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CNN Poll: Obama 50%-Romney 46% in Ohio

CNN, by Paul Steinhauser Original Article

Posted By: Stallion_Cornell- 10/26/2012 6:26:35 PM Post Reply

With a week and a half to go until Election Day, a new poll indicates the race for arguably the most important battleground state remains very close. According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday, President Barack Obama holds a four point advantage over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the contest for Ohio's much fought over 18 electoral votes.

Romney holds national poll lead,
but key swing states favor Obama

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

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:26:02 PM Post Reply

National tracking polls showed Mitt Romney maintaining a lead over President Obama on Friday even as the incumbent kept his advantage in several swing states. The national and swing-state data confirmed a tight race that will leave both candidates in an all-out sprint through Election Day to win the race for the White House. Gallup’s daily tracking poll on Friday found Romney expanding his lead over Obama to 5 points from a 3-point lead earlier on Thursday. Romney takes 51 percent to Obama's 46 in the poll of likely voters, released Friday.

Our children's America

Chicago Tribune, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: brianod1- 10/26/2012 6:20:31 PM Post Reply

Think back. Minutes before 2 a.m. on Sept. 15, 2008, a 158-year-old investment bank obscure to most Americans -- Lehman Brothers -- became the biggest company ever to file for bankruptcy. In succeeding days, then weeks, then months, the panic-inducing phrase “global financial crisis” lunged out of mothballs to frighten, and eventually debilitate, millions of households. Credit seized. Employers retrenched. Jobs vanished. Home values plummeted. Partisans scanned the horizon for culprits, but there was no one place to aim the blame gun;

Petraeus Throws Obama
Under the Bus

Weekly Standard, by William Kristol Original Article

Posted By: horacer- 10/26/2012 6:19:53 PM Post Reply

Breaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ” So who in the government did tell “anybody” not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.

Poll: Obama tops 50 percent in Ohio,
up four points on Romney

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

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:19:28 PM Post Reply

President Obama hit the crucial 50 percent threshold in the latest poll of Ohio and now leads Mitt Romney by 4 points in the pivotal battleground state, according to a new poll released Friday by CNN. The slight but significant lead mirrors other recent polling in the state, and should come as a relief to the president's campaign, which has largely staked its reelection hopes on holding the Buckeye State. The poll carried a margin of error of 3.5 percent, just below the president's lead. The president was boosted in the state by a significant lead among women, leading Romney

Egypt activists try to stop
holiday sex harassment

Associated Press, by Maggie Fick Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:13:09 PM Post Reply

Cairo - A group of Egyptian men had a mission for this year's Eid al-Adha, Islam's biggest holiday, which began Friday. They wanted to make some effort to stop sexual harassment of women, which in past years has spiked in Cairo during the holiday celebrations with the crowds of rowdy men in the streets. Their idea was simple: to patrol downtown Cairo and shame men who harass women by cornering them and spray-painting "I'm a harasser" on their backs. That proved pretty much impossible, however. The small group was outnumbered by boys and men who mocked them, some of them

Obama: Music should
be more political

USA Today, by David Jackson Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 6:11:23 PM Post Reply

President Obama outlined his political agenda during an MTV interview on Friday, but also discussed a more traditional issue for the network: Music. Responding to a question from MTV host Sway Calloway, Obama said he wishes more musicians would make politics part of their music, as many artists did during the Vietnam and civil rights eras of the 1960s and 1970s. "I'd like to see a more explicit discussion of the issues out there," Obama said. Calloway had asked about the legacy of political music, citing examples ranging from Bob Dylan to Rage Against The Machine.

Berlusconi Convicted But
Probably Won't Be Jailed

ABC News, by Phoebe Natanson Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:05:44 PM Post Reply

Rome - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted today in a Milan court for tax fraud and sentenced to four years in jail and a five-year ban from public office. Speaking tersely by phone on one of the TV channels he owns, he called the sentence "political, incredible and intolerable." Prosecutors argued that Berlusconi and the other 10 defendants on trial were all involved in purchasing rights to broadcast U.S, movies on Berlusconi's Mediaset private TV networks through a series of offshore companies and had avoided paying Italian taxes by falsely declaring the amounts paid. However the 76-year-old

Canada man votes using
his dog's name; a 'test'

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/26/2012 6:03:15 PM Post Reply

Fredericton, New Brunswick - An official with a Canadian political party is raising questions about the integrity of the opposition's leadership race in his province after he was able to vote using his dog's name. Jean-Paul Soucy said Friday that he registered his dog "Pitou," or "puppy" in English, to vote online for one of the three candidates vying for the top Liberal job at Saturday's leadership convention in New Brunswick. The executive director of the province's Conservative party says he wanted to test the Liberal voting system but couldn't use his own name because he's a member of another

