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2:20 PM ET, October 22, 2012

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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Mitt Romney takes lead  —  DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Mitt Romney has taken a narrow national lead, tightened the gender gap and expanded his edge over President Barack Obama on who would best grow the economy.  —  A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll …
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Politico:
Obama vs. Romney: How they plan to win  —  It's momentum vs. the map.  —  With a little more than two weeks left until judgment day, Barack Obama's campaign is embracing a fundamentally defensive strategy centered on winning Ohio at all costs — while unleashing a new barrage of blistering attacks …
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Taylor Marsh and Telegraph
Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
Ohio Race Tightens in New Poll  —  The contest in Ohio between President Obama and Mitt Romney has tightened, according to a Quinnipiac University/CBS News poll.  —  Mr. Obama has a 5-point advantage over his opponent among likely voters, with 50 percent to 45 percent for Mr. Romney.
CBS News:
Poll: Obama's lead in Ohio narrows  —  President Obama is holding on to a five-point lead over Republican Mitt Romney in Ohio, but that margin has been cut in half since September, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News poll.  —  Mr. Obama holds a 50 to 45 percent lead …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  October 22, 2012 - Women Put Obama Up 5 Points …
Wall Street Journal:
Intelligence Stressed Libya Protest Scenario  —  In Reports to Obama, CIA Didn't Alter Assessment of Trigger for Violence for 10 Days, Even as Witness Accounts Disputed It  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama was told in his daily intelligence briefing for more than a week after the consulate siege …
Discussion: Video Cafe blogs, Mediaite and The Hill
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Wall Street Journal:
The Iran Talks Gambit
Discussion: Instapundit
Molly Ball / Associated Press:
Revenge of the Soccer Moms: Why Are Women Abandoning Obama?  —  CHANTILLY, Virginia — Remember the War on Women?  —  A few months ago, it seemed like the battle for women's votes was one Democrats had decisively won.  While (male) Republican politicians talked about transvaginal ultrasounds …
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Bill Keller / New York Times:
Presidential Mitt  —  IN the closing weeks of debates, rallies and advertising, Mitt Romney has reinvented himself, or re-re-reinvented himself, as a technocrat with a heart.  Gone from the stage is the ideologue he portrayed in his quest for the nomination.  Some see the current rendering as the authentic Mitt.
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Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Donald Trump claims Barack Obama bombshell  —  Donald Trump said Monday that he will reveal “very big” news about President Barack Obama by Wednesday but declined to give any hints about his plan, he said on “Fox & Friends.”  —  “Something very, very big concerning the president of the United States,” he said.
Discussion: Telegraph and Business Insider
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Michelle Malkin:
The bias of Bob Schieffer: Top 7 moments  —  In August, I blasted the Commission on Presidential Debate's choices of three Beltway lib journo-tools — CNN's Candy Crowley, PBS's Jim Lehrer and CBS's Bob Schieffer.  So far, they've acted just as expected and predicted.  As I noted:
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Soledad O'Brien to Rudy Giuliani: ‘Let me finish’  —  CNN host Soledad O'Brien and Rudy Giuliani clashed on Monday, with the the former New York City mayor accusing O'Brien of trying to blame George W. Bush for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
How Mitt Romney's Latest Attack On Libya Is Falling Apart
Discussion: Firedoglake, Mediaite and Mother Jones
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
In close presidential race, foreign-policy debate likely to prove pivotal
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Wow, CNN ...  Check out the front page feature story on CNN right now.  A eye-popper even in the long sad tale of CNN's decline.  Screen cap after the jump ...  CNN front page, 9:14 AM, October 22nd, 2012.  —  I'll note that the piece itself is not nearly as bad as the headline.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Russell Means, Who Revived Warrior Image of American Indian, Dies at 72  —  Russell C. Means, the charismatic Oglala Sioux who helped revive the warrior image of the American Indian in the 1970s with guerrilla-tactic protests that called attention to the nation's history of injustices …
Juliet Macur / New York Times:
Lance Armstrong Is Stripped of His 7 Tour de France Titles  —  The International Cycling Union announced on Monday that it would not appeal the United States Anti-Doping Agency's ruling to bar Lance Armstrong for life from Olympic sports for doping and for playing an instrumental role …
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John Revill / Wall Street Journal:
World Cycling Body Strips Armstrong of Titles
Discussion: The Agonist
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 21: Uncertainty Clouds Polling, but Obama Remains Electoral College Favorite  —  The bad news for President Obama: it's been almost a week since the second presidential debate, in Hempstead, N.Y., one that instant-reaction polls said was a narrow victory for him.
New Yorker:
THE CHOICE  —  The morning was cold and the sky was bright.  Aretha Franklin wore a large and interesting hat.  Yo-Yo Ma urged his frozen fingers to play the cello, and the Reverend Joseph E. Lowery, a civil-rights comrade of Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s, read a benediction that began with …
Robert Samuelson / Real Clear Politics:
ObamaCare: Rhetoric Vs. Reality  —  WASHINGTON — Just recently, the Internal Revenue Service issued an 18-page, single-spaced notice explaining how to distinguish between full-time and part-time workers under the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").  The difference matters …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Power Line
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Michelle: Vote Early Because Your Toilet May Be Overflowing on Election Day  —  (CNSNews.com) - First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged her husband's supporters to vote early, because you may find your “toilet overflowing” on Election Day.  —  “You can also tell people that they don't have to …
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Unreality of the Past Four Years  —  The Benghazi fiasco is a brutally illuminating portrait of the Obama White House in crisis mode.  —  In the 1967 film “A Guide for the Married Man,” a husband, played by a peerless Walter Matthau, is given lessons in ways to cheat on his wife safely.
Eddie Wrenn / Daily Mail:
Afghan ‘Woman of Courage’ hailed by Michelle Obama for defending women's rights has actually JAILED 100 wives for ‘adultery’  — More than 50% of women jailed for adultery in Afghanistan come from province prosecuted by Ms Bashir - which holds just 20% of the population
 
 
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Kate Mackenzie / FT Alphaville:
Is ‘uncertainty’ really that big a deal?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Reporter ‘not allowed’ to talk to voters at Biden event
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Kim Palmer / Reuters:
Ohio voter fraud billboards to come down, sponsor stays unnamed
Discussion: Politico and Colorlines
Joe Scarborough / Politico:
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