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Domenico Montanaro / First Read:
NBC/WSJ/Marist poll: Romney gains in key swing states — A week after President Barack Obama's lackluster debate performance, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has made some gains in three key swing states among those most likely to vote, according to the latest round of NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
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CBS News:
Poll: Romney edges Obama in Colo., narrows gap in Wis. — On the heels of last week's presidential debate, Mitt Romney has emerged with a one-point edge over President Obama in Colorado and has cut the president's lead in half in Wisconsin, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll.
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Business Insider and The Raw Story
New York Times:
Voters Give Romney Better Grades for Leadership, Polls in 3 States Find — WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is seen by more voters in three battleground states as a strong leader after his dominant debate performance last week, but perceptions that the economy is improving remain a buttress …
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The Caucus, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Jammie Wearing Fools and Prairie Weather
Mike Allen / Politico:
Biden seeks to calm left — Ryan to claim misrepresentations by Obama — New swing-state polls: CO, VA, OH, WI, FL — Brooke Brower baby — MORNING MINDMELD: Conversations with advisers to the V.P. candidates suggest that both will be very aggressive tonight.
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New York Times, americanthinker.com, The Daily Beast and CNN
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Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
Analysis: High Stakes for Vice Presidential Debate — Time running short, Vice President Joe Biden faces the greater burden in his debate with Republican Paul Ryan as he seeks to use the election's only encounter between presidential running mates to slow Mitt Romney's momentum and reset …
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Politico, CNN, Taylor Marsh, nrlc.org and Pew Research Center …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the L-Word — ‘Liar’ is potent and ugly—with a sleazy political pedigree. — The election campaign of the 44th U.S. president is now calling another candidate for the American presidency a “liar.” This is a new low. It is amazing and depressing to hear this term being used …
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Instapundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cutter: Presidential race ‘the same’ as before debate
Cutter: Presidential race ‘the same’ as before debate
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Letting us in on a secret — When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the CIA's cover. — The purpose of Wednesday's hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee …
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Taylor Marsh, emptywheel, AMERICAblog, The Mahablog and Prairie Weather
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Mother of Slain State Dept. Official Tired of Being Lied To and Stonewalled by Obama Administration — The mother of State Department official Sean Smith, who was killed September 11, 2012 in the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, appeared on CNN this evening.
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CNN, Politico, The PJ Tatler and The Lonely Conservative
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Security Officer on State Department Blocking Requests: ‘For Me the Taliban Is Inside the Building’
Security Officer on State Department Blocking Requests: ‘For Me the Taliban Is Inside the Building’
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
What Happened In Benghazi — Today's Q's for O's WH — 10/10/12
What Happened In Benghazi — Today's Q's for O's WH — 10/10/12
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NewsBusters.org
Mary / FREEDOM EDEN:
New Berlin School Bus Driver Tells Child He Should Have Been Aborted — Mark Belling discussed this story on his radio program yesterday. It's another tale of a Leftist behaving badly. — The Leftist, a 78-year-old woman, a New Berlin school bus driver, has been harassing a student …
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Riehl World News
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Libby Denkmann / MyNorthwest.com:
Romney's emotional story remembered very differently by friend of fallen SEAL — Listen: Romney's emotional story remembered very differently by friend of fallen SEAL — On the stump in Iowa Tuesday, Mitt Romney got emotional when he revealed that he met former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty at a holiday party some years ago.
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Mother Of Navy SEAL Killed In Libya Demands Romney Stop Talking About Him In Stump Speech
Mother Of Navy SEAL Killed In Libya Demands Romney Stop Talking About Him In Stump Speech
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Informed Comment, The Huffington Post, WHDH-TV and Booman Tribune
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
GOP senators to White House: Cyber order would be ‘a mistake’ — A trio of centrist Senate Republicans on Wednesday urged President Obama to hold back on issuing an executive order that would protect critical infrastructure systems from cyberattacks and encouraged him to work with Congress to pass legislation instead.
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Jparkercbs / CBS San Francisco:
CBS 5 Poll: Romney Gains 8 Points On Faltering Obama In California — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — The effects of President Barack Obama's falter in the first debate with Mitt Romney are not just being felt in battleground states, according to KPIX-TV CBS 5′s latest tracking poll of California …
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FiveThirtyEight, Jammie Wearing Fools and Riehl World News
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Politics and the Gallup Poll — Since about the beginning of President Obama's tenure, the Gallup poll has generally been one of the least positive polls for the Democratic party. This has prompted outrage and pressure from the left—even from presidential advisor David Axelrod.
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Polling Matters, The Huffington Post, Ricochet Conversations Feed, americanthinker.com and Betsy's Page
Jonathan Bernstein / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's tax mythology, made simple — I've said this before, but Mitt Romney's new formulation of his tax plan — one he used at the debate, and which he repeated to Wolf Blitzer yesterday — makes it absolutely clear that he's lying about something. You don't need complicated Tax …
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Connecting.the.Dots, Angry Bear and CNN
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
FLASHBACK: MODERATOR RADDATZ STUNNED DEMOCRAT JOHN SILBER'S CAMPAIGN FOR MA GOVERNOR IN 1990 DEBATE — Ahead of Thursday evening's highly-anticipated debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Rep. Paul Ryan, pundits are wondering whether the moderator, ABC News' Martha Raddatz …
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Politico, Power Line and Instapundit, more at Mediagazer »
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Race Tightens in Two States — Romney Gains Among Independent Voters and Men, Post-Debate Surveys Show — Mitt Romney is deadlocked with President Barack Obama in two key battlegrounds—Florida and Virginia—while still behind in Ohio, according to new polls taken after the Republican's strong performance …
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Washington Wire, The Atlantic Online and Politico
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Romney erases Obama's lead nationally after first debate
Fox News poll: Romney erases Obama's lead nationally after first debate
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GOP 12, First Read, Business Insider, Sweetness & Light, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Jobless Claims Fall — The number of U.S. workers filing applications for jobless benefits fell last week, a hopeful sign for the job market following the recent drop in the unemployment rate to its lowest level since January 2009. — Initial jobless claims—a measure of layoffs …
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Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
The Dark Side of Jefferson is the Dark Side of America — This Henry Wiencek piece at Smithsonian on Thomas Jefferson's dark side has half-perplexed me, yet the reactions show why it is so necessary. The piece essentially argues that Jefferson was a cold calculating slaveholder …
Erika Johnsen / Hot Air:
Tapper to WH on Benghazi: So, wouldn't it be President Obama who shot first and aimed later? — If you'll recall, in the immediate wake of the breaking news of the riots in Cairo and Benghazi in September, the biggest question on the mainstream media's collective mind was not anything in the vein of …
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Mediaite, Babalú Blog and The Looking Spoon Blog
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New York Times:
Romney Campaign Looks to Capitalize on Image Voters Saw in Debate — BOSTON — Inside Mitt Romney's campaign headquarters over the past few days, the data pouring in was unmistakable. Aides scouring the results of focus groups and national polls found that undecided voters watching …
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The Daily Beast
Shashank Bengali / Los Angeles Times:
Libya guards speak out on attack that killed U.S. ambassador — Two Libyan militiamen guarding the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi deny aiding the attackers. They say they initially fought back but fled when outnumbered. — Abdelaziz Majbiri, a civilian guard employed by a British security firm …
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Hot Air