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		<title>Four More Years: Obama Wins Re-election</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/07/four-more-years-obama-wins-re-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A hurricane couldn’t stop it. Two billion dollars couldn’t buy it. A weak economy couldn’t swing it. Americans re-elected Barack Obama on Tuesday, affirming the goals of the President’s tumultuous first term and giving him a second. This wasn&#8217;t 2008. Not as many states went his way. Fewer of his supporters wept. This time, it wasn’t about change. By 10:45 p.m. E.T., gongs were ringing at Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago as key states were called for the incumbent. New Hampshire. Bong. Pennsylvania. Bong. Wisconsin. Bong. In Boston, home to Mitt Romney’s campaign, a glum crowd of Republicans began to thin. Half headed to the bars, the other half to the exits. A few hours later, it was all over. “I pray that the President will be successful in guiding our nation,” Romney told the crowd in a short, dignified concession speech. At McCormick Place in Chicago, Obama took his time addressing the nation that had extended his lease on the White House. “Tonight in this election, you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up. We have fought our way back,” he said. “We know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come.” (PHOTOS: Obama defeats Romney) The election once looked as if it would turn on the U.S. economy, still experiencing aftershocks from the 2008 financial crisis. And maybe it did — just not in the way Republicans had planned. Romney’s blue-chip business background seemed the perfect credential with which to challenge Obama, who entered the White House just as the depths of the recession became apparent. But after catastrophic downturns in employment, consumer confidence and the housing market early in Obama’s first term, the economy stabilized in the past year. The result: a frustratingly slow but palpable recovery that gave an unlikely edge to the incumbent. The revitalization of the auto industry in particular, enabled by a 2009 bailout that Romney opposed, might have been the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81859&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Supporters of U.S. President Barack Obama celebrate his victory in the presidential election at his election night rally in Chicago.</media:title>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Election Eve</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/05/morning-must-reads-election-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama leads in the polls. Republicans are left arguing the polls are wrong. How Bill Clinton became the Presidents closer. The campaign legal wrangling has begun. Florida&#8217;s early voting is a hot mess. And Real Biden, not Onion Biden says, &#8220;You see this lovely young woman? We&#8217;re gonna let her ride with me, in my limo, to the high school.&#8221; It&#8217;ll all be over soon.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81492&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>October Jobs Numbers Are Big News &#8230; for the Next President</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/02/81391/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. economy added an estimated 171,000 jobs in October, according to a Nov. 2 government report, which also made upward revisions to August and September figures of some 84,000 previously unreported jobs. It&#8217;s the second straight month with large positive revisions, erasing concerns prevalent in August that the lumbering recovery had ground to a halt. This is potentially big news for presidential politics. But not in the way you might think. Don&#8217;t be fooled by Democratic backslapping or ludicrous Republican spin. (Conservatives are eagerly pointing out that the 7.9% unemployment rate is a tenth of a percentage point higher than the day Obama took office in 2009. Employment fell off a cliff shortly thereafter, and the reason the rate ticked up in October was that Americans were rejoining the workforce — all-around good news.) The October report won&#8217;t have any real effect on the outcome of the presidential election Nov. 6. To reiterate what we&#8217;ve written before, economic news takes some time to sink in with the electorate. No one&#8217;s going to print out the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Excel spreadsheet to bring with them into the voting booth. The reality is that the economic news from the past six months — a frustratingly slow recovery but a recovery all the same — is already baked into President Obama&#8217;s numbers. Just as Republicans can&#8217;t credibly claim most voters will hold Obama responsible for catastrophic losses at the beginning of his term — and in fact most polls still show more voters blame President Bush for the economy&#8217;s woes — Democrats can&#8217;t credibly claim the upward revisions announced Nov. 2 will improve most voters&#8217; impressions of Obama&#8217;s handling of the economy before Election Day. But the increasingly positive trajectory is politically important all the same. (PHOTOS: The Recession in Pictures: America Copes with a Stagnant Economy) As Derek Thompson points out at the Atlantic, &#8220;Whoever wins on Tuesday inherits an economy that is still awfully weak and a jobs recovery that&#8217;s clearly gaining momentum.&#8221; To put it another way, the next President will preside over an economy with a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81391&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandy Sidelines Obama and Romney, but Campaign Spins On</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/29/sandy-sidelines-obama-and-romney-but-campaign-spins-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It takes a mighty big storm to close schools, tunnels and nuclear power plants along the East Coast. But it takes a true meteorological monster to slow down presidential-campaign operations a week before Election Day. Hurricane Sandy has done all of the above. As high winds and heavy rain lashed states from Virginia to New York on Monday, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney canceled campaign events, suspended fundraising e-mails and hunkered down for a storm that could have significant political implications. Obama aborted swings through Florida and Ohio on Monday, leaving the stump speeches to former President Bill Clinton in order to return to Washington to monitor the federal government&#8217;s emergency response. (Clinton didn&#8217;t seem to mind too much.) “The President&#8217;s focus is on the storm and governing the country and making sure people are safe,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a conference call with reporters. Charles Dharapak / AP Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop at Avon Lake High School in Avon Lake, Ohio, on Oct. 29, 2012 Romney pressed ahead with campaigning in Ohio and Iowa early Monday but scrapped planned appearances in Wisconsin, Virginia and New Hampshire. Both candidates have cleared their schedules for Tuesday. &#8220;Governor Romney believes this is a time for the nation and its leaders to come together to focus on those Americans who are in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; communications director Gail Gitcho said. A Romney campaign bus in Virginia loaded up with supplies on Sunday to deliver after the hurricane hits. But as the candidates pulled off the trail — “out of sensitivity,” as Gitcho put it — the campaign spin continued at gale force, relying on ads and surrogates to deliver closing messages. In a last-minute play for crucial Ohio, Romney released a new ad on Monday seeking to turn the issue of the auto bailout, one of the President&#8217;s biggest selling points in the Rust Belt, against the incumbent. “Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81093&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Sandy</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/29/morning-must-reads-sandy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 13:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy complicates the presidential campaign&#8217;s best laid plans. Bill Clinton says losing the election would be worse. The National Weather Service is not messing around. What the late deciders are thinking. Is Minnesota in play? The GOP throws an autobailout hail mary. And Democrats play Romnopoly in Ohio.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81081&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: 80 Days</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/26/morning-must-reads-80-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy grew at an estimated 2% annual rate between July and September, boosted by government and consumer spending. Biden eulogizes George McGovern. Liberals misread what Richard Mourdock said about rape. It&#8217;d take 80 days to watch the political ads that&#8217;ve run in Ohio this month. The Fed has historically aided Republican incumbent presidents. And Lena Dunham and the Obama campaign make a virginity joke so funny Vladamir Putin already thought of it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=81014&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Surprise</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/24/morning-must-reads-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republicans are feeling better about the campaign, and everybody&#8217;s paying more attention. The origins of the gender gap might surprise you. Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock says pregnancy from rape &#8220;is something God intended to happen.&#8221; Obama&#8217;s gives convincing re-election argument no one will ever hear. The Obama campaign has released the transcript. What Romney&#8217;s &#8220;path to the sea&#8221; remark says about the Middle East&#8217;s strategic geography. Can campaigns manipulate prediction markets? And this man is the U.S. government&#8217;s digital enemy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80855&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Note to Our Readers</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/20/a-note-to-our-readers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few housekeeping notes on the site's new look and new commenting system.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80558&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romnesia: The Comedic Stylings of Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/19/romnesia-the-comedic-stylings-of-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest addition to President Obama&#8217;s stump speech, debuted Friday in Virginia, is a running schtick about Romney&#8217;s Etch-a-Sketching ways. The coinage Romnesia&#8211;a combination of Romney and amnesia&#8211;and the Jeff Foxworthyian delivery are pretty funny, even if the critique that Romney is simultaneously an unflinching ideologue and a fair-weather flip-flopper doesn&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense. Stump speeches aren&#8217;t the kind of stuff that really affect elections, but give this one a watch. Two weeks ago at the first debate, Obama looked like a sleepy hostage. Now he&#8217;s having fun.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80398&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Know Who&#8217;s Spending to Influence the Election? You Can Do Something About It.</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/18/want-to-know-whos-spending-to-influence-the-election-you-can-do-something-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the non-profit news outfit ProPublica published a scoop: Defend My Dividend, a self-described grassroots organization backed by two trade groups with a vested interest tax issues, has been running tens of thousands of dollars in TV ads targeted at seniors in south Florida. In the vast world of outside political spending, such circumstances are commonplace. But they often go unnoticed.  And ProPublica wants you to be able to do something about it. By examining contracts between Defend My Dividend and the TV stations from which it purchased ad time, ProPublica was able to trace the ad buys to the Edison Electric Institute and the Alliance for Savings &#38; Investment, which both represent large dividend-paying corporations. This summer, the Federal Communications Commission made available online detailed ad buy contracts like these from the largest media markets. But the paper trail is messy and unorganized—not every document is relevant, some are lumped together and you can’t search the database by political group. So ProPublica is asking its readers to help organize the data. Surf over to the ProPublica site, look at a contract or two and answer a few simple questions about what’s on there. It’ll help compile one of the best looks at who’s spending what, where and why in a year when opaque groups like Defend My Dividend are dispensing serious money to influence the election. Check out what ProPublica has put together so far here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80328&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Digital</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/18/morning-must-reads-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg starts a super PAC for centrists. A brief history of trickle-down government. An annotated interview with David Axelrod. Larry King (natch) will moderate the four-way Libertarian-Green-Constitution-Justice party debate. Jim Fallows goes inside Foxconn. And Newsweek is going all digital after 80 years in print; I wish them the very best. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80315&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Romney&#8217;s 12 Million Jobs: How to Lie While Telling the Truth</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/16/romneys-12-million-jobs-how-to-lie-while-telling-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney&#8217;s pledge to create 12 million jobs is a cardboard cutout of a campaign promise. It looks great, even bold, from one angle, but there&#8217;s really not much behind it. As this publication and others have explained, economic forecasters of all stripes already expect the economy to add roughly that number of jobs from 2013 to 2017. In case you need a refresher: Assuming a very rough estimate of 1 million new jobs per 1% increase in economic growth, the Fed’s September forecast had the economy adding 5.5 million to 6.8 million jobs in 2013 and 2014, with the pace quickening in the following years. Moody’s Analytics’ August forecast was slightly sunnier but in the same range. So Romney’s pledge to create 12 million jobs in four years is on the conservative end of the spectrum. More important, that predictive spectrum is based on current policy. In other words, Romney is pledging to preserve the economic status quo. There&#8217;s nothing so terrible about Romney&#8217;s making this promise. It&#8217;s slightly misleading, but it&#8217;s a candidate&#8217;s job to sell his campaign, and 12 million jobs sounds great. Since it&#8217;s expected to happen under current policy, Obama could have beaten Romney to the punch by broadcasting the fact — also technically true — that forecasters are saying all these jobs will be created under the President&#8217;s current plan. But Obama&#8217;s never said that, so &#8220;12 million jobs&#8221; remains an exclusively Republican mantra. Obama&#8217;s loss. (PHOTOS: Political Pictures of the Week, Oct. 5–11) That doesn&#8217;t give Romney license to abuse the figure, though, which is exactly what he did in a recent ad. Whereas he once said that &#8220;we put [my policies] in place and we&#8217;ll add 12 million jobs in four years&#8221; — a neat trick of rhetorical proximity without any definitive claim of causation — Romney drops the pretense in a new TV spot. &#8220;Let me tell you how I&#8217;ll create 12 million jobs when President Obama couldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Romney says. You can plausibly interpret this statement in two different ways. One is that Obama can&#8217;t create 12 million jobs in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80102&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Town Hall</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/16/morning-must-reads-town-hall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Obama accomplished anything in the first debate, it was lowering expectations for the second. Halperin gets a hold of the campaigns&#8217; debate agreement, which includes a clause stipulating that neither candidate will make the other guy promise stuff. Beware the town hall format: open floor space is the enemy. The election just might be win-win for Paul Ryan. Democracy in ranch land. And George W. Bush takes up painting. You know, mostly dog portraits and Texas landscapes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=80095&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Real</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/15/morning-must-reads-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama works on a new debating style. Reconciling the state and national polls. The New York Times in Real &#8216;Merica. How the Administration might have gotten its wires crossed on Benghazi. SNL does the veep debate. Man jumps from space. And there are some bad people on the Internet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79994&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Swing</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/11/morning-must-reads-swing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swing state polls find Romney gaining, but Obama maintains a narrow edge. List via: Colorado: Romney 48%, Obama 47% (CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac) Florida: Obama 47%, Romney 46% (NBC/WSJ/Marist) Michigan: Obama 49%, Romney 42% (Detroit News) Ohio: Obama 51%, Romney 