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<div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy"></div><p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>10:22 am ET</em></span></p>
<p>Watch the VP nominee’s nearly 11-minute interview with Peter Cook, in which he talks the economy, jobs, Medicare, debates, Romney’s 47% remarks, the President “not telling the truth,” and more, above.</p>
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<div id="post-298731" class="post-298731 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-2012-elections category-ads category-analysis category-democratic-party category-issues category-news category-republican-party category-taxes category-the-page tag-barack-obama tag-kelly-ayotte tag-mark-halperin tag-mitt-romney tag-nancy-pelosi tag-nikki-haley tag-rob-portman time-post-format-video has-img"><div class="entry-top"><div class="entry-top-right"><div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-category"><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time75" title="View all posts in Analysis">Analysis</a></span><span class="meta-sep"> | </span><span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="2012-10-02T06:38:29-0400">October 2, 2012</abbr></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time76" title="Permalink to San Francisco-Style Democrats" rel="bookmark">San Francisco-Style Democrats</a></h2></div></div> <div class="entry-content">
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<div id="jp-post-flair" class="sharedaddy"></div><p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>6:38 am ET</em></span></p>
<p>This new Romney/RNC TV ad hits Obama on taxes, saying Democrats have raised them before and they will do it again.</p>
<p>It includes four interesting elements:</p>
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<li>It uses the same picture of President Obama and Nancy Pelosi THREE times in 30 seconds.</li>
<li>It features pictures of some of Romney’s allies, including Senator Ayotte and Governor Haley, who happen to be women. Also: Rob Portman, who happens to be a man, but a man from Ohio.</li>
<li>It plays to what I predict will be a rising Republican warning as Election Day approaches: don’t give Democrats more/unified control of Washington.</li>
<li>It tries to play offense/defense on who is the friend of the rich, claiming Republicans will “close loopholes for millionaires."</li>
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<p>Unclear where the spot is running. Watch the ad above and read the script <a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time78" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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<div id="post-298719" class="post-298719 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-2012-elections category-news category-the-page time-post-format-article"><div class="entry-top"><div class="entry-top-right"><div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="2012-10-02T06:00:51-0400">October 2, 2012</abbr></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time79" title="Permalink to Tuesday’s Political Ledes" rel="bookmark">Tuesday’s Political Ledes</a></h2></div></div> <div class="entry-content">
<p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>6:00 am ET</em></span></p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time80" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: “Playing Roles of Referee and, Increasingly, Target During Debates”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time81" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>: “Selling Votes Is A Common Type of Election Fraud”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time82" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>: “President’s ‘No Drama’ Style Is a Debate Asset”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time83" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>: “Churches Using ‘Souls to Polls’ to Rally Vote”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time84" target="_blank">Politico</a>: “10 Quotes That Haunt Barack Obama”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time85" target="_blank">The Hill</a>: “Speaker Boehner Uses Rove-like Strategy to Hold House Majority”</p>
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<div id="post-298708" class="post-298708 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-2012-elections category-analysis category-news category-republican-party category-the-page category-video tag-barack-obama tag-colorado tag-denver tag-mitt-romney time-post-format-video has-img"><div class="entry-top"><div class="entry-top-right"><div class="entry-meta"><span class="entry-category"><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time73" title="View all posts in Video">Video</a></span><span class="meta-sep"> | </span><span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="2012-10-01T23:06:54-0400">October 1, 2012</abbr></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time86" title="Permalink to He Loves Us" rel="bookmark">He Loves Us</a></h2></div></div> <div class="entry-content">
<p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>11:05 pm ET</em></span></p>
<p>Last night, after listening to President Obama do one of his patented “I love you back” responses to a yelling fan at a Nevada event, I suggested that it was hard to imagine Mitt Romney pulling that off with a crowd.</p>
<p>It wasn’t exactly the same (it lacked the hyper-stylized “back”) but listen to how Romney ended his Monday night rally in Denver:</p>
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<p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>3:10 pm ET</em></span></p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time88" target="_blank">This statement from Eric Cantor</a> made me think that the ratio of time Hill types spend gaming out how sequester politics might impact the election to actual impact will be greater than 10,000 to 1.</p>
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<p>From me on “Morning Joe”:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are a lot of Republican complaints about liberal bias, in terms of media coverage of this campaign. Some are more credible than others. I think one of the most credible and serious we should all think about is the President is mostly being covered, has been covered as a candidate rather than as an incumbent, whose record needs to be scrutinized and this is an area where I think there are a lot of legitimate questions of, how are we dealing with the Arab Spring, particularly protecting American assets overseas. And, also, what are our goals in Libya and are they being achieved in the right way? That line of argument and attack, with press scrutiny and with Mitt Romney making a case, should be part of the debate and I think will be because this story does have a lot of unanswered questions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Watch it above.</p>
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<p><p><em>6:22 am ET</em></p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time91" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: “'North Dakota Nice' Plays Well in Senate Race”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time92" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>: “Tight Race Nationally As First Debate Approaches”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time93" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>: “Movie Mogul’s Starring Role in Raising Funds for Obama”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time94" target="_blank">Associated Press</a>: “Schwarzenegger Kept Many Secrets from Wife Maria”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time95" target="_blank">Politico</a>: “The Parallel Universe Where Mitt Leads All Polls”</p>
<p><a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time96" target="_blank">The Hill</a>: “The Hill Poll: Voters Switch, Saying Obama Is Set to Win Second Term”</p>
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<p><p><span style="color:#888888;"><em>5:50 am ET</em></span></p>
<p>Everyone knows Wednesday’s debate is a big deal for Mitt Romney, who remains behind in the race. But it is a big deal in part because the Republican and his campaign need to break the corrosive dynamic they have labored under for weeks now.</p>
<p>With the campaign behind, the candidate and his surrogates are forced off message in nearly every media interview and interaction with reporters by versions of the questions “Why are you behind?” “How can you win?” “Why aren’t you connecting with voters?” “Do you need to shake up your staff?” and “Why is there so much staff dissension?”</p>
<p>As important as it is for Romney to close the horserace gap, he needs to convince voters (and the media) that he can win. With even the Family Wire casting doubt on that (<a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time98" target="_blank">AP lead</a>: “Five weeks to Election Day, President Barack Obama is within reach of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term. Republican Mitt Romney's path to victory is narrowing.”), Boston faces a “you gotta believe” deficit that is dangerous. The <a href="http://time.chtah.net/a/tBQaxMGBASRffB8ex6jCUgxos0q/time99" target="_blank">latest Washington Post/ABC News poll</a> finds registered voters think Obama will prevail on November 6 by a 32 point margin, 63 — 31.</p>
<p>There is much commentary about how Romney will benefit from just standing on the stage next to the President in Denver in terms of stature. That is true. But a strong debate performance, coupled with the semiotics of standing side-by-side with the incumbent, is likely to not only narrow the horserace poll number, but give both Romney’s base voters and some swings (and the press!) the sense that the Republican can actually win this. And that change in attitude would have a ton of secondary positive effects for Romney that would give him an even better shot.</p>
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