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11:45 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.
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine
New York Times:
Before Debates, Romney Faces a Daunting Path
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, DealBook, WBUR and Hot Air
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The Future of Capitalism:
Brown-Warren Debate  —  For a preview of the upcoming presidential …
Discussion: CBS Boston and National Review
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Warren-Brown Post-Debate Analysis (Videos added)
Discussion: CBS Boston
John Blanding / Boston Globe:
Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren use face-to-face debate to amplify themes from Senate trail
Discussion: AEIdeas and Guardian
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?"
Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots
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Dan Eggen / Election 2012:
Romney campaign gave bonuses to top staff  —  Mitt Romney's campaign handed out more than $200,000 in bonuses last month to senior staffers, according to new disclosure records filed Thursday.  —  Richard Beeson, Romney's national political director, received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31 …
Politico:
Obama flips money script on Mitt
Discussion: New York Times and National Review
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.
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Herman Cain / CNN:
TRENDING: Cain says he'd be winning  —  (CNN) - Herman Cain, the one-time frontrunner for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, offered reporters in Florida Thursday some speculation on what could have been if he had remained in the race.  —  According to the Gainesville Sun …
Discussion: Politico and Gainesville FL
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Paul Ryan / CNN:
Paul Ryan to seniors: Obamacare threatens Medicare
Discussion: Politico
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: The Mahablog
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.
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CNN:
Diplomatic missions close amid fear of more protests
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Deadly Violence Breaks Out in Pakistan as Public Holiday Begins
Discussion: The Other McCain
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 20: Obama's Convention Bounce May Not Be Receding  —  President Obama's position inched forward in the FiveThirtyEight forecast on Thursday.  His chances of winning the Electoral College are 76.1 percent, according to the forecast, up from 75.2 percent on Wednesday.
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
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 …
Col·lege In·sur·rec· tion:
Is the “Ron Paul Revolution” Too Dangerous for Auburn?  —  The odds that Ron Paul would win the Republican Presidential primary this year were always pretty slim.  But you wouldn't know that from the overheated response one student supporter at Auburn University in Alabama got when he dared …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid, Senate Dems oppose Social Security cuts in debt deal  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and 28 other members of the 53-member Senate Democratic caucus have signed a letter opposing any cuts to Social Security as part of a deficit reduction package.
 
 
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Brookings Institute:
Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Economix
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Heartland Monitor Poll: Obama Leads 50 Percent to 43 Percent
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Why Does Everybody Hate Mitt Romney?
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What John McLaughlin Sees in the Polls Right Now
Discussion: Vodkapundit
Kendah / Nielsen Wire:
Convention Speeches by the Numbers
Discussion: Politico and USA Today
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Struggles To Decide: Who Is Barack Obama
Discussion: GOP 12 and The New Republic
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New York Post:
Anti-jihad ‘savage’ ads going up in subway
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Rick Perry Blames Separation Of Church And State On Satan
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What working class whites really think about dependency and redistribution
 

 
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