New Fox Polls

Ohio Obama +3; Florida Romney +3.[...]

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TOP STORY: Obama Lowers the
“Romnesia” Hammer [Video - Full Remarks]

“Remember, it’s not what other people think of you that matters. It’s what you think of them. That’s how you live your life.” – Gore Vidal, political assassin extraordinaireIT’S AN October surprise, but not the[...]

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Hell to Pay nominations: Science deniers,
homophobes and Scott Brown

Cuz they hate this.It's the moment you've been waiting for: your chance to vote on this week's nominees for the worst politician in the world. If you thought that this election has been ugly so far, just look at this week.

• Among the better news of the week was the The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Which reminded us that the House of Representatives is carrying on the DOMA case, after the Obama administration decided to stop pursuing it. Since House Republicans took over the defense of DOMA, they've spent almost $1.5 million to keep losing. Do you know who authorized the contracts for the outside law firm carrying out that losing defense? Rep. Dan Lungren.

  Ami Bera is running against Lungren, hoping to make the House a little less bigoted and homophobic of a place. We can help him do that, by contributing now and by making Lungren our Hell to Pay winner for the week.

• Of course, that's not all the homophobia for the week. There was that vile attack on Tammy Baldwin by the Washington Times. What better way to show the Right that those kinds of attacks will only backfire on them than by raising some major dough for Tammy Baldwin?
• Another option celebrating what an incredibly well-deserved shitty week Scott Brown had in Massachusetts? The Boston Globe blasted him for "misleadlingly" citing a Globe story on the absestos lawsuit in an ad. Then he really stepped in it when he accused the family of asbestos victims of being paid actors. That was on the heels of the revelation that homeless people were being paid to say they support him. He should have stuck with the homeless people, because his real supporters are pretty damned embarrassing. To top it all off, Warren smoked him in fundraising and in polling.

  We could really top off a really horrible, awful not good week for Scott Brown with some Hell to Pay for Elizabeth Warren.

• Wouldn't you expect better out of California, even from a Republican? We've got one of those tea-bagger courtin', anti-science spewing GOP types running in CA-47. That would be Gary DeLong, who told a crowd in Long Beach, "I don?t see any scientific evidence that confirms" global warming. He also told the crowd at this forum that they should recycle more, that that was one solution for the climate, even if he doesn't really believe that there's a climate problem. That's an interesting suggestion from a guy who has written editorials in opposition to his opponent's efforts to toughen up recycling standards.

  We have a direct opportunity to give yet another climate change denier some Hell to Pay, and elect Democrat Alan Lowenthal.

Make your case in the comments for who needs to have their ass kicked. Well, we won't really kick their asses. We'll just raise a whole lot of money for the Democrat they're opposing and make them pay.

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Obama launches Binders full of Women ad

The ad is part of the larger Obama message that Mitt Romney has a problem with women.

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Obama's Missing Bounce

Wait a minute: Wasn?t President Obama supposed to get a generous boost in the polls from his masterly comeback performance on Tuesday night? A counter-bounce to the one Romney got from Round One? If so, it?s been awfully slow in coming. The main polling headline in recent days  sent Democrats right back into a depressive spiral: Gallup?s weekly tracking poll, out on Thursday, showed the Republican leading nationally by his biggest margin yet?seven points. The swing states remain much the same, with Obama clinging to narrow leads in most. So what gives? 

If Obama fails to get much or any post-debate bounce, you can blame it at least in part on the power couple of new media: Republican spin and instant journalism. Long before the debate was over, the right was busy making it all about the moderator, Candy Crowley, and her perceived bias against Romney. (The Prospect's Paul Waldman shot this downdecisively.) They?d been warning of the threat this partisan Bolshevik from CNN posed for days?and getting all the liberal sites to pick up on it. The TPMs and HuffPos need instant copy, just the same as the Daily Callers and Drudges. So hey: Let?s all just write about the same things from violently different viewpoints! Who cares if it has nothing to do with the presidential candidates? 

The next thing drowning out substantive content of the debate was the inconsequential dust-up over Benghazi. The length of time it took the administration to be clear that this was a terrorist attack?to use the words?was seized on by the right and by Romney, though it backfired during the debate when he brought it up. And since this kind of small-change kerfuffle?rather than serious questions about Libya policy or anti-terror efforts, say?is what passes for a foreign-policy issue in the blogosphere, it?s been blown up into a Thing of Significance even in the left-leaning media.

Last but not least, the thing that did the most to drown out what was actually said and promised at the debate: Binders! Because Romney left a word out of his story about recruiting women to work in his administration, the whole world was giffing and tweeting and arting riffs on binders and women before the debate was over. 

The result: Ask most of America, and certainly most of the punditsphere, what Tuesday?s debate revealed. The answer, most likely, will go like this: Oh, something about Mitt Romney and women in binders. Obama may have won, but that?s what most people really remember. It was a collaborative effort by the folks who want to help Romney by changing the subject, and by those who want to re-elect Obama but can?t resist the right wing?s red-meat distractions. Even a debate that none other than George Will said was ?immeasurably the best? presidential encounter we?ve ever seen has been quickly forgotten in the world of right-wing spin and left-wing blogs.

So They Say

?I mean, he?s changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping, we?ve got to name this condition that he?s going through. I think it?s called ?Romnesia.' ... And if you come down with a case of Romnesia, and you can?t seem to remember the policies that are still on your website, or the promises you?ve made over the six years you?ve been running for president, here?s the good news: Obamacare covers preexisting conditions. We can fix you up. We?ve got a cure."

?Barack Obama, speaking today at George Mason University in Virginia

Daily Meme: Debate Cliffhangers

• Monday marks the last presidential debate of the 2012 election season. We've all shared zingers, boring Dodd-Frank discussions, lethargic presidents, lethargic moderators, spicy moderators, thirsty vice-presidential candidates, and much binder angst. 
• However, with the domestic-policy round of the debates officially wrapped up, we're feeling a bit like Lost fans after the series finale. We have so many questions left unanswered!
• Like the climate. Talking about how much you love clean coal, contrary to your beliefs, does not set environmentalists's hearts aflutter.
• LBGT issues have also gone unmentioned. But is that actually a good thing?
• Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, however, is up to debating anyone on gay rights who's willing.
• Housing was brought up briefly, but not given space to breathe equal to itsimportance to the economy.
• And Social Security, a favorite conversation-ender in electoral campaigns, hasn't come up either.
• It's also unlikely that we'll learn whether either Romney and Obama has read Fifty Shades of Grey, a question apparently only suitable for Senate debates.
• Other women's issues, like equal pay and contraception, did come up during the town hall debate, but Fox News's Megyn Kelly wrote off talking about such things as "obvious pandering." Got to save the "lady issues" for the "Sadie Hawkins debate."

What We're Writing

• Paul Waldman reveals that gun owners are in a win-win scenario under an Obama presidency.
• Abby Rapoport unpacks the battle behind Georgia's ballot initiative on charter schools.

What We're Reading

• Obama and Romney both picked up swing-state newspaper endorsements today.
• The Onion, on the other hand, endorsed John Edwards for president. 
• Noam Scheiber profiles Tagg Romney, the most Mitt-like of the Romney boys.
• XKCD finds fault with sweeping generalizations in presidential election coverage.
• "It?s a damn shame that the Democrats are stuck in a Groundhog Day campaign where instead of hitting on Andie MacDowell we have to call Mitt Romney a fraud, but that?s partisan politics and that?s this campaign."
• Adam Gopnik points out that the shocking turns of this year's baseball playoffs are more similar to how presidential elections unfold than we care to admit.
• Mitt Romney must have saved all his best zingers for the Al Smith dinner last night.

Poll of the Day

A new survey from Pew shows that while Catholic and non-religiously affiliated Latinos are very much in the Obama camp, evangelical Latinos are far less wedded to one party. Fifty percent support Obama, while 39 percent support Romney?a far smaller gap than the one that persists in non-religious Latinos's political preference, with 83 percent favoring Obama.

For more polling information, go to the Prospect?s 2012 election map.

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The Mysterious Economic Collapse in the Northeast

Looking at the state-level unemployment numbers yields a significant and under-reported story. We've known for some time that innovations in reaching shale oil deposits in the Plains states - places like the Dakotas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa - have[...]

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Obama Move in Florida

CNN Poll: Romney up 1 in Florida. [...]

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How Country Music Stars Are Gaming The Tax Code
In Tennessee

According to an investigation by The Knoxville News Sentinel, wealthy individuals — including corporate CEOs and country music stars — are taking advantage of a loophole in Tennessee law to claims huge tax breaks on their property. This tax provision is meant to help farmers, but instead is helping members of the 1 percent save [...]



