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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas cab driver Gerardo Gamboa thought someone left a bag of chocolates in the back seat of his vehicle, but the stash turned out to be $300,000 in cold hard cash.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mailing a letter is about to get a little more expensive.
NEW YORK (AP) - Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them.
NEW YORK (AP) - It's beginning to look a lot like ... the day after Christmas?
NEW YORK (AP) - Santa's sleigh didn't make it in time for Christmas for some this year due to shipping problems at UPS and FedEx.
MAN IN DRUG WEBSITE CASE WANTS HIS BITCOIN BACK: NEW YORK (AP) - An Internet entrepreneur accused of being behind an online marketplace for illegal drugs has asked the government to return more than $30 million in bitcoin seized from his computers.
CHICAGO (AP) - 'Tis the season - for heart attacks? Not to dampen any spirits, but studies show heart troubles spike this time of year.
MIAMI (AP) - A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, according to a lawsuit filed by a reptile industry trade association.
CHICAGO (AP) - Anticipating heavy traffic on the government's health care website, the Obama administration extended Monday's deadline for signing up for insurance by a day, giving Americans in 36 states more time to select a plan.
NEW YORK (AP) - A father threw his young child off the roof of a 52-story Manhattan apartment building in a murder-suicide on the first day he was allowed to be alone with the boy amid an ugly custody battle with the mother, police officials said Monday.
HOUSTON (AP) - He usually has black hair and a black beard, sometimes just a mustache. Like Santa, he wears a hat - though often it's a sombrero. He dons a serape or a poncho and, in one case, a red and black zoot suit. And he makes his grand entrance on lowriders or Harleys or led by a pack of burros instead of eight reindeer.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A federal judge said he doesn't think the University of Notre Dame will succeed in its challenge to a federal health care law requirement that it provide students and employee health plans that cover birth control.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Towering grain silos overlook the main highway in Salt Lake City at the Mormon church's Welfare Square. At grocery stores, there's a whole section with large plastic tubs with labels that read, "Deluxe survivor 700." Radio ads hawk long-term supplies of food with 25-year shelf lives.
CHICAGO (AP) - As a key enrollment deadline hits Monday, many people without health insurance have been sizing up policies on the new government health care marketplace and making what seems like a logical choice: They're picking the cheapest one.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The threat of another commute-crippling transportation strike in the San Francisco Bay area receded on Saturday when officials for the region's transit rail system and negotiators for its two largest labor unions said they had resolved the latest sticking point in their months-long negotiations and reached a new contract.
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WOMAN GETS 24 YEARS FOR FATAL CRASH AFTER DRUNK TWEET: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman who tweeted about being drunk minutes before a fatal wrong-way crash has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.
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On a warm, sunny Thursday morning in Frankfort, school bus drivers and monitors are chatting in their cafeteria-style lounge when Madonna Mikaitis enters the room to make an announcement.
"Who's walking today?" Mikaitis booms. "Let's go!"
With that, about 15 employees of American School Bus Co. pile into one of their buses and head to Lincoln Mall in nearby Matteson for the group's morning walk through the shopping center's hallways. En route, the drivers pass around a sign-in sheet with the header "Live Well — Live Long!"
Regular exercise is part of an overall wellness initiative by American's parent company, Cook-Illinois Corporation in Oak Forest. The company aims to help its 2,700 employees in 19 subsidiaries throughout the suburbs establish fitness routines and encourage healthier habits for fellow staff members. In Frankfort, Mikaitis worked with her manager and a co-worker to start a walking club in September, something people could do for free during the midday lull.
The group goes to a nearby park in warm weather and walks laps. On cooler days, they become "mall walkers."
"They look forward to it," said Mikaitis of Monee. "I think they like the break, to leave the terminal and get some fresh air, or go see what's on sale at the mall. They like to window shop."
About one-third of the country's adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 2009 study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine said one factor influencing obesity rates is that workplaces are often inactive settings where energy-dense foods — small portion size, high calories — prevail.
A typical day for a school bus driver can be a sedentary one. Many drivers in Frankfort, for instance, do routes in the morning and afternoon, but would often sit around the terminal in the interim and get little exercise.
For Mikaitis, who has been driving since November 2008, sitting on the bus, then eating too much unhealthy food at the terminal led to her being 60 pounds overweight, she said.
"I got short of breath when I walked too far," Mikaitis said. "Bending down to strap in wheelchairs for special needs kids used to be a little difficult."
Being overweight or obese increases the risk for other medical conditions, according to the CDC, such as coronary heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. Little information exists to conclude that poor health makes for a riskier driver. Nevertheless, the Illinois Secretary of State requires school bus drivers to pass an annual physical certifying that they are clear of drugs and alcohol and do not suffer from high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes or other conditions that could prevent them from safely operating a bus.
"The fact that we don't have the evidence doesn't mean that it isn't a real concern," said Gerald P. Krueger, president of Krueger Ergonomics Consultants in Alexandria, Va. "We're trying to encourage all drivers in a safety-related business that they get healthy for their own sake but (also) because you never know when one of those health conditions is going to compromise your level of alertness or your ability to respond when a crash-likely circumstance presents itself."
Additionally, in 2008, the CDC estimated that medical expenses for obese employees are 42 percent higher than those for workers of healthy weights. Medical problems from being obese can mean more sick days, medical leaves of absence and workers compensation claims.
"Companies spend a lot of money training drivers. You want to keep them," said Norm Littler, director of the Bus Industry Safety Council with the American Bus Association in Washington. "You don't want a driver coming and saying, 'I can't drive anymore because I can't control my blood pressure,' or, 'My eyesight is going because of my diabetes.'"
