Morning Must Reads: CEO
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.
Adam Sorensen
Adam Sorensen is an associate editor at TIME and the editor of Swampland. You can e-mail him at adam_sorensen [at] timeinc [dot] com.
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Morning Must Reads: Pew
Romney skyrockets in Pew’s national poll, driven largely by a shift in party identification that’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.)
Morning Must Reads: Boomer
- Nate Silver estimates Romney’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.
September Jobs Report: Obama Boosted by Weak but Persistent Recovery
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 …
What Happened at the First Presidential Debate
–8 minutes. The first 2012 presidential debate is minutes away, so the threats have begun. The head of the debate commission, Frank Fahrenkopf, tells audience members that if they violate the no-clapping, no-applause rules, …
The Burden of Being Scott Brown
Tally up the recent polls in the Massachusetts Senate race and you’ll see that the incumbent is very popular. Tally up those same polls and you’ll also see that he’s losing. That is the beauty and the burden of being Scott Brown.
Morning Must Reads: Listen
- The pundits will tell you who won Wednesday night’s presidential debate and you’ll probably listen.
- Romney wouldn’t revoke work permits issued to young undocumented immigrants by Obama.
- Crossroad be everywhere.
- Ohio guys who don’t get Romney.
- And a border agent has reportedly been killed in a shooting in Arizona.
Morning Must Reads: Pregame
- It’s presidential debate week, the magical time when every candidate is a bumbling oaf in his own telling.
- Read Jim Fallows’ pregame program.
- And a story about polls and their forecasters.
Morning Must Reads: Bush
- National Review writes Romney needs to address middle-class stagnation under George W. Bush.
- Bush is currently more popular than Romney.
- Nate Silver’s map looks almost like 2008.
- How Ben Bernanke steered the Fed toward easing.
Ad War Update: Obama and Romney at Your Kitchen Table
You know the presidential campaign is getting serious when both candidates stop stabbing each other with sharpened Pinnochio noses long enough to speak directly to you, the voter. “If I could sit down with you in your living room or around the kitchen table,” Obama says in a new direct-to-camera ad, “here’s what I’d say”:
Romney Fights for Ohio, Regardless of the Polls
Before Mitt Romney set foot in Ohio for a two-day bus tour this week, his campaign was spinning the state of the presidential contest there. On a flight between Newark and Dayton on Tuesday, Romney political director Rich Beeson …
Morning Must Reads: Turnaround
- Romney’s turnaround skills tested in the stretch run.
- Presidential debate previewed in dueling interviews on 60 Minutes.
- The Obama campaign wraps Romney’s 47% remarks into a kitchen sink tax attack:
Mitt Romney Discloses 2011 Tax Returns, ‘Vigorous’ Health
Mitt Romney released his tax returns for 2011 on Friday afternoon, reporting nearly $2 million in owed taxes on $13.7 million in income, a 14.1% effective rate. The returns showed that he gave a hefty $4 million to charity, but only claimed a deduction on a little more than half of that.
