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8:25 AM ET, September 19, 2012

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Michael Barbaro / The Caucus:
A Mood of Gloom Afflicts the Romney Campaign  —  SALT LAKE CITY - Mitt Romney's traveling press secretary walked to the back of the candidate's plane midflight on Tuesday and teasingly asked a pair of journalists in an exit row if they were “willing and able to assist in case of an emergency.”
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser  —  Mitt Romney wanted the full tape.  Here it is.  —  On Monday and Tuesday Mother Jones published exclusive video that captured Mitt Romney speaking to donors at a May 17 fundraiser, which was held at the home of private equity mogul Mark Leder.
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Sen. Brown denounces Romney comments  —  Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) came out in opposition to Mitt Romney's controversial remarks on the “47 percent.”  —  Brown, who has been distancing himself from elements of the Republican Party, joins GOP Senate candidate in Connecticut Linda McMahon in coming out against the statements.
Benny Johnson / TheBlaze.com:
IS THE SECRET VIDEO OF ROMNEY AT FUNDRAISER REALLY UNEDITED?  WE MAY HAVE PROOF OTHERWISE  —  Tuesday afternoon, the site Mother Jones released what was described as the “full,” “raw and uncut” video of Mitt Romney's comments at a private campaign fundraiser, which has drawn immense criticism from both sides.
Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama leads Romney nationally by 5 points  —  Fueled by increased optimism about the economy and nation's direction, President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney by 5 points among likely voters and now sees his job-approval rating reaching the 50 percent threshold for the first time since March …
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CBS News:
Poll: Obama leads in Virginia, Wisconsin; Tight in Colorado  —  (CBS News) President Obama holds a narrow lead over Mitt Romney in the key swing states of Virginia, Wisconsin and Colorado, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times survey.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Massachusetts Miscellany  —PPP's newest Massachusetts poll …
Discussion: Politico and Weekly Standard
James Taranto / Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Time for an Intervention  —  What should Mitt Romney do now?  He should peer deep into the abyss.  He should look straight into the heart of darkness where lies a Republican defeat in a year the Republican presidential candidate almost couldn't lose.  He should imagine what it will mean for the country …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Mitt Romney's ‘Severe Conservatism’  —  “I was a severely conservative Republican governor,” Mitt Romney told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2012.  —  Severely conservative?  —  Conservatives snickered.  “I may be a little giddy here,” Rush Limbaugh said.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Romney Has Support Among Lowest Income Voters
Reuters:
Romney woes jangle GOP nerves  —  If political campaigns have nine lives, nervous Republicans feel Mitt Romney has used up at least eight.  —  While insisting the party is still short of full-fledged panic, the video of Romney disparaging Americans who don't pay income taxes …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Romney's missteps could cost party the Senate, strategists say  —  Republicans believe Mitt Romney's mistakes could prevent them from winning back the Senate.  —  Romney's failure to close the gap with President Obama less than 50 days before the election, as well as a variety of high-profile gaffes …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama to Romney: ‘You have to work for everyone’ as president  —  President Obama on Tuesday lectured Mitt Romney for “writing off a big chunk of the country” in his first remarks about the GOP presidential nominee's controversial statements at a closed-door fundraiser.
Discussion: Pat Dollard
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: 'There's More Than Enough Blame to Spread Around'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Talking Points Memo:
Mary Matalin: Thanks To Romney, We Can Single Out ‘Parasites’  —  Conservative commentator Mary Matalin hailed Mitt Romney's “47 percent” line on CNN as good news for Republicans.  —  “There are makers and takers, there are producers and there are parasites,” she said.
BuzzFeed:
Romney Defends Leaked Comments, Hits Obama For 1998 “Redistribution” Line  —  On Fox News Tuesday, the Republican presidential nominee hit the president for a recently uncovered clip in which he says he “actually likes redistribution.”  Romney also defended his comments about 47% of Americans who he says will vote for Obama.
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Fred Thys / WBUR:
WBUR Senate Poll: Warren Leads Brown By 5  —  BOSTON — A WBUR poll of 507 likely Massachusetts voters (PDFs — topline, crosstabs) finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren leading Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, 45 percent to 40 percent.  The survey has a 4.4 percent margin of error.
Rosalind Rossi / Chicago Sun Times:
Chicago Public Schools teachers' strike over  —  The Chicago teachers' strike is over.  —  The Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates voted Tuesday to end its strike after seven days, meaning classes will be in session Wednesday for 350,000 Chicago Public Schools students.
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Bryan Caplan / EconLog:
Will False Belief in the SIVH Destroy Romney's Candidacy?  —  Many people believe that voters' positions are determined by their objective self-interest.  I call this the SIVH - the Self-Interested Voter Hypothesis.  A massive body of evidence shows that the SIVH is just plain wrong.
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
NEWSPAPER AD REVENUES COLLAPSE TO 1950 LEVELS  —  There are three important things to keep in mind when looking at this gorgeous graph: … Sometimes it doesn't feel like we're winning, because the corrupt media still has the power to create its own reality - to create the illusion …
Discussion: Power Line and Nice Deb
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight Forecast: G.O.P. Senate Hopes Slipping  —  Democrats are now favored to retain control of the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast, breaking a summer stalemate during which control of the chamber appeared about equally likely to go either way.
 
 
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