Obama slips, still has lead  —  Poll finds Romney support growing among males while the President commands a large section of central and northern Ohio.  —  ZOOM  —  The Ohio Newspaper Poll  —  The telephone poll - which used both land lines and cell phones - of 1,015 likely voters across Ohio …

Andrew Sullivan To ABC: If Romney Wins Florida And VA, It's The ‘Confederacy’  —  During this Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan claimed that if Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins back Florida and Virginia in the upcoming 2012 presidential election …

Gazette endorsement for president: Romney  —  President Barack Obama has made his mark during his historic first term.  The Affordable Care Act of 2010, a massive overhaul of the health care system that has some features we support.  A stimulus measure that the majority of economists …

Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports  —  Israel was told about and opposed president's diplomatic incentives package, initiated soon after he took office, and Iran rebuffed it, according to Maariv  —  Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began …

Gingrich: Obama Cancels Campaign Trips Due to Hurricane, Didn't Cancel Them Over Benghazi  —  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich took quite a shot at Barack Obama Sunday.  —  Appearing on ABC's This Week, Gingrich said of the President, “You'll notice he's canceling his trips over the hurricane.

Why I Am Pro-Life  —  HARD-LINE conservatives have gone to new extremes lately in opposing abortion.  Last week, Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, declared during a debate that he was against abortion even in the event of rape because after much thought he …

Oct. 26: State Poll Averages Usually Call Election Right  —  The FiveThirtyEight forecast model has found the past several days of battleground state polling to be reasonably strong for Barack Obama, with his chances of winning the Electoral College increasing as a result.

President in Shining Armor  —  FAR in the future, long after today's partisan passions have cooled, some enterprising women's studies doctoral student will be able to write a fascinating dissertation on the rhetoric and iconography surrounding gender in Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.

Third Party Nihilism: The Arguments Can Always Get Worse!  —  To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia.  Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but 1)with fewer references to Madonna …