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OFFICIAL LDOT BIDEN/RYAN DEBATE ROUNDTABLE

Lucianne.com News Forum, by LComStaff Original Article

Posted By: LComStaff- 10/11/2012 8:45:32 PM Post Reply

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US election:
Vice-presidential debate - live

Telegraph [UK], by Raf Sanchez, Charles Whitfield Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 8:09:13 PM Post Reply

Latest 01.00 (20.00) We're one hour out. Here at Telegraph headquarters in Washington we're mainly listening to this. 00.56 (19.56) This is the first time that two Catholics have ever faced eachother in a major presidential debate, a sign of how far the Church has come in American public life since the days when JFK felt compelled to publicly promise he would be loyal to the US and not to Rome. The two men are both public about their faith (and are deployed by their respective campaigns to court the Catholic vote) but are from quite different religious traditions. Biden emphasises social justice when he talks

Pumped up for his battle with
Biden: Paul Ryan flexes his
muscles as he prepares for
VP runners' TV debate

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 8:01:05 PM Post Reply

Paul Ryan hopes to deliver a knockout blow to President Barack Obama's hopes of re-election tonight against Joe Biden who expects to come at him 'like a cannonball'. Paul Ryan has been taking time out from his workouts to prepare assiduously for tonight's vice-presidential debate in Danville, Kentucky with both camps predicting a muscular showdown between the two campaign attack dogs. If the pictures in the next edition of TIME magazine of the vice-presidential candidate working out last year are anything to go by, he's at least in physical shape for the showdown. Ryan said this week he expects

Poll: Romney leads
Obama in Florida by 7 points

Yahoo! News, by Holly Bailey Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/11/2012 7:56:54 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has opened up a 7-point lead over President Barack Obama in Florida—yet more proof that last week's presidential debate may have been a game changer for the Republican nominee's campaign. A new Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Bay News 9 poll found Romney leading Obama 51 percent to 44 percent among likely Florida voters. That's a major shift from last month when the two contenders were statistically tied in the state. According to the poll, 5 percent of previously undecided and 2 percent of Obama backers moved to Romney's corner after the debate, while another 2 percent

Mitt Romney Beating Obama in national
poll average for First Time during
2012 election campaign

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/11/2012 7:52:07 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has for the first time surged into the lead in the much-watched RealClearPolitics average of national polls after his commanding debate performance - an ominous sign for President Barack Obama's hopes of re-election. All but one national poll using data gathered since the first presidential debate in Denver has Romney in the lead. Ironically, the only exceptions is the Rasmussen tracking poll, which liberals frequently accuse of having a conservative bias. In polls released on Thursday, Gallup, Fox News, Monmouth/Survey/USA/Braun and IDB/TIPP each gave Romney a

Cutter keeps digging —
struggles in FNC appearance

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: CarrotFarmer87- 10/11/2012 7:38:37 PM Post Reply

Obama campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Thursday to double down on her accusation that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are the only reason Americans care about the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the Benghazi embassy. Cutter attempted to take on host Bret Baier in a nearly seven-minute interview on location in Danville, Ky., the site of tonight’s vice presidential debate. In the appearance, Cutter stuck to her previous remarks and blamed the administration’s changing Libya narrative on the intelligence community.

Debate Dinner of Champions?
Ryan, Biden Chow on Pre-Game Meals

ABC News, by Russell Goldman Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 7:28:36 PM Post Reply

Paul Ryan and Joe Biden won’t have to weigh in ahead of their matchup tonight, but the vice presidential contenders are packing in pregame meals before their debate. Before heading into the arena at Centre College in Danville, Ky., Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, known for his conscientious diet and exercise regime, planned to eat a light dinner of salmon and rice, according to aids. He had a tuna salad sandwich for lunch today, and spent the rest of his day studying up, relaxing with his family and working out. Vice President Joe Biden also kept things light, planning a pre-debate meal of grilled chicken,

Chinese billionaire to scoop up
failing car battery maker
that got $240M from feds

Fox News, by Cristina Corbin* Original Article

Posted By: markinalpine- 10/11/2012 7:23:49 PM Post Reply

A struggling Massachusetts-based company that makes batteries for electric cars and got $240 million in stimulus money is being saved from bankruptcy by a Chinese billionaire who could move operations overseas. A123 Systems received a $241.1-million grant from the Obama administration three years ago and more than $125 million in State of Michigan tax credits in the hopes that the company would create jobs, while leading the country away from conventional gas-guzzling vehicles and toward clean energy. But the lithium ion battery maker is now poised to hand over the reins to Wanxiang Group

Mitt Romney meets with
Rev. Billy Graham

Associated Press, by Kasie Hunt Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 7:23:16 PM Post Reply

Montreat, N.C.- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with Rev. Billy Graham, and the aging evangelist pledged to do "all I can" to help the GOP nominee win the presidency. Romney went to see Graham and his son, the Rev. Franklin Graham, at the elderly evangelist's mountaintop home in the mountains of western North Carolina. "Prayer is the most helpful thing you can do for me," Romney told the 93-year-old Graham. The meeting came just days after Romney told a newspaper he would not pursue abortion-related legislation as president. Romney later insisted that he would be a

