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7:15 PM ET, October 7, 2012

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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Concedes Romney Wasn't Honest About His Tax Plan During Debate  —  This morning on Meet The Press, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs confronted Newt Gingrich on a fundamental inconsistency in Romney's description of his tax plan.  During the primary debates, Romney insisted …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Romney TV ad: Obama ‘not telling the truth’ about tax reform plans  —  Mitt Romney on Sunday unveiled a new TV ad pushing back on President Obama's claims the Republican challenger misrepresented the GOP ticket's tax reform plans in Wednesday's debate.  —  “President Obama continues …
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
After debate, Obama looks to move on
Discussion: CNN and Jammie Wearing Fools
Sy Mukherjee / ThinkProgress:
Mary Matalin Calls Paul Krugman A ‘Liar’ For Telling The Truth  —  During a roundtable discussion on George Stephanoupolos' This Week Sunday morning, GOP political consultant Mary Matalin got into a heated exchange with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, calling him a “liar” …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Axelrod: Obama ‘taken aback by the brazenness’ of Romney's debate performance  —  Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday said Republican Mitt Romney delivered a “very good performance” at the first presidential debate that was “completely un-rooted in fact” and the president was …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Gibbs: Mitt Romney delivered ‘dishonest’ debate performance  —  Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs on Sunday accused Mitt Romney of delivering a “fundamentally dishonest” performance during last week's first presidential debate.  —  Gibbs said President Obama ended up debating against …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Campaign surrogates Ayotte, O'Malley spar on job numbers, presidential debate
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden Takes 6 Days Off Campaign Trail  —  With just about a month until Election Day, Vice President Joe Biden is in the middle of taking nearly a week off the campaign trail.  He will return to doing campaign events on Thursday, when he will debate Rep. Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Priebus lowers VP debate expectations, describes Biden as ‘gifted orator’
Discussion: The Other McCain, CNN and Politico
Laura Donnelly / Telegraph:
Patients starve and die of thirst on hospital wards  —  Forty-three hospital patients starved to death last year and 111 died of thirst while being treated on wards, new figures disclose today.  —  There were 558 cases last year where doctors recorded that a patient had died in a state of severe dehydration in hospitals
Discussion: Power Line and normblog
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Rumors Swirl: How Bad Will The Obama Foreign Donor Scandal Be?  —  Since last week, the news sphere has been buzzing about the possibility of an Obama campaign foreign donor scandal being the big October surprise of 2012.  Since the Washington Examiner first reported the story last week …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Liberals fret: Is Obama bored?  Does he want a second term?  Maybe not.  —  There's no doubt President Obama's liberal supporters are worried by his lackluster performance in the Denver debate.  “Everyone is in shock,” one show-business liberal told the Hollywood reporter.  “No one can understand what happened.”
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Big Bird Responds To Mitt Romney On SNL  —  With Mitt Romney's PBS-Big Bird slam a ripe source for comedy this week, who better to add to the mockery than the Sesame Street character himself?  Big Bird showed up on Weekend Update opposite Seth Meyers to react to his newfound celebrity.
FRANCE 24:
Copt home attacked after Egypt president promises security  —  AFP - Gunmen opened fire on the home of a Coptic Christian in the Sinai peninsula on Saturday, hours after a visit by President Mohamed Morsi to reassure Christian residents they would not be targeted again.
Kasey Stoddart / CBS Detroit:
Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors  —  DETROIT (WWJ) - The men and women of the Detroit Police Department believe the city is too dangerous to enter, and they want citizens to know it.  —  Detroit Police Officer Association (DPOA) …
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / Washington Monthly:
Real Live Voter Fraud  —  Jaded by relentless GOP vote suppression efforts directed towards phantom voter impersonators, it's easy to forget that real fraud actually happens.  Today Adam Liptak of the New York Times surveys some recent problems with absentee ballots, which now make up twenty percent of all votes.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
As More Vote by Mail, Faulty Ballots Could Impact Elections
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Victoria Bassetti / New York Times:
Is America Man Enough to Vote?
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Monthly
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Gas Prices Rise Again Overnight in California
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Electric Cars Hurt the Environment
Discussion: Power Line
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Two Presidents, Smoking and Scheming
Charlie Neibergall / Rolling Stone:
Presidential Debate Aftermath: Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hullabaloo
Kevin Baker / New York Times:
Opinion: Republicans to Cities: Drop Dead
 Earlier Items: 
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
It Could Be His Party  —  IN countries with parliamentary systems …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Once-reluctant Mitt Romney opens up on the campaign trail
Discussion: New York Times
Thomas E. Ricks / New York Times:
Fear Factor  —  President Jacques Chirac of France …
Washington Post:
Capitol Assets: Congress's wealthiest mostly shielded from effects of deep recession
 

 
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