Almost 60 employees resigned from Cook-Illinois in 2011 for medical reasons, such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, said human resources manager Steve Miller. In comparison, the company lost 40 drivers for medical reasons in 2010. Not all of those conditions arose because of weight problems, Miller said, but company officials recognized that obesity was something they could prevent.
In early 2011, company officials formed a wellness committee to find ways to help employees improve their fitness. One of their first moves was arranging exams and blood tests through United Healthcare.
What they learned was eye-opening, Miller said.
Of the employees who participated, 22.6 percent tested for high blood pressure and an additional 44 percent had elevated blood pressure, or prehypertension. Nearly 12 percent tested in the diabetes range for blood sugar and another 31 percent were considered prediabetic, Miller said.
Armed with that data, company officials reached out to their subsidiaries. Rather than enact a blanket policy for all its employees, Cook-Illinois officials let each group designate a "wellness captain" like Mikaitis who could create a system that worked best for their co-workers.
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channel directory project
From buddycloud wiki
project summary
a channel crawler, search engine and taste engine to recommend channels.
built with: Java, Solr, Apache Mahout
lead developer: Abmar
status: final
project channel: firstname.lastname@example.com
setup: Channel Directory Installation Guide
source code: Github
issues and bugs: Github
Related documentation
The channel Directory project comprises three areas:
- spidering open channels for content and followers
- receiving posts via a firehose
- Finding nearby content
- Searching channel metadata
- Searching channel content
- show me channels similar to this one
- based on the channels I follow, recommend more
In production
Here are a few nice query examples:
- http://crater.buddycloud.org:5000/search?page=0&q=imaginator
- http://crater.buddycloud.org:5000/search?page=0&q=post%3A+christmas
- http://crater.buddycloud.org:5000/search?page=0&q=metadata%3A+buddycloud
The project goals
When a user joins a new XMPP-based social network it's really important to get them quickly hooked up with relevant/interesting content. The user needs to have an almost immediate "this is cool" or "I didn't know that there was other content or users nearby" moment in the first minute of using a client.
The main goal of this project is to build a distributed directory service that would run as an XMPP component. That would enable users to easily find interesting content on pub-sub nodes in the XMPP space.
While XMPP and the web are great examples of a distributed architecture, it also makes sense to have systems that have an overview of where content is (web search engines) and to be able to recommend content based on a taste-engine.
Pub-Sub is becoming increasingly used in by projects like buddycloud and in the PEP form for OneSocialWeb.
This project will focus on exposing interesting content hidden away in pub-sub nodes by looking at node subscription data and node metadata.
In this project we will build a service that will be notified when new pub-sub nodes are created. The service will then build up a map of nodes and regularly crawl them to investigate subscribers and metadata.
Users will interact with the service through a (to be definied and perhaps XEPd) protocol that let's them query for similar content based on a project like the Mahout taste engine.
Potential use cases
Pub-sub server operators would select a node running the service as the recommended directory service to find pub-sub nodes. Pub-sub clients query the directory service for "show me content nearby to lat/long", "show me content similar to email@example.com". Queries to the directory service should return lists of nodes based on nearby-ness, popularity, or even taste.
This pub-sub search engine is supposed to be reused by any pub-sub based social network using the XMPP protocol. That will help to make XMPP a viable way to deliver and search for relevant content.
As mentioned before, users may be recommended to relevant content by location, popularity, taste similarity, friends' taste and so on. The directory server is supposed to index metadata from pub-sub nodes. When pub-sub nodes are created and updated, and have an open access model, their existence and metadata are sent to the directory server. The server should then maintain a reasonably current list of all the open access pub sub nodes and their indexed metadata, ready for client queries.
The users' taste learning machine is supposed to be built over Apache Mahout and query syntax will use the specification in [10] as a starting point.
During the Community Bonding Period specific details regarding the API of the directory server, syntax of the queries, the database schema, technologies (language, libraries, DBMS) to be used are to be decided. Below are the steps we are planning to take during this project:
1. Plan a set of XMPP queries and study Apache Mahout and relate it to content indexing and taste learning in this project (23rd May).
In this step we will study how Apache Mahout works. We intend to use this software for the user taste use case: Recommendation mining takes users' behavior and from that tries to find items users might like. Mahout is scalable, what is crucial in a service that is supposed to deal with metadata related to a huge number of users and nodes. Usage demos are the main artifacts produced during this week.
2. With the API defined, setup the XMPP communication stack and the database objects (30th May)
This step involves setting up the communication stack, or, in other words, to make the service ready to communicate with pub-sub clients and servers easily. In this step, we also need to implement the database access layer based on the schema defined during the community bonding period. The main challenge of this step is to create reliable, clean and easy to use ways of accessing the communication and database layers. That will require constant refactoring during the project though.
3. Write the pubsub node create callback method and the crawling mechanism (6th June)
These methods will allow for metadata gathering and indexing. Whenever a node is created in the pubsub servers reporting to the directory service, this method will be invoked. Then, the service is supposed to keep a node list with their metadata. Also, a crawling mechanism must be written to regularly query for metadata updates in the monitored nodes.
This step may bring an scaling problem, since a huge number of nodes creation/update may overhead the server. We must notice that the user query response time must be kept low, so indexing tasks may be cached and have a lower priority.
4. Implement pub-sub node query based on node location (20th June)
This query syntax will be similar to the already proposed specification. Users may search for nodes located near them, or nodes located near an specific place in a specific range. The server then returns a list of the pub-sub nodes that complies with the location query. Depending on how much location information a client is willing to give, we may need to use reverse geolocation APIs, such as Google's or OpenStreetMap.
