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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Author Ed Klein: As Benghazi blame nears Hillary, Clintons grow furious — With tensions between President Obama and the Clintons at a new low, former President Bill Clinton is moving fast to develop a contingency plan for how his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton …
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Ben Geman / Ballot Box:
Springsteen, Bill Clinton seek to swing Ohio for Obama — The rocker and the former president will appear at a pro-Obama event in the battleground state next week. — Bruce Springsteen, whose music has been the soundtrack for President Obama's campaign rallies, will join former President Bill Clinton …
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Kasie Hunt / Associated Press:
Romney and Obama Focus on Debate Preparations — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing for his second debate with President Barack Obama but taking time to tell voters in Ohio that enthusiasm for him is surging both in this critical state and across the country.
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Alana Goodman / Commentary Magazine:
Did Intelligence Tell WH There Were Protests in Benghazi?
Did Intelligence Tell WH There Were Protests in Benghazi?
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Power Line, Weekly Standard, ThinkProgress, Mother Jones and ABCNEWS
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Obama's got drama now
Obama's got drama now
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Doug Ross, Michelle Malkin and Foreign Policy
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 12: Romney Debate Gains Show Staying Power — Mitt Romney continues to surge in the FiveThirtyEight forecast, and Friday may have featured his best set of polls all year. — The best way to track a change in the polls is to look for instances in which the same firm has surveyed the same state …
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The Atlantic Online, Outside the Beltway, Mediaite, Daily Kos and The Hinterland Gazette
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Moody's Chief Economist On Romney's Tax Plan: 'The Arithmetic Doesn't Work' — The fact that Mitt Romney's tax plan is mathematically impossible was reinforced again on Friday, when Mark Zandi, a former John McCain campaign adviser and Chief Economist at Moody's Economy, admitted as much.
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Crooks and Liars and Firedoglake
James Risen / New York Times:
After Benghazi Attack, Private Security Hovers as an Issue — WASHINGTON — Lost amid the election-year wrangling over the militants' attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya, is a complex back story involving growing regional resentment against heavily armed American private …
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New York Times:
Focus Was on Tripoli in Requests for Security in Libya
Focus Was on Tripoli in Requests for Security in Libya
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JustOneMinute, New York Magazine and Politico
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Florida GOP Group Uses Image Of Dead Ambassador's Body In Obama Attack Ad
Florida GOP Group Uses Image Of Dead Ambassador's Body In Obama Attack Ad
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Taylor Marsh, National Stonewall Democrats and AMERICAblog
Washington Post:
Romney tries to bury Obama in ads — Republican nominee Mitt Romney and his allies are banking heavily on a high-risk, high-reward media strategy in the final weeks of the campaign, hoping that burying President Obama in ads will give them a crucial edge on Election Day.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
How Biden could become Romney's VP … It might be hard to believe after his assault on Mitt Romney in last night's debate, but there's a scenario under which Joe Biden could serve as Mitt Romney's vice president. — As noted in an earlier post, there are plausible scenarios under …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
In Biden's Debate, Aides See Inspiration but Don't Expect Imitation
In Biden's Debate, Aides See Inspiration but Don't Expect Imitation
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
TiVo: ‘47 percent’ exchange most-watched
TiVo: ‘47 percent’ exchange most-watched
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Piers Morgan, CNN and News Desk
Jjesselli / The Smoking Gun:
Cleveland Bus Driver Suspended After Decking Unruly Female Rider With Brutal Bolo Punch — Buster — A Cleveland municipal bus driver has been suspended after video surfaced this week showing him decking a mouthy female rider with a bolo punch. — The confrontation between …
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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit and Riehl World News
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Cracks in Maryland and Washington Voter Databases — Computer security experts have identified vulnerabilities in the voter registration databases in two states, raising concerns about the ability of hackers and others to disenfranchise voters. — In the last five years …
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Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
“Million Muppet March” planned to defend U.S. backing for PBS — (Reuters) - Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's “Sesame Street,” from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the “Million Muppet March.”
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web — Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat …
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Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, Guardian, The Other McCain, PolicyMic, BuzzFeed, Mother Jones and Betabeat
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXXVIII — The broader concerns about Mitt Romney's comfort with dishonesty reached a milestone this week — it got The Onion treatment. (Remember, this is satire. The quotes in this excerpt are not actual quotes.)
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Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Poll: Strong presidential debate helps Mitt Romney move ahead of President Obama by 7 points among Florida voters — With a dramatic shift among Florida voters, Mitt Romney moves past President Barack Obama, according to new poll. The key factor: Romney's debate performance. — MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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The Moderate Voice, Israpundit and Outside the Beltway
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 11: Obama's Swing State ‘Firewall’ Has Brittle Foundation
Oct. 11: Obama's Swing State ‘Firewall’ Has Brittle Foundation
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Talking Points Memo and The People's View