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Des Moines Register:
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 …
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
White House Responds to Release of Real-Time Emails About Benghazi Attack — The White House this morning attempted to down-play the significance of emails sent to top national security officials during the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 …
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Emails detail unfolding Benghazi attack on Sept. 11
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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 …
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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 …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Ohio: Obama 48%, Romney 48% — With just two weeks to go until Election Day, the race for Ohio's 18 Electoral College votes is a tie. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters, taken the night after the final presidential debate, shows both President Obama and Mitt Romney attracting 48% of the vote.
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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.
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Politico:
Trump will donate for Obama records
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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.
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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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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 …
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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.
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
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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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
A See-No-Evil CEO For The NY Times? — The October Surprisers are enduring quite the October surprise themselves - the NY Times incoming CEO, Mark Thompson, is embroiled in one of the largest scandals ever to rock the BBC. From the AP: — LONDON (AP) — The child abuse scandal …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Team O's Jewish woes — Debate exposed an obvious fear — It was not surprising that President Obama took the opportunity to say kind things about Israel during Monday's debate — which after all was held in Boca Raton, the Mecca (if you will) of Jewish retirement communities.
Lauren Ashburn / Daily Download:
Ginger White On Her Media Coverage: ‘In Your Face, America’ — Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz — Nearly a year after being battered by the media in the heat of a presidential campaign, Ginger White says she plans to prove that she had a 13-year affair with Herman Cain.
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 …
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