5. Implement pub-sub node query based on node content: subscription data and metadata (27th June)
When queried for an specific content, the service is supposed to search through all metadata information of all pub-sub nodes in order to return the nodes that may provide that content. The challenge of this step relies on the query response time degradation. We may already include Apache Mahout during this step.
6. Implement user query based on his previous tastes (4th July)
Include Apache Mahout. In this step we will include the Mahout learning machine, based on the demos we have written in the first step. That will allow the service to give the user recommendations based on his taste, or, more generally, given a jid, return other pub-sub nodes that would be interesting.
7. Implement user query based on node popularity (25th July)
Also, pub-sub nodes may be classified according to their popularity. In this step we will define a metric for nodes' popularity and then include this information to the stored metadata. This metric can be as simple as a subscriber count or something more complex, like Google's PageRank algorithm. The level of difficulty in this step will be proportional to the complexity of the metric chosen.
8. Evaluate the performance of the server (4th August)
In this step we will evaluate the response time degradation with a gradual increase in requests. We expect the system to perform well (do not degrade user experience) up to a rate of 1k queries/seconds. If the system performs worse than expected, this step will involve investigating and fixing what is causing poor performance. Some database techniques may be applied during this step, such DBMS tuning, caching, indexing and paging.
All implementation steps mentioned aboved are to be guided by tests.
PubSub Requirements
The following pubsub methods are required for the channel directory to work:
- Discover nodes
- Discover node metadata
- Discover items for a node
- Retrieve subscriptions
- Retrieve affiliations
- Retrieve items from a node
- That requires RSM to be implemented, once the crawler won't retrieve all node items every time
The firehose node is supposed to be named as /firehose, as for https://buddycloud.org/wiki/XMPP_XEP#Firehose
Although recommended, the firehose node is optional.


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Quick announcement: I'm offline for a couple of days to attend my sister's graduation in California (congrats, sis!). Check out the FlowingData archives when you start going through data visualization withdraw. FlowingData will return to regularly scheduled programming on Thursday.
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Best of FlowingData: May 2009
I know a lot of you are new to FlowingData, so here are some of the most popular posts from the past couple of months in case you missed them:
- 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis
- Little Red Riding Hood, the Animated Infographic Story
- Pixel City: Computer-generated City
- 37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About
- Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Legal Drinking Age Around the World
- 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe
- Web Trends Map from Information Architects, 4th edition
- Visual Representation of Tabular Information - How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table
- AIG Bailout: Where $173 billion Went
One thing you might have noticed about these top posts is that many of the topics were reader-suggested. Thanks to all of those who've sent me pointers via email and del.icio.us. Keep 'em coming. FlowingData would not be the same without you.
Thank You to the FlowingData Sponsors
I always chuckle a little bit whenever I get an email from someone who thinks FlowingData is a big design firm. I'm totally flattered that it comes off that way. I mean, I must be doing something right. In reality though, I'm just one statistics graduate student working towards my PhD, so FlowingData wouldn't be around today, if it weren't for these generous sponsors (and the best readers around) who help FlowingData not suck.
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Death Penalty Laws Around the World
With their usual flare, GOOD Magazine maps the death penalty around the world according to Amnesty International. Here we see that the philosophy varies quite a bit from country to country; however, most countries have either abolished the death penalty or only use it in exceptional cases. The death penalty is still in use in about 30 percent of countries. Like the map of drinking age though, I suspect laws vary within the countries. Continue Reading
Pixel City: Computer-generated City
Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out there, this essentially means that based on a certain set of rules, this 3-D city is generated dynamically each time the program runs. Here, the video that shows the Young's process will make it more clear:
Check out the very detailed 10-part explanation for more on how Pixel City was built. Hopefully more comes out of it than just a screensaver. If it does become a screensaver though, I'd gladly use it.
Bubbles Galore in Analysis of Banks' Financial Health
Andrew Garcia Phillips and Stephen Grocer of The Wall Street Journal compare the financial health of 19 major banks according to recent government stress tests. Each row represents a metric, each bubble represents a bank, and the size of a bubble represents the value of a metric for that bank. Roll over bubbles for more information or select a specific bank in the left sidebar. I know a lot of you don't like bubbles in your viz, but this one works for me.
[Thanks, Vikram]
Maps of the Seven Deadly Sins
Geographers from Kansas State University map the spatial distribution of the seven deadly sins in the United States. These types of maps are always kind of iffy as they draw from data from various sources gathered with different methods and usually use some kind of researcher-defined metric. Still interesting though... right?
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50 Cars to Make One Bus?
Flygbussarna, a Swedish coach bus company, in partnership with the Acne marketing group, assembled 50 cars into one bus to highlight the production of carbon emissions. Assuming slightly more than one person per car on average, one coach bus could potentially replace 50 cars on the road and reduce carbon emissions some 10 times over. Continue Reading
Interaction Design Pilot Year Churns Out Great Student Projects
In a collaborative initiative between Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and The Danish Design School, the Interaction Design Pilot Year brings together students and faculty from various disciplines for a unique brand of education. Continue Reading
POLL: What Data-related Area Are You Most Interested In?
It's time for a FlowingData poll. I want to know what data-ish things you're interested in. Design? Statistics? Analytics? Select your answer in the poll below. If you select other, let us know what that other thing is in the comments.{democracy:8}
37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About
You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data and visualization blogs out there. I'm a bit of a feed addict subscribing to just about anything with a chart or a mention of statistics on it (and naturally have to do some feed-cleaning every now and then). In a follow up to my short list last year, here are the data-ish blogs, some old and some new, that continue to post interesting stuff. Continue Reading
Here & There: Horizonless Perspective of Manhattan
Jack Schulze provides this horizonless view of Manhattan:
Here & There is a project by S&W exploring speculative projections of dense cities. These maps of Manhattan look uptown from 3rd and 7th, and downtown from 3rd and 35th. They're intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward.
Imagine a person standing at a street corner. The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands.
It takes a minute to wrap your head around the concept, but it's an interesting one. It bet it'd be especially awesome if it were an interactive map that you could use while you roamed around a dense city. What do you think, cartographers?
10 Visualizations for Number of Days to Pay Your Taxes
A couple weeks ago, FlowingData ran another Visualize This challenge. I posted a dataset on the number of days it takes the average person in each state to pay his or her taxes and asked you to visualize it. The number of days vary, because tax burden varies state-by-state. The day all taxes have been paid is dubbed Tax Freedom Day. Alaska has the earliest Tax Freedom Day while Connecticut has it last.
Here are the interesting results you all came up with. Thanks to those who participated. Nice work all around. Continue Reading
Spectrum of Online Friendship
This graphic, from Mike Arauz, describes different levels of online friendship, starting at passive interest (read your blog but not much else) up to investment (deeply care about your success). I originally thought it was just one of those comic infographics, but there's some good discussion going on in the comments of the original post and the Arauz' response.
[Thanks, @JeffHurt]
What Drugs Pose the Greatest Danger?
While The New York Times continues to produce excellent work, GOOD Magazine has been churning out interesting graphics on the other side of the spectrum. In their most recent transparency graphic, GOOD describes the drugs that pose the greatest danger according to local law officials, when asked by the Department of Justice. Underneath the creative bling is essentially a stacked bar chart. The purists are going to cry bloody murder, but hey, it still gets the point across, right?
Have a nice weekend, everyone. See you Monday.
[Thanks, @joaovc]
Is Your Country Involved in Open Source?
Red Hat, an open source leader best known for their Linux distribution, maps open source activity around the world. If you're not a developer or involved with Web-ish things, open source might seem like a foreign concept. Give away your code, your work, and your data. And succeed? I don't know how it works, but somehow, it does. Open source not only helps an application flourish, but also helps ideas develop further than they ever would with a single group. Plus - it makes my life, and many others' lives much easier.
Google Adds Search to Public Data
Google announced today that they have made a small subset of public datasets searchable. Search for unemployment rate and you'll see a thumbnail at the top of the results. Click on it, and you get a the very Google-y chart like the one above, so instead of searching for unemployment rates for multiple years, you can get it all at once.
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Tracking Swine Flu Worldwide – Where and How, Plus Data
Just about everywhere you go there's something in the news about swine flu, and so naturally, when I first heard about it, I waited for The New York Times to put up a graphic. That was the first one. Here's the second (above).
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Visualizing the United States Power Grid
NPR provides an in depth view of the U.S. electric grid, exploring the network, power sources, and where in the country power is coming from:
The U.S. electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission lines. Aging infrastructure, combined with a rise in domestic electricity consumption, has forced experts to critically examine the status and health of the nation's electrical systems.
The above is a view of the grid; below is a view of nuclear and solar energy across the country.
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Turning Statistics Into Knowledge – 3 Days Left to Sign Up
The US Census Bureau, World Bank, and OECD have organized a seminar to discuss innovations in visualization and blossoming Web technologies to disperse the stories in data. Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge will be held July 15-16, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
While dynamic graphics and communication tools are at the heart of the seminar, we also want to focus on a broader range of tools. The seminar will also include the use of videos, as explored by GapMinder and others, and participative approaches, as seen in some web 2.0 initiatives; and – although innovative tools are themselves of great interest, and worthy of being presented at the seminar – the focus of the seminar will be on innovative applications of tools, for example, so-called story-telling applications.
With participants [pdf] from all over the world and major organizations, and no registration fee, the seminar looks promising. Hurry though, there are only three days left to sign up. The deadline is April 30.


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Which Smash Stars Will Reunite for the Live Production of Bombshell?
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The city club tightened their grip on second place with a 24-17 win at Chinnor on Saturday and return home to face Taunton Titans at Merton Lane.
Titans are 11 points behind Canterbury but retain a game in hand and Pratt is wary of their threat.
He said: "Taunton are a dangerous team and they beat us down there – they'll want to complete the double.
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He added: "We took our foot off the pedal a bit in the second half last Saturday but we did just enough to win.
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"Ultimately, bonus points could be important. There are more than half a dozen teams who have all won 10 or 11 games and the only real thing separating them in the table is bonus points."
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — John L. Murad Jr., a partner with the Syracuse law firm Hancock & Estabrook LLP, has been appointed by the governor's office to serve on the Upstate Medical University Council.
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RUBIO: That fires up his base, folks that are going to vote for him anyway. But for the rest of Americans who are trying to make up their mind who to vote for, what they're wondering is, well, that's very cute, Mr. President, but what are you going to do for the future? What is your plan to get this economy growing again? My kid is graduating college, they may ask him, and he can't find a job, what are you going to do as president? What is your plan? Where is the president's plan to save Medicare? Where is the president's plan on taxes, where is the president's plan on energy? Why isn't he talking about those things?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, let me just follow up, though, does Governor Romney support the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act or not?
RUBIO: I think that anyone who's working out there and making a living, if you're the most qualified person for the job, you should be able to get paid, you should get paid as much as your male counterpart. Everyone agrees with that principle. But just because they call a piece of legislation an equal pay bill doesn't make it so. In fact, much of this legislation is in many respects nothing but an effort to help trial lawyers collect their fees and file lawsuits, which may not contribute at all whatsoever to increasing pay equity in the workplace.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One final question, and it appears you can still hear me, and that is on the issue of Iran. You saw that report in the New York Times. Does Governor Romney believe that the United States should be willing to sit down directly with Iran right now?
