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White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails — (Reuters) - Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
State Department emails from day of Libya attack show Al Qaeda-tied group on radar — A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows some some of the initial assessments of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya, including one email within hours of the attack …
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Bob Woodward: Obama ‘mistaken’ on sequester — Bob Woodward says President Barack Obama got some of his facts wrong on sequester at Monday night's debate. — Woodward's book, “The Price of Politics,” has been the go-to fact check source for the president's answer, in which he claimed …
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Mourdock: God at Work When Rape Leads to Pregnancy — Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said Tuesday when a woman is impregnated during a rape, “it's something God intended.” — Mourdock was asked during the final minutes of a debate whether abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest.
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something that God intended to happen’
Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something that God intended to happen’
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Romney Campaign Says He Disagrees With Mourdock's Rape Comments
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Eric Bradner / Evansville Courier & Press Stories:
Romney disavows Mourdock rape comment
Romney disavows Mourdock rape comment
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Republican Senate Candidate: Conception From Rape ‘Is Something That God Intended’
Republican Senate Candidate: Conception From Rape ‘Is Something That God Intended’
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something God intended to happen’
Mourdock: Pregnancy from rape can be ‘something God intended to happen’
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Rick Green / Des Moines Register:
Register editor: Obama off-the-record comments deserve to be shared with voters — The Des Moines Register's publisher and I spoke with President Barack Obama this morning — but we can't tell you what he said. — Just four days before the Register's presidential endorsement is released …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / The Caucus:
About Those Horses and Bayonets ... Yes, the American military still uses bayonets, and quite a few. There are horses too. — When Mitt Romney complained during Monday night's presidential debate that the Navy “is smaller now than at any time since 1917,” President Obama shot back with …
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Barack Obama RIPPED By Bayonet Company — We're Still Relevant, Dammit!
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Julian E. Barnes / Washington Wire:
Not to Be a Stickler on Bayonets, But ...
Not to Be a Stickler on Bayonets, But ...
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Greg Wilson / Fox News:
Obama debate jab implies bayonets obsolete, but don't tell it to the Marines
Obama debate jab implies bayonets obsolete, but don't tell it to the Marines
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Donald Trump to reveal ‘divorce papers of Michelle and Barack Obama’, claims respected financial pundit — Donald Trump is to claim that he has unearthed divorce papers of Michelle Obama and the President, according to a respected financial pundit with links to the tycoon.
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Romney Says He's Winning — It's a Bluff — In recent days, the vibe emanating from Mitt Romney's campaign has grown downright giddy. Despite a lack of any evident positive momentum over the last week — indeed, in the face of a slight decline from its post-Denver high …
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Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
The Liberal Media, in Love With Our Narrative
The Liberal Media, in Love With Our Narrative
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Charlie Cook / The Atlantic Online:
Despite a Strong Debate Campaign, Romney's Path to 270 Remains Steep
Despite a Strong Debate Campaign, Romney's Path to 270 Remains Steep
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Reality vs. “Reality” — Today may be the most important single day of the campaign.
Reality vs. “Reality” — Today may be the most important single day of the campaign.
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President Obama's 11th-hour strategy shift — Everything was going great for Barack Obama until about 9:04 on the night of Oct. 3, when Mitt Romney startled everybody by refusing to live up to his caricature as The Worst Candidate Ever. — Romney's late-game comeback …
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Court Battle Over His Involvement in Bitter Divorce — Mitt Romney was heavily involved in the extremely messy divorce of one of his key supporters ... and the Boston Globe is going to court first thing Wednesday morning in an attempt to unseal the court file as well as lift a gag order ... TMZ has learned.
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists — Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.”
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The myth of the myth of apologies — President Obama is right …
The myth of the myth of apologies — President Obama is right …
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The Towering Legacy of George W. Bush — Conventional wisdom errs when it says that George W. Bush was incompetent. He was a president of overwhelming influence, the most effective chief executive since FDR. We live in the world that W. created, for good or — mostly — for ill.
PoliPundit.com:
Could this be a wave election? — The conventional wisdom is that the presidential race is perched on a knife's edge, and that the parties will be even in the Senate. — But what if that's not the case? — Barack Obama has been exposed as just another politician, and a failed one at that.
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Wall Street Journal:
Plenty of Debates, Not Much About States — Democrats regard federalism as quaint, Republicans at least pay lip service to it. — In the presidential debates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ranged across dozens of topics, but an important one didn't come up: federalism. And no wonder.
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Obama holds narrow edge two weeks ahead of election: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pulled slightly ahead of Republican Mitt Romney in a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll on Tuesday, but the race remained essentially tied with two weeks to go until the November 6 election.
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Jon Cohen / The Fix:
Post-ABC tracking poll: Romney 49 percent, Obama 48
Post-ABC tracking poll: Romney 49 percent, Obama 48
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Ohio County Mailer Sends Wrong Voting Location And Date To 2300 People — The Ohio Democratic Party is calling for corrections to an Ottawa County Board of Elections mailer riddled with errors. 2,300 voters in the northern Ohio county received the notice informing them the election …
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Sabrina Eaton / Plain Dealer:
Democrats blast Ottawa County elections board for giving voters the wrong election date and polling place
Democrats blast Ottawa County elections board for giving voters the wrong election date and polling place
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Signs and Omens: Obama's Fading Hope and the Graveyard Whistling Choir — Nate Silver continues to lead the Democrat Graveyard Whistling Choir, raising Obama to a 70.3% likelihood of victory based on . . . what? — I dunno. I'm not an expert with a New York Times column or anything …
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The Map — Here's my take on what the electoral college looks like now: — When I posted this on Twitter, there was some disagreement (as you might expect). Here's my reasoning/analysis: — 1. The great story of this election is Obama's collapsing support among non-Latino whites.
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