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Politico: “The reinvention effort includes softening the edges of Romney, both stylistically and philosophically. The more likable version of Romney was no accident – he worked hours on his smile, his posture and the delivery of his words.”
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Romney Shifts on 47%
In comments apparently intended for last night’s debate, Mitt Romney shifted his position on the 47%, now calling the comments “just completely wrong.”
Conan/Mitt/BigBird
Mitt’s War on Big Bird moves to Conan O’Brien Show. Video after the jump …
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TPM Reader SW thinks libs are projecting their own fears and insecurities onto Obama …
In regards to your “toughness” discussion and Democrats’ sensitivity to it, I think it has a lot to do with some of the Democratic presidential nominees of the past.Read More →
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First Post Debate Poll
We now have what appears to be the first post-Debate presidential poll. Details after the jump.
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TPM Reader LF doesn’t buy the idea that Obama is weak …
TPM Reader HM is way off on the President. Yes, I admit to bias, but this is pretty typical cries of failure from our side whenever President Obama does not, as Chris Matthews would have him do, kick the other side in the balls. And therefore they come up with the idea that “he’s failed.” But it could not be further from the truth.Read More →
End of the Line for Big Bird
Mitt Romney’s threat to fire Big Bird got batted around the presidential campaign today. You know that. But I just found out about this other little mystery. @FiredBigBird showed up on Twitter today with an expected hard luck story. And then for some reason Twitter suspended his account. Which got me to thinking: Was this Team Mitt angling to enforce some sort of separation agreement with Big Bird or Sesame Street Inc. pushing some sort of infringement claim?
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Ever wonder what a money solicitation from the National Organization for Marriage looks like?
What would you do to raise $3 million to protect marriage from Barack Obama and his wealthy homosexual lobbyists?Read More →A gracious pro-marriage supporter has just created an extremely generous matching grant fund to help the National Organization for Marriage demonstrate your commitment to marriage as the unique union of one man and one woman.
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Crosstabs - October 4th
Kyle Leighton looks at the candidates’ standings on the issues they discussed last night:
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Whither The Choice Election?
As barefaced as it was I honestly don’t think Mitt Romney’s live-action Etch-a-Sketching Wednesday night should have come as such a big surprise. Yes, that’s easy to say with the benefit of hindsight. But this wasn’t a stump speech to base Republicans, it was his great entree to the full spectrum of voters, most of whom like President Obama pretty well.
What is a big surprise to me – and what I think has the real potential to shake up the nature of the campaign – is how hungrily all the conservatives who’d crapped on Romney for being a moderate squish lapped up all that mushy centrism.
Think about it.
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Feds: Network Sneaked U.S. Technology To Russian Military
Nearly a dozen people involved in what prosecutors have termed a “Russian military procurement network” have been charged in federal court with illegally exporting high-tech microelectronics to Russian military and intelligence agencies. An indictment unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York accused 11 people and two companies, one based in Texas and one in Russia, with participating in a scheme in which cutting-edge technology obtained from…
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Mitt Romney Backflips On Romneycare
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President Obama told a crowd in Denver on Thursday that he barely recognized the “spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney” at the debate the night before.
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Facebook’s inevitable expansion to one billion users around the globe happened the morning of Thursday, October 4, 2012, according to founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who took to the website to announce the milestone.
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