Why I Think Obama Is Toast

Powerline, by Dan McLaughlin Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/26/2012 5:58:30 PM Post Reply

Barack Obama is toast. This is not something I say lightly. I generally try to remain cautious about predictions, because the prediction business is a humbling one. (snip) Obama needs to have a decisive advantage in Democratic turnout, roughly on the order of – or in some places exceeding – the advantage he enjoyed in 2008, when Democrats nationally had a 7-point advantage (39-32). Yet nearly every indicator we have of turnout suggests that, relative to Republicans, the Democrats are behind where they were in 2008.

Did Queen Elizabeth suspect
Cambridge Spy a decade before
confession?

Telegraph [U.K.], by Steven Swinford Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/26/2012 5:45:22 PM Post Reply

Anthony Blunt, the fourth member of the notorious Cambridge Soviet spy ring, was a distant cousin of the Queen Mother and later became Surveyor of the King's pictures. According to the newly-released diaries of Guy Liddell, Deputy Director of the MI5, the Queen mother became suspicious after Blunt intimated during one of their meetings that he was an atheist. Britain's spy chiefs, however, were so thoroughly duped by the spy ring that they refused to believe that Blunt could be a double agent. Liddell recalls meeting Sir Alan "Tommy" Lascelles, then King George VI's private secretary, in July 1951

Obama hails the Hajj and Eid al-Adha

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/26/2012 5:45:15 PM Post Reply

Statement by President Obama on Hajj and Eid al-Adha: Michelle and I extend our best wishes for a joyful Eid al-Adha to Muslims in the United States and around the world. We also congratulate the millions of peaceful pilgrims who are performing the Hajj, including thousands of American Muslims. Throughout the year, Muslims join members of many faiths in serving those suffering from hunger, disease, and conflict. Muslim communities will continue this practice as they celebrate Eid by distributing food and charity to those in need. Such acts of compassion underscore the shared values

Obama: Will wash
cars for budget deal

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:42:07 PM Post Reply

After four years of being criticized for failing to work with Republicans, President Obama joked Friday that he'll even do household chores for congressional GOP leaders to get a bipartisan deficit reduction deal if he's elected to second term. "I'll wash John Boehner's car, I'll walk Mitch McConnell's dog," Mr. Obama said in an interview Friday with radio host Michael Smerconish, referring to the Speaker and Senate minority leader, respectively. Policymakers in Washington are grappling with how to handle looming tax increases and spending cuts that are set to take place in January —

Ecuador's president praises
Obama, wishes him luck in
election

Foreign Policy, by Uri Friedman Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/26/2012 5:37:25 PM Post Reply

With the outcome of the U.S. election so uncertain, foreign heads of state have generally refrained from expressing support for either presidential candidate. But as my colleague Josh Keating has noted, leaders like France's Francois Hollande, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez have suggested that they're partial to Barack Obama. Now, it seems, we can add Ecuador's Rafael Correa to the list. During an interview with a Chilean radio station on Friday, Correa noted that he didn't want to "interfere in the internal matters of other countries." But what he said afterward sounded a whole lot

Obama extends
Eid greetings to
Muslim community

Express Tribune (Pakistan), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:27:25 PM Post Reply

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama extended his warm wishes on the eve of Eidul Azha to Muslims in the United States and around the world. A statement issued by the White House read, “Michelle and I extend our best wishes for a joyful Eidul Azha to Muslims in the United States and around the world.” “We also congratulate the millions of peaceful pilgrims who are performing the Hajj, including thousands of American Muslims,” it added. The American president said that Muslim communities join members of many faiths to help the disadvantaged. He said that on the occasion of Eidul Azha

Bursting at the seams:
Uncompromising pictures from
inside America's overcrowded
prison system show the cramped
lives lived by more than
two million inmates

Daily Mail (UK), by Steve Nolan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 5:17:56 PM Post Reply

These revealing pictures illustrate America's prison system at breaking point - with overcrowding in the nation's jails at its highest for eight years. Correctional institutions across the U.S are bursting at the seams with more than two million Americans behind bars. The worst hit state, California, houses 140,000 inmates when its 33 adult prisons are only designed to hold a maximum of 80,000. Overall, the Bureau of Prisons Network is around 39 per cent over 'rated capacity' - their highest level since 2004 - with that figure expected to soar to 45 per cent above its limit by 2018.

