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10:30 AM ET, September 21, 2012

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O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Ann Romney, to critics in GOP: “You want to try it?  Get in the ring.”  (AUDIO)  —  Ann Romney says fellow Republicans who've criticized her husband need to “stop it” and realize “how lucky” the party is to have Mitt Romney as its nominee.  —  Ann Romney spoke late this afternoon to about 200 people …
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Wall Street Journal:
Headwinds for Romney in Latest Poll Results  —  Mitt Romney's path to victory is narrowing, new polling data suggest, presenting challenges for the Republican nominee at a moment when he is trying to rebound from a week of bad headlines by refocusing on federal spending.
Mark Murray / First Read:
Polls: Obama ahead in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin  —  President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin, reaching the key 50 percent support threshold in all three battlegrounds, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls of these states.
New York Times:
Before Debates, Romney Faces a Daunting Path  —  WASHINGTON — There are seven days until early voting begins in Iowa, less than two weeks until the first debate and 46 days left in the race for Mitt Romney to change the dynamic of a campaign that by many indicators is tilting against him.
Discussion: CNN and Prairie Weather
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 20: Obama's Convention Bounce May Not Be Receding
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama pressed on failures at Univision forum  —  CORAL GABLES, Fla. - President Barack Obama on Thursday faced some of the toughest questioning of his reelection campaign to date, pressed repeatedly on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and other unmet promises from his 2008 run.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC web video seizes on Obama ‘change’ comment
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Struggles To Decide: Who Is Barack Obama
Discussion: GOP 12 and The New Republic
Politico:
Obama changes ‘Change’
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Wire
The Right Scoop:
BOOM!  Romney tells crowd we'll give Obama a chance to change Washington from the outside in November!
Discussion: Hot Air
The Future of Capitalism:
Brown-Warren Debate  —  For a preview of the upcoming presidential debate, you could do worse than taking a look at the video or transcript of the hourlong debate that happened September 20 between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown, the candidates for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
Discussion: CBS Boston and National Review
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Warren-Brown Post-Debate Analysis (Videos added)  —  I will add to this, and embed videos when available, but here's my quick take.  (Full video here)  —  Very strong opening for Brown on fake Cherokee issue.  He didn't handle it the way I would have, but he picked an issue …
Discussion: CBS Boston
Barry Chin / Boston Globe:
In crucial first debate, Scott Brown challenges Warren's Native American heritage claim  —  Republican US Senator Scott Brown questioned Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren's claim of Native American heritage in the opening moments of a lively high-stakes television debate tonight.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and DealBook
John Blanding / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren use face-to-face debate to amplify themes from Senate trail
Discussion: AEIdeas and Guardian
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High  —  Fewer Americans closely following political news now than in previous election years  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' distrust in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.
Bloomberg:
Pakistan TV Airs Obama Ad Denouncing Anti-Islam Video  —  Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf appealed for calm as security forces bid to counter violent protests against an anti-Islam film that continues to spark demonstrations in the Muslim world.
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Violence Breaks Out in Pakistan as Public Holiday Begins
Discussion: The Other McCain
CNN:
Diplomatic missions close amid fear of more protests
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Romney Needs a New CEO  —  How to save a listing campaign, the Baker Way.  —  “Nothing is written.”  That was T.E. Lawrence to the Arab tribesmen in Robert Bolt's screenplay, a masterpiece, of “Lawrence of Arabia.”  You write no one off.  Nothing is inevitable.  Life is news—"What happened today?"
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Shaky Libya Narrative  —  In the days after the consulate assault in Benghazi, the administration insisted a spontaneous protest got out of hand.  Then it slowly transitioned into calling the events a ‘terrorist attack.’ Eli Lake on how the story changed.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Disdain for Workers  —  By now everyone knows how Mitt Romney, speaking to donors in Boca Raton, washed his hands of almost half the country — the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes — declaring, “My job is not to worry about those people.  I'll never convince them that they should take …
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
Andrew Mitchell insults police at Downing Street by calling them ‘f***ing plebs’  —  Chief Whip's rant just one day after cop killings  —  Rant ... Conservative cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell pushing his bicycle  —  A MILLIONAIRE Cabinet minister was threatened with arrest …
Discussion: BBC, Spectator and Guardian
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
IG: White House ‘Made it Impossible’ to Pursue Lead in Fast and Furious Probe  —  (CNSNews.com) - The White House's refusal to release communications related to the Fast and Furious gun-walking program and the refusal of a White House official to be interviewed about the matter “made it impossible” …
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First Read:
First Thoughts: Obama's battleground edge grows  —  Obama's edge grows in NBC battleground map... 243 EVs in Obama's column, 191 in Romney's, and 104 in Toss-up category... NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of CO, IA, and WI provide evidence of the past week taking a toll on Romney... Romney's lost week …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Life Expectancy for Less Educated Whites in U.S. Is Shrinking  —  For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live longer than their parents.  But there is now mounting evidence that this enduring trend has reversed itself for the country's least-educated whites …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
Mitt Romney ‘Dyed His Face Brown’ to Appeal to Latino Voters  —  Mitt Romney currently trails President Obama among registered Latino voters by nearly 40%, and getting caught saying things like “it would be helpful to be Latino” certainly isn't helping.  —  But has it gotten so bad that Romney …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Collapse of the Cairo Doctrine  —  In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama's foreign policy.  It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations of the Bush years …
Discussion: Power Line, Betsy's Page and Hit & Run
David Hinckley / NY Daily News:
Joe Biden - not Mitt Romney, President Obama, Bill Clinton or Clint Eastwood - most watched convention speaker in landslide!  —  Vice president's speech watched by 14.7% of the 289.7 million people who live in U.S. television homes: Nielsen  —  Vice President Joe Biden makes his point during …
 
 
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Aki Ito / Bloomberg:
Fed's Kocherlakota Wants to See Jobless Rate Cut to 5.5%
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Your tax dollars at work: State Department now running TV ads in Pakistan denouncing Mohammed movie
Financial Times:
EU in talks over Spanish rescue plan
Discussion: Business Insider
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney intensifies swing-state campaign schedule, attacks on Obama
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Paul Ryan to seniors: Obamacare threatens Medicare
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New York Post:
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
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Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Fiona Govan / Telegraph:
Elderly woman who botched religious fresco demands royalties