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• Obama's pitch to women puts Romney on defense
• Bad Arithmetic: Top Romney Economist Admits 'Jobs Plan' Numbers Don't Compute
• You Can Never Meet The Same Mitt Romney Twice
• Gone Way Viral: Get the Details on the Romney Tax Plan. You Can Try Anyway.
• Obama Kicks Some Butt in Second Debate as Mitt "Tin Siding" Salesman Routine Wears Thin Candy Crowley Surprisingly Keeps Mitt from Bullying His Way Through the China Shop
• Koch Industries Warns 45,000 Employees Of ‘Consequences’ If They Don’t Vote For Republicans
• Live Blog of Second Presidential Debate From Think Progress Romney Trying His Bullying Routine Again
• Obama on Offense in Second Debate: Romney in Retreat Obama Dresses Romney Down
• E.J. Dionne: "We all know that President Obama needs a better night than he had in the first debate. But the entire Democratic political apparatus and Obama’s own supporters also need a better night than they had last time. Who prevails this evening depends not only on how each candidate does but also on how their supporters react."
• No Debate: Romney and Ryan View a Woman's Body as Public Property -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Apple Rejects Phone App That Tracks Worldwide Drone Strikes as "Objectionable Content" -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Citigroup CEO Walks Off With $260 Million After His Bank Loses 88 Percent Of Its Value
• Noam Chomsky | The Week the World Stood Still: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Ownership of the World
• The Romney Campaign’s Job Math is Just as Bad as Its Tax Math
• Whose Interests Does the Presidential Debates Commission Serve?
• They Are Coming for Your Birth Control: "Abstinence Never Fails to Prevent Pregnancy"
• Paul Krugman | The Problem Is Not Romney - It's the Republican Party
• Merkel’s Government Rejects Second Greek Debt Cut to Ease Crisis
• Koch Industries Orders Workers Not To Discuss Kochs' Politics On Social Media
• It's Time to Debate Bain Capitalism
• VIDEO: Jill Stein and VP Candidate Cheri Honkala Physically Removed from Hofstra Premises Prior to Debate
• DNC’s "RomneyTaxPlan.Com" Site Goes Viral
• Romney Warned Against Pointing Fingers At Bush Administration After 9/11 Attacks
• Dinesh D'Souza in Hot Water with Religious Right over Sex Scandal
• HUMOR: Ryan’s Soup Kitchen Visit Doesn’t Wash
• VIDEO: Fox Botches Report On Decision To Uphold Early Voting In Ohio
• Where's W.? Bush in the Wilderness
• Swing State Update: Many Polls Tightening, But Dems Are Ahead In Early Voting
• BREAKING: Supreme Court Turns Down Ohio Early Voting Case
• "A 100 percent chance the 47 percent will be part of tonight's debate"
• State Department Official: Negotiations to Extend US Troop Presence in Afghanistan Starting Soon
• "Many will watch Tuesday’s debate like their lives depended on it. That’s because the lives of the elderly and sick may actually depend on President Obama turning in a strong performance, or they risk the draconian, flip-flopping Romney-Ryan plan that would almost certainly repeal Obamacare and restructure Medicare and Social Security as we know it."
• The Last Stand for Humanity for an Election in Which Bullshit Is Now the Status Quo: Your Debate Preview
• Robert Reich | Five Points Obama Must Address Tonight
• Rupert Murdoch Faces Shareholder Revolt at News Corp Annual Meeting
• Paul Ryan and the Soup Kitchen: A Ladle into the Lies
• It’s Still the Economy, Stupid: Obama Remains on Narrow Victory Track
• Mitt To Tell Obama To "Man Up" On Libya Tonight
• Bin Laden Driver Salim Hamdan Wins US Court Appeal
• Washington Post Columnist Jennifer Rubin Launches Sexist Diatribe Against Hillary Clinton On Twitter
• Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?
• Marco Rubio Throws Cold Water On Romney's Tax Plan
• Mitt Romney's Bain Helped Philip Morris Get U.S. High Schoolers Hooked On Cigarettes
• Chicken Little May Be Right
• Jonathan Chait | Obama’s Town Hall Debate Dilemma
• 'Time is Now to Make a Stand': Tar Sands Pipeline Blockade Grows as Company Lashes Out
• Eugene Robinson | Obama's Task Tuesday Night
• SATIRE: Romney FINALLY Releases His Tax Plan, Get the Details Here!
• How Obama Could Lose This Debate, Too
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News’ Post-VP Debate Spin
• My Voter ID Awakening: "As a former Republican, the laws seemed like common sense. Now I see their insidious racial underpinnings"
• Local Governments Take Budget Knife to Retiree Health Plans
• Romney Is Attacked by His Father’s Longtime Aide
• The BuzzFlash 2004 Interview with George McGovern, Who is Terminally Ill
• Rahm Emanuel Takes Liberal Base-Bashing to a Whole New Level
• What Everyone Should Know About The Benghazi Attack
• 8 Important Economic Questions For The Presidential Debate That Have Nothing To Do With Taxes Or The Deficit
• VIDEO: President Clinton Destroys Mitt Romney's $5 Trillion Tax Cut Claims
• Obama’s Debate Checklist: What The President Needs To Do Tonight
• Report: Charity President Objects To Paul Ryan’s Soup Kitchen Photo Op
• Clinton Takes Obama Off Libya Hook
• Romney's Plan to Eliminate Medicare Now a Critical, No Longer Hypothetical Issue
• Romney Uses Choice Language To Further Muddle His Position On Women’s Health
• Maher, Schweitzer, And Ben Affleck Clash With Rep. Issa Over Obama Admin. Response To Libya Attacks. Issa Fares Very, Very Poorly.
• If Roe v. Wade Goes: A Romney-Ryan victory could result in re-criminalizing abortion in much of the United States, with brutal consequences for women’s health.
• Pussy Riot Duo Sent to Remote Penal Colony
• GOP Has Itself to Blame for Thompson’s "Birther" Kenya Joke
• Former Sen. George McGovern (D-SD), the Democratic presidential candidate who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972, has moved into hospice care near his home in South Dakota. Said daughter Ann McGovern: "He's coming to the end of his life."
• FLASHBACK VIDEO: Romney, Dick Cheney and G.W. Bush Talk Effects of Tax Cuts
• Mitt Romney was Absent More Than Year, or 417 Days as Governor of Massachusetts
• Romney’s Unraveling Claim That Six Studies Validate His Tax Plan
• Presidential Debate Protesters: Focus on Gun Violence, Incarceration
• Backlash Grows Against Austerity Plan in Portugal
• If Being Governor Is a Test of Leadership, Romney is Getting His Ass Kicked in Massachusetts -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• George Lakoff, Moral Leadership: What Obama Has to Show Tomorrow in the Debate Performance, and For Real -- George Lakoff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Buchheit, Five Ways Deregulation is Ripping America Apart -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Will Durst, Ringside at the Undercard: The Second Presidential Debate -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "Retail sales rise 1.1% in September, beating expectations The month-over-month gain and a revised increase in August. offset drops in the second quarter. It's also raising hopes for a good holiday shopping season."
• Harold Meyerson: Will Obama Stand up for Main Street?
• SHAM: Charity president: Paul Ryan "did nothing" at soup kitchen photo-op (CBS News Headline)
• Is the Supreme Court About To Swing Another Presidential Election?
• Rebecca Solnit: Men Explain Things to Me
• 9 Most Racist Moments of the 2012 Election
• "Climate change activism collides with indigenous land movements in Mexico’s Zapatista heartland, where the interests of a green economy threaten to crowd out the voices of those for whom it matters."
• Girl Shot by Taliban Arrives in Britain for Care
• I Think I See The Problem Here
• GOP Congressman Calls Abortion Talk with Mistress "Imprudent Approach," Denies Hypocrisy
• Romney's Talking Points on the Uninsured Are Like the Ones I Wrote When I Was an Insurance Industry Flack
• Will E-Voting Machines Owned by His Buddies Give Mitt Romney the White House?
