Pennsylvania Judge Blocks Voter-ID Law
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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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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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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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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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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Sara R. Collins, Ph.D. / The Commonwealth Fund Blog:
Health Care in the 2012 Presidential Election: How the Obama and Romney Plans Stack Up — Authors: Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Stuart Guterman, M.A., Rachel Nuzum, M.P.H., Mark A. Zezza, Ph.D., Tracy Garber, M.P.H., and Jennie Smith — Overview — With President Obama and Governor Romney …
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Brett Norman / Politico:
Report: Mitt Romney plan leaves 72M uninsured
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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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Stop Pagination Now — Why websites should not make you click and click and click for the full story. — Slate's editorial guidelines call for articles to be split into multiple pages once they hit the 1,000-word mark, so I have to keep this brief: Splitting articles and photo galleries into multiple pages is evil.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Campaign: ‘Vote Like Your Lady Parts Depend On It’ — “Because they kinda do.” — This is posted on an Obama campaign website: — “Vote like your lady parts depend on it,” the text in the image says. Underneath, the text reads: “Because they kinda do.”
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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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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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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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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.