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10.09.12 | 1:55 pm
The Day In 100 Seconds

Mitt Romney climbs in the polls despite competing with a Big Bird ad:





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10.09.12 | 1:40 pm
From Bad To Worse

If you thought the Pew poll was bad, check this out. That little shiny object on the Martian surface — which might have been our first contact with intelligent life from another world or at least something shiny — turned out to be a piece of plastic which broke off the Mars lander.

10.09.12 | 1:19 pm
Are You Pro-Big Bird or Anti?

I don’t mean do you like him or not. I mean, are you one of our readers who thinks it’s great that President Obama is out snarking on Mitt Romney for saying he’ll crack down on Big Bird or do you wonder what on earth the President and his advisors are thinking?

I’m not sure what I think.

10.09.12 | 12:04 pm
BUSTED!

A TPM investigation has uncovered shocking new evidence of bias by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, who is scheduled to moderate Thursday’s vice presidential debate: Read More

10.09.12 | 12:04 pm
CNN Poll of Ohio

CNN poll of Ohio: Obama 51, Romney 47.

10.09.12 | 11:52 am
Polls? Polls, anyone?

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10.09.12 | 11:45 am
Slap

TPM Reader JM is having deja vu …

I’ve long thought that your “bitch slap theory of electoral politics” was the best way to understand so many of our recent political developments.

The reason why the debate performance has been so bad for Obama is precisely because he was attacked and he failed to respond forcefully enough. Re-reading your post, you could substitute Obama’s debate for Kerry and it could read the same eight years later.

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10.09.12 | 11:20 am
Crosstabs – October 9th

Kyle Leighton looks in to the crosstabs of Mitt Romney’s post-debate bounce:





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10.09.12 | 10:59 am
Just Keeping Up

Just to keep everyone up to date: We now have three non-tracking polls out today. Two have Mitt Romney by a 2 point margin, one has him by a 1 point margin: PPP (49-47), ARG (48-47), IBD/TIPP (47-45). All the details here.