Obama slips, still has lead  —  Poll finds Romney support growing among males while the President commands a large section of central and northern Ohio.  —  ZOOM  —  The Ohio Newspaper Poll  —  The telephone poll - which used both land lines and cell phones - of 1,015 likely voters across Ohio …

Minnesota Poll: Obama leading, but Romney sees gains  —  The president's 3-point lead in state is within poll's margin of error.  —  As the presidential race tightens across the country, a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll has found that it is narrowing here as well, with President Obama holding …

Why I Am Pro-Life  —  HARD-LINE conservatives have gone to new extremes lately in opposing abortion.  Last week, Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, declared during a debate that he was against abortion even in the event of rape because after much thought he …

Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports  —  Israel was told about and opposed president's diplomatic incentives package, initiated soon after he took office, and Iran rebuffed it, according to Maariv  —  Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began …

McCain: White House Libya response either a ‘cover-up’ or ‘incompetence’  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday questioned whether the Obama administration was engaged in a Watergate-esque “cover-up” of its handling of the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.

Andrew Sullivan To ABC: If Romney Wins Florida And VA, It's The ‘Confederacy’  —  During this Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan claimed that if Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins back Florida and Virginia in the upcoming 2012 presidential election …

Third Party Nihilism: The Arguments Can Always Get Worse!  —  To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia.  Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but 1)with fewer references to Madonna …

Barack Obama for Re-Election  —  The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold.  The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster.

Gov. Kasich downplays role of auto bailout in Ohio's recovery  —  Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Sunday downplayed the role of the auto bailout in his state's economic recovery.  —  Kasich, a Republican and supporter of Mitt Romney, said that the rescue of auto companies accounted for just 400 …

Romney lands key endorsement in crucial swing state - Iowa  —  (CNN) - The Des Moines Register, Iowa's largest newspaper, endorsed Mitt Romney for president Saturday, reversing its 2008 support for President Barack Obama and marking the first time the paper has endorsed a Republican in 40 years.