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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Romney says abortion legislation isn't part of his agenda — Mitt Romney today said no abortion legislation is part of his agenda, but he would prohibit federally-funded international nonprofits from providing abortions in other countries. — “There's no legislation with regards to abortion …
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Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Abortion Stance Changes, As Candidate Says He Won't Push To Restrict Access … FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Abortion, Elections 2012, Video, Mitt Romney Des Moines Register, Mitt Romney Abortion, Mitt Romney 2012, Women's News, Politics News
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Suddenly Centrist: The New Moderate Mitt Romney — In a last ditch effort to win over undecided moderates, Mitt Romney is finally fulfilling his adviser's prediction that he would become the “Etch-a-Sketch” candidate. During the first presidential debate, Romney started reversing positions …
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Rebekah Metzler / US News:
Mitt Romney Criticized For Abortion Comments in Local Paper
Mitt Romney Criticized For Abortion Comments in Local Paper
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Yahoo! News and The Agonist
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Gov. Rick Perry backs Mitt Romney on abortion
Gov. Rick Perry backs Mitt Romney on abortion
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Associated Press
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney: ‘No Legislation with Regards to Abortion’ ‘Would Become Part of My Agenda’
Romney: ‘No Legislation with Regards to Abortion’ ‘Would Become Part of My Agenda’
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Daily Kos, CNN, AMERICAblog, The Raw Story and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos:
Romney: Abortion is not ‘part of my agenda.’ Romney campaign: Oh yes it is.
Romney: Abortion is not ‘part of my agenda.’ Romney campaign: Oh yes it is.
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PERRspectives and Booman Tribune
First Read:
First Thoughts: The pressure is on — Setting the stage …
First Thoughts: The pressure is on — Setting the stage …
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CNN, Taegan Goddard's … and News Desk
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Analysis: Thoroughly Moderating Mitt
Analysis: Thoroughly Moderating Mitt
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ABCNEWS and Planet Washington
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Rep. Issa closes in on Clinton — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is setting his sights on his biggest political target yet: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is treading more carefully than he did with his investigation …
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Riehl World News, CNN, The Maddow Blog and Moe Lane
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Associated Press:
US OFFICIALS: WE DIDN'T LINK LIBYA ATTACK TO VIDEO — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about why the Obama administration used …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Security Official in Libya Tells Congressional Investigators About ‘Inappropriately Low’ Security at Benghazi Post
U.S. Security Official in Libya Tells Congressional Investigators About ‘Inappropriately Low’ Security at Benghazi Post
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Hot Air, Hit & Run, Reuters, Weasel Zippers, National Review, Washington Examiner and Pundit & Pundette
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
State Dept reveals new details of Benghazi attack
State Dept reveals new details of Benghazi attack
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NewsBusters.org blogs
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker launches PR offensive on eve of hearing on Libya Consulate attack
GOP lawmaker launches PR offensive on eve of hearing on Libya Consulate attack
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The Daily Caller, The Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Benghazi attack may cloud Clinton's legacy
Benghazi attack may cloud Clinton's legacy
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Taegan Goddard's …, Hot Air and Prairie Weather
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Biden Viewed Unfavorably, Divided Opinions about Ryan — No Clear Winner Expected in VP Debate — OVERVIEW — Ahead of Thursday's vice presidential debate, more voters view Joe Biden unfavorably than favorably, while opinions about Paul Ryan are more evenly divided.
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Business Insider, Planet Washington, Washington Examiner and Election 2012
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Eat crow and pray for Joe — When Barack Obama was up by 4 percentage points in the polls, the media said the race was a dead heat. — Now that Obama is down by 4 percentage points in the polls, the media say he is dead meat. — The media giveth, and the media taketh away. Fickle be the name of the media.
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CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Big Bird, Small President — As of fiscal 2011, Sesame Workshop had assets of $289 million. — Having been routed in the first debate, President Obama has found a comeback strategy: Fly Big Bird. Specifically, mock Mitt Romney's call to cut federal subsidies for the millionaires …
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Weekly Standard, Betsy's Page, National Review, The Right Scoop and Politico
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gibbs: Big Bird ad raised ‘important point’
Gibbs: Big Bird ad raised ‘important point’
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The PJ Tatler and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney interview
Mitt Romney interview
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The Daily Caller, CNN and First Read
Jack Welch / Wall Street Journal:
I Was Right About That Strange Jobs Report — The economy would need to be growing at breakneck speed for unemployment to drop to 7.8% from 8.3% in the course of two months. — Imagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities—questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters …
Josh Peterson / The Daily Caller:
ABC News scrambles to cover up Barack Obama's attendance at VP debate moderator's wedding — President Barack Obama was a guest at the 1991 wedding of ABC senior foreign correspondent and vice presidential debate moderator Martha Raddatz, The Daily Caller has learned.
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Scott DesJarlais, Pro-Life Republican Congressman And Doctor, Pressured Mistress Patient To Get Abortion … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Abortion, Elections 2012, Video, Scott DesJarlais, Scott DesJarlais Abortion, Scott DesJarlais Patient, Susan DesJarlais, Scott Desjarlais Divorce …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Maddow Blog, Influence Alley, Shakesville and Daily Kos
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Angst grows among Obama supporters — First came the nausea. Then came the anxiety. — After months of watching Mitt Romney twist in the media glare, a growing number of President Barack Obama's supporters — though confined for now to a noisy minority of liberals …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Riehl World News
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama spokeswoman: 'We're not getting whipped up and down' by polls
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 9: Romney Erases Obama's Convention Bounce in Forecast — Following another day of strong polling on Tuesday, Mitt Romney advanced into the best position in the FiveThirtyEight forecast since the party conventions. His chances of winning the Electoral College are now 28.8 percent in the forecast, his highest since Aug. 29.
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
New O'Keefe video: Obama campaign staffer caught helping activist vote twice — Videographer James O'Keefe's Project Veritas caught an official for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign helping who she thought was an Obama supporter set herself up to vote more than once in November.
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Althouse
Rand Paul / CNN:
Romney's wrong on Middle East, defense spending — Editor's note: Rand Paul, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Kentucky. — (CNN) — This week, I will campaign for Gov. Mitt Romney. I believe this election will and should be about moving America back from the edge of the abyss on which we stand …
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Hit & Run, Middle Earth Journal and Election 2012
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Labor Protests Grow, Organizers Say — Protests against Wal-Mart expanded on Tuesday, spreading to 28 stores in 12 states, a union spokesman said. — In an effort to increase pressure on the retailer as the holiday season approaches, 88 employees at the stores missed work, the spokesman, Dan Schlademan, said.
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Daily Kos
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Alice Hines / The Huffington Post:
Walmart's First-Ever Retail Worker Strike Spreads To 12 Cities [UPDATE]
Walmart's First-Ever Retail Worker Strike Spreads To 12 Cities [UPDATE]
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Salon, Progressive Change …, PolicyMic and Daily Kos
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
Sarah Palin Says She's Writing a Fitness Book — New photos of Sarah Palin looking very thin have caused a stir online, and now the former Alaska governor and 2008 VP nominee tells PEOPLE she's just fine and is, in fact, working with her family on a new fitness book.
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The Week, Associated Press, Wonkette, Dependable Renegade, Gawker and New York Magazine