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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 …
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Weasel Zippers and Washington Examiner
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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Weekly Standard, Hit & Run, National Review, Riehl World News and Moe Lane
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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CNN, The Hill, Politicker, nation.foxnews.com, Outside the Beltway, The Week, Riehl World News, Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler, Weekly Standard, Moe Lane and Gawker
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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The Atlantic Online, Weasel Zippers, Washington Examiner and National Review
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sesame Street asks Obama camp to take down Big Bird attack ad — Sesame Street wants President Obama's campaign to take down its latest attack ad against Mitt Romney, which features footage of Big Bird. — “Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates …
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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Politicker and The People's View
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
One Month To Go, And The Polls — They Are A Changin' (The Note)
One Month To Go, And The Polls — They Are A Changin' (The Note)
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ABCNEWS, CNN, Washington Wire, Mediaite and Instapundit
Byron Tau / Politico:
Sesame Street asks Obama to pull ad
Sesame Street asks Obama to pull ad
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The Hill, Riehl World News and Orlando Sentinel
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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Kos / Daily Kos:
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation poll: Romney takes the lead in post-debate period — Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 10/4-7. Likely voters. MoE ±2.72% (9/27-30 results) … Obama 47 (49) — Romney 49 (45) — That's a pretty disastrous six-point net swing in just a week …
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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GOP 12, Guardian, Democracy Project and PoliticusUSA
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
A Popularity High for Romney - but Ditto for Obama
A Popularity High for Romney - but Ditto for Obama
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ABCNEWS, CNN, Daily Kos, GOP 12 and Smartypants
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Hack Gap Rears Its Ugly Head Yet Again — The hack gap is a liberal problem of long standing. Put simply, we liberals don't have enough hacks. Conservatives outscore us considerably in the number of bloggers/pundits/columnists/ talking heads who are willing to cheerfully say whatever …
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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 …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Pew Poll and Confirmation Bias
The Pew Poll and Confirmation Bias
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The Moderate Voice, The Week, The Reality-Based Community and Weasel Zippers
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 …
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.
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 …
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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Politico, Mediaite, NewsBusters.org blogs, Riehl World News and ABCNEWS
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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Firedoglake, Hullabaloo, Jared Bernstein and New York Magazine
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Schumer Tells Dems To Grow A Spine In Tax Negotiations With GOP
Schumer Tells Dems To Grow A Spine In Tax Negotiations With GOP
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Firedoglake
Washington Post:
Taliban says it shot ‘infidel’ Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said.
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New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, Mashable!, Jay Bookman and The Lede
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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Little Green Footballs and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
The day polling died — Results just make no sense — may go down in the annals of history as the day political polling died. — It was the most ridiculous polling day among many preposterous polling days in the course of this long campaign. — The ludicrous comedy began early in the morning.
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Daniel W. Drezner, The Daily Beast and Betsy's Page
iowahawk:
White House Scientists Struggle to Contain Outbreak of Scrutonium — WASHINGTON DC - Engaged a relentless battle against time and fatigue, a select group of message scientists assembled by the White House's Center for Narrative Control say they will take “all steps necessary” …
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Naked DC
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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Washington Monthly, American Prospect and The Maddow Blog
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Actress Stacey Dash hit with racially-charged attacks after endorsing Romney — March 7, 2010: Actress Stacey Dash arrives at the 18th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California.REUTERS — “Clueless” star Stacey Dash recently tweeted …
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The Other McCain, Sister Toldjah, protein wisdom, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Lonely Conservative