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• No Debate Here: Romney Faces a Formidable Gender Gap
• Why House Democrats are campaigning against the tea party
• Paul "Scrooge" Ryan Gambit Failing in Wisconsin: Marquette Poll, "In the presidential race, President Barack Obama continues to lead former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, 53 percent to 42 percent. In mid-September, Obama led 54 percent to 40 percent."
• 35 Debate Questions from the 99 Percent
• Sproul Says GOP Had Him Disguise Involvement in Voter Registration Scandal -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• American Colleges Are Failing Low-Income Students
• Walking Through an IED Minefield “On a Daily Basis”
• Priorities USA Action Pulls Ads From Florida and Wisconsin
• Poll: Obama Leads Romney by 50 Points Among Latinos
• Protester gives up St. Peter's protest
• Obama Outspending Romney on TV Ads
• Who controls the wealth in the US? Western countries expand balance sheets at the expense of their younger population.
• 2012 Presidential Debate Schedule
• Blocking Bain Trucks To Save Jobs In Freeport
• The Life and Death of an Australian Hero Whose Skin Was the Wrong Color
• NSA Utah "Data Center": Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?
• Opponents of black voter registration have always claimed they were protecting democracy.
• Right-Wing Media Hopelessly Confused About Their Race-Based Attacks On Obama
• Bill Clinton: GOP taking away students' rights
• Joan Walsh: Right-Wing Racial Panic
• Clean energy showdown in Arizona
• Living Alone: The Rise of Capitalism and the Decline of Families
• Three Ways Romney Can Still Win the Election
• Gay pride march banned in Serbia
• Noam Chomsky On Occupy Wall Street's Anniversary and the Upcoming Election
• New Congressional Report Cites Shoddy Intelligence and Privacy Concerns in Probe of US-Based Counterterrorism Centers
• Campaigns work hard for Colorado
• Detroit to Fire Water Workers
• Senate Panel Criticizes Anti-Terror Data-Sharing Centers
• Limerick Ode To Scott Brown
• Fox's laughable case for Romney
• What can climate hawks expect from the first presidential debate?
• 11 Key Reads on the Economy Ahead of Tonight’s Debate
• "Detropia" takes us inside the lives of people living among the ruins
• Finland is about to start using crowdsourcing to create new laws
• New York prisons' use of solitary confinement "unjustified": report
• What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 35 Questions from the 99 Percent
• Senate Panel Criticizes Anti-Terror Data-Sharing Centers
• The New York Times: Temporary Voter Relief in Pennsylvania
• Historic Baghdad Book Market Bulldozed in Late-Night Raid
• States are applying punishments to juveniles normally reserved for adult sex offenders -- with grave consequences
• Ann Romney: If elected, "mental well-being" Mitt's biggest challenge
• Court extends stop on order blocking indefinite detention law
• Poll: Americans Fear Romney Would Further Shift Supreme Court Toward Big Business
• Romney’s Health Plan Leaves 72 Million Uninsured: Study
• Vote counting company tied to Romney
• Fox News' ACORN Fanatics Still Won't Address GOP's Widening "Voter Fraud" Scandal
• Did the Anti-Voter Fraud Crusade Undermine the GOP in Florida?
• Striking Detroit water department workers continued to picket Monday afternoon despite being ordered back to work by a federal judge.
• Climate Change On The Election Backburner
• Rachel Maddow: Right Is Trying to Make Obama's Race an Issue
• Jon Stewart on Non-Existent Voter Fraud
• Analysis: Reuters/Ipsos polls show scope of the challenge facing Romney
• Mitt Romney's Wealthy Donors May Be Fleeing Campaign: Report
• Wall Street’s Professional Pundits Game Out An Obama Victory
• Presidential debate 2012: Both sides spinning early
• Ahead of presidential debate, polls show Obama favored on key issues
• Reports of GOP Voter Registration Fraud Increase -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Pastor Who Said God Sent Hitler to Hunt the Jews Warns America of Obama's "Absolute Socialism" -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• October Surprise: Mitt Romney Vows, if Elected, to Write a $250 Personal Check to Every American (Satire) -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Limbaugh Sides with George Will and Calls Obama "An Affirmative Action Hire"
• Scott Brown's Scalia Moment Ends The "Independent" Charade
• Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Calls On Fellow Rich To Battle Voter Suppression
• Jonathan Chait | Paul Ryan Asked for Tax Math, Offers Gibberish
• Watch Out for the Friday Jobs Report
• Bring on Your Wrecking Ball: The Politics of Bruce Springsteen
• Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?
