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3:00 PM ET, September 20, 2012

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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Pawlenty to take over as Financial Services Roundtable CEO  —  Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will take over one of K Street's most prestigious jobs as CEO of the Financial Services Roundtable.  —  The group announced Thursday morning that the former GOP candidate for president …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Pawlenty Is Leaving Romney Campaign for Lobbying Post  —  Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, is resigning as a national co-chairman of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign to take a job in Washington as a top lobbyist for a group representing banks and financial companies.
Dave Clarke / Politico:
Pawlenty to head bank lobbying group
Discussion: Firedoglake, AEIdeas and Daily Kos
CNN:
Source: Slain ambassador Stevens said he was on al Qaeda list  —  (CNN) — In the months leading up to his death, Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, worried about constant security threats in Benghazi and mentioned that his name was on an al Qaeda hit list, a source familiar with his thinking told CNN.
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Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   U.S. official calls Benghazi consulate assault ‘terrorist attack’ amid tough questioning over security
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Libya attack was ‘terrorist’ strike, but not planned, says U.S. official
Washington Examiner:
The Obama you don't know  —  Few if any of his predecessors took the oath of office with higher public hopes for his success than President Obama on Jan. 20, 2009.  —  Millions of Americans hailed his election as an end to partisanship, a renewal of the spirit of compromise and a reinvigoration …
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Jeff Dunetz / “The Lid”:
Report Blows HUGE Hole In Obama's Fake Biography  —  The Washington Examiner has investigated the narrative given to us by Barack Obama and the Democratic party and found it filled with lies.  The truth is the president had a privileged up-bringing, went to the best schools throughout his life.
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Voter ID and Voter “Virtue”  —  If you want a sense of what motivates the politicans and activists who push for voter identification laws, look no further than this quote from Pennsylvania State Representative Darryl Metcalfe: … As always, it's worth noting the extent to which the “47%” …
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Philly.com:
Metcalfe says ‘lazy’ people don't deserve to vote
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Raw Story
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:   Sponsor Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Defends Romney, Says ‘Lazy’ People Also Shouldn't Vote
First Read:
Romney: ‘This is a campaign about the 100 percent’  —  Updated at 8:02 a.m. ET: MIAMI — Mitt Romney said his campaign is about “100 percent” of Americans as his campaign continued to work to contain the fallout from controversial comments he made at a private fundraiser in May.
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Reuters:
Romney rescue plan: More Mitt  —  BOSTON - More Mitt.  —  After taking a beating for comments he privately wishes he never made and from conservative critics he wishes he could muzzle, Mitt Romney and his campaign are settling on a rescue plan to show more of him - in ads, speeches and campaign appearances.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Romney's Video-Debunking Claim Is...Debunked  —  This is getting ridiculous.  —  After Mother Jones posted video of Mitt Romney sharing remarks with millionaire donors that he would never express to voters—noting that nearly half of the American electorate are moochers and that Romney …
William D. Cohan / Business Week:
Rethinking Robert Rubin  —  Bill Clinton has a favorite Robert Rubin story.  It's 1999, and the Cabinet has gathered to discuss the business of the American people.  Except no one can focus because the impeachment crisis is raging, and even the most veteran Washington power players are, for lack of a better term, freaking out.
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Sheila Bair / Fortune:
Sheila Bair and the bailout bank titans
Discussion: AEIdeas
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
CAPTION THIS: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Wrote Something On Her Hand, Too.  What is this, middle school?  —  UPDATE: Meanwhile, on the just-plain-creepy side: Actress Jessica Alba asks voters to pledge allegiance to Obama.  I understand that actors are generally none-too-bright, and none-too-educated, but still. . . .
