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Broadening the battlefield:
Romney to travel to Wisconsin
as Obama desperately tries
to cling to turf he won in 2008

Daily Mail (UK), by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/24/2012 9:44:28 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is to travel to Wisconsin, a state Barack Obama won in a 14-point blowout four years ago, as the Republican candidate's surging campaign seeks to expand the 'chessboard' into previously safe Democratic territory. At the same time, the Romney campaign has bought television advertising in the Boston market, which reaches screens in New Hampshire, a state Obama won by almost 10 points in 2008. Asked whether Romney himself would be visiting Wisconsin in the closing days of the race, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney adviser, said: 'Yes. Paul Ryan was just in Pittsburgh. We'll be back

Obama off-the-record comments
deserve to be shared with voters

Des Moines Register [IA], by Rick Green Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/24/2012 9:36:06 AM Post Reply

The Des Moines Register’s publisher and I spoke with President Barack Obama this morning — but we can’t tell you what he said. Just four days before the Register’s presidential endorsement is released, Laura Hollingsworth and I received a phone call from the president. He was calling from Florida, on the heels of a morning campaign appearance and about 14 hours after his debate with GOP nominee Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. The conference call lasted nearly 30 minutes and was an incredibly informative exchange of questions, answers and an insightful glimpse

Eastwood returns to 2012
race, stars in new ad for Romney

Fox News, by Chris Laible Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/24/2012 9:32:53 AM Post Reply

GOLDEN, Colo.- Clint Eastwood is back -- without a chair and on script -- cutting a new ad urging voters to support Mitt Romney. The ad, entitled "At Stake", is a 30-second spot from the super PAC American Crossroads, which supports Republican candidates around the country and is run by Karl Rove."In the last few years, America's been knocked down," Eastwood's distinctive raspy voice says over images of an abandoned factory and unemployed workers. "When someone doesn't get the job done, you've gotta hold them accountable," Eastwood continues. "We need someone who can turn it around fast and that man

Obama's bid to school Romney on
the military backfires big-time

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/24/2012 9:13:59 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama's reelection campaign is in trouble. It's silently slowing down in North Carolina and now, even Florida. Even raising hundreds of millions in a record number of fundraisers, his campaign has had to borrow from a bank. Obama can't admit it all though. And he desperately needs to motivate his vaunted ground troops in these last 13 days. So, in Monday's debate the Democrat wasn't trying to stem the hemorrhaging of independents and women from his side. He was trying to serve some red meat to rally party loyalists after his disappointing debate performances.

Debate: Obama’s Auto-Bailout Whopper

National Review Online, by Henry Payne Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/24/2012 9:04:32 AM Post Reply

The Boca Raton Bout was focused on foreign policy, but one subplot was of particular interest to Michigan’s economy: President Obama’s whopper on the auto bailout. For the first time, the two candidates went head-to-head on the Government Motors details — and Obama got it wrong. Badly wrong. Damn-the-facts-I’m-clinging-to-my-talking-points wrong. For the record, Mitt Romney has always suggested that he favored a managed bankruptcy with government support if needed (a fact that grates on many libertarian-minded conservatives) — despite Obama & Associated Press attempts to twist the facts. “The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing

Military Ops in Qatar Point to
Possible November Surprise

Breitbart's Big Peace, by AWR Hawkins Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/24/2012 9:00:27 AM Post Reply

On Oct 21, I had a post based on leads breaking out of the Middle East which indicated Obama may be planning a November surprise. And recent actions in Qatar are shining a light on that possibility once again. As I wrote on the 21st, certain members of our military in the Middle East have heard possibilities that we could move against Iran, or elsewhere in the Middle East, days before the election. Although they provided no specifics on what form this action could take, some of them reported receiving upgraded clearances

City of Springfield gives up
on Obama/Biden bill

State Journal-Register (IL), by Deana Stroisch Original Article

Posted By: Fosterdad- 10/24/2012 8:59:39 AM Post Reply

Springfield’s budget director says the city is out of options to be reimbursed for expenses associated with hosting then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign stop in the fall of 2008. “Short of suing the campaign, which isn’t really going to do anything — it would drag on forever — there’s really nothing we can do,” said Bill McCarty. “We’ve tried.” Obama introduced his running mate, Joe Biden, at the Old State Capitol in August 2008. About 160 police officers and nine civilians helped provide protection for Obama’s visit, according to an invoice from the city.

Could Romney pull off rare
defeat of an incumbent --
it depends on who votes

Fox News, by Liz Peek Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/24/2012 8:53:32 AM Post Reply

“Romney Surges to Tie Obama” screams a Wall Street Journal headline. Republicans are giddy with excitement. Can it be? After months of trailing the likable President Obama, could Mitt Romney be about to pull off the rare defeat of an incumbent? It may all come down to who turns up to vote on Election Day. The AFL-CIO is gearing up to get out the vote, pulling in more than 128,000 volunteers who will knock on doors, man the phone banks and blanket the countryside with flyers.