RUBIO: I think Governor Romney had said repeatedly that armed conflict should be the absolute last measure that one takes. I am not going to comment on that story. The White House has denied it. And so there's really nothing to talk about.
But I will say this, I think so much of our relationship with Iran was under this president -- was defined early in his administration when folks took to the streets there in that Green Revolution, and the president took his hands off and said he wasn't going to get engaged or involved. That unfortunately, set a tone where now Iran thinks they can go much faster and much harder than they used to think they could go, and today they are closer than they've ever been to a nuclear capability. That's very unfortunate.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Rubio, thanks a lot for your time this morning. I apologize again for those technical difficulties.
RUBIO: Thank you.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And we'll be back with our powerhouse roundtable in just 90 seconds.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And we're back with our roundtable. George Will off today, but we're joined by Matthew Dowd. Former Obama adviser, White House adviser Van Jones, also the co-founder of Rebuild the Dream. Greta Van Susteren of Fox News, welcome back. Ralph Reed, head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, and the chair of the Democratic Party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Thank you all for joining us this morning.
And let's start out talking about what has changed from Tuesday's debate. Matt Dowd, on Tuesday night, you gave the win to President Obama, so did your former colleague, Karl Rove. But he's arguing that it hasn't made any difference, any real difference at all in this race. Mitt Romney still has the momentum.
DOWD: I think if you look at what happened before the first debate, then the first debate and then the second debate, I think Mitt Romney won overwhelmingly the first debate, according to everybody. He stopped any sort of momentum that the president had, and actually took a lead, I think, in the aftermath of that debate, and I think what the president did by showing up this time with some energy and some force, is that he actually stopped that momentum that Mitt Romney had and I think gained some enthusiasm back, which is why I think we see the race today, basically a slight advantage for the president today, a slight advantage.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You would still say a slight advantage for the president?
DOWD: A slight advantage, both electorally and in the popular vote. Slight, very slight advantage, but that is what I think the debate changed, it changed enthusiasm.
REED: I wouldn't agree with that. I think if you look at the CNN flash poll, where they actually asked people, did it affect your vote? 25 percent said for Romney, 25 percent for Obama. No net change at all out of the second debate. But if you look at the Monmouth University poll, George, 9 percent of the voters said the first debate changed their mind. That 9 percent broke 77 percent for Romney, only 18 percent for Obama. It was the biggest swing in an election in the modern era coming out of a first debate, and Obama didn't really change that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And Chairwoman, even the new NBC poll out this morning shows a tie. They had President Obama in the lead before.
SCHULTZ: So momentum is measured by actual turnout, which in many states, early voting, like Ohio, Iowa, and absentee balloting across the country, including my home state of Florida, the proof is in the actual ballots cast. And if you look at the battleground states that are the most key, we're well ahead, the Obama campaign, the president is well ahead in terms of turnout, and from our Democratic voters from where we were in 2008 in Ohio and Iowa.
And in Florida, specifically, Republicans generally far outpace us in terms of absentee ballot requests. We have actually closed the gap by 85 percent in terms of absentee ballot requests in Florida.
STEPHANOPOULOS: ...well ahead on election year for that to happen.
SCHULTZ: ... and well and early voting too. And we will be.
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the things that was clear, Greta, I think on Tuesday night is how little respect these men have for each other.
VAN SUSTEREN: Boy it was like two gladiators. And we were all sitting there watching to see if there was going to be any blood on the floor and see who would kill which - you know, who would kill who.
I actually - a lot of men liked the debate. They like fighting, like the punching. A lot of women didn't like it. I don't think we learned anything particularly new. There was no ground broken. All we saw were two men who hated each other going at each other. And actually I thought it was sort of disappointing for the American people.
JONES: Well, it was definitely hot and heated. A couple of things, obviously the first debate did more for Romney than the second debate did for Obama. But Obama had two jobs to do and he did them both. He had to stop the momentum. If he had gone out there and had the same performance he would be down. He is not. He was able to stop the momentum now we're back tied.
But the other thing he had to do, which he did do was to get the base back exchanged. People were proud to see him stand up and to fact-check Mitt -- President Obama put a lot of fact-checkers out of work that night, because he fact-checking in real-time.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Matt, I think there's no question that President Obama got the Democrats engaged again on Tuesday night, but one of the most surprising things I think I've seen over the last couple of weeks is the flip and the surge among some women voters, particularly those who had been undecided before to Mitt Romney?
DOWD: Well, I think that's the main - I mean, two-thirds of all swing voters in this country today are women, 54 percent of the people who are going to vote are women. There are going to be more than 10 million more women voters than male voters when they -- by the time election day.
So women, by and large are going to decide this election just like they decide...
VAN SUSTEREN: As they should. As they should.
DOWD: But I think the interesting thing about this is the pattern of this race is so familiar to 2004, which I am very familiar with.
STEPHANOPOULOS: It worked for George W. Bush.
DOWD: In which President Bush had a five or six-point lead before that first debate. When that debate was over, it was a one point lead, or it was roughly tied. He then proceeded to get back in the game. In the following two debates he didn't win them, but he got back in the game. And as of today, eight years ago the was 48-48 in 2004, where it was two weeks out. This race is all about the base in my view and the enthusiasm of the support.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is that comforting news to you?
SCHULTZ: Well, I mean, if you look at the state like Florida, the incumbent President has won every election since 1984 when they've won Florida. So the bottom line with women, though, specifically is women are going to make decisions on job creation, based on the economic decisions they make for their families like investments in education, on making sure that we continue to focus on rebuilding our economy from the middle class out, on making sure that when it comes to women's health we have a president who has our back. And the contrast between these two choices couldn't be more clear and Mitt Romney would take us backwards and women don't want that.
REED: I worked on that '04 campaign, too. And I can tell you that when we went into those final two weeks, you didn't have 46 million people in poverty, two-thirds of them women and children. 3.5 million more women in poverty today than the day he took the oath of office. 600,000 more women out of work than the day he took office, a total of 9.7 million women either out of work or given up looking, or working part-time because they can't find full-time work. 70 percent of them, George, say they're going to vote on pocketbook issues like the economy, jobs and the deficit. That's not a good issue mix for Obama going into the final 16 days.
JONES: The good thing, though, about women voters is that they're pretty deliberative. And they know what the economy looked like before the 2000 election, which you talk about, the 2004 election. We got an economy passed off. And the economy that got passed off was in horrible shape. I think women are fair. And they know when you get that kind of a mess and you've got to clean it up.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We've got to take a break, you get the last word here.
VAN SUSTEREN: I think women may think time's up. You know there are four years. I mean, you know, it's a very disappointing -- whether that's fair or not, you know that he said four years, and you can't keep saying it was so horrible.
JONES: But we are better off...
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, no, but I think that's the problem, though.
REED: Three years to turn it around.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let her answer it. And then we've got to take a break.
SCHULTZ: On Lilly Ledbetter, I mean, I think it's very telling. Mitt Romney on a point-blank question the other night in the debate refused to answer whether he believes in equal pay for equal work. He referred to women as being binders and resumes. You know, a callous...
VAN SUSTEREN: Can I tell you, you know what, no -- binders and things, I mean, that is - you know I know that the Democratic Party is running with that, but I think it's - well, you know what, women have heard so much worse. I mean, women have heard so much worse about binders of women. But that was just so - I mean, it's insulting to women. Women care about jobs. They care about economics.
JONES: I think women like straight talk.
REED: Can I just do a quick reality check?
SCHULTZ: Women, over on the course of their lifetime, because we earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, we lose $431,000 of our professional life. That's real, economic...
VAN SUSTEREN: I'm with you on that equal pay. It's that binders comment. The binders comment was silly.
REED: Everybody's in agreement on equal pay. It's been against the law to pay a woman less for the same work since -- let me finish -- since the equal pay act was passed in 1973. The Lilly Ledbetter Act was passed, it was signed into law. Romney said that he has no plans to revisit it. This is an attempt to try to change...
STEPHANOPOULOS: No plans, but he still won't say whether he is going to sign it.
We do have to take a break. One more guys. We have a lot more roundtable to come. We're going to dive deep into the electoral map and look ahead to that last debate.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. President this is one for you, don't mention killing Osama bin Laden anymore. It was great and all, but Americans have a short attention span. At this point saying you killed bin Laden is like saying you won the second season of American Idol.
Mitt Romney do mention that you saved the Olympics, but don't mention that it was the winter Olympics. The summer Olympics are a grand spectacle of sport, the winter Olympics is just 48 different kinds of sliding.
ROMNEY: President Obama and I are each very lucky to have someone who's a comforting presence without whom we wouldn't be able to go through the day. I have my beautiful wife Ann, he has Bill Clinton.
OBAMA: Sometimes it feels like this race has dragged on forever. But Paul Ryan assured me that we have only been running for 2:50-something minutes.
ROMNEY: It's nice to finally relax and to wear what Ann and I wear around the house.
OBAMA: I feel really well rested after the nice long nap I had in the first debate.
STEPHANOPOULOS: A little comic relief from the Tuesday-night tension. We are back here with our roundtable. Of course, the other big debate coming up tomorrow night, foreign policy is the focus. And I would expect that tomorrow night, we're going to see a little less ferocity than we saw on Tuesday. And in part the men, they're going to be sitting at a table, the subject matter doesn't lend itself to it.
But there could be another flash point on the issue of Benghazi. It did create a moment between Governor Romney and the president the other night. Let's take a look.
ROMNEY: You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, it was an act of terror, it was not a spontaneous demonstration. Is that what you're saying?
OBAMA: Please proceed, governor.
ROMNEY: I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi a terror of act.
OBAMA: Get the transcript.
ROMNEY: He did in fact, sir...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Greta Van Susteren, Candy Crowley stepping in there help the president.
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, actually I think she helped Governor Romney. Candy Crowley, by the way, is an old friend of mine, I used to work at CNN.
But I actually think she helped Governor Romney, because is there about 15 or 16 topics they discussed that night, and the most important issue for Governor Romney's campaign is to put the spotlight on Libya and how the president's administration has been very clumsy at best, not giving us the information, meaning the American people, what happened.
So what happened is because Candy Crowley was clumsy in how she handled it, the entire discussion and even right now is about Libya where we would have probably reserved it for the debate tomorrow night.
But Candy, in an unusual, bizarre way put the total spotlight -- that's all the media talked about.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you agree with that?
DOWD: No. Absolutely not. I mean, I think that Benghazi discussion, Libya discussion was the president's best moment of the debate and I think Mitt Romney's worst moment in that debate. And I have to say so many times in this discourse that we have - and Candy - what Candy Crowley did I actually thought was laudable. Because what happens in this whole thing is the truth becomes a casualty. And nobody is supposed to say what actually - what actually happened, we're just supposed to make accusations back and forth to each other and nobody's supposed to correct and say, by the way, that's not true. I actually thought what Candy Crowley did, and I hope we get to do more of that in this discourse.
But I think in the course of this, Mitt Romney does not want to be talking about Libya. Mitt Romney wants to be talking about the economy. And if you take a look at all of the polls on Libya and foreign policy, and going into this debate, the president has an advantage on that, a bigger advantage than on the economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor Romney's campaign doesn't seem to agree with that. They keep pushing this.
REED: Well, look, the reality is that he will talk about the economy I'm quite confident on Monday night. I mean, we know...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Even though it's a foreign policy debate?
REED: Yes. And the reason why is because we know from Ronald Reagan winning the Cold War without firing a shot, with partners like Pope John Paul II and Margaret Thatcher and Cole (ph) and others that what made that possible was a strong U.S. economy, the creation of 23 million jobs, the the creation of $16 trillion in assets in the private sector is what enabled us to fund the defense buildup and put the Soviets on their back heels.
So there's no way to project U.S. power, diplomatically, economically, or militarily without strengthening this economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But is this issue in Benghazi a winning issue for Governor Romney?
REED: I think it is. And I think the reason why, George, is I certainly agree with Matthew it's not going to decide the election. But I'll tell you why this is so important, because if you look at the keys that decide incumbent elections, you got GDP growth flat, you've got high unemployment, you've got low consumer confidence. One of the things that trips an incumbent's defeat is a foreign policy crisis or a war. And this is rapidly getting to that level.
SCHULTZ: Well, where I would agree with Ralph is that the Republicans certainly are trying to make it appear that there's some kind of foreign policy crisis with a drum beat towards war. And one thing that is also clear is that what Mitt Romney has doing is continuing his Dukes of Hazzard tour around the world in terms of foreign policy.
I mean, the first thing that he did, which was the last thing he should have done, before we even knew that our ambassador was killed, he tried to politicize the attack. Instead of closing ranks, instead of making sure that what we do what we should be doing, come together as a country, make sure that we focus like President Obama made sure we did, getting to the bottom through an investigation of what happened so we can prevent it from happening again, making sure that we bring the attackers to justice as President Obama in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice has committed to do and so...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But let me press you on one issue there, because what the president didn't answer on Tuesday night was, why the security - the request for additional security was rejected. And in some ways Mitt Romney let him off the hook by jumping in.
VAN SUSTEREN: But that's the lesson from it -- it's what -- how he's handled it afterwards.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well that's - OK, but what...
SCHULTZ: Well, look, we have a focus on Libya right now, which we've got to get to the bottom of that investigation. That is what the investigation is for. You know what was really incredibly troubling, George, is that more politicalization from the Republicans in congress, Darrell Issa releases 166 pages of sensitive Department of State documents that exposed the Libyan nationals that we were working with to continue...
VAN SUSTEREN: George...
SCHULTZ: Hold on, just let me finish - that exposed the Libyan nationals that we're working with to try to get the bottom of how this happened. Jason Chaffetz, who has been a lead surrogate for Romney, he co-signed that letter. I mean, the Republicans are just relishing the opportunity to politicize an attack on the United States that we know that the president deemed a terror attack the next day and that we need to be focusing on pulling together to prevent it from happening again.
VAN SUSTEREN: I don't think we should be unfair to the State Department, though, and this whole idea of why security wasn't given. I don't have any doubt in my mind that the State Department wanted to protect every single citizen in all of these embassies. And it's a lot easier 20/20 hindsight to say, oh, we should have answered that cable a different way. And now we're all looking at it. I mean, I'll give a lot of room to the people who work at the State Department and even the White House -- the thing that I don't understand, though, is why won't the president just be straight? Tell us exactly what's going on, instead of this bizarre thing over two weeks where he wouldn't tell us...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But on that point I want to bring this to Van Jones. Hasn't the White House been relatively transparent? I mean, we even...
VAN SUSTEREN: Not at all. Not at all.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, wait, let me just finish the point. We learned over the weekend that even the talking points that Ambassador Rice received on that Sunday morning from the...
VAN SUSTEREN: Why did they tell us -- the president could easily take the - the president could easily address the nation and sort this all out. The president has the information. And the president hasn't done this. And so all of these sort of narratives that grow up is because they're not telling, they're not -- the president should speak out.
JONES: Look, over the weekend, it came out that Susan Rice was actually on - using information that was given to her by intelligence. This idea that they're shifting around - this was a fluid situation.
But let me tell you why the Republicans keep attacking on this, President Obama is a towering figure on foreign policy. He -- you got somebody with a Nobel Peace Prize and he killed bin Laden.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm not sure he wanted that Nobel Peace Prize.
JONES: But think about what it means to have -- to be a towering figure. His policy on Iran, look at his policy there. There are three ways to go after Iran. Number one, you can have the week strategy, go on your own. Number two, you can have the reckless strategy: try to be a saber rattler on your own. Or number three, you can get the whole world on your side.
Romney has doubled-down on weak and reckless - hold on, let me finish. Romney has double-downed on weak and reckless. Obama has pulled the world together. He is a towering figure.
So what they're doing is they're taking the death of an American hero. I knew Ambassador Stevens, okay, and he's a hero to a lot of people. His approach brought out the best in the Libyan people even when he died, because he was committed to cooperation and to engagement. When he died, the Libyan people came out.
JONES: Let me finish. We got -- the Libyan people came out and brought out the best in them. And they said that this was wrong and this is bringing out the worst, though, in the other party.
DOWD: George, here this is what I think is what's wrong I think in this system that we have today in which there is no pause button. And there's no time for thoughtfulness on both sides of it. Somebody says something, and we automatically throw everything at them and say, oh, I can't believe they said this. They're horrible. They have bad intentions, they're evil, or what they did. Why don't we have answers and all, that there's no point in time where we can sit back and say calmly, on both sides of the aisle, it happens on both sides.
But I think, let me just say one thing to put this Benghazi thing in context of like, why don't we have answers and where are they -- I worked for President Bush. We had a president and an administration for years made an argument about weapons of mass destruction for years, and now we've lost thousands of lives over an Iraq based on a false assumption and all of that.
