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Daily News Digest: Blogs - Yahoo! News

Friday, Oct 19, 2012 06:36 PM PDT
Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:

Romney slams Obama’s ‘incredible shrinking campaign’ 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 06:36 PM PDT
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.â€"Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of running a campaign based on "petty attacks" and "silly word games" and accused his rival of having "no agenda" for the future. "The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign," Romney said at an oceanside rally here with his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. "This [...]
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Obama ad hits Romney on auto bailout in Ohio 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 02:53 PM PDT
"Mitt Romney. Not one of us." That's the last message in this hard-hitting ad from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, aimed squarely at arguably the most important battleground state of the 2012 presidential election: Ohio. The ad zeroes in on Romney's opposition to the auto industry bailoutâ€"a key issue in Ohio, which has a large [...]
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Catch the Orionid meteor shower this weekend 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 02:42 PM PDT
Star gazers will want to be looking upward this weekend: The Orionid meteor shower is one of the best meteor showers of the year and should not be missed. According to NASA's website: "Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, (the) source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 [...]
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Cat leads owner to discovery of ancient Roman ruins 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 02:14 PM PDT
Mirko Curti was chasing his cat through the streets of his village on Tuesday night when the cat inadvertently discovered a set of ancient Roman ruins. "The cat managed to get into a grotto and we followed the sound of its meowing," Curti told the Guardian. When he caught up to the animal, it had [...]
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Obama and Romney tied in Florida: Poll 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 01:44 PM PDT
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--A new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters in Florida shows President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney statistically tied in this battleground state. The state survey, which was conducted after the second presidential debate and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points, showed 49 percent of [...]
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Grandson of Kim Jong Il talks about school, life outside North Korea 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 12:33 PM PDT
. Kim Han Sol, the grandson of longtime North Korean leader the late Kim Jong Il, has two earrings in his left lobe and a Libyan roommate at school. These were among several revelations that Kim Han Sol, who speaks English very well, told former Finnish Defense Minister Elisabeth Rehn in an interview for Finnish [...]
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Obama mocks rival’s ‘Romnesia’ on key issues 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 11:31 AM PDT
President Barack Obama accused Mitt Romney of trying to win over independent voters by distancing himself from past partisan positions, mockingly describing his GOP rival's "Romnesia"â€"and saying Obamacare might help. "He's forgetting what his own positions are, and he's betting that you will, too," Obama told some 9,000 people at George Mason University in Fairfax, [...]
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Can You Fix a Scratched DVD with a Banana? 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 10:59 AM PDT
I have two children; they have their favorite DVDs; and sometimes mommy needs them to be watching those DVDs.  So when the favorite DVDs get scratched and stop playing, it's a problem! Whether it's DVDs, CDs, or game disks for your Xbox or Wii, there are ways to fix and buff out scratches. The Internet [...]
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Congressman says abortions never necessary to save life of mother 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 10:51 AM PDT
Republican Congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois said after his Thursday debate against Democratic rival Tammy Duckworth that abortions are never necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, because modern technology has eliminated the risks of childbearing. Walsh was defending his position that abortion should be outlawed with no exceptions, which is also the Republican Party's [...]
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Iconic Big Tex catches fire in Dallas 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 09:48 AM PDT
"Big Tex is burning to the ground because of an electrical short! (sad face)" Do what?!?! I blurted out in my native Texas tongue. My wife's alarming text message caught me off guard, but she attached a picture to prove the tragedy. There he was, the towering 60-year-old icon of the State Fair of Texas, [...]
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Virginia and North Carolina, show us your election! 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 07:41 AM PDT
Virginia and North Carolina residents, your states have more than just a border in commonâ€"they're also the only two states in the South up for grabs in the presidential race. So, you're getting a lot of attention from President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney and their running mates that the rest of us don't see. We [...]
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Robocall mania: Colorado and Nevada residents share swing-state stories 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 07:35 AM PDT
As Election Day approaches, Yahoo News has asked voters in swing states to share what it's like being in the thick of things as President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney smother them with attention. This week, we look at Colorado and Nevada, the only two states west of Iowa where the candidates are [...]
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Planned Parenthood leader campaigns with Obama, stars in new video 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 06:22 AM PDT
President Barack Obama, trying to hold back Mitt Romney's apparent inroads with women voters, campaigns on Friday in Virginia alongside Planned Parenthood Action Fund chief Cecile Richards. Richards also stars in this new Web video in support of the campaign. Democrats have reacted with alarm to recent polls suggesting Romney has sharply narrowed the "gender [...]
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Has Romney moved to the center on immigration? 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 05:20 AM PDT
As Mitt Romney continues to climb in the polls, some campaign watchers are crediting his momentum to a shift to the center on key issues. Former President Bill Clinton even joked about the supposed move last week at a Democratic rally for President Barack Obama in Las Vegas. "I thought, 'Wow, here's old Moderate Mitt,'" [...]
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Weekend in politics: Obama in Va., Romney in Fla., both prep for debate, and more 
Friday, Oct 19, 2012 03:54 AM PDT
President Barack Obama will start the day Friday campaigning in Virginia and then head to Camp David where he is expected to prep for Monday evening's third and final debate. Mitt Romney, along with running mate Paul Ryan, will campaign in Florida on Friday, and he'll no doubt find time over the weekend to squeeze [...]
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Obama, Romney in (mostly) friendly duel of wits 
Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 10:45 PM PDT
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney mocked themselves â€" and each other, and Joe Biden, and others â€" late Thursday during a joke-filled annual dinner that served as a truce of sorts in their hard-fought war for the White House. Speaking first, Romney repeatedly underlined that he doesn't drink alcohol, quipping that he's [...]
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