45% (NBC/WSJ/Marist) Virginia: Romney 48%, Obama 47% (NBC/WSJ/Marist) Virginia: Obama 51%, Romney 46% (CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac) Wisconsin: Obama 50%, Romney 47% (CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac) Romney&#8217;s Navy SEALS stories are hit and miss. Joe Biden&#8217;s debate reel. Claire McCaskill is running devastating ads featuring pro-life rape victims. And if you&#8217;re a politician qualifying rape, you&#8217;re going to have a bad time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79819&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: CEO</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/10/morning-must-reads-ceo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the polls and such. There were no protests in the run-up to the Benghazi attack. Jack Welch parts ways with Fortune after spouting baseless conspiracies; the Wall Street Journal hands him a megaphone. CEO plagiarizes chain letter, tells employees whom to vote for. Maybe emergency room care isn&#8217;t so bad after all. And Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard excoriates the opposition for sexism. Tilda Swinton will star in the biopic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79760&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Pew</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/09/morning-must-reads-pew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Romney skyrockets in Pew&#8217;s national poll, driven largely by a shift in party identification that&#8217;s good news for Republicans. One poll is, well, one poll, but people like to flip. Worst (best?) debate spin yet: Abraham Lincoln was a bad debater. (Pantaloons on fire.) Pew also finds 1 in 5 Americans now have no religious affiliation. And he Obama campaign sends around a Big Bird &#8220;TV&#8221; ad, which I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ll spend much on:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79690&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Must Reads: Boomer</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/08/morning-must-reads-boomer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nate Silver estimates Romney&#8217;s debate bounce at around 3 points. Obama raised a record $181 million in September. Romney will try again to turn Benghazi against the President in a foreign policy speech today. He remains vague. The Obama Administration&#8217;s fight against prison rape. A journalist debates his father about baby boomers. The New Yorker brings back Eastwood&#8217;s chair to zing Obama. SNL does the debate. And Jon Stewart and Bill O&#8217;Reilly held their own forum. &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79636&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>September Jobs Report: Obama Boosted by Weak but Persistent Recovery</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/10/05/september-jobs-report-obama-boosted-by-weak-but-persistant-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s re-election effort once looked to be a tug-of-war between two powerful political forces: the magnetism of a charismatic incumbent vs. the drain of a slow economic recovery. But a month before Election Day, the President&#8217;s charisma went missing, at least for one debate night, while new jobs numbers suggest that the economy isn&#8217;t such a disadvantage for Obama. The headline of the government&#8217;s monthly jobs report released Friday was that the economy added 114,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate fell to 7.8%. That&#8217;s not all that great: the jobs total barely keeps pace with population growth, and near-8% unemployment is far from ideal. But read into the report — and between its lines — and the news should be heartening for Democrats spooked by their candidate&#8217;s poor debate performance Wednesday. Large upward revisions to the jobs numbers from July and August, reflecting a total of 86,000 more jobs than initially estimated, suggest that the summer slowdown that had some observers crying stagnation was merely noise in the data. (They&#8217;re also a helpful reminder that economists&#8217; predictions about jobs and growth have a large, but rarely mentioned, margin of error.) The trend over the past year has been a plodding march toward recovery, frustratingly slow but moving in the right direction. The drop in the unemployment rate in September was not caused by a shrinking labor force, by people giving up on finding jobs. Instead it was accompanied by a significant influx and 873,000 new people who said they were employed. Government employment, which nearly every report claimed was recently bleeding, actually increased by 10,000. The political impact of such trivia from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shouldn&#8217;t be overstated. The state of the economy is largely baked into Obama&#8217;s re-election numbers at this point; a yearlong trend of modest recovery continues to favor the incumbent. And the most potentially important economic event every month is the one that still hasn&#8217;t happened: a sudden financial crash, instigated by Europe or something else, that could pull the presidential race<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79600&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at the First Presidential Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first 2012 presidential debate is minutes away, so the threats have begun. The head of the debate commission, Frank Farenkopf, tells the audience that if they violate the no-clapping, no-applause rules, “a button will be pushed and you’ll be swimming with the fishes.” Then the moderator Jim Lehrer comes out warns that he might stop the debate if anyone speaks. “Start having silent thoughts,” he says. It’s a tense moment. It just got more tense.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79512&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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