Mondale, Kerry
among attendees at
McGovern funeral

Rapid City Journal (SD), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:17:03 PM Post Reply

Former Vice President Walter Mondale and U.S. Sen. John Kerry are among the hundreds of people who have turned out for a funeral to honor former U.S. Sen. George McGovern. Mondale and Kerry arrived shortly before the service was to start at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls. McGovern, a three-time Democratic presidential candidate, died Sunday. He was 90. Following news of McGovern's death, Kerry released a statement saying McGovern was a "voice of clarity and conviction at a time when America needed it most." Also in attendance is one-time presidential hopeful Gary Hart.

Hillary Clinton gives Obama
an espresso machine

The Hill [Washington DC], by Judy Kurtz Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 5:12:41 PM Post Reply

Perhaps hoping to give him a jolt, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly gifted President Obama with an espresso machine earlier this year. A Thursday story in The Wall Street Journal makes no mention of the occasion behind the caffeine-filled present. Obama has stopped at many a coffee shop along the campaign trail, but has been seen in photos sipping on cups of Joe rather than espresso. According to the Journal report, during the gift-giving session, Obama gave Clinton an iPad case

Newell Rubbermaid Plans to
Cut 10% of Jobs in Restructuring

Bloomberg News, by Duane D. Stanford * Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/26/2012 5:08:55 PM Post Reply

Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (NWL), the maker of Sharpie pens and Calphalon cookware, hired a former Unilever strategist to help run the company under a new structure and plans to cut 10 percent of its jobs. Chief Executive Officer Michael Polk has reorganized in two new units as he seeks to boost sales outside the U.S., the Atlanta-based company said today in a statement. One unit, focused on brand development, will be run by Mark Tarchetti, Unilever’s former head of global strategy. The other, focused on sales, distribution and supply

Sen. Harry Reid taken to
hospital after Las Vegas
rear-end car crash
involving 6 vehicles

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/26/2012 5:03:51 PM Post Reply

LAS VEGAS — Troopers say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been taken to the hospital after what appears to be a rear-end crash on an interstate through Las Vegas. Nevada Highway Patrol Office spokesman Jeremie Elliott says he doesn’t know Reid’s condition after the crash, which happened about 1:10 p.m. Friday on Interstate 15. The freeway runs parallel to the Las Vegas Strip. Elliott says six vehicles were involved in the apparent chain-reaction crash, including two Las Vegas police vehicles, two civilian vehicle and two Capitol Police vehicles.

Boston Globe: Romney rejected birth
certificate changes for gay parents

Yahoo! News, by Liz Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/26/2012 5:00:22 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney rejected a plan while governor of Massachusetts that would have allowed same-sex married couples to both be listed as the parents of children born to them, the Boston Globe reports from state records it obtained this month. After the state's highest court legalized gay marriage in 2003, the Registry of Vital Records presented a plan to change the "father" box on Massachusetts birth certificates to say "father or second parent." Romney rejected the plan, the paper writes, and said same-sex parents would have to personally request that the governor's office change their children's birth certificates.

Obama Campaign Posts Picture
Of Romney Wearing Dunce Cap

Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 4:47:30 PM Post Reply

On Tuesday afternoon, the Obama campaign posted to its official Tumblr page a photoshopped image of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney seated on a stool, wearing a large dunce cap.The image features the caption: “Sums it up.” It is unclear who created the picture, but the raw photograph seems to have been taken from the town hall-style presidential debate at Hofstra University several weeks ago. The campaign’s Tumblr page typically features behind-the-scenes photographs and videos of the president on the campaign trail,

Fallen Benghazi hero’s
father: the Administration
is pushing “a pack of lies”

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/26/2012 4:44:40 PM Post Reply

Apologies if the audio on this clip is a bit soft – it was when I played it on my computer – but here’s Charles Woods, father of slain ex-SEAL Tyrone Woods, calling into Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show to denounce the “pack of lies” pushed by the Obama Administration on the death of his son. “I do not appreciate lies,” said Woods. ”I’m a loving person. I love my son, and I want to honor him. Facts are coming out right now. The reason I am even speaking up,

George Zimmerman judge: 'Stand
your ground' hearing in April

Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman and Jeff Weiner Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/26/2012 4:39:24 PM Post Reply

SANFORD – After more than two hours of argument, the judge in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman said she will not rule today on the state's request for a gag order. (Snip) However, near the end of the hearing, the judge and lawyers agreed to put another high profile issue on their calendars: Zimmerman's "stand your ground" hearing, where he will ask to have the case thrown out, was set for 45 days before the June 10 trial.

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