Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:20 PM ET, October 10, 2012

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
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.
RELATED:
ABCNEWS:
Obama Says He Was ‘Just Too Polite’ at Debate  —  Conceding that he failed to deliver at last week's debate, President Obama says he was “just too polite” and that voters should expect “a little more activity” next week in round two.  —  In a radio interview on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama On Debate: ‘I Was Just Too Polite’ … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Presidential Debates, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Presidential Debate, Obama Debate, Obama Debate Performance, Obama Debate Polite, Obama Polite, Obama Tom Joyner, Politics News
Black America Web:
‘The Big Chief’ Calls Home
Discussion: The Hill and Weekly Standard
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 …
RELATED:
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Security Official in Libya Tells Congressional Investigators About ‘Inappropriately Low’ Security at Benghazi Post
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
State Dept reveals new details of Benghazi attack
WHDH-TV:
Mother of Navy Seal killed in Libya speaks out  —  BOSTON (WHDH) — The attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya became a major issue on the campaign trail and the mother of a Navy Seal killed in the violence is voicing her anger that Mitt Romney is speaking about her son on the campaign trail.
RELATED:
BuzzFeed:
Mother Of Slain SEAL Tells Romney To Stop Talking About Her Son  —  After telling the story one last time in Ohio, the campaign says it will be removed from the stump speech.  —  MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — At a town hall here Wednesday, Mitt Romney re-told a story he first revealed earlier …
Discussion: The Hill and Politicker
ABCNEWS:
Romney Drops SEAL Story After Mother Complains  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone and Emily Friedman report:  —  Mitt Romney's campaign said today he will stop citing his meeting with a former Navy Seal killed in last month's terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya after the victim's mother protested his use of her son's death.
Discussion: Mediaite and Hot Air
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Anti-Abortion Activists Call Romney's New Comments A Gaffe, Not A Change Of Heart  —  Anti-abortion groups are thoroughly convinced Mitt Romney is still one of them, despite his remarks Tuesday in Iowa that abortion would not be a part of his legislative agenda if elected.
Discussion: Daily Kos
RELATED:
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Suddenly Centrist: The New Moderate Mitt Romney
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney: ‘No Legislation with Regards to Abortion’ ‘Would Become Part of My Agenda’
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Romney says abortion legislation isn't part of his agenda
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 …
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.
RELATED:
Roger Simon / Politico:
Eat crow and pray for Joe
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
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.
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 …
RELATED:
Mike Allen / Politico:
State contradicts W.H. on initial Benghazi conclusions — Ken Strickland named NBC News Washington Bureau Chief — Antoine Sanfuentes to 30 Rock  —  MORNING MINDMELD: The media narrative has turned in dramatic - and, for Obama, dangerous — ways.  Talk to top Democrats …
Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
Halftime report at Fisher oral argument  —  The attorney representing the student challenging the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas just sat down.  Nothing terribly surprising.  The liberals dominated the questioning and were unsurprisingly skeptical.
Discussion: ACS Blog and Althouse
RELATED:
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:   Immediate post-argument recap
RELATED:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
New York S**tty  —  After two full weeks of moving to and living in New York City, I just got back to DC for ten days (doctor's appointments, etc.).  All I can say is: what a relief.  —  Moving is never easy; moving to New York City even harder.  Moving to New York while blogging an election …
John Cook / Gawker:
Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker  —  After we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general …
RELATED:
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 …
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Pollster pulls out of Fla., NC and Va., says Obama can't win there  —  Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos, whose polls are aggregated into mainstream averages to show where the presidential race stands in the swing states, said he's finished polling in Florida …
Eric Kleefeld / Talking Points Memo:
Joe Walsh Attacks Tammy Duckworth With Photo Of Her Picking Out Dress  —  Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) deployed a strange attack on his Democratic opponent, Iraq War veteran and former Veterans Affairs official Tammy Duckworth, at a debate Tuesday night — brandishing a photo of her picking out a dress for the Democratic National Convention.
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton works Las Vegas crowd, mocking Mitt Romney  —  Speaking on President Obama's behalf, he characterizes the Republican's moderate talk during the debate as hypocritical in hopes of holding on to Nevada's electoral votes.  —  Former President Clinton campaigns for President Obama at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas.
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and Taylor Marsh
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
AP: We ‘Fell Short’ By Not Providing Full Explanation Of Photo Of Romney Bent Over  —  AP senior vice president and executive editor Kathleen Carroll said in a statement Wednesday the news organization “fell short” by not providing the full context in an image of Mitt Romney bent over in front of a surprised looking girl:
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:20 PM ET, October 10, 2012.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
One Man Guides the Fight Against Gay Marriage
Discussion: Gawker and NOM Blog
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Praises National Health Care Mandate As A ‘Bipartisan Proposal’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ann Oldenburg / USA Today:
Stacey Dash ‘shocked’ by ‘fury’ over her Romney support
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and CNN
Talking Points Memo:
Rep. Broun Spox: Comments Decrying Science As Satanic Lie Were ‘Off Record’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed:
Brutal Ad Hits White House On Libya Timeline Contradictions
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
 Earlier Items: 
Latino Decisions:
Why Arizona may be the surprise of 2012 - the big Latino vote that you didn't see coming
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Ann Romney not horsing around on ‘GMA’
Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS and ABCNEWS
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Dubious donations: Peter Schweizer responds
Jim Brunner / STBlogs Alpha:
Rob McKenna, dancing ‘Gangnam Style’
Discussion: Politico and Hotline On Call
Jake Grovum / Pew Center on the States:
Are Voter ID Opponents Winning the Battle but Losing the War?
Discussion: Politico
Rand Paul / CNN:
Sen. Paul: Romney wrong on Mid East
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

The Linux Foundation:
A survey of 501 organizations globally estimates organizations contribute $7.7B annually to open source software and 86% of contribution value is employee labor

Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page