Looking over the TPM Electoral Scoreboard, I’ll take the liberty of pushing Arizona to Romney and Pennsylvania to Obama. That gives Obama 284 electoral votes and Romney 206, with Iowa, New Hampshire, Florida and Colorado as toss ups. As of right now. More polls to come today. Always more polls. Our Polltracker team is on the case.
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The Polltracker average of Virginia now has Obama up by 2.3 points after new PPP poll gives him a 5-point lead.
Obama tells Leno: “Rape is rape. It’s a crime.” Full quote here.
Officials in Cairo say a man suspected in the Benghazi attacks was killed in a shoot out tonight in the Egyptian capital.
On Anderson Cooper, John McCain appears to say he’s withdrawing his endorsement of Richard Mourdock until Mourdock apologizes for his rape comments. Video after the jump … Read More
Check out the new 9-billion pixel image of the central Milky Way captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.