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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Republicans at risk of losing the House?  —  Conditions through August showed a 2% lead on the generic Congressional ballot for Democrats.  As of September 20th, in the wake of the Democratic convention, the lead has widened to 4.0 +/- 2.0%.  Although it has yet to be appreciated by pundits …
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com:
Guess who's trashing Obama campaign signs in Austin, Texas?  —  Texas may be a red state but the capital of Austin is Obama country.  It's thus not unusual to see myriad Obama campaign signs in nice neighborhoods — displayed on one manicured front lawn after another.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and KXAN-TV
CNN:
Dave Matthews makes (and talks) history  —  (CNN) — Dave Matthews supported Barack Obama in the presidential race of 2008, and he's supporting him again in 2012 — but not without reservations.  —  The multi-platinum Grammy winner laments, “I wish there was a third party, but right now …
Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
New York Post:
O eyes ‘blind sheik’ release  —  The Obama administration is weighing the release of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the spiritual adviser to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers — in a stunning goodwill gesture toward Egypt that has touched off a political firestorm, officials said yesterday.
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
UMass/Herald poll: Scott Brown in slight lead vs. Warren  —  U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has moved into a narrow lead over rival Elizabeth Warren while his standing among Massachusetts voters has improved despite a year-long Democratic assault, a new UMass Lowell/Boston Herald poll shows.
Gallup:
Democratic Enthusiasm Swells in the Swing States, Nationally  —  Overall, 59% of swing-state voters now highly enthusiastic, up from 46% in June  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Voters in the 12 states USA Today and Gallup consider the key swing states that could decide the 2012 presidential election …
Vincent Miller / America Magazine:
Secret Ryan Transcript: Social Security and Medicare are the Target  —  This isn't from a secret video, it's from the untranscribed portion of Ryan's 2005 speech at the Atlas Society's “Celebration of Ayn Rand.”  It fits well with the Romney video because it makes clear that middle class entitlements …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
No One Left to Race Bait  —  Dave Weigel points out the difference between the covert racism of a young cagey Pat Buchanan in the days of the Southern strategy, and overt racism of the pariah Pat Buchanan banished to Fox News (emphasis added): … Calling the first black president a …
Discussion: Brad DeLong and Business Insider
Associated Press:
Pakistan: new television ads with US Embassy seal condemn anti-Islam film and feature Obama  —  ISLAMABAD — Marked by the U.S. Embassy seal, advertisements condemning an anti-Islam video appeared on Pakistani television on Thursday in an apparent attempt to undercut anger against the United States, where the film was produced.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Obama's Lead Looks Stronger in Polls That Include Cellphones  —  As I observed on Tuesday, and as The New Republic's Nate Cohn also found, Barack Obama seems to have received a much clearer bounce in some types of polls than others.  —  Although there are exceptions on either side …
United States Department of Labor:
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Amber Goodhand / RADAR:
SHOCKING AUDIO: Paris Hilton Blasts Gays Who Have Sex With Strangers: ‘Most Of Them Probably Have AIDS’  —  Paris Hilton has been caught on tape making homophobic and derogatory statements about gay men who have random sex with strangers even stating “most of them probably have AIDS.”
 
 
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Whoopi Goldberg: Mitt Romney ‘flushed his ideals down the drain’
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Harwood / New York Times:
Romney Is Latest in a Long Line to Trip Over a Tongue
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jennifer Martinez / The Hill:
STEM Jobs Act faces tough odds for House passage
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and TechCrunch
TMZ.com:
Fiona Apple — ARRESTED for Hash in Texas
Discussion: UPROXX, Union-News and The Raw Story
Washington Post:
Seven of nation's 10 most affluent counties are in Washington region
Discussion: Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Ryan assures House Republicans: ‘We are going to win this thing’
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Dane Placko / Chicago News and Weather:
Over $50K in checks stolen from Obama campaign office in Chicago: EXCLUSIVE
Lowkell / Blue Virginia:
Photos: Symbolic Lynching of “Nobama” at Bull Run Park This Weekend
Discussion: BOR, Gawker and Taylor Marsh
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas Sowell / Townhall.com:
The Fallacy of Redistribution  —  The recently discovered tape …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Issa: White House pursuing an ‘enemies list’ in Washington
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
The Professor  —  A course description for “Current Issues …
Byron York / Twitchy:
Obama campaign now selling its version of American flag, complete with ‘O’ logo