• Paul Krugman | The Real Romney Emerges
• Inside the Obama Campaign's Hard Drive
• VIDEO: Woman Registering Only Romney Voters In Colorado Worked For Consulting Firm With Ties To Voter Fraud Dropped By RNC
• Free Speech Scores a Hat Trick
• Matt Damon Brings the Fracking Fight to the Big Screen
• Obama Leads Romney by 18 Points Among Women
• Pentagon Takes First Steps to Target Suspects in Libya Attack
• Why Obama is Defying Gravity
• Desperate Akin: "Giving Abortions to Women Who Are Not Actually Pregnant, Cheating on Taxes"
• WI Gov. Walker on Witness List of Two Trials
• Pennsylvania Judge Strikes Down Voter ID Law, but Also Rules Poll Workers Can Still Ask For ID
• Bush-Appointed Judge Upholds Obama Administration’s Birth Control Coverage Rules
• The 1% Court
• ""The press is doing to Romney the same thing it did to John Kerry, and to Al Gore before him: Covering him as a loser. A weird loser. A distant loser, who is 'uncomfortable in his own skin' and 'failing to connect' with 'regular voters.' The contempt and pity for him as a candidate is almost palpable, and each moment in the campaign is distorted imperceptibly, as if by magnetism, to reinforce the Romney caricature."
• SATIRE: Mitt’s Debate Challenge
• Judge Halts Pennsylvania's Tough New Voter ID Requirement
• Protestors Win in 2004 RNC Protest Mass Arrest Case in NYC
• The John Furlong Defamation Case and Canadian Libel Law
• When Debate ‘Zingers’ Backfired
• "Leaders of two of the state’s police and fire unions warn that the party’s involvement in the Florida Supreme Court merit-retention election could erode public confidence in the independence of the judiciary."
• David Swanson | Children and Drones
• Devaluing Care Work — and Women
• Romney and the Upcoming Debate: A Slightly Less Dumb Fish In a Very Stupid Pond
• Walmart Workers Ask For Basic Rights, Walmart Calls Riot Police
• George Will: Obama is Winning Because He's Black
• To Address Human Trafficking, the United States Must Take a New Approach
• National Republican Voter Registration Strategy Includes Lying to Potential Voters About 'Taking a Poll' in Order to Screen Out Obama Supporters
• BP Spill Settlement Talks Stall as US Demands $18 Billion
• Police Confiscate Cameras of Observers at Tar Sands Blockade Action
• Border Patrol Agent Shot, Killed on Patrol in Ariz
• How Romney is Blowing It, According to Every Conservative Pundit
• Judge Rules Mass Arrests of Protesters at 2004 GOP Convention Were Illegal
• US Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Top 2,000
• Romney's Message May Be Losing its Luster in NH
• Michele Bachmann's Chicago Synagogue Visit Drives Attendees To Leave, Donate To Her Opponent
• Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Widens, Criminal Probe Opens in Florida

• Brown To Warren: ‘I’m Not A Student In Your Classroom’
• US Scaling Back Plans for Peace Deal in Afghanistan
• HUMOR: Twas the Night Before the Presidential Debate...
• VIDEO: Debate Audience Boos Scott Brown for Naming Scalia as a "Model Justice"
• NY Attorney General Sues JPMorgan Over Bear Stearns Mortgage Securities
• Why Isn't the RNC Demanding It's Money Back from Sproul Firm for Fraud?
• Republicans: Getting the Most Bat-Sh*t Bang For Their Buck
• Today's Headlines: CNN vs. The Guardian
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn Cleared of Rape Charges in France
• American Express Paying $112.5M in Late-Fee Settlements (thanks to Elizabeth Warren)
• Poll: Obama Still Holds Decisive Lead over Romney on Foreign Policy
• Climate Change Will Lead To Smaller Fish, Study Says
• "If Mitt Romney gets elected as president and keeps his promise to repeal the 2010 health reform law, more than 72 million Americans will be lacking health insurance by 2030 and health care costs will rise"
• Manufacturing in U.S. Expands Unexpectedly as Orders Rise
• Romney Promised to Take Advantage of Foreign Policy Crisis in 47 Percent Remarks -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Worried GOP strategists to Romney: Make economic case against Pres. Obama stat! Or face defeat.
• Why Right-Wingers Need ‘Skewed Polls’ Conspiracy Theory for Romney to Win -- And Even More If He Loses
• What We Still Don't Know About Romney's Taxes
• Trans women on second week of prison hunger strike: Two San Diego prison inmates highlight the treatment of incarcerated trans individuals
• "The Supreme Court seemed skeptical on Monday of allowing victims of human rights abuses to sue in American courts against the foreign corporations accused of aiding in the atrocities."
• Will Romney Run on a Pro-Torture Campaign
• Mitt Romney's California Garbage Man On The 47 Percent: 'We're Kind Of Like The Invisible People'
• Whistle-Blower Lawyers Throw Support Behind Obama
• The Seven Sins of America, Including the Sins Against the Common Good and Common Sense -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Obama’s Ruse To Box Mitt Romney On Taxes
• European Court Ruling Opens Door for Extradition to Torture Conditions in US Federal Prisons
• What Are the Possibilities of an Obama Blowout?
• Boston Globe: Mitt Romney close to President Obama in national poll but slipping in swing states
• Ann Romney Concerned That Mitt Might Go Bonkers in White House -- Lynn Larrow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Obama waives sanctions on countries that use child soldiers
• Latest Presidential Tracking Polls, But Remember the Presidential Election Will be Determined by About 7 or 8 States
• Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?