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Sorry Mrs. Romney, Comparing Serving In Mormon
Missions To Military Service Is Insulting

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By now you've probably heard Ann Romney say even though her husband and sons didn't serve in the military they did serve their Mormon church by going on its missionary work.

The wife of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday said that her husband and sons had not joined the U.S. military but had found "different ways of serving" by going on religious missions as part of their obligation to the Mormon church. During an interview on ABC's The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked Ann Romney how she would explain to the families of fallen soldiers why her husband and sons had not served their country.

"When I read about your husband, what I had read -- and maybe you can correct this -- is that the reason he didn't serve in Vietnam was because it was against the religion," Goldberg said. "That's not correct," Ann Romney insisted. "He was serving his mission, and my five sons have also served missions. None served in the military, but I do have one son that feels that he's giving back to his country in a significant way where he is now a doctor and he is taking care of veterans."

"So, you know, we find different ways of serving," she added. "And my husband and my five boys did serve missions, did not serve in the military."

The candidate's wife explained that Mormon missions were like military service in that "you're going outside of yourself, you're working and you're helping others. And it changes you. And are we so grateful in this country for those people -- men and women -- that are volunteering, they're sacrificing their life for us, and we cannot forget that or we have to acknowledge that always."

See, serving a Jehovah's Witness type service of being a door-to-door Mormon salesman in Paris is just the same as going into Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Just ask Ann. I'm sure the mothers of slain sons and daughters will relate to that. Losing a limb in combat will certainly change you just as having a door slammed in your face as you spread the word of Joseph Smith.

"So, when you're facing these mothers whose children have not come back, how will you explain to them that your sons haven't gone?" Goldberg pressed. "Will you talk about the missions they've gone on?"

"I would say it's probably the hardest thing that a president and a first lady probably do is to comfort those that have lost a love one and have gone in harm's way," Ann Romney replied, not directly answering the question.

Of course she didn't answer that question. Her response was repulsive. Imagine trying to tell a grieving mother that you understand military combat because her husband went to France and knocked on doors to convert people to Mormonism. That's a very hazardous job because there are many IED's placed throughout the streets of Paris just waiting for unsuspecting Mormons.

Here's how Mitt's father George described his missionary work. (pg75 The Life of George Romney)

Missionary work is often character-building and it proved so for George Romney. He found his mission the best training that he received and later said that it meant more to him in his work than any other single experience that he ever had. "The first thing you find out," he once explained, "is that you have to decide what you really think, what you really believe. Secondly, you have to acquire the ability to explain what you believe to others and to do it in various manners. The third aspect is exposure to people of all types of religious, economic and social conviction. This is stimulating."....

Oh, I get it. Honing your Mormon beliefs and meeting different people is a lot like facing down your NVA enemy at the MacNamara Line in the DMZ.

Here is the dangerous work George, Mitt and his sons faced every day during their mission years. (pg.76)

The missionaries were required to keep diaries and account on printed forms for their time. Much of this was spent in door-to-door "tracting."

"Good morning," was the proper greeting, "I am a missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and I have a very important message about the restoration of the Gospel that I would like to explain to you. Would you care to accept a tract ?"

The tracts explained the beliefs and story of the Church, how Joseph Smith, prophet and founder, started it at Fayette, New York, in 1830 after the Book of Mormon was revealed to him; how its members believe theirs a restoration of the true church....

The danger Tagg Romney feels when he knocked on a door and asked someone if they'd like to hear his message about revealing the nature of the true church probably adequately equates to a troop in the battlefield hearing his commanding officer yell the words 'INCOMING!" Mitt Romney did have two major car accidents when he was there trying to convert the masses so there's that too.

There were six people in a car that would comfortably seat five, but otherwise it was an ordinary drive that happened to turn tragic.On the way back from Pau, the car was hit head-on and Anderson's wife, Leola, was killed. Anderson's driver, a 21-year-old missionary named Mitt Romney, is now a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, with the June 16, 1968, accident one of his rare dark moments.

Journos don't usually bring up his second major accident in France. I wonder why?

The missionaries apparently had good reason for concern. In December 1968, they were in another accident, in which the Peugeot Romney was driving through Le Mons was hit from behind by a dump truck. "I looked in the rearview mirror, and there was a garbage truck coming quickly behind us, with people in the front seat, all laughing and talking, and it was a snowy day," Romney said. "He ... slammed into the back of my vehicle, which caused it to slam into the car in front of us, and they kept going - bang, bang, bang, bang!"

See? Serving your church is exactly the same as serving your nation.

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