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1:35 AM ET, October 17, 2012

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Crowley challenges Romney on Libya  —  Debate moderator Candy Crowley challenged Gov. Mitt Romney's assertion about President Barack Obama's handling of the security situation in Libya — an unexpected move that elicited a rare moment of applause from the town hall audience.
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Patrick Brennan / National Review:
‘An Act of Terror’?  —  President Obama claimed tonight that he called the Benghazi attack an act of terror the day after it occurred, in the Rose Garden.  Mitt Romney seemed skeptical, and asked him whether he stood by that statement — that he'd called it terrorism, rather than a spontaneous act arising out of a demonstration.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Candy Crowley to defy debate contract  —  In an interview with CNN this afternoon, Candy Crowley reiterated that, like past town-hall debate moderators, she intends to do more than just hold the microphone at tonight's debate in Hempstead, N.Y. — an intention that has caused concern for both campaigns.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Nearly half say Obama won showdown  —  Hempstead, New York (CNN) - Give a slight edge to President Barack Obama.  —  Forty-six percent of voters who watched Tuesday night's presidential debate said that the president won the showdown, according to a CNN/ORC International nationwide …
CNN:
Transcript: Second presidential debate
Discussion: FP Passport, Politico and Instapundit
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Obama and Romney Spar in Lively Presidential Debate
Discussion: Politico
Candy Crowley / Fox News:
Transcript of second presidential debate
Warren Cole Smith / worldmag.com:
King's crisis  —  About 2,000 people gathered on Sept. 28 at First Baptist North in Spartanburg, S.C., to hear high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives.  Among the speakers: Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell, and—keynote speaker for the evening …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Other Woman In Dinesh D'Souza Affair Is A D'Souza Fan  —  A scandal rocks the Evangelical conservative pundit circuit.  —  Source: ideniselustafter.com  —  The above is a photo of the woman who the Evangelical magazine World reported today is allegedly at a center of a storm around …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Sarah Posner / Religion Dispatches:
The Fall of D'Souza's Star? - Post by SARAH POSNER
Discussion: Holy Bullies … and The Agonist
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:   Dinesh D'Souza in Hot Water with Religious Right over Sex Scandal
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama turns it around  —  A very different President Obama showed up to tonight's debate than the one who got trounced by Mitt Romney two weeks ago.  Obama absolutely had to turn in a performance that would make his base happy — and he did that, by demonstrating a willingness …
Discussion: The New Republic and The Mahablog
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Reaction to the Second Presidential Debate  —  If President Obama had done this well in the first debate, most would have already written off Mitt Romney.  Obama won the debate decisively.  —  The president had a simple formula: Defend and explain his record while insisting that Romney wasn't being truthful.
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama gets more time  —  Amid persistent complaints and interruptions from both candidates, President Obama ultimately got more than three extra minutes of speaking time than Mitt Romney during Tuesday's debate.
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Former aide sorry for dissing Obama … Former Obama aide Neera Tanden took to Twitter on Tuesday to apologize for some choice words she uttered about her former boss.  —  In an interview with New York magazine published on Sunday, Tanden had been trying to explain why Obama …
Discussion: Gretawire
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Former Aide on Obama: 'Stunning that He's in Politics, Because He Really Doesn't Like People'
New York Magazine:
Bill & Hillary Forever
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Daily Caller
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Washington Post Columnist Launches Sexist Diatribe Against Hillary Clinton On Twitter  —  Tonight, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took responsibility for the tragic death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya.  Clinton told CNN: “I take responsibility.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Adviser says Romney will ask Obama to ‘man up’ on Libya attack at debate
Discussion: Hot Air and The Raw Story
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Wide expectation of voter fraud in Presidential race  —  The election may be three weeks away but voters on both sides of the partisan divide are already prepared to blame voter fraud if their candidate loses.  —  PPP polls over the weekend found:  —In Ohio 62% of Republicans think Democrats …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Green Party ticket arrested at debate site  —  Police arrested Green Party presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, on Tuesday after a failed attempt at attending the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y.
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Abby Phillip / ABCNEWS:
Internet Takes Off With Mitt Romney's ‘Binders Full of Women’  —  Despite all the fireworks over taxes, oil and Libya, the most buzz-worthy social media moment of Tuesday night's presidential debate was Republican nominee Mitt Romney's comment about “binders full of women.”
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obama's Town Hall Debate Dilemma  —  Friends.  —  President Obama's first debate was disastrous in two distinct ways.  He appeared listless and professorial, unable to boil down his beliefs into crisp statements, and generally looked far less like a president than did Romney — forceful …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
CNN Anchor Battles Anti-Gay Activist, Kicks Him Off After He Trashes ‘Toxic’ Homosexuality  —  CNN host Carol Costello could only stand so much anti-gay rhetoric this morning.  After allowing American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer to claim that Adolf Hitler's Nazi Stormtroopers …
Discussion: Gawker and Firedoglake
Valerie Strauss / The Answer Sheet:
French president pushing homework ban as part of ed reforms  —  How do you think this would go over in the United States?  French President François Hollande has said he will end homework as part of a series of reforms to overhaul the country's education system.  —  And the reason he wants to ban homework?
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Wall Street Journal:
France to Ban Homework. Really.
Discussion: Gawker, Forbes and Instapundit
CBS News:
Poll: Obama edges Romney in second debate  —  CBS News Second debate poll generic / CBS NEWS/AP  —  President Obama edged Mitt Romney for a win in the second presidential debate Tuesday night, 37 percent of uncommitted voters said in a CBS News instant poll.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's ‘new math’ for jobs plan doesn't add up  —  “Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs when President Obama couldn't.  First, my energy independence policy means more than 3 million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing.  My tax reform plan to lower rates …
Meredith Blake / Los Angeles Times:
Honey Boo Boo endorses Barack Obama on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’  —  Mitt Romney, you better redneck-ognize!  —  Earlier this week, troubled starlet Linsday Lohan came out in favor of the Republican nominee, but now President Obama can boast of his own dubious political endorsement.
 
 
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Obama zeroes in on female voters
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
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Romney Campaign Makes $12 Million Ad Buy
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Discussion: Politico
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
It may seem like President Obama has a big ego, but the first lady says that isn't the case.
Jason Cherkis / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney's Bain Helped Philip Morris Get U.S. High Schoolers Hooked On Cigarettes
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