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Sesame Workshop / The Sesame Workshop Blog:
Sesame Workshop Response to Campaign Ads — Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down.
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Toby Harnden / Daily Mail:
Obama ‘believed he had BEATEN Romney’ in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparation — President Barack Obama did not take his debate preparation seriously, ignored the advice of senior aides and walked off the stage in Denver believing he had got the better of Mitt Romney …
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Obama Ad About Big Bird Cannot Find One Prominent Wall Street Criminal Prosecuted By Administration — This is an amusing ad by the Obama campaign, poking fun at Mitt Romney's comment in the first debate about eliminating funding for PBS and Big Bird. President Obama has been getting …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Team Obama Big Bird ad mocks Mitt — ...and by serious, we mean not at all serious. — The Obama campaign is out this morning with a goofy video of the Big Bird variety, mocking Mitt Romney, as the president has put it, as going easy on Wall Street but heavy on Sesame Street.
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama camp: Ad responds to ‘outcry’ — While some have questioned the campaign's seriousness and intent to put money behind the ad in swing states, Psaki maintained that it is running on cable networks - albeit during comedy shows - that swing-state viewers watch.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sesame Street asks Obama campaign to take down attack ad featuring Big Bird — Sesame Street has asked President Obama's campaign to take down its latest attack ad against Mitt Romney, which features footage of Big Bird. — The Obama campaign said it would review the request.
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Romney hits Obama on Big Bird focus
Romney hits Obama on Big Bird focus
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CNN:
Team Romney word on the street for Big Bird tactics: ‘Troubling’
Team Romney word on the street for Big Bird tactics: ‘Troubling’
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Sesame Street Liberalism
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Romney 49%, Obama 47% Among Likely Voters — Registered voter trend suggests Obama is recovering from post-debate drop — PRINCETON, NJ — Mitt Romney holds a slight edge over Barack Obama — 49% to 47% — in Gallup's initial “likely voter” estimate, encompassing interviews from Oct. 2-8.
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Politico:
Inside the campaign: The Romney rebellion — For months, Ann Romney and her eldest son, Tagg, were dutifully supportive of the political professionals running Mitt Romney's campaign. All the while, their private frustration was mounting. — Shortly before the final debate, it finally boiled over.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Race tightening up in battleground Ohio — (CNN) - On the day that both presidential candidates are campaigning in Ohio, a new poll indicates a close contest in the race for the Buckeye State's 18 electoral votes. — According to a CNN/ORC International poll (PDF) …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Why The Gallup Poll Numbers Are Likely To Get Worse For Obama In The Next Two Days — The effect of last week's debate is still being priced into the market. — Via: gallup.com — Mitt Romney's two-point lead over President Barack Obama in Gallup's crucial new survey of likely voters …
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Kos / Daily Kos:
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll: Romney takes the lead in post-debate period
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll: Romney takes the lead in post-debate period
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
How Romney flipped Obama's narrative
How Romney flipped Obama's narrative
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Stephen Gandel / Fortune:
Welch can't take the heat: I quit — The former top GE executive says he will no longer write for Fortune following coverage of his jobs conspiracy tweet. — FORTUNE — Jack Welch has left our building, metaphorically that is. — Welch said he will no longer contribute …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Speech, Schumer Rejects Idea of Tax Code Overhaul — WASHINGTON — Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat, threw cold water Tuesday on what had been an emerging consensus for a bipartisan deficit- reduction plan — an overhaul of the tax code …
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Brookings Institute:
Mitt Romney's Tax Proposals: Understanding the Debate — For months, Mitt Romney had been advocating tax cut proposals that would reduce revenues by about $5 trillion over the next decade, and that were heavily tilted toward the rich. Yet he did not explain how he would pay for these cuts, just that he somehow would.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Math Responds to Romney
Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:
“Nones” on the Rise — One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation — Executive Summary — The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public - and a third of adults under 30 - are religiously unaffiliated today …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
No White House Press Briefing in Last 15 Days — The White House has not held a press briefing in the last 15 days, according to records on the White House's website. The last one was held on September 24, 2012, by White House press secretary Jay Carney. — However, in that 15 day time period …
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Fox News:
AP publishes unflattering pic of Romney bending over — This photo of Mitt Romney posing with students of Fairfield Elementary School in Fairfield, Va., was published Monday by the Associated Press.AP — It was a news photo that, as Gawker quipped, was “ripe for captioning.”
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Larry Margasak / Associated Press:
US Official in Libya Said He Wanted More Security — A top State Department security official in Libya told a congressional investigator that he had argued unsuccessfully for more security in the weeks before Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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Ross Tuttle / The Nation:
Stopped-and-Frisked: ‘For Being a F***king Mutt’ [VIDEO] — Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city's streets.
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Wall Street Journal:
Goldman Turns Tables on Obama Campaign — When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, no major U.S. corporation did more to finance his campaign than Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — This election, none has done more to help defeat him. — Prompted by what they call regulatory attacks …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dem pollster delivers wake-up call to Obama — Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg is not known for flinching from delivering bad news to Democratic politicians, and his new diagnosis of Obama's slippage in the polls is no exception. — Greenberg told me in an interview that his new research persuaded …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
The CEO Who Built Himself America's Largest House Just Threatened to Fire His Employees if Obama's Elected — David Siegel is the founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, a huge national timeshare company and one of the largest resort developers in the world. In 2007 he was a billionaire …
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