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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Romney's Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama's Lead — GOP Challenger Viewed as Candidate with New Ideas — OVERVIEW — Mitt Romney no longer trails Barack Obama in the Pew Research Center's presidential election polling. By about three-to-one, voters say Romney did a better job …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Did Obama Just Throw The Entire Election Away? — The Pew poll is devastating, just devastating. Before the debate, Obama had a 51 - 43 lead; now, Romney has a 49 - 45 lead. That's a simply unprecedented reversal for a candidate in October. Before Obama had leads on every policy issue …
Jon Cohen / The Fix:
How party ID explains Romney's “surge” — New numbers from Gallup and the Pew Research Center showing the presidential contest tied among all voters in recent days are sure to buoy Republican hopes that Mitt Romney did more than win a debate last week. But the newly released data also undercut …
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Detroit Free Press:
Romney's strong debate helps him close gap with Obama in Michigan, poll shows — Fact Check: The first presidential debate: USA Today Political Editor Paul Singer takes a look at some of the key moments in the first presidential debate to check the facts given by each candidate.
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Hot Air, Politico and Ballot Box
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Pew poll: Romney erases eight-point deficit, now leads by four among likely voters — From a 51/43 lead for O last month to a 49/45 lead for Mitt now. Remember when the media said the debates won't matter? — Most exciting poll of the last year? Or most exciting poll of the last four years?
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Pew: Romney Leads By 4 In Post-Debate Survey — In the first national poll to be conducted entirely after the opening presidential debate, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney now leads President Barack Obama by 4 points. — The poll, conducted by Pew Research Center from Thursday through Sunday …
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The Moderate Voice and Hullabaloo
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Narrows Vote Gap After Historic Debate Win
Romney Narrows Vote Gap After Historic Debate Win
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The First Debate Was Obama's Best Chance
The First Debate Was Obama's Best Chance
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BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan Gets Testy And Ends Interview — When asked about guns and taxes in an interview with ABC12 in Flint, Michigan. Campaign: “Eventually you're going to see a local reporter embarrass himself.” — Source: youtube.com — Update: Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck tells BuzzFeed …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Experts pan Romney foreign policy speech — Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech Monday was filled with tough talk and slams of President Barack Obama's leadership — but little of the clarity Romney has vowed to bring to the Oval Office. — Analysts reviewing what the Republican nominee …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Team Obama to Romney: ‘Bring it on’ — President Obama's campaign aggressively hit back against Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech on Monday, challenging the GOP nominee to “bring it on.” — “Mitt Romney once again tried to engage the president on foreign policy, and we have a simple message for him …
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Washington Wire:
Text of Romney Speech on Foreign Policy at VMI
Text of Romney Speech on Foreign Policy at VMI
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Romney Remains Vague on Foreign Policy Details
Romney Remains Vague on Foreign Policy Details
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Peter Schweizer / The Daily Beast:
The Illegal-Donor Loophole — The giant gap in our campaign-finance system that makes foreign and fraudulent donations possible. Peter Schweizer and Peter J. Boyer report. — There has been no shortage of media attention paid to the role of money in the current presidential contest.
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Wynton Hall / BREITBART.COM:
BOMBSHELL: OBAMA.COM OWNED BY BUNDLER IN SHANGHAI WITH BUSINESS TIES TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT
BOMBSHELL: OBAMA.COM OWNED BY BUNDLER IN SHANGHAI WITH BUSINESS TIES TO CHINESE GOVERNMENT
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Max Brantley / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
UPDATES: Republican candidate Fuqua endorses death penalty for rebellious children — Remember former Republican legislator Charlie Fuqua, running again for legislature with financial support from the Arkansas Republican Party and U.S. Reps. Tim Griffin and Steve Womack, among others?
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Toddstarnes / Fox News:
School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, But Not GOP — Florida Republicans are outraged after a school district allowed a pro-Obama organization to conduct student voter registration drives and deliver speeches to classes - but denied the Romney campaign similar opportunities.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop, The Lonely Conservative and Riehl World News
Marc Lamont Hill / The Huffington Post:
The 15 Most Overrated White People … Kate Middleton , Christopher Columbus , Columbus Day , Race , Slideexpand , White People , Black Voices News — Today, our nation engages in one of its most bizarre cultural rituals: the celebration of Columbus Day as a national holiday.
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Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette and Riehl World News
Laura Washington / Chicago Sun Times:
Reporter Lara Logan brings ominous news from Middle East — CBS correspondent Lara Logan covers the reaction in Cairo's Tahrir Square the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February 2011. CBS News photo — This was no ordinary rubber chicken affair.
Shaun Waterman / Washington Times:
Guard: Security in Libya cut before Benghazi attack — Security for U.S. diplomats in Libya was cut in the weeks before the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, despite the North African country's high-risk environment, according to a member of the security team assigned to U.S. Embassy in Tripoli.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Riehl World News
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats
Exclusive: Libya Cable Detailed Threats
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Brad Plumer / Wonkblog:
Study: Getting rid of lead does wonders for school performance — Over the past 50 years, after scientists realized that even minute doses of lead can have harmful effects, policymakers have been steadily pushing to eradicate the stuff from the environment.
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Hullabaloo and Calculated Risk
Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News:
Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers — July 15, 2010: President Obama gets into an electric Ford Focus as he attends the groundbreaking of a factory for Compact Power Inc. in Holland, Mich.REUTERS — The Holland, Mich., plant, shown here in a rendering …
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
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Washington Free Beacon:
Colo. Governor: 'Lincoln Wasn't a Great Debater' — Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Monday that Abraham Lincoln “wasn't a great debater” during a visit to the Obama campaign field office in Denver, Colo., according to Denver West Word reporter Sam Levin. — Lincoln famously participated …
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Weasel Zippers
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Policy Verdict I — In Thursday night's debate, Vice President Joe Biden will almost certainly go after Representative Paul Ryan's Medicare plan. And why shouldn't he? It's unpopular. But I'd like to make a case for that plan. It's the best thing the Romney-Ryan campaign has going for it.
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driftglass and Pressing Issues
Elizabeth Cohen / CNN:
Republicans conflicted over Obama, Obamacare — (CNN) — Jill Thacker was dying for a cup of coffee when she recently ran into a 7-Eleven convenience store. To her pleasant surprise, the coffee was free — as long as she would commit to drinking it in either a red Mitt Romney cup or a blue Barack Obama cup.
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Crooks and Liars, The Impolitic and Suburban Guerrilla
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Fatah: Palestinians have not abandoned armed struggle — Member of Fatah Central Committee Aloul says “no one has dropped armed resistance from his dictionary,” points out Fatah political program has reaffirmed “resistance is legitimate right against occupation.”
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CNN:
Obama camp taps NBA, NFL stars — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's campaign is tapping into some athletic star power in three new web videos meant to encourage sports fans to register to vote for the president. — In the latest video, titled “The Greatest” and posted Monday …
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theGrio and The Daily Dish
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Breitbart biopic slapped with ‘R’ rating, delaying theatrical release — Producers of the biographical documentary “Hating Breitbart” got news last week that their film received an “R” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. And with that move official Hollywood …
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The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain