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Romney 49%, Obama 47%
Among Likely Voters

Gallup, by Frank Newport Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:42:37 PM Post Reply

Princeton, N.J. - Mitt Romney holds a slight edge over Barack Obama -- 49% to 47% -- in Gallup's initial "likely voter" estimate, encompassing interviews from Oct. 2-8. Preferences tilt the opposite way among registered voters, 49% vs. 46% in Obama's favor. Neither result provides a candidate with a statistically significant lead, but together they do underscore the competitive nature of the election and indicate that Romney at this point benefits from turnout patterns, given the five-point swing in his favor when the transition is made from registered voters to likely voters. As is almost always the case in recent

Obama 'believed he had BEATEN
Romney' in Denver debate - after
ignoring advice of top aides on
preparation

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Hooverdog- 10/9/2012 3:38:30 PM Post Reply

When President Barack Obama stepped off the stage in Denver last week the 60 million Americans watching the debate against Mitt Romney already knew it had been a disaster for him. But what nobody knew, until now, was that Obama believed he had actually won. In an extraordinary insight into the events leading up to the 90 minute showdown which changed the face of the election, a Democrat close to the Obama campaign today reveals that the President also did not take his debate preparation seriously,

Sixth grader gets third
eye in school picture

Local [Sweden], by Sanne Schim van der Loeff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:24:50 PM Post Reply

When Swedish sixth grader Tilde Nörgaard opened her recently-delivered school class photo album, she was shocked to discover her picture showed with one eye too many. “First everyone was laughing, Tilde too, because we thought it was funny,” Tilde’s sister Anna told The Local. “But then we noticed it made her sad and we realized it was actually quite bad that they never noticed the mistake.” (Snip) The photography company responsible for the catalogue, Skolfoto Norden, had "no good explanation" for the apparent case of wayward digital manipulation took place.

Russia to become Iraq's
second-biggest arms supplier

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:21:42 PM Post Reply

Iraq has signed contracts to buy Russian arms worth $4.2bn (£2.6bn; 3.2bn euros) this year, Russian news agencies report. Moscow, the main supplier of arms to Iraq under Saddam Hussein, thus becomes the country's second-biggest arms supplier after the US. The new contracts were announced after talks between the two countries' prime ministers near Moscow on Tuesday. (Snip) Thirty Mi-28 attack helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems are said to be among items being sold. Further discussions are said to be under way for Iraq eventually to buy MiG-29 jets, heavy armoured vehicles and other weaponry.

Global economic recovery
weakening, says IMF

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:17:49 PM Post Reply

The global economic recovery is weakening as government policies have failed to restore confidence, the International Monetary Fund has said. It added that the risk of further deterioration in the economic outlook was "considerable" and had increased. The IMF downgraded its estimate for global growth in 2013 to 3.6% from the 3.9% it forecast in July. (Snip) In response to the downgrade, the UK Treasury highlighted the fact that the IMF had "repeated its advice that the first line of defence against [slowing growth] should be to allow the automatic stabilisers to operate, monetary policy easing and measures to ease

Vice Presidenital Debate: Biden,
Paul Ryan Brace as Polls Tighten

ABC News, by Gregory J. Krieg Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:15:07 PM Post Reply

The pressure to "reset" the presidential race is on President Obama's team this time around. With a variety of new polls showing Mitt Romney's riding the wave of his post-debate surge to a near deadlock among likely voters, the Obama campaign is looking for ways to break the challenger's rising tide. And Vice President Joe Biden is lining up as the man to do it. "The Obama campaign has lost all the momentum they had and now are in danger of falling behind," ABC News political analyst and former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said this morning. "Biden

GOP getting boost for House races

Politico, by Alex Isenstadt Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:11:04 PM Post Reply

Republicans are poised to flex their financial muscle in the final month leading up to the election, dumping an avalanche of cash into congressional races in an attempt to protect the House GOP majority. Politico has learned that two leading Republican groups, American Action Network and the Congressional Leadership Fund, are teaming up to spend nearly $13.5 million in House battles across the country. The investment has the potential to drastically alter a financial playing field that has been mostly even between the two parties. Between the beginning of July and the end of September, Republican groups held a $36

Foreign Funds: Obama campaign
under fire for possible
overseas donations

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:08:01 PM Post Reply

A groundbreaking report published Monday raises startling questions about the Obama campaign’s potentially illegal practice of accepting and soliciting online donations from foreign nationals, experts say. At the very least, the report—which found that the Obama campaign likely pays millions more in additional fees to avoid using standard verification methods for online credit card donations—exposes the true record of a president who has repeatedly denounced the alleged influence of foreign funds in U.S. elections. (Snip) Federal campaign law prohibits U.S. political campaigns from knowingly accepting or soliciting donations from foreign nationals.

Romney signs defaced with
excrement in Virginia

The Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/9/2012 3:06:24 PM Post Reply

A conservative radio host based in central Virginia, has posted a video on his website of a GOP office with its window smashed in, expletive-laced rants presumably delivered at Republicans, and Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan signs torn down, defaced and smeared with what appears to be human excrement. The clip (prefaced with a warning of "extremely graphic content") on the "Schilling Show" blog, written by radio host Rob Schilling, begins with President Obama on the campaign trail telling attendees to "argue with them and get in their face," a phrase he used in 2008 to encourage his supporters

Obama hits Romney for
same investment his
golfing buddy made

Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 3:04:19 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s campaign attacked Mitt Romney with an ad over a Bain Capital affiliate’s investment in “a company called Global Tech [that] maximized profits by paying its workers next to nothing under sweatshop conditions in China.” But Global Tech has other investors — and as it happens, one of them is a top Obama advisor, fundraiser, and golf buddy. ABC News observed “that there is no evidence Romney had an active role in sending any American jobs to China or in approving the specific investment in Global Tech.” Now meet Robert Wolf, who was president of UBS Investment Bank until

Ohio: Romney Beats Obama
In D+9 Poll; Wins
Indies By 20 Points

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:54:56 PM Post Reply

The good news in today's ARG poll of Ohio is not that Romney's leading 48-47%, it's that the party ID breakdown doesn't reflect anything nearing reality. There's just no way Democrats will enjoy a nine-point turnout advantage over Romney in Ohio. But in order to believe Romney's only up by one, that's exactly what you have to assume. Here's the ARG sample: Democrats (42%) Republicans (33%) Independents (25%) The poll also shows Romney is also winning Independents by a full 20 points, 57-37%. Romney's winning men by four points, 50-46%, and only losing women by three, 48-45%. But Romney's only

Will US Election Be Determined
by Israel Iran Standoff?

Chicago Daily Observer, by Russ Stewart Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:50:21 PM Post Reply

Other than Mitt Romney, the only man who can plausibly derail President Barack Obama’s re-election is Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose policy of “pre-emption” makes an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities only a matter of time. And, when that occurs, a disruption of Middle East oil production and shipments, a spiking of domestic U.S. gas prices, and a renewal of Islamic terrorist attacks will also be just a matter of time. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a late September address to the United Nations, said that his country would hold the United States responsible for any Israeli

Nato: Plans ready to defend Turkey

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:48:29 PM Post Reply

Beirut - Nato is ready to defend alliance member Turkey amid artillery and mortar exchanges with Syria, its top official said on Tuesday, as Ankara sent additional fighter jets to reinforce an air base close to the Syria border where tensions have escalated dramatically over the past week. (Snip) The comments by Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen were the strongest show of support to Ankara since the firing began on Wednesday - though the solidarity is largely symbolic. Turkey has sought Nato backing but not direct intervention and the alliance is thought to be reluctant to get involved military at

Indonesia school
expels raped pupil

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:44:52 PM Post Reply

Jakarta - An Indonesian school has expelled a 14-year-old girl, claiming she "tarnished" the institution's image after she was raped by a trafficking syndicate, a child rights activist said on Tuesday. Arist Merdeka Sirait, chairperson of the National Commission for Child Protection, said a private school just outside Jakarta expelled the teenager during a ceremony attended by pupils on Monday. (Snip) "The girl was the victim of child trafficking. The school should have helped her to cope with her trauma," he said.

Feds paid $40M to firms
tied to McCaskill's spouse

Associated Press, by David A. Lieb Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/9/2012 2:42:08 PM Post Reply

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Businesses affiliated with the husband of Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill have received almost $40 million in federal subsidies for low-income housing developments during her first five years in office, though it appears only fraction of that has made it to the family's bank accounts, according to an Associated Press analysis. McCaskill's Republican challenger, Rep. Todd Akin, says the federal payments should be a cause for concern among voters. He's attempting to portray the Democratic senator's family as a prime beneficiary of government largesse. "There is a conflict of interest and a breach

Obama meetings with Congress
few and far between, as
post-election challenges loom

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 2:42:04 PM Post Reply

President Obama teased Mitt Romney last week when the Republican challenger called for regular meetings with congressional leaders. The president noted Romney's call to repeal "ObamaCare" wouldn't sit too well with Democratic participants. But the president's skepticism toward meetings with lawmakers -- particularly at the height of an election year -- is reflected not just on the debate stage, but in his schedule in Washington. Over the past six months, the president has held just one formal meeting with the top four congressional leaders. Since the beginning of the year, he's held two.

‘Brain eating amoebas’
kill 10 in Pakistan

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:40:44 PM Post Reply

Islamabad - A waterborne parasite commonly known as "brain-eating amoeba" has killed 10 people in Pakistan's largest city, a Pakistani official with the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The amoeba — Naegleria fowleri — lives in warm, unclean water. It can infect the human nervous system, though this occurs rarely. In those cases it is difficult to treat and can lead to death in about a week. Musa Khan, in charge of WHO's Disease Early Warning System in Pakistan, said the deaths were reported in the city of Karachi from March to September.

Big Bird, just another
corporate welfare queen

Human Events, by Mark LaRochelle Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:39:18 PM Post Reply

Apologizing for his disastrous performance in his first head-to-head debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama told a Hollywood fundraiser that the celebrities present “just perform flawlessly night after night. I can’t always say the same.” (Snip) As Sherrie Westin, vice president of Sesame Workshop — which owns Sesame Street — had just explained to O’Brien, “The Sesame Workshop receives very, very little funding from PBS. So we are able to raise our funding through philanthropic, through our licensed product, which goes back into the educational programming, through corporate underwriting and sponsorship.

Brown retakes lead from
Warren in new poll

Boston Globe, by Noah Bierman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:35:44 PM Post Reply

US Senator Scott Brown has regained a lead over Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in a new WBUR-MassINC poll, after a string of polls showed Warren with the lead. The poll is the first since Brown and Warren’s second debate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell on Oct. 1. The telephone poll of 502 likely voters, taken Oct. 5 through Oct. 7, showed Brown leading 47 percent to 43 percent, within the 4.4 percent margin of error. The lead drops to 3 percentage points — 48 percent to 45 percent — with the inclusion of respondents who say they have not

In Van Meter, Mitt Romney
talks up farm policy, tells
personal stories

Des Moines Register [IA], by Jason Noble Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/9/2012 2:34:04 PM Post Reply

Rural Van Meter, Ia. – Mitt Romney unleashed a rapid-fire critique of President Barack Obama’s farm policies and revealed personal stories so-far unheard on the Iowa campaign trail at a brief and windswept campaign appearance this afternoon. Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, spoke for about 16 minutes to a crowd of more than 1,200 on a century farm in northern Madison County, south and west of the Des Moines metro. In his more substantive policy remarks, Romney hit Obama, the incumbent Democrat, repeatedly on issues of interest to the farming and agriculture communities, including the estate tax, exports and regulations.

Obama Is Crumbling In
Two Previous 'Safe' States

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:29:08 PM Post Reply

Of all the unfavorable national polling that has piled up for Barack Obama since his consensus debate loss against Mitt Romney, two new polls from previously safe blue states should cause even more concern for the president. (Snip) The Siena poll was the first non-partisan survey of the state since the debate, and it shows Obama's lead tightening significantly from a CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac poll three weeks ago that put Obama in a 12-point lead. It also leaves a lot more wiggle room for undecided voters — 12 percent of respondents to Siena's poll said they were now undecided, compared

No weenies expected at Thursday
night’s vice presidential debate

Washington Times, by Wesley Pruden Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/9/2012 2:20:01 PM Post Reply

Joe Biden was a bit of a weenie in high school, but the star halfback got the girls, as halfbacks nearly always do. Paul Ryan was a high-school nerd but he got to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Both men have moved on since then, though few of us outlive high school, and Thursday night they collide in a crucial debate at tiny Centre College in Kentucky. Nobody actually votes for a vice president, but this time the veep debate is crucial. If Mr. Ryan “wins,” he’ll keep up the undeniable momentum of the Republican campaign.
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A Truly Credible Military
Threat to Iran

Foreign Policy [Washington, DC], by David Rothkopf Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:19:45 PM Post Reply

In Mitt Romney's "Hope Is Not a Strategy" speech at the Virginia Military Institute, the Republican challenger zeroed in on the current unrest in the Middle East as a sign that President Barack Obama's foreign policy is not working. The most biting implication in the speech is the assertion that al Qaeda is resurgent -- in other words that killing Osama bin Laden, emotionally satisfying as it was, was not the game-changer in the region that the Obama administration has implied it was. (Snip) Indeed, according to a source close to the discussions, the action that participants currently see as

New book shows U.S. top earners pay
larger share of taxes than any
other industrialized nation

Washington Times, by Kerry Picket Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/9/2012 2:17:57 PM Post Reply

The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore has just come out with a new book titled Who's the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America and he reveals some interesting information about how much the top ten percent of income earners in the United States pay in federal income taxes as opposed to any other industrialized nation in the world. According to Moore, these earners pay almost half (45 percent) of the country's total taxes.

Romney slams Obama
for talking Big Bird

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/9/2012 2:10:51 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney on Tuesday slammed President Obama for talking about Big Bird on the campaign trail. "These are tough times, with real serious issues. So you have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about Big Bird," Romney said at a campaign event in Iowa. "I actually think we have to have a president who talks about saving the American people." (Snip) The fight over the yellow puppet, a popular figure on the Sesame Street, came to ahead on Tuesday when Obama's campaign released a hard-hitting ad attacking Romney for his remark on cutting PBS

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