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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Romney's Dog-Whistle Campaign Bears Predictable Fruit — I'm sure you're about as shocked as I am that this shirt showed up at a Romney campaign event in Ohio. Which is to say, not even remotely. — Via Andrew Kaczynski at Buzzfeed: … Now, candidates can't really be blamed for all the nutcases they attract.
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Man At Romney Rally Wears Mindblowingly Offensive Shirt — The Getty Images photo was taken at a Romney/Ryan campaign event in Lancaster, Ohio on Friday. — Andrew Kaczynski
The Huffington Post:
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Bfearnowcbs / CBS Tampa:
Florida Passes Plan For Racially-Based Academic Goals — Palm Beach, Fla. (CBS TAMPA) - The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for students in math and reading based upon their race. — On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018 …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 51-46 in Ohio — PPP's newest Ohio poll finds Barack Obama leading 51-46, a 5 point lead not too different from our last poll two weeks ago when he led 49-45. — The key finding on this poll may be how the early voters are breaking out. 19% of people say they've already cast …
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Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Daily Breakdown: Romney's Best Polling Day Yet — After a week of swing state polls going Obama's way, Romney finally added a wave of strong showings in the battleground states while preserving his lead in the national polls. — This is probably Romney's best polling day of this election.
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Kevin DuJan / HillBuzz.org:
DOOM ANTIDOTE: Evidence that Democrats are in “Last Days of Pompeii” mode — [Note: skip to the 1:02:00 mark to see a more or less historically accurate interpretation of what's going to happen to Democrats on November 6th, 2012 ] — When I was a kid, ABC played a miniseries called …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW!... Ohio Coal Miners to Obama: Quit Lying About Us! — Ohio coal miners read a letter to Obama on Friday. — Ohio miners gathered Friday afternoon read aloud a letter the miners mailed to Obama. They told the president to quit lying about them in his ads. (Herald Star Online)
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Obama bites the hand that feeds him — Former President Clinton has been working overtime to drag Barack Obama across the finish line in this year's election. Clinton has been hands-down President Obama's most effective advocate. His personal credibility may not be substantial …
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Ben Geman / Ballot Box:
Springsteen hitting the road for Obama
Springsteen hitting the road for Obama
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Al Arabiya / Alarabiya.net English:
Hezbollah's CFO flees to Israel carrying stolen money, classified documents — Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah wave Hezbollah flags as a poster depicting their leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is held in the background during a rally in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
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American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest:
President Obama weighs in on Mariah Carey/Nicki Minaj fight — The president calls in to Miamis YO! Show on Y100 to discuss the recent American Idol spat — Earlier today, President Obama called into Y100s Michael YO! Show, where he weighed in on a very serious topic plaguing the pop world …
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Lara Logan: “Our Way of Life is Under Attack” (VIDEO) — The quotes and excerpts of Lara Logan's speech don't really properly capture it the way that watching the video does. This is an emotional speech and it's unusual because it's been a while since we've heard anyone talk like this.
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Charles Duhigg / New York Times:
Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote — Strategists affiliated with the Obama and Romney campaigns say they have access to information about the personal lives of voters at a scale never before imagined. And they are using that data to try to influence voting habits — in effect …
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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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Obama Should Slam Romney On His ‘Six Studies’ Falsehood Over Tax Plan
Obama Should Slam Romney On His ‘Six Studies’ Falsehood Over Tax Plan
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New York Times:
Focus Was on Tripoli in Requests for Security in Libya — WASHINGTON — In the weeks leading up to the attack last month on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats on the ground sounded increasingly urgent alarms.
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Patrick Burke / CNSNews:
State Dept. Confirms: Marines on 9/11/12 Were Protecting U.S. Embassy—in Barbados
State Dept. Confirms: Marines on 9/11/12 Were Protecting U.S. Embassy—in Barbados
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The Jawa Report and Right Wing News