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4:50 PM ET, October 24, 2012

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After editor's blog, President Obama releases transcript of Register interview — Without comment, campaign officials for President Obama this morning released to the Des Moines Register a transcript of an interview he had Tuesday with Laura Hollingsworth, president and publisher of the Register …

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 …

TMZ.com:

Mitt Romney — Friend's Ex-Wife Claims Romney LIED to Screw Her in Divorce — Romney LIED to Screw Her in Divorce — EXCLUSIVE — We haven't heard back from the Romney campaign office — however Mitt's attorney was quoted about the Stemberg divorce in Time magazine, saying …

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BuzzFeed:

How Mitt Romney Gets So Tan — A source lets BuzzFeed in on a campaign mystery: It's a spray tan. “It's not like Mitt Romney can go chill out on a beach right now; he needs a quick fix.” — Romney speaks a the Univision Candidates' Forum moderated in Miami on September 19.

Discussion: AMERICAblog, New York Magazine, Gawker, Daily Download, The Daily Dish and Washington Examiner

Mark Halperin / The Page:

Always at the End — There's a classic Matt Drudge, Gloria Allred, and Internet Freak Show fire getting ready to go to full conflagration, and some are concerned it could embroil, or at least distract, Mitt Romney less than two weeks before Election Day. — A person familiar with the matter …

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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:

Romney stands by Mourdock, won't ask him to pull down ad — Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday reiterated its support for Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock (R), saying it will not ask him to pull down an ad featuring the GOP presidential nominee. — Mourdock stirred controversy Tuesday …

Discussion: Politico, CNN, The Huffington Post, Little Green Footballs, Esquire, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos

Irin Carmon / Salon:
Richard Mourdock, misogynist

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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

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.

Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies

Discussion: Eclectablog, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette and Conservatives4Palin

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
White House Responds to Release of Real-Time Emails About Benghazi Attack

Discussion: Hot Air, The Heritage Foundation, The Gateway Pundit, The PJ Tatler and American Power

Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Emails detail unfolding Benghazi attack on Sept. 11

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Politico:

Trump will donate for Obama records — Donald Trump said on Wednesday that if President Obama releases his college records and his passport application, the mega-millionaire developer will give a $5 million check to charities of Obama's choosing. — Trump tweeted a video of himself …

Discussion: CNN, ABCNEWS, Taegan Goddard's …, Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story and theGrio

Alix Bryan / WTVR-TV:

Donald Trump's ‘big reveal’ against Pres. Barack Obama — For days Donald Trump teased ahead to a big reveal about President Barack Obama, saying his announcement would be made with the best interest of the United States of America in mind. It turned out to be more of a bargain than a bombshell.

Discussion: Addicting Info, MyFOX8.com, The Impolitic, Althouse and The Gateway Pundit

MyFOX8.com:

Guilford Co. voters say ballot cast for Romney came up Obama on machine — GREENSBORO, N.C. -The presidential election is just around the corner and voting issues have already become a problem in Guilford County. — On Monday, several voters complained that their electronic ballot machine cast the wrong vote.

Discussion: Nice Deb, protein wisdom, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative

David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:

NETROOTS' UNHAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY — What began 10 years ago as network of progressive bloggers offering a voice they thought missing from the mainstream press has all but disappeared as a force in the Democratic Party, David Freelander reports. — Susie Madrak started blogging in 2001 …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Firedoglake, Booman Tribune, Welcome Back to Pottersville, Mock, Paper, Scissors and Suburban Guerrilla

Bob / BobKrumm.com:

A choice or a referendum? — If you're in the Obama campaign-or a numerologist sympathetic to it-you probably console yourself with comparisons to polling results from 2008. Today Barack Obama is running about three points behind where he was at this point in the race two years ago …

Jason Kuznicki / The League of Ordinary Gentlemen: The Towering Legacy of George W. Bush

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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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent | Glenn Greenwald

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:

For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September suggests that economic activity has continued to expand at a moderate pace in recent months. Growth in employment has been slow, and the unemployment rate remains elevated.

Discussion: New York Times, FT Alphaville and Business Insider

Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:

Obama's Edge: The Ground Game That Could Put Him Over the Top — In a close election, the president's sophisticated organization — which Republicans don't seem to have matched — could make all the difference. — Reuters — STERLING, Virginia — A giant chalkboard takes up a wall …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Reuters and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Mark Halperin / The Page:

The Latest View from One Prudential Plaza: Why the Obama Campaign Is (Still) So Confident About Beating Romney — 47% is probably the most famous number to come out of the 2012 presidential campaign. That's the percentage of Americans Mitt Romney suggested he was writing off when captured …

Discussion: GOP 12

New York Times:

Obama Is Prominent in ‘SEAL Team Six,’ Weinstein Film — LOS ANGELES — Thanks to the magic of editing, President Obama will have a starring role in a television drama about one of his biggest accomplishments — the killing of Osama bin Laden — that will be shown just two nights before the presidential election.

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Reuters:

Democrats borrow $17 million for final House push — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has taken out a $17 million line of credit to fund a final push to seize the House majority, a party official familiar with the transaction tells POLITICO. — Facing an uphill path to winning …

Discussion: Election 2012

Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:

Eastwood Is Back in a Campaign Ad for Romney — Clint Eastwood is back on the Republican stage. But this time there's a script, a 30-second time limit and none of the potential tripwires of live television. — Mr. Eastwood, whose long and sometimes incoherent monologue …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Politico, The Daily Caller, Towleroad News #gay and Taylor Marsh

Jack Healy / New York Times:

‘Castle’ Law at Issue After Fatal Montana Shooting — KALISPELL, Mont. — The last mistake Dan Fredenberg made was getting killed in another man's garage. — It was Sept. 22, and Mr. Fredenberg, 40, was upset. He strode up the driveway of a quiet subdivision here to confront Brice Harper …

Discussion: Democracy in America, Hit & Run and Balloon Juice

Donovan Slack / Politico:

Biden and the gushing women... SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Given the reception Vice President Joe Biden received at a field office here Tuesday, it's a wonder that he and the president are not faring better in the polls with seniors. It's clear that Biden, at least, appears to be faring well with senior ladies.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools

Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:

Paul Ryan in Ohio: 'In this war on poverty, poverty's winning' — GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Wednesday said that “poverty's winning” in America due to the current administration's policies. — “Upward mobility is the central promise of life in America.

Discussion: Politico

Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:

Survey finds that professors, already liberal, have moved further to the left — By — Academics, on average, lean to the left. A survey being released today suggests that they are moving even more in that direction. — Among full-time faculty members at four-year colleges and universities …

Discussion: ProfessorBainbridge.com

BuzzFeed:

Obama Says To Look At “Videotape” For His Flip-Flops — The President hit Mitt Romney for flip-flopping today on the campaign trail in Iowa saying you can look at videotape of his past positions and not see flip-flops. The President, however, has engaged in his own of political gymnastics as well.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler

John Sides / The Monkey Cage:

How Strong Is the U.S. Navy Really? — This is a guest post by political scientists Brian Crisher and Mark Souva. — In the last debate, Governor Romney made the claim that the US Navy is the smallest it's been since 1916 implying that the US Navy is regressing in terms of overall strength.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, Villainous Company and Guardian

WYFF-TV:

President Obama booed during Clemson game — Reaction mars ROTC induction, Clemson president says — The president of Clemson University is chastising those who booed President Barack Obama during the college's Military Appreciation Day at last weekend's game.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit