Morning Must Reads: Digital
- Bloomberg starts a super PAC for centrists.
- A brief history of trickle-down government.
- An annotated interview with David Axelrod.
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Liveblogging the Second Presidential Debate
TIME’s politics team brings you up-to-the-minute Twitter commentary and coverage throughout the Hempstead, New York debate.
Make Your Own Electoral College Prediction
Who will win the race to 270 Electoral College votes? Use this interactive map to predict whether states will go to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama on Nov. 6. Click here for the latest 2012 election results.
Morning Must Reads: Town Hall
- If Obama accomplished anything in the first debate, it was lowering expectations for the second.
- Halperin gets a hold of the campaigns’ 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.
Morning Must Reads: Real
- Obama works on a new debating style.
- Reconciling the state and national polls.
- The New York Times in Real ‘Merica.
Liveblogging the Vice Presidential Debate
TIME’s politics team brings you up-to-the-minute Twitter commentary and coverage throughout the Danville, Ky. debate.
Morning Must Reads: Swing
- 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% (
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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.
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.
Liveblogging the First Presidential Debate
TIME’s politics team brings you up-to-the-minute Twitter commentary and coverage throughout the Denver debate.
Campaign Poll: Which Candidate Is Being More Truthful?
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns have made claims that the other side is lying, and that the ensuing scrutiny of such claims has been biased. Now it’s time to cast your vote.
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.