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CNN:
CNN Poll: Big shifts on role of government — Denver (CNN) - Hours before the first debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, a showdown that will focus on domestic issues, a new national survey indicates that Americans have undergone some major changes …
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Outside the Beltway, Politico and p m carpenter's commentary
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CNN:
Conservative media coordinates on release of old Obama video — (CNN) - On the eve of the first presidential debate, conservative media outlets seized on footage of a five-year-old, widely covered speech by then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, who argued at the time that the federal …
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Politico, The Reaction, Balloon Juice and The Spectacle Blog
David Weigel / Slate:
About That New, Secret Obama Tape... On June 5, 2007, Tucker Carlson told viewers of his MSNBC show — Tucker, which was a really underrated show, actually — that struggling presidential candidate Barack Obama had given a shockingly race-tinged speech. — “Barack was talking about a quiet riot today,” said Carlson.
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Politico, Fox News, Mediaite, Daily Kos and p m carpenter's commentary
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller Doesn't Even Blink, Just Keeps Hyping Absurd ‘BOMBSHELL’ Video
Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller Doesn't Even Blink, Just Keeps Hyping Absurd ‘BOMBSHELL’ Video
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ABCNEWS, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Moderate Voice
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Daily Caller Video, President Obama and the Race-Obsessed Right
The Daily Caller Video, President Obama and the Race-Obsessed Right
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The Daily Dish, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Instapundit, Althouse and Outside the Beltway
Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed:
Akin's Campaign Stands By Claim Of Abortions On Women Who “Are Not Actually Pregnant” — Cites “ample evidence” of doctors deceiving women into thinking they're pregnant. Another detour in to women's health in the still-competitive Missouri race. — Image by Jeff Roberson / AP
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Little Green Footballs and The Raw Story
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Rasmussen Reports:
Missouri Senate: McCaskill (D) 51%, Akin (R) 45%
Missouri Senate: McCaskill (D) 51%, Akin (R) 45%
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Washington Examiner, Public Policy Polling, The Argo Journal and atr.rollcall.com
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Sen. McCaskill raises $5.8M, expands lead
Sen. McCaskill raises $5.8M, expands lead
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Politico and Hotline On Call
Patterico's Pontifications:
Newly Unearthed Obama Video: “Rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn't they be? They've got what they want." — In the wake of the Daily Caller's release of President Obama cheering Rev. Wright and invoking the race card in various ways, our friend Morgen Richmond decided …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Republicans Fret Over Obama Tape Resurrection — A video lights up the conservative media. An effective hit, or a distraction for the GOP nominee on his big night? — DENVER — Tuesday night's Drudge-led revival of a 2007 Barack Obama speech offered satisfaction to a core of conservatives …
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The Moderate Voice, Mediaite, The Hill, AMERICAblog, Daily Kos, Riehl World News, Rumproast, Election 2012 and Taylor Marsh
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Drudge — For years, I was a big reader of Drudge. Was never a fan of Drudge, though I recognized his entrepreneurial acumen. In fact, I despised most everything that he stood for, from rancid politics to integrity free journalism, the endless lying. But I visited the site ALL THE TIME.
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Crooks and Liars and The Moderate Voice
M.L. Nestel / The Daily:
Restaurant worker goes wide-eyed for Mitt at Denver Chipotle — The eyes have it for Marty Arps, right, as he meets Mitt Romney at a Chipotle restaurant in Denver. — Call the Secret Service, Mitt Romney just got photo-bombed. — A restaurant manager at a Chipotle in Denver …
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The Impolitic, Mediaite, Election 2012, Gawker, Towleroad News #gay and Business Insider
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney's 'you didn't build that' attack: An epic FAIL — Others have touched on this already, but it really deserves highlighting here, too. Check this out, from the new NBC/WSJ poll: … Romney built much of his convention around Obama's “you didn't build that” comments, but only 32 percent were impacted negatively by them.