Axelrod Took Over Biden’s Debate
Prep Because He Was ‘All Over
The Place,’ According To Report

Mediaite, by Noah Rothman Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 7:22:39 PM Post Reply

Vice President Joe Biden was “all over the map,” according to an email sent by Fox News Channel’s White House Correspondent Ed Henry and published by On The Record host Greta Van Susteren. Due to concerns about his preparedness, President Barack Obama’s senior campaign advisor David Axelrod was brought in to take over Biden’s debate preparation. The report on Van Sustern’s blog reveals that Democrats were concerned about Biden following the president’s lackluster showing at the first presidential debate. They say that Axelrod has, however, adequately prepared Biden

Washington Post writer
gives Biden advice on
attacking Ryan

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/11/2012 7:17:54 PM Post Reply

On a Washington Post political blog Thursday, a Post writer offered Vice President Joe Biden strategic advice on how to attack Paul Ryan just hours before the lone vice presidential debate. Allen McDuffee of the Post blog “Think Tanked” wrote an item in advance of the Biden-Ryan showdown in Kentucky, titled “Vice presidential debate: The chart Joe Biden should memorize.” In the post, he suggested Biden should internalize a chart from the left-wing Center for Budget and Policy Priorities that hits Ryan with the claim that “62 percent of proposed cuts in [the] Ryan Plan come from

Mitt Romney Has A Gigantic
Lead In A New Florida Poll

Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 7:00:29 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney has opened up an enormous lead over President Barack Obama in Florida, according to a new Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald/Tampa Bay Times poll. Romney now leads the president by 7 points — 51 percent to 44 percent — in the Sunshine State, his largest lead since a hypothetical Quinnipiac poll conducted in September 2011. (Snip) Romney also has a big advantage on a key issue in Florida — Medicare. When asked the question of whose plan was "likely to do more long-term harm to Medicare," 54 percent chose Obama. Only 40 percent chose Romney. That's a dramatic, 16-point

'Some girls, they rape so easy,' says
US politician Roger Rivard

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:58:38 PM Post Reply

A Wisconsintate representative is under fire for sticking by his assertion that "some girls, they rape so easy". (Snip) The Chetek Alert paper quoted him in December as saying that his father had warned him "some girls rape easy" - meaning that some girls could decide later that sex wasn't consensual. He doubled down on the comments in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, saying that he took his father's warnings about the dangers of premarital sex seriously."He also told me one thing, 'If you do (have premarital sex), just remember, consensual sex can turn into rape

Revealed: Secret History of
Obama, Big Bird Relationship

Breitbart's Big Government, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:49:40 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama has created controversy with an ad attacking rival Mitt Romney for his perceived animosity toward Sesame Street icon Big Bird. Though the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and fellow Democrats have advised against the tactic, the President has held firm in his defense of the substantial yellow puppet. (Snip) Unbeknownst to many, Obama's relationship with the feathered giant extends far beyond the past two weeks. From his youth to the present, the 44th president and Big Bird have carried on an intimate relationship, which has made them what anthropologists refer to

Pastor Challenges Fellow Blacks
to End “Slavish Devotion”
to Democratic Party

New American, by Dave Bohon Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:41:22 PM Post Reply

A pastor in Virginia is taking on the Democratic Party's long-time strangle-hold on the black voting bloc, telling fellow black Americans that it is high time for them to end their “slavish devotion to the Democrat Party.” In a nearly four-minute video (see at bottom) produced by the group Americans Taking a Stand, Bishop E.W. Jackson, pastor of Exodus Faith Ministries in Chesapeake, Virginia, nails the Democrats for their support of abortion and homosexual marriage, and for eschewing Christian values, in the process challenging black Christians to make a mass exodus from the party.

Why isn't the administration worried
about the release of Zero Dark 30?

American Thinker, by Simon De Hundehutte Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:36:39 PM Post Reply

The Obama administration cited "the 14-minute movie trailer" myriad times as the reason for the Benghazi attack. If the administration truly believed that, shouldn't they be concerned about the release of the feature film Zero Dark Thirty? (Snip) Zero Dark Thirty touts the killing of Osama bin Laden. Yes, it helps the president's image as being tough on terror. But, what will the consequences be? The fact that the administration is not mentioning this film's release (or demanding that it be "pulled") is perhaps most telling about how they know for a fact that the previous trailer had Nothing to

Military absentee ballots
remain drastically low

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:33:20 PM Post Reply

As of today, voting registration deadlines in 18 states and territories have passed, and military absentee ballot requests remain at a worryingly low level compared with past election years. According to the most recent data, released Sept. 22, Florida has sent 65,173, compared to the just over 95,000 it counted four years ago. Virginia has sent out 12,292 military and overseas absentee ballots, less than 43 percent of the 28,816 it counted in 2008. “It doesn’t take much to figure out that it will be difficult to meet the 2008 participation levels, even if every single ballot is returned and

Times/Bay News 9/Herald exclusive
Florida poll: Romney 51, Obama 44

Tampa Bay Times, by Adam C. Smith Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/11/2012 6:27:17 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama's lackluster debate performance last week has dramatically altered the presidential race in Florida, with Mitt Romney opening up a decisive 7 percentage point lead, according to a new Tampa Bay Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll. The survey conducted this week found 51 percent of likely Florida voters supporting Romney, 44 percent backing Obama and 4 percent undecided. That's a major shift from a month ago when the same poll showed Obama leading 48 percent to 47 percent — and a direct result of what Obama himself called a "bad night" at the first debate.

