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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 …
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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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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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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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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Romney hits Obama on Big Bird focus — Mitt Romney, speaking to a crowd of about 1,200 on a farm here in Van Meter, Iowa, criticized President Obama's recent focus on Big Bird on the campaign trail. — “You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird,” he said.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sesame Street asks Obama campaign to take down attack ad featuring Big Bird
Sesame Street asks Obama campaign to take down attack ad featuring Big Bird
David Horsey / Los Angeles Times:
Romney would ground Big Bird but send military spending soaring
Romney would ground Big Bird but send military spending soaring
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House of Eratosthenes and Shakesville
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
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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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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
Why The Gallup Poll Numbers Are Likely To Get Worse For Obama In The Next Two Days
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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
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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 …
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Stephen Gandel / Fortune:
Obama trounces Welch's job record
Obama trounces Welch's job record
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Schumer Speech on Taxes Shakes Up Deficit Talks — WASHINGTON — Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat, threw cold water on Tuesday on one emerging approach for striking a bipartisan deficit-reduction deal — an overhaul of the tax code that lowers top income tax rates but raises more revenue.
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Senator Charles E. Schumer:
IN SPEECH, SCHUMER CALLS FOR ‘SCRAPPING’ …
IN SPEECH, SCHUMER CALLS FOR ‘SCRAPPING’ …
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
New book shows U.S. top earners pay larger share of taxes than any other industrialized nation
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Schumer's Gambit: Ending the Tax Reform Con, Ending the Grand Bargain?
Schumer's Gambit: Ending the Tax Reform Con, Ending the Grand Bargain?
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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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Ann Romney accuses Obama of showing ‘poor sportsmanship’
Ann Romney accuses Obama of showing ‘poor sportsmanship’
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Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo:
Josh Romney: Dad ‘Learned How To Debate An Obstinate Child’ — Josh Romney, one of Mitt Romney's sons, told a pointed joke Tuesday about President Obama's debate performance, while warming up the crowd for his father at a campaign rally in Van Meter, Iowa. — “I don't know if you guys saw …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Romney says abortion legislation isn't part of his agenda
Romney says abortion legislation isn't part of his agenda
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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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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
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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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
State Department: No video protest at the Benghazi consulate — Prior to the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi late in the evening on Sept. 11, there was no protest outside the compound, a senior State Department official confirmed today, contradicting initial administration statements suggesting …
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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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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 …
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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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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Yahoo! News:
Straws in the wind or canaries in the coal mines? Warning signs the Obama campaign shouldn't ignore — Maybe it's because I was told there'd be no math when I got into politics, but there comes a point in every campaign when I run screaming from the torrent of poll numbers and go looking …
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