• Rush Limbaugh has Lost "Tremendous Chunk of Advertising Revenue," Ad Support "Dwindling"
• The Car Crash Paul Ryan Should Have Avoided at the VP Debate
• Koch Industries Warns 45,000 Employees Of "Consequences" If They Don’t Vote For Republicans
• Why One Bad Debate Sapped Obama's Strength
• VIDEO: Meet The 17-Year-Old Boy Who Blew the Lid Off NYPD "Stop and Frisk" Racial Profiling with His iPod
• Bain Owned Plant Drops US Flag as US Workers Forced to Train Chinese Replacements
• Chris Hedges | Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
• DNC Chair: I ‘Fully Expect’ Women’s Issues To Come Up At Hofstra Debate
• Medicare Vouchers Would Raise Costs For Most Seniors, Study Finds
• Iraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects

• Jonathan Chait | November 7th: Though their agendas are hidden, both Romney and Obama have plans to dramatically remake the size and character of American government. Very, very quickly.
• Greg Palast | It's Magic! Here’s an easy way to spoil a vote: digitize it . . . then lose the digits.
• VIDEO: Katrina vanden Heuvel | Obama Needs to Speak About Jobs
• The Real Blame for Deaths in Libya
• "The next time you submit a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. government, it may end up in the hands of a company you’ve never heard of."
• Oil and Gas Drilling Causes Giant Sinkhole in Louisiana, Residents Forced to Flee
• Pennsylvania Ads Still Suggest ID Required To Vote
• Glenn Greenwald | Martha Raddatz and the Faux Objectivity of Journalists
• Mitt Romney Bails on 'View' Appearance, Cancels On ABC Talk Show
• Some GMO Cheerleaders Also Deny Climate Change
• DCCC Backs Michele Bachmann’s Opponent In MN
• Maya Angelou | There Is No Time for Complacency
• VIDEO: Texas Landowners Join Environmentalists for Historic Blockade of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
• "Elizabeth Warren raised $12.1 million during the third quarter in her bid to unseat Senator Scott Brown, who raised $7.45 million in the same span."
• Attention All Journalists: 8 Things You Need to Know Before Reporting on the Social Security COLA
• The House Science Committee: A Multiple-Choice Disgrace
• VIDEO: Melissa Harris-Perry: Clarence Thomas Is 'Wrong' On Affirmative Action
• Law Professor: Romney Exploited Federal Spending Loophole in MA
• Republicans Worry About Gary Johnson
• Paul Krugman | Death by Ideology
• Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling on College Campuses
• Obama Campaign Hypes Expectations For Second Debate
• Moderator Candy Crowley's Role Under Scrutiny – Before the Debate
• VIDEO: Tommy Thompson’s Son at WI GOP Event: "We have the opportunity to send Obama back to Chicago– or Kenya."
• 50 Years Ago: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Its Under-Appreciated Hero
• Top Romney Surrogate Admits GOP Is Exploiting Libya Incident For Political Gain
• Sidney Blumenthal | Abraham Lincoln, the Great Campaigner
• Teen Pregnancy Affects Dads, Too
• Fukushima Disaster Could Have Been Avoided, Nuclear Plant Operator Admits
• Romney’s Unraveling Claim That Six Studies Validate His Tax Plan
• Obama Hunkers Down in Debate Prep
• ABC News/WaPo Poll: Obama Leads Romney By 3 Points
• Bruce Springsteen to Campaign for Obama in Ohio, Iowa
• In Sermon, Burlington Pastor Confronts Woman Over Judicial Retention
• "The same Republican lawmakers who slashed nearly a half-billion dollars from the State Department budget are now complaining about security failings in Libya."
