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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
White House Responds to Release of Real-Time Emails About Benghazi Attack
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies
Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies
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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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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 — 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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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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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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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.
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New York Times, FT Alphaville and Business Insider
Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Obama moves to make the War on Terror permanent | Glenn Greenwald — Complete with a newly coined, creepy Orwellian euphemism - ‘disposition matrix’ - the administration institutionalizes the most extremist powers a government can claim — (updated below - Update II - Update III)
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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 …
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 …
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Jason Kuznicki / The League of Ordinary Gentlemen:
The Towering Legacy of George W. Bush
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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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.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Todd Akin's militia ties exposed — The senate candidate's claims that he had nothing to do with an extremist group is unraveling fast — On May 9, 1987, police arrested 30 anti-abortion protesters for blocking the front door of an abortion clinic in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Todd Akin was arrested at least three times during '80s abortion protests
Todd Akin was arrested at least three times during '80s abortion protests
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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