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

Richard Mourdock in the spotlight:

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Check out the new 9-billion pixel image of the central Milky Way captured by the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Here’s what the PollTracker average of Ohio looks like with the addition of today’s new polls: Read More

All the latest polling charts in the most important races right here.

A new Time poll, just out, gives Obama a 5-point lead — and a striking 60-30 percent lead among early voters.

Earlier today, a Democratic poll showed Obama up 2 points.

Benjy Sarlin talks to an international law expert about Mitt Romney’s proposal to arrest Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and try him for inciting genocide. About as plausible a scenario as you’d imagine.

For understanding the electoral college, it’s important to remember that in recent cycles Democrats always seem to outperform the polls in Nevada.