Always at the End

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/24/2012 8:53:29 AM Post Reply

There’s a classic Matt Drudge, Gloria Allred, and Internet Freak Show fire getting ready to go to full conflagration, and some are concerned it could embroil, or at least distract, Mitt Romney less than two weeks before Election Day.(snip) Robert Jones, an attorney at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, who is representing Romney in this matter told TIME in a statement, “This is a decades-old divorce case in which Mitt Romney provided testimony as to the value of a company. He has no objection to letting the public see that testimony.”

Affluent suburbs swing to
debate-tested Romney

Washington Examiner [DC], by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/24/2012 8:44:18 AM Post Reply

Back in May, I wrote a column laying out possible scenarios for the 2012 campaign different from the conventional wisdom that it would be a long, hard slog through a fixed list of target states like the race in 2004. I thought alternatives were possible because partisan preferences in the half-dozen years before 2004 were very stable, while partisan preferences over the last half-dozen years have been anything but. Now, after Mitt Romney's big victory in the Oct. 3 debate and his solid performances in the Oct. 16 and 22 debates,

Tainted cyclist Lance Armstrong
had Livestrong charity lobby on
Capitol Hill on his behalf

New York Daily News, by Christian Red & Michael O'Keeffe Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 10/24/2012 8:39:49 AM Post Reply

Lance Armstrong has plenty of friends in high places, and he wasn’t going to go down without a fight. With pressure building from the United States Anti-Doping Agency investigation, the Lance Armstrong Foundation sent a lobbyist to Capitol Hill this summer to raise questions about USADA’s financing, mission and authority — even though USADA’s probe had nothing to do with the charity’s mission to assist cancer patients and their families. But the lines between Armstrong, Livestrong and Armstrong’s sponsors have long been blurred, and separating them is virtually impossible. Armstrong may not literally get a cut of every yellow Livestrong bracelet

Security leaks and other issues

Hernando Today/Tampa Tribune, by Len Tria Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/24/2012 8:37:51 AM Post Reply

While all the attention is focused on Benghazi, another issue is who was responsible for serious intelligence leaks. While the administration was spiking the Osama bin Laden issue, somehow there was a stream of leaks about the killing of the al-Qaida leader.(Snip)According to some sources, his location was known for at least nine months, but on the advice of Valerie Jarrett, the president deferred taking action. It was Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta who got the president to take action, even as the SEALs were on their way to Pakistan.

GOP Senate Candidate:
'God Intended' Pregnancies From Rape

Yahoo!, by Chris Good Original Article

Posted By: crabam- 10/24/2012 8:37:35 AM Post Reply

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said pregnancies resulting from rape are part of God's plan, tearfully explaining that he only supports abortions when a mother's life is in danger. "I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen," Mourdock said during Tuesday's Senate debate, choking up. Mourdock's opponent, Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly, opposes abortion except in cases of rape and incest. After the debate, Mourdock further explained his comment.
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Soaked Jamaica braces
for possible hurricane

Associated Press, by David McFadden Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/24/2012 8:35:30 AM Post Reply

KINGSTON, Jamaica--Jamaicans hunkered down at home as the front edge of Tropical Storm Sandy buffeted the Caribbean island with pelting rain and howling winds early Wednesday before possibly crossing the country as a hurricane. The island’s international airports prepared to close, cruise ships changed their itineraries and police ordered 48-hour curfews in major towns to keep people off the streets and deter looting as the late-season storm was expected to rake Jamaica from south to north at midday. The 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was forecast to pass over or near Jamaica and then spin on into

Are Presidential Debates Always
a Waste of Time?

Reason, by Ronald Bailey Original Article

Posted By: zoidberg- 10/24/2012 8:21:25 AM Post Reply

President Barack Obama and former Massachusettts Gov. Mitt Romney are the Tweedledee and Tweedledum of American foreign policy as the final televised debate of the 2012 presidential campaign proved. (Snip) In the third debate, Obama and Romney mimicked the Looking Glass twins by largely backing away from real confrontation. With very slight differences in emphasis, the two agreed that Iran can’t have a nuclear bomb; Israel is a great friend; American troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014; Pakistan and Syria are a mess; economic growth at home will make America strong abroad; and China should “play by the rules.”

Will explosive details from divorce case
of ex-Staples CEO stop Romney
becoming president? Allred 'heads
to court to unseal Republican
candidate's sworn testimony'

Daily Mail [UK], by Daniel Miller, Hayley Peterson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/24/2012 8:14:40 AM Post Reply

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's character will be called into question if explosive details of his sworn testimony at the divorce hearing of former Staples CEO Tom Stemberg, are released to the public today, it has been claimed. Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who has promised an 'October surprise', is due in court in Canton, Massachusetts this morning for an application to have case records unsealed and a gagging order on all parties involved lifted. The Boston Globe newspaper filed the application after reportedly receiving a tip-off that there was 'juicy information about Romney' in the sealed documents. The revelations are said