• Ryan and Romney's Small-Businesses "Malarkey," Explained
• Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
• Walmart, the Most Powerful Company in the World, Admits that Protests and Strikes Lead to Wage Increases
• Zogby New Nationwide Poll: Obama 47%, Romney 44%
• The Big Dog in His Natural Habitat: Clinton on the Campaign Trail
• HBO’s ‘Ethel’: A Kennedy Daughter, Born Late, Reaches Into the Vault of Memories
• Why the Native American Vote Could Win the Senate for Democrats
• Top adviser Gillespie says Romney ‘will be a pro-life president’
• SNL: Arianna Discusses VP Debate On Weekend Update (VIDEO)
• Poll: Obama and Romney Neck-and-Neck in Usually Red Arizona
• Paul Ryan's Compassionate Conservatism
• Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to 45,000 Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech
• The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent
• Jim Hightower | Three Big Myths Right-Wing Propagandists Are Spreading to Frame the 2012 Election
• Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
• Ex-Walker appointee convicted of stealing $51,000 from veterans: Kevin Kavanaugh skimmed Purple Heart funds, jury finds
• Warnings From the Cuban Missile Crisis
• As Story Grows, GOP Spin Begins. 5 Facts About #Sensata.
• Hirst Kills 90,000 Butterfiels for Art Piece - Might Be Evil
• Syria's Assad accused of using cluster bombs against civilians
• Obama grabs wide lead among those who have already voted: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• The Post’s D.C. homicides investigation: Eight questions
• How psychopaths take over Sometimes being mad is a good thing. An Oxford scientist suggests we should all learn to act a little crazy
• Appendix V - On Poverty, Sin, Regulation, and Freedom, Dino Louis 1991
• Campaigns Mine Personal Data to Get Out Vote
• Rolling Stone Magazine Exposes how Mitt Romney Dodged his Taxes
• The Enemy of My Enemy Is My President
• Romney’s magic economy plan Romney and his allies say the economy will just come back if he wins -- because the rich are on strike. He's wrong
• Low wages and high unemployment are paralyzing the global economy
• Poll: Obama, Romney 'dead even' in Republican-leaning Arizona
• Mitt and the Estate tax
• Win or lose, Paul Ryan is likely to have a big role in GOP’s future
• Does Romney's Religious Devotion Make Him More, or Less, Trustworthy?
• Chris Wallace takes down Republican jobs claim (Updated with Video)
• Obama issues whistleblower directive to security agencies
• Obama Leads Among Early Voters: Poll
• Obama planning presidential debate comeback in Virginia
• Paul Ryan Stimulus Funds Requests Show VP Nominee Asked For More Than Previously Reported [READ]
• Veep Debate Post-Mortem: What the Pundits Missed
• For Obama, Upside of Lackluster Debate: Less Ammo for the Super PAC Firing Squad
• A Contract, Finally, for Airport Screeners
• Springsteen hitting the road for Obama
• All War Is Local
• Limerick Ode To Joe (the “Brawler”) Biden
• Naomi Wolf | Occupy the Pipeline Battles Fracking
• Frackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute's Reputation Unraveling
• Timeline of Libya attack reveals administration contradictions
• Reid vows fresh effort to pass stalled cybersecurity bill in November
• Ambassador Stevens’ Father: Son’s Death Should Not Be A ‘Campaign Issue’
• SNL on the Vice Presidential Debate Saturday Night Live gets the debate right again.
• In California: Still Another Plot Against Democracy
• Bruce Springsteen Changes His Mind—Will Play for Obama This Week
• Religious leaders ask Congress to condition Israel military aid on human rights compliance
• Impact of climate change on Caribbean stressed at UN
• Ohio voting dispute makes its way to the Supreme Court
• Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
• Is Anarchism an Idea Whose Time Has Come? Anarchist thinking appears to be gaining relevance and acceptance among a larger audience.
• The Worst Debt Collector in the World?
• Can We Make the International Monetary Fund More Democratic?
• 5 British Marines Charged With Murder in Afghan Death
• Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate?
• Contrasting Elections: Venezuela and the US
• Nobel Hypocrisy Wins Again