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Politico, The Maddow Blog, AMERICAblog, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
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Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: President Obama Considered Putting Osama bin Laden on Trial if Taken Alive … In an adaptation from his new book, The Finish—first reported for Vanity Fair—magazine contributing editor Mark Bowden reveals that President Obama intended to put Osama bin Laden on trial …
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Examiner, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, The Raw Story, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler and AEIdeas
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Sensitive documents left behind at American mission in Libya — BENGHAZI, Libya — More than three weeks after attacks in this city killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, sensitive documents remained only loosely secured in the remains of the U.S. mission here on Wednesday …
BuzzFeed:
Restless Romney Braces For High-Stakes Debate — A sleepless night in Denver. — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters — DENVER, Colo. — The Romney campaign is spending the hours ahead of Wednesday night's high-stakes presidential debate going through all the traditional motions …
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Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
nbcconnecticut.com:
State Supreme Court Tosses Sex Assault Conviction — The state Supreme Court has thrown out the conviction of a Bridgeport man who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a severely handicapped woman. — Justices ruled, 4-3, that despite evidence that the 26-year-old woman cannot speak …
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The Raw Story, Wonkette and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:
MSNBC President Phil Griffin on Whom He'd Poach From Fox News and Why Obama Avoids the Network (Q&A) — “We are not going to do an easy interview, and President Obama knows it,” he says. — Like many political junkies, Phil Griffin starts his day with Morning Joe, which he watches while running three miles on the treadmill.
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Politico and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
A Mitt Romney rebound? — Maybe there are second chances in presidential campaigns. — And Mitt Romney's could just be on the horizon, but any potential comeback will be triggered largely by whether he can turn the first debate tonight in his favor. — According to Mike Allen's Playbook …
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Daily Kos, Mother Jones and Riehl World News
BBC:
Turkey hits targets inside Syria after border deaths — Akcakale has been fired on several times over the past few weeks — Turkey says it has fired artillery against targets inside Syria after Syrian shells killed five people in a Turkish border town. — The Turkish military shelled …
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The Agonist, Race 4 2012, The PJ Tatler and Taylor Marsh
Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama holds lead in Ohio; statistical tie in Va., Fla. — Slideshow: On the campaign trail — In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters. — Launch slideshow
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Allison Kopicki / The Caucus:
Polls Show Voters Divided Ahead of Debate
Polls Show Voters Divided Ahead of Debate
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Marist Poll, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Firedoglake, Post on Politics and The Moderate Voice
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
First Debate Often Helps Challenger in Polls — Conventional wisdom holds that the first presidential debate offers an especially good opportunity for the challenging candidate, who for the first time gets to stand on a literal public stage, and a proverbial level playing field, with the incumbent president.
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
N.Y. City Subpoenas Ken Burns Film on '89 Jogger Rape — In a new movie, the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explores the lives of the men who were convicted, and later exonerated, in the racially charged 1989 Central Park jogger rape case. — Now lawyers for New York City want to explore …
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ABCNEWS, ANIMAL, Inside Movies and New York Magazine
Byron Tau / Politico:
JetBlue will fly upset voters out of the country — JetBlue Airlines is offering Americans upset about their candidate's defeat in the upcoming November election a chance to leave the country for free — if only temporarily. — “If your candidate doesn't win, don't worry.
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Mediaite, Hit & Run, Gawker and Business Insider
BuzzFeed:
The Ugliest Campaign In America — A plan to keep it civil has backfired badly in Massachusetts. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren can't keep their hands clean. — LOWELL, Mass. — The poison that runs through this state's Senate race seemed to spill over into the traffic Tuesday night …
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AEIdeas
Laura Baum / Wesleyan Media Project:
Obama Dominates Advertising in Key States — President Holds Advantage in 14 of 15 Top Markets; — Only 7.8 Percent of Presidential Ads Positive; FCC electronic disclosure leaves out more than 50% of federal ads — (MIDDLETOWN, CT) Oct. 3, 2012 - In the three-week period since …
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Paul Ryan Promises Focus on the Family that He Will Fight Gay Equality — During an interview with Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, Paul Ryan reassured the anti-gay group that a Romney-Ryan administration will fiercely oppose gay rights. Focus on the Family and its founder James Dobson …
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Advocate, Towleroad News #gay, The Raw Story and Los Angeles Times
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Is unlimited growth a thing of the past? — Might growth be ending? This is a heretical question. Yet an expert on productivity, Robert Gordon of Northwestern university, has raised it in a provocative paper. In this, he challenges the conventional view of economists that “economic growth ... will continue indefinitely.”
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AEIdeas
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Complicity in Duplicity? — A woman named Rice in a top administration job, ambitious to move up to secretary of state, hitting the Sunday talk shows to aggressively promote a Middle East narrative that's good for the president but destined to crumble under scrutiny.
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Hot Air, Race 4 2012 and JustOneMinute
WXIA-TV:
PHOTOS | Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day 8-1-2012 — Back in July, Cathy told the Baptist Press the company stands “guilty as charged” for its stand on Biblical and family values. “We are very much supportive of the family — the Biblical definition of the family unit,” he said.
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Firedoglake, Gawker, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story