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2:35 PM ET, October 10, 2012

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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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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Gov. Rick Perry backs Mitt Romney on abortion
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Suddenly Centrist: The New Moderate Mitt Romney
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Abortion Stance Changes, As Candidate Says He Won't Push To Restrict Access
Kaili Joy Gray / Daily Kos:
Romney: Abortion is not ‘part of my agenda.’ Romney campaign: Oh yes it is.
Discussion: PERRspectives and Booman Tribune
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Analysis: Thoroughly Moderating Mitt
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Crooks and Liars
Rebekah Metzler / US News:
Mitt Romney Criticized For Abortion Comments in Local Paper
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Agonist
New York Times:
Romney Pledges to Keep Tax Deductions for Mortgages
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.
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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.
Roger Simon / Politico:
Eat crow and pray for Joe
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
Ben Geman / Presidential Campaigns:
Pelosi offers debate advice to Biden
Discussion: The Raw Story
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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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
State Dept reveals new details of Benghazi attack
Dana Hughes / ABCNEWS:
Attack on Benghazi Consulate ‘Unprecedented,’ State Department Official Says
Associated Press:
US OFFICIALS: WE DIDN'T LINK LIBYA ATTACK TO VIDEO
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
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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 …
Black America Web:
‘The Big Chief’ Calls Home
Discussion: The Hill and Weekly Standard
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.
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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
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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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 …
David Ingram / Reuters:
Court clears South Carolina voter ID law for 2013  —  (Reuters) - A new South Carolina law that generally requires voters to show photo identification does not discriminate against racial minorities but cannot go into effect until the start of next year, a federal court ruled on Wednesday.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and The Raw Story
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Ryan J. Reilly / Talking Points Memo:
Court Clears South Carolina Voter ID Law, But Not For 2012
Discussion: Colorlines
Jake Grovum / Pew Center on the States:
Are Voter ID Opponents Winning the Battle but Losing the War?
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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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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
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 …
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.
Rand Paul / CNN:
Sen. Paul: Romney wrong on Mid East  —  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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Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bill Clinton works Las Vegas crowd, mocking Mitt Romney
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Pollster pulls out of Fla., NC and Va., says Obama can't win there
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