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2:00 PM ET, September 26, 2012

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New York Times:
Polls Show Obama Is Widening His Lead in Ohio and Florida  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — For weeks, Republicans in Ohio have been watching with worry that the state's vital 18 electoral votes were trending away from Mitt Romney.  The anxiety has been similar in Florida, where Republicans are concerned …
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Quinnipiac University:
Obama Has Big Leads In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times Swing State Poll Finds  —  Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results  —  Clip Information and Download:  —  FLV File - For Website (1920x1080 / 61.7MB)
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Why Romney is losing must-win Ohio  —  (CNN) — Polls show Mitt Romney trailing President Barack Obama in just about every one of the swing states where the 2012 campaign is being waged.  —  But Romney appears to be in deeper trouble in Ohio than elsewhere, an alarming development for Republicans …
Florida Times Union:
President Obama holds slight lead over Mitt Romney in Times-Union Florida poll
Michael R. Crittenden / Washington Wire:
Ad Seeks to Show Romney's Compassion
Discussion: GOP 12
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Are the Polls Tilted Toward Obama?  —  Republicans, by and large, are frustrated with recent polls of the presidential election because they think Democrats are being oversampled.  Many pollsters respond by saying that “weighing” the polls for partisan identification creates …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
This Morning's Polls Project More Heavily Democratic Electorates Than 2008  —  This morning, surveys from the New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac puts Obama ahead by 10 in Ohio, up by 12 in Pennsylvania, and up by 9 in Florida.  —  Since the issue of whether the party ID within polling samples …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Sept. 25: Romney's Narrow Path Without Ohio
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:   Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT: Obama Opens Up Significant Leads In Ohio, Florida And Pennsylvania
CBS News:
Poll: Obama opens substantial leads in key swing states
Roger Simon / Politico:
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench  —  Paul Ryan has gone rogue.  He is unleashed, unchained, off the hook.  —  “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he'll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him,” Craig Robinson, a former political director …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Report: Paul Ryan Goes Rogue and Refers to “Stench” Romney
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Paul Krugman and Slate
Roger Simon / Politico:
Paul Ryan vs. The Stench
Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Romney: Obama ‘Did Not’ Raise Taxes
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
WE KNEW IT WAS AL QAEDA  —  Sources say intelligence agencies knew within a day that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the attacks in Benghazi, Libya—they even knew where one of the attackers lived.  Eli Lake reports.  —  Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate …
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Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
3 Reasons the Obama Administration Didn't Want to Admit Benghazi was a Terrorist Attack  —  Eli Lake of Newsweek/The Daily Beast has been a one-man wrecking crew when it comes to demolishing Obama administration misstatements, distortions, and outright fabrications when it comes …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama  —  The case against casting a ballot for the president — even if you think he's better than Mitt Romney  —  Tell certain liberals and progressives that you can't bring yourself to vote for a candidate who opposes gay rights, or who doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, and they'll nod along.
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Agonist
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Love Claims The Lead  —  Well, this is an interesting turn of events.  —  Mia Love's campaign released internal polling numbers that show the race for Utah's 4th District seat have taken a dramatic swing, giving her a big lead over Democrat Jim Matheson.  —  Love's polling firm …
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mikeroweWORKS:
The First Four Years Are The Hardest...  My name is Mike Rowe and I own a small company in California called mikeroweWORKS.  Currently, mikeroweWORKS is trying to close the country's skills gap by changing the way Americans feel about Work.  (I know, right?  Ambitious.)
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Pennsylvania Eases Voter-ID Requirements, As Trial Judge Reviews State's Law  —  In a last-minute effort to protect the restrictive voter ID law now under review by a trial judge, Pennsylvania officials announced Tuesday they would relax requirements for obtaining a photo ID.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies  —  “Over the last four years, the deficit has gone up, but 90 percent of that is as a consequence of two wars that weren't paid for, as a consequence of tax cuts that weren't paid for, a prescription drug plan …
Jon Cohen / The Fix:
Most are negative about Mitt Romney's “47 percent” comments  —  A majority of Americans have unfavorable views of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's comments — caught on film at a fundraiser — regarding the “47 percent” of people who don't pay federal income taxes and simply would not vote for him …
Talking Points Memo:
National Republicans Come Home To Todd Akin  —  There's a new trend sweeping the nation's top conservative leaders: line up behind embattled Missouri Senate nominee Todd Akin (R), and do it fast.  This is a far cry from the immediate aftermath of Akin's “legitimate rape” comments, when his friends were few and far between.
Eric Posner / Slate:
The World Doesn't Love the First Amendment  —  The vile anti-Muslim video shows that the U.S. overvalues free speech.  —  The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have to get used to freedom of expression.
Jonathan Amos / BBC:
Hubble captures extraordinary view of Universe  —  The image took more than 500 hours to build  —  The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has produced one of its most extraordinary views of the Universe to date.  —  Called the eXtreme Deep Field, the picture captures a mass of galaxies stretching …
Discussion: Sense of Events
Anita Gates / New York Times:
Andy Williams, Crooner of ‘Moon River,’ Dies at 84  —  Andy Williams, the affable, boyishly handsome crooner who defined both easy listening and wholesome, easygoing charm for many American pop music fans in the 1960s, most notably with his signature song, “Moon River,” died on Tuesday night …
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH  —  OBAMA SIGN DEFACED WITH RACIAL SLURS IN TEXAS |  A Texas woman woke to a nasty surprise last week: Her neighbor rang her doorbell to tell her someone had written racial slurs over her pro-Obama yard sign.  Cassy Zobel, who lives in the deep-red area of Mckinney, Texas …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Gingrich disparages Obama, calls him ‘not a real president’  —  Former House speaker Newt Gingrich ripped President Obama for not meeting with world leaders on his trip to the United Nations on Friday, saying Obama is “not a real president.”  —  “[Obama] really is like the substitute …
 
 
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