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Swing States poll: Women push Romney into lead — IN THE SWING STATES, THE POWER OF WOMEN — A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of the Swing States shows Mitt Romney with a lead among likely voters as he strengthens his standing with women in the nation's top battlegrounds.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 14: Breaking the State-National Poll Stalemate — For the last week or so, we have been hoping to decode a confusing polling landscape. President Obama still appeared to hold a narrow Electoral College lead on the basis of state-by-state surveys, while national polls were suggestive …
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Battleground Poll: Mitt more likable
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The 3 states that may decide the election
The 3 states that may decide the election
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Moderator Role Under Scrutiny — Before the Debate — In a rare example of political unity, both the Romney and Obama campaigns have expressed concern to the Commission on Presidential Debates about how the moderator of the Tuesday town hall has publicly described her role, TIME has learned.
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A reminder about the last plant-infested, CNN-run town hall debate — CNN's Candy Crowley will be moderating tomorrow night's second presidential debate. It will be a 90-minute town hall forum at Hofstra University on Long Island, east of New York City. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns signed a …
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Candy Crowley: 'I'm going to react' at debate — The town hall debate is the one presidential face-off in which the audience gets to ask the questions. — But don't tell that to moderator Candy Crowley. — Like any journalist worthy of the assignment, Crowley concedes that the debate …
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Who Will Grill the Candidates at Tuesday's Town Hall Presidential Debate?
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Charity president unhappy about Paul Ryan soup kitchen ‘photo op’ — Paul Ryan and his wife Janna wash pots at St. Vincent De Paul dining hall. (Associated Press) — The head of a northeast Ohio charity says that the Romney campaign last week “ramrodded their way” into the group's Youngstown soup kitchen …
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Michelle Obama: ‘We Are in the Midst of a Huge Recovery’ — (CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama said in a radio interview on Friday that the United States is in the “midst of a huge recovery” because of what “this president has done.” — Pablo Sato, co-host of Pablo & Free on WPGC 95.5 …
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Byron Tau / Politico:
FLOTUS: Reach out to ‘knuckleheads,’ tell them to vote
FLOTUS: Reach out to ‘knuckleheads,’ tell them to vote
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Vance Richards / Ricochet Conversations Feed:
“Would You Consider Voting for President Obama?”
“Would You Consider Voting for President Obama?”
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Frank Rich / New York Magazine:
The Tea Party Will Win in the End — This is a nation that loathes government and always has. Liberals should not be deluded: The Goldwater revolution will ultimately triumph, regardless of what happens in November. — Were the 2012 campaign a Hitchcock movie, Mitt Romney would be the MacGuffin …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Group Launches Racist ‘Obama Phone’ Ad
Tea Party Group Launches Racist ‘Obama Phone’ Ad
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Our Awful Economy, In One Chart — Michelle Obama says we are “in the midst of a huge recovery.” That claim is laughable to anyone who has lived through the last four years; this simple chart from the Senate Budget Committee highlights one of the central failings of Obamanomics …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
For Every Person Added to Labor Force, 10 Added to Those Not in Labor Force — A new chart from the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee details the fact that, since January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in the labor force.
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Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:
Romney Is Attacked by His Father's Longtime Aide — A longtime aide to George W. Romney issued a harshly worded critique of Mitt Romney, accusing him of shifting political positions in “erratic and startling ways” and failing to live up to the distinguished record of his father, the former governor of Michigan.
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Romney Raises $170 Million to Finance Final Push — Mitt Romney and the Republican Party have begun a late push to raise tens of millions of dollars in the closing weeks of the election, cash that will finance a last-minute barrage of advertising that Mr. Romney's aides believe is critical to beating President Obama.
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Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer — Is Romney really a job creator? Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, takes a scalpel to the claims. — Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets …
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Why the early vote looks good for Democrats — It's still very early in the early voting process, but at least for now, Democrats can be optimistic that they are building a lead in the 2012 presidential race. — Absentee and early voting data from nine states that are generally viewed …
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Tommy Thompson's Son Apologizes For Birther Joke — Jason Thompson, son of former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, publicly apologized for a remark he made at an event Sunday while speaking on behalf of his father's Senate campaign — in which he made a joke alluding to the conspiracy theories about President Obama's place of birth.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Jihadists Receiving Most Arms Sent to Syrian Rebels — WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood
The new Middle East coverup: Biden caught in Syria debate falsehood
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Bush in the Wilderness — And should that happen, the answer in be 2016 may be a GOP nominee with the courage of his more centrist positions. In other words: Jeb. Even his own son, George P., acknowledges that his father's declaration that 2012 was “probably my time” contains a significant caveat.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Romney can win — and how Obama can avoid it — One thing Obama urgently needs to prevent during tomorrow's debate is this: He can't allow Mitt Romney to become the candidate of change in this race. And that may be in the process of happening. — In an interview this morning …
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November 7th — Though their agendas are hidden, both Romney and Obama have plans to dramatically remake the size and character of American government. Very, very quickly. — If you ask Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, or merely wander in front of a television when they are speaking …
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Gary Johnson Libertarian Candidate Worries Republicans — When he was running for the Republican presidential nomination last year, Gary Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, drew ridicule from mainstream party members as he advocated legalized marijuana and a 43 percent cut in military spending.
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