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11:50 PM ET, September 29, 2012

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Hugh Hewitt / Townhall.com:
Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac and Ponzi  —  After a few weeks spent tracking down and questioning pollsters and the reporters of polls, I can assure the reader that pollsters are the modern-day alchemists.  They promise to turn numbers into predictive gold.
New York Times:
Cramming and Pruning for First Presidential Debate  —  WASHINGTON — In a conference room at the Democratic headquarters, President Obama has been preparing for the debate next week, but the reviews of his staff are already in.  Too long, they tell him.  Cut that answer.  Give crisper explanations.
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Miranda Green / The Daily Beast:
Debates Rarely Nudge the Needle
Discussion: CNN, The Fix and The Atlantic Online
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 1926 - 2012: Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed Times, Dies at 86  —  Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who guided The New York Times and its parent company through a long, sometimes turbulent period of expansion and change on a scale not seen since the newspaper's founding in 1851 …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama ‘saddened’ by death of former NYT publisher Sulzberger  —  President Obama on Saturday praised Arthur Ochs Sulzberger as a fearless truth-seeker and First Amendment champion, saying he and the first lady are “saddened” by the death of the long-time New York Times publisher earlier in the day.
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
SFC Speer's Killer Leaves Gitmo  —  Omar Khadr has been sent from Guantanamo to Canada, after returning from the jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Khadr is slated to stay in custody for the time being.  It is difficult to think of a more mythologized figure in the post-9/11 war on terror.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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BBC:
Youngest inmate leaves Guantanamo
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Michelle Shephard / Toronto Star:
Omar Khadr repatriated to Canada
Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Defining moment eludes Mitt Romney  —  Mitt Romney could use a big moment.  —  Since he began stumping, the GOP presidential nominee's campaign events have been nearly identical — perfectly staged and choreographed, but forgettable.  If it weren't for the occasional state flag hanging behind him …
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
BuzzFeed:
And, Paul Ryan Gets Mocked By Storage Ad  —  Manhattan Mini-Storage does it again.  Much more of a personal jab than the Mitt Romney billboard .  —  Like I said yesterday, when MMS's political ads are related to storage, they're good.  But this is just a pointless cheap shot.  —  Via: newsweek
Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:
Will The Post be about news or opinion?  —  Republicans think the news media are being too easy on Barack Obama.  In fact, 60 percent of them say so, a figure that's up from 55 percent four years ago, when Obama ran against Sen. John McCain.  That's the conclusion of a poll conducted Sept. 20-23 …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Faces Crucial Rulings in Coming Term  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Monday to confront not only a docket studded with momentous issues but also a new dynamic among the justices.  —  The coming term will probably include major decisions on affirmative action …
Yahoo! News:
Goodbye, Columbus: Why top Ohio Republicans think Romney has lost the state  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio - There are only two plausible explanations for what is going on this week in this swing state central to virtually all Mitt Romney's victory strategies.  —  Either many top Ohio Republicans …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama administration tells contractors again: Don't issue layoff notices  —  The Obama administration issued new guidance intended for defense contractors Friday afternoon, reiterating the administration's position that the companies should not be issuing layoff notices over sequestration.
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Sara Sorcher / NationalJournal.com:
White House Moves To Head Off Sequester Layoffs
Discussion: protein wisdom
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Romney Foreign Policy Adviser Calls Obama's Libya Response ‘Limp Wristed’  —  A foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney on Friday called President Obama's foreign policy “limp wristed.”  —  Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton employed the term, usually used as a slur against or allusion to gay men …
Discussion: The Raw Story and New York Times
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Is torturing “material witnesses” constitutional?  —  I always get a sick feeling when I see DAs on cop shows blithely say they can hold a suspect as a material witness until they find the evidence to charge him.  (They always “need” to because the suspect is “one of the really bad ones.")
Discussion: New York Times
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Mike Lillis / Ballot Box:
Biden links Romney to Ryan budget cuts
Discussion: CNN
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. intelligence now says Benghazi attack “deliberate and organized”  —  (Reuters) - The top U.S. intelligence authority issued an unusual public statement on Friday declaring it now believed the September 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack.”
Discussion: The Rightnewz
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