Romney isn’t giving up on Pennsylvania

Human Events, by John Gizzi Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:24:39 PM Post Reply

Amid rumors in Republican circles and on the Internet that the Romney campaign had decided to write off Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes as lost to President Barack Obama, the Republican candidate’s surge in polls last week made it clear they felt the Keystone State was in play. “Pennsylvania is a state which the Romney campaign believes presents a real opportunity for a Romney victory,” Katie Packer Gage, Romney’s deputy national campaign manager, told Human Events. “If President Obama can’t win there, he can’t win at all. So we plan to fight hard there. We have seen

Obama Mega-donor Threatens
Liberal Reporter: 'I've Got
the White House on Notice'

Breitbart's Big Journalism, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:22:37 PM Post Reply

Obama mega-donor Kareem Ahmed threatened Talking Points Memo reporter Eric Lach in advance of his article's publication by invoking the power of the White House: "I’ve got the White House on notice," he said. (Snip) When he learned that Lach would be writing an article about him, he began threatening defamation lawsuits and accusing Lach of working in cahoots with Republicans. Ahmed is the founder of Landmark Medical Management, which provides account management services for the medical industry, especially in the field of workmen's compensation. As an ambitious

PM: Hezbollah sent drone
intercepted by Israel

Jerusalem Post [Israel], by Yaakov Lappin Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:17:31 PM Post Reply

Hezbollah was responsible for the drone that Israel shot down last weekend, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday during a tour of the security fence in southern Israel. (Snip) Israeli defense chiefs on Tuesday praised the country’s air defenses and countering claims that those who sent the craft exposed a loophole. The entity that launched the drone failed to retrieve intelligence or harm the reputation of Israeli air defenses, said Amos Gilad, policy director of the Defense Ministry, on Tuesday, without mentioning which entity he was referring to. Speaking to Israel Radio,

Adam Carolla: Rich Calif. Liberals
Don't Know, Don't Care About
High Gas Prices

Breitbart's Big Hollywood, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jj1319- 10/11/2012 6:16:34 PM Post Reply

Adam Carolla calls California home, but he's hardly a typical resident by local standards. He's more likely to critique the Golden State (or its denizens) than send much love its way. So when Bill O'Reilly asked the podcast king why his fellow Californians, particularly well-to-do Hollywood types, aren't up in arms over skyrocketing gas prices Carolla had an easy answer up his sleeve. "My friends don't know how much gas is, they don't care, and they like it that way," Carolla told O'Reilly.

New Cook PVIs Show Big Opportunities
for Conservatives in the House - Thread Closed

RedState, by Daniel Horowitz Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/11/2012 6:13:21 PM Post Reply

For all you political junkies, this is the type of news that will brighten up your day. Charlie Cook has finally revised his partisan rating index for House districts to reflect the new congressional districts post-redistricting. The index factors in the average vote totals for the Republican and Democrat presidential nominees during the past two election cycles in each district and compares them against the national average. (snip) The Cook Report concludes: If both parties hold all their “strong” districts, Democrats would now need to win 73 percent of all “swing” districts to achieve a majority

Biden-Ryan True Believers Contrast
More Than Obama-Romney

Bloomberg News, by Mike Dorning Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:11:01 PM Post Reply

Washington - The next turn of the U.S. presidential race hinges on two men who embody the philosophical differences between the political parties more starkly than the candidates at the top of the tickets. Democrats are counting on Vice President Joe Biden, 69, an old-school party veteran at home in union halls and firehouses, to discredit Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s agenda. (Snip) More voters view Biden unfavorably than favorably. Opinion on Ryan is more evenly divided. Thirty-nine percent of registered voters hold a positive opinion of Biden compared with 51 percent who have a

'One less pig: Perfect justice':
Thug who wore T-shirt with
vile slogan just hours after
murders of two policewomen*

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/11/2012 6:00:42 PM Post Reply

A man who wore a T-shirt with offensive comments about the murders of Pc Fiona Bone and Pc Nicola Hughes on it just hours after they died has been sentenced to eight months in prison. Barry Thew, 39, who has a lengthy criminal record, wore a T-shirt with ‘One less pig: Perfect justice’ hand-written on it the same day the two women police officers were gunned down. Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, admitted a Section 4A Public Order Offence (displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress) and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown

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