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President Obama leads by 3 points in NY Times/CBS News poll

President Obama holds a three-point advantage over Mitt Romney among Americans most likely to vote in November, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

With their back-to-back political conventions behind them and the general election season fully engaged, the poll found Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney running essentially even among those seen as the most probable to vote. The president has 49 percent and Mr. Romney has 46 percent, a difference within the margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points on each candidate.

More at the New York Times

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President Obama responds to Romney’s “foot in mouth” statements on Libya

President Barack Obama, responding to criticism from his rival Mitt Romney on the U.S. response to attacks in Egypt and Libya, said Romney had spoken before making a full assessment of the facts.

“There’s a broader lesson to be learned here,” Obama said in a CBS interview. A clip of the interview was aired Wednesday afternoon.

“Gov. Romney seems to have a tendency to shoot first and aim later, and as president, one of the things I’ve learned is you can’t do that,” the president continued. “It’s important for you to make sure that the statements that you make are backed up by the facts and that you’ve thought through the ramifications before you make them.”

Asked if he thought Romney’s statements were “irresponsible,” Obama said he’d “let the american people judge that.”

Via CNN

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Mitt Romney politicizes death of US ambassador in Libya

Romney’s approach to these kinds of things seems to be “ready, fire, aim.”

Within hours of the death of the US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, Mitt Romney was holding a press conference attacking the President, giving many of the United States’ enemies what it wants: the appearance of a divided country under pressure. Hardly presidential, Mr. Romney.

The recklessness with which Romney tried to exploit this is very troubling. If you have your finger on the nuclear button, you need to be cool, calm, and collected. And Mitt Romney’s response shows that he’s not.

By contrast, here’s what President Obama said:

“The United States condemns, in the strongest terms, this outrageous and shocking attack,” the president said. “And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to track down” the killers.

“The world must stand together in rejecting these brutal attacks,” the president says. Obama says religious intolerance is wrong, but says there is no justification for this sort of violence.

“Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver” in pursuit of justice “and make no mistake, justice will be done.”

Which man do you think sounds and acts like a leader?

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Mitt Romney on same sex couples: “I didn’t know you had families”

Boston Spirit magazine has dug a bit deeper into Mitt Romney’s past interactions with LGBT people, particularly during his time as governor.

This new profile illustrates a more profound level of insensitivity to the experience of LGBT people than his past position statements suggest.

David Wilson and Julie Goodridge, two of the plaintiffs whose case led to the legalization of marriage equality in Massachusetts, described meeting with Romney to discuss their experiences. According to Wilson, “it was like talking to a robot. No expression, no feeling.” At one point, Romney remarked, “I didn’t know you had families.” Goodridge recalls her final exchange with the governor, which proved to her that he had “no capacity for empathy”:

GOODRIDGE: Governor Romney, tell me — what would you suggest I say to my 8 year-old daughter about why her mommy and her ma can’t get married because you, the governor of her state, are going to block our marriage?

ROMNEY: I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don’t you just tell her the same thing you’ve been telling her the last eight years.

I’m not sure I can comprehend such a statement to a mother. I can’t wrap my head around that.

This is the man who would be “president.”

More at ThinkProgress

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Ohio: Romney more responsible for death of Osama bin Laden?

According to a PPP poll of likely Ohio voters, 15 percent of Republicans in Ohio think Romney is “more responsible” for bin Laden’s death than Obama, while 47 percent of Republicans are “not sure” whether Obama or Romney deserves more of the credit.

Six percent of the overall respondents gave Romney credit where credit is not at all due regarding the killing of bin Laden.

Thirty-one percent of them weren’t sure whether the president or the candidate deserves more credit.

And these people get to vote.