NJ girl, 12, killed for her bike

New York Post, by BETH DEFALCO and TIM PERONE Original Article

Posted By: Hermoine- 10/24/2012 7:56:36 AM Post Reply

A New Jersey mom ratted out her teen sons for the murder of a 12-year-old girl after reading a Facebook posting hinting that one of them wanted to go on the lam, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Justin Davidson’s mom saw his message “Might be moving :(” on Sunday and became suspicious. She tipped cops that he might have been involved in the disappearance of their neighbor, Autumn Pasquale, in Clayton, NJ, the sources said.
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The assassination of President John F
Kennedy: the finger points to the KGB

Telegraph [UK], by Neil F. Tweedie Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/24/2012 7:46:42 AM Post Reply

Nearly 50 years on, a new book suggests that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was guided by hardline Stalinist dissidents. The young American was agitated, increasingly emotional, and had laid a loaded gun on the table. The Soviet Union must grant him a visa as soon as possible, he pleaded. His life was being made intolerable by FBI surveillance and he, a dedicated communist, wished to return to the arms of Mother Russia. One of the three Soviet diplomats present took the gun and unloaded it before returning it to its owner. There would be no visa in the

The sneering at America’s 'low-
information voters' is motored
by an ugly anti-mob elitism

Telegraph [UK], by Brendan O'Neill Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/24/2012 7:38:05 AM Post Reply

The American commentariat is in a flap about “low information voters”. Apparently there is an ill-informed blob of people in the US who, in the words of a former Congressional staffer, “hardly know which party controls which branch of government”. And it is possible that these ignoramuses, described by the New York Times as “white, non-college” (a polite way of saying “white, working class”), will decide next month’s presidential election. Such a prospect is freaking out America’s apparently “high information” media set, who do not want their futures determined by thickos thanks very much. One political observer says

Editing Bolsters Obama’s
Role in SEALs Film

New York Times, by Michael Cieply and Briant Stelter Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 10/24/2012 7:04:23 AM Post Reply

Los Angeles--Thanks to the magic of editing, President Obama will have a starring role in a television drama about one of his biggest accomplishments — the killing of Osama bin Laden — that will be shown just two nights before the presidential election. But the star turn is virtually certain to bolster claims that the approximately 90-minute film amounts to a political stunt. Set for a prime-time debut on Nov. 4 on the National Geographic Channel, and a release the next day on Netflix, the film — “SEAL Team Six: The Raid

The real reason
behind Benghazigate

Washington Times, by Frank Gaffney Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/24/2012 6:49:37 AM Post Reply

President Obama’s once seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. (Snip) The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat J. Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

The Wave That Breaks
the Liberal Bubble

American Thinker, by C. Edmund Wright Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 10/24/2012 6:24:34 AM Post Reply

Can you feel it? The wave, that is. I speak of one that will wash away far more than just a failed presidency. This wave will have the torque to rock the entire liberal bubble -- the political/media/crony bubble -- leaving it forever exposed. Ironically, those inside this bubble will be the last to know -- which is precisely why it will happen. Those who would rule over us, and insult us with outrage over Big Bird, academic debate-scoring, "binders" memes, and specious jobs statistics know nothing about us.

Police: Winnsboro woman
set fire to herself

Shreveport Times [LA], by Michael Doughty* Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 10/24/2012 6:23:10 AM Post Reply

In the aftermath of a horrific incident in which a 20-year-old Winnsboro woman was severely burned, nearly 130 residents of the tight-knit community attended a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to offer prayers and support to Sharmeka Moffitt and her family. The vigil took place hours after investigators said Moffitt lied to police when she claimed three unidentified assailants in white hoodies set her on fire.

Obama's Nameless War
With a Nameless Enemy

American Spectator, by Daniel Mandel Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/24/2012 6:15:58 AM Post Reply

In the final presidential debate on October 22, President Barack Obama spoke briefly about the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on U.S. officials and personnel in Benghazi. He outlined why the U.S. had gone into Libya before the attack. He outlined the answers he is still seeking following the attack. But he did not say why this terrorist attack had occurred or why the U.S. had been ill-prepared to meet it in what is, after all, a volatile city alive with militias recently freed from dictatorial rule. Nor did he tell us why his Administration

Richard Mourdock catching heat
for abortion comments

Fox 59, Indianapolis, IN, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: corndoggies- 10/24/2012 6:10:12 AM Post Reply

U.S. Senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock is catching heat for comments he made during Tuesday's debate. When asked about abortion, the Republican said he opposes abortion in cases of rape and incest because "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, it is something that God intended."

Hit Mitt not enough
for Obama win

Politico, by Glenn Thrush Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/24/2012 6:00:35 AM Post Reply

Everything was going great for Barack Obama until about 9:04 on the night of Oct. 3, when Mitt Romney startled everybody by refusing to live up to his caricature as The Worst Candidate Ever. Romney’s late-game comeback — an unexpected assertion of presidential competence in front of 67 million viewers — robbed Obama of his momentum and forced the president’s team to make a subtle yet significant change to their closing argument in the critical last two weeks of the 2012 campaign. Obama’s Chicago-based brain trust had intended to highlight four years of “solid, steady progress”

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