• Ikea Saudi Arabia Catalogue Has Women Deleted (PHOTO)
• "A suicide bomber who walked into the crowded center of Khost in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning as foreign and Afghan soldiers conducted a joint foot patrol killed three international service members and 16 Afghan police officers and civilians, witnesses and hospital officials said."
• Romney Fades, Taking GOP Senate Hopes With Him
• Tough Talk for America: A Guide to the Presidential Debates You Won’t Hear
• Koch Front Group Joins Revenge Campaign Against Florida Justices With Pro-Nullification Ad
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Adopted ALEC Bills ‘Nearly Word For Word’
• Nate Silver: The Polls Aren't Wrong
• The GOP’s October surprise sounds a bit limp
• California has become the first state to ban a form of psychotherapy that tries to make gay teens straight.
• Paul Krugman: The Real Referendum Is on America's Safety Net
• The New Yorker: The Arctic Disaster Both Candidates Are Ignoring
• With New Delays, There Is a Growing Sense that New York Governor Will Not Approve Fracking
• Poll: Obama Up Big In Swing States, Close Race Nationally
• The Importance of Being Iowa This Election
• Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat
• RNC Cancels All Swing State Voter Registration Drives
• MAP: Which States Hunt Wolves?
• If you want to see what’s wrong with America take a good look at the nauseating list of the 400 richest Americans – the Forbes 400 .
• California has become the first state to ban a form of psychotherapy that tries to make gay teens straight.
• Another Big Supreme Court Term Starts Monday With Potential Major Rulings on Affirmative Action, Gay Marriage and Voting Rights
• Battlegrounds for Voting Laws: Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado
• Louisiana death-row inmate Damon Thibodeaux exonerated with DNA evidence
• Debates Can Shift a Race’s Outcome, but It’s Not Easy
• Iraq's monthly death toll doubles, bloodiest for two years
• A Bill to Make Employers Less Mean to Pregnant Women
• Florida Supreme Court Justices Are Under Attack
• Romney Faces a Formidable Gender Gap - New YWCA poll has him trailing Obama by 18 points among women voters.
• Dark Money Poured Into New Mexico Senate Contest
• FiveThirtyEight: The Number of Things Nate Silver Gets Wrong About Climate Change
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
• Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Widens, Becomes Criminal Matter in Florida
• BP spill settlement talks stall as U.S. demands $18 billion: paper
• Syria and the Dogs of War
• Moyers on books "threatened with removal because they offended a self-deputized vigilante"
• Want to Fix Education? Fix the Economy for the Students and Teachers
• Memo to Ann Romney: You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
• Bomb blasts in 
Iraq kill at least 32
• Christmas In September for Deregulated Commodity Speculators
• Cenk Uygur: It's No Accident RNC Hired Firm Being Investigated for Voter Fraud
• Conservative Veterans of Voting Wars Cite Ballot Integrity to Justify Fight
• MEK Delisting Slap in the Face for Average Iranians
• South African Miners Win Through Wildcats
• "Insider attacks" kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan
• Why I'm Going to Pakistan: Under Scrutiny, the Drone Strike Policy Will Fall
• The Day After the Election, What Happens To Sensata-Style Workers?
• Miami Herald: Koch brothers trying to buy FL Supreme Court
• Unhappy Birthday to the Amendment That Started the War on Women
• The North Dakota Oil Fracking Boom Creates Clash of Money and Devastation
• Mitt Romney's path to victory narrows, AP analysis shows
• Spain crisis fuels Catalan separatist sentiment
• Netanyahu Backs Off On Iran
• Joan Walsh on College Educated Progressives' Prejudice Against the White Working Class
• U.S. Intelligence Finds Organized Terrorist Attack in Libya
• Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Goes Home to Canada
• 5 Dead After Suspected Insider Attack in Afghanistan
• String of Iraq car bomb blasts kill at least 32
• “47%” Was Bad for Romney; Ryan Has Been Deadly
• Does a Mexican Drug Kingpin Have a Case Against the Drug Enforcement Administration?
• Fox News Suicide: A Cry for Help in a Medium Gone Mad
• I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled
• Muslim Protests Burn Temple in Bangladesh
• Syrian army, rebels fight for control of Aleppo; marketplace burns
• Why does JK Rowling hate the middle classes? Harry Potter author says inhabitants of affluent fictional setting based on her hometown are racist and unfriendly
• Guided by the Koch brothers, Republicans have installed czars to run Michigan's cities
• If Obama Wins, What Changes for His Second Term?
• Vote Counting Company Tied to Romney
• Onward Cretins: The Poll Conspiracy, Dinosaurs With Saddles, and the Right Wing Disneyland of Delusion -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Is Karl Rove Losing It?
• A hidden Obama success story: weatherization and energy efficiency
• Kofi Annan: Tony Blair could ultimately have stopped Iraq war
• In Libya, security was lax before attack that killed U.S. ambassador, officials say
• Hundreds to Show Support for Demands of Striking Walmart Warehouse Workers -- Warehouse Workers of America for BuzzFlash at Truthout