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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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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney stands by Mourdock, won't ask him to pull down ad
Romney stands by Mourdock, won't ask him to pull down ad
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Richard Mourdock: Even pregnancy from rape something “God intended”
Richard Mourdock: Even pregnancy from rape something “God intended”
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
GOP splits over Richard Mourdock comment
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 …
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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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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
Emails detail unfolding Benghazi attack on Sept. 11
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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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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent | Glenn Greenwald
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent | Glenn Greenwald
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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 …
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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 …
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Paul Krugman:
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Osborne — Schularick and Taylor have an update to their article on post-crisis economic performance. They previously showed that the United States is doing a bit better than one might have expected from the historical record. Now they show that the UK is doing significantly worse:
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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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