This is not - there wasn't two weeks, this was months and months and months of a conversation where we never got the right answer to this. And still today, nobody in the administration at a high enough level...
SUSTEREN; And the point is that our intelligence gathering is bad.
REED: These are the facts. The facts is this compound, this consulate was attacked in April. It was attacked again in June. The cables make it clear that there was a security vacuum, that al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist groups were moving in. The British had closed their consulate. The Red Cross had pulled out. The State Department pulled out two security units in August and then denied additional security when it was requested. And in terms of him being a towering figure, Syria is in flames. There is 30,000 innocents who are dead and people dying every day while we lead from behind. Iran according to --
REED: Iran, according to one independent estimate, is four months away from having enough enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. And Egypt is being run by the Muslim Brotherhood.
SCHULTZ: This is unbelievable.
REED: Now, that is not exactly a great achievement in foreign policy.
SCHULTZ: The Romney campaign and the Republicans' reckless chest thumping has to stop. If Mitt Romney--
SCHULTZ: We have already been through shredding our diplomatic reputation across the globe through cowboy justice, that we had a go-it-alone strategy in the war in Iraq that was reckless.
REED: We had 32 allies, Debbie, we had 32 allies.
SCHULTZ: Let me finish, please. A go-it-alone strategy.
REED: Go it alone with 32 countries.
SCHULTZ: That said that we should go into a war in Iraq with faulty intelligence. And President Obama committed that he would bring our troops home, and did. When it comes to Mitt Romney's foreign policy, whether it's talking about his policy in Iran, if he thinks that we should go to war with Iran, then he should say so.
SCHULTZ: We got to make sure that diplomacy -- the president is first the diplomat in chief.
VAN SUSTEREN: But diplomacy -- this is a problem. Ralph is actually right. We have to be practical. Diplomacy costs money. We give money --
SCHULTZ: War costs lives.
VAN SUSTEREN: That's why the discussion should be (inaudible) I think from Governor Romney's perspective, we pay money to over 144 countries around the world, billions and billions of dollars.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Less than 1 percent of the budget.
VAN SUSTEREN: I'm just saying, but we still have to be able to afford it. And then we end up--
VAN SUSTEREN: And diplomacy is important. We have to buy our friends.
SCHULTZ: I represent 733,000 people in South Florida, and I can tell you that when I go home, they're not telling me, please, push President Obama to attack Iran. They're glad --
VAN SUSTEREN: I'm glad -- let's get something straight. Let's get something straight. I'm not advocating war. I'm not advocating we should do anything --
VAN SUSTEREN: What I'm saying is that we can all talk about diplomacy and war all we want, but we still have to be able to afford it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want to move on -- I want to get to one more discussion before --
SCHULTZ: Mitt Romney needs to say how his own policy would be different. He does a lot of chest thumping, he does a lot of blunders--
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm calling a halt to this right now. Before -- I want to get to one more issue, because we do --this is such a confusing political situation right now. The polls seem to be all over the place. Matthew Dowd, you were the first I think to write back in June that this is set up perhaps to have a situation where Mitt Romney wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college. We're back in 2000 all over again.
DOWD: The possibility and the probability of that has risen each day and has risen each year, actually, over the course of the last five or six years. What's developed over in this country, which used to have an electoral advantage that the Republicans had. In 2000, they still had it, which is why George Bush could lose the popular vote by 500,000 votes and win the electoral college, though I know people say we'll (inaudible) really won Florida. But today, if Mitt Romney could win this race by a million votes in the national vote and lose the electoral college, because states like Ohio, and states like Virginia, and states like Nevada, and states like Colorado, have moved from where they were traditionally toward today -- I am not saying, as I have said, this isn't necessarily good for the country. But the possibility is very possible.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You mentioned the battleground states right there, and the more you look at it, the more key Ohio seems to be above all else. I want to show a couple of electoral maps that kind of bear that out. Right now, the first one shows what I would call Obama's checkmate map. And it focuses on the upper Midwest states of Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa. He wins those three upper Midwest states, even if Mitt Romney sweeps the board of all the other battleground states, you see it right there, President Obama still ekes out a four-point win, which is why you see Governor Romney spending so much time on that state of Wisconsin. If he feels he can't win Ohio -- look at what happens when you flip Wisconsin, though. You flip it around, and even if then President Obama is able to hold on to one of the battlegrounds like Nevada, Governor Romney's able to win 271-267. So when you look at it, though, Ralph Reed, Ohio becomes the path to the presidency for Mitt Romney, because he's even further behind in Wisconsin now that he is in Ohio.
REED: It is critical, George. I mean, no Republican has been elected president without carrying the state of Ohio since the Republican Party was founded in 1852. I would say that constitutes a pattern. And the reality is, that even though it's arithmetically possible for him to win without it -- because of the movement of electoral votes--
STEPHANOPOULOS: You see how hard it is on that map.
REED: It's hard. It's arithmetically possible. It actually wasn't really for Bush in 2000. But the truth is, if you look at what's happening in Ohio, my view is that the in-state polls are kind of a lagging indicator. Today, in the Realclearpolitics average, Obama is ahead by about two in Ohio, give or take, well within the margin of error. But in the three most recent polls, it's effectively tied.
My view is that even with a $5 billion campaign and $1 billion in attack ads, let me tell where we're heading in the last 16 days. We're going back to the way campaigns used to be run. It's who knocks on the most doors, who rings on the most doorbells, who gets people to the polls.
JONES: Welcome to our world.
REED: George, a lot of these states, not just one or two, will be decided by 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 votes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I think that's right. Congresswoman.
SCHULTZ: And that's why we have invested, the Obama campaign has invested from day one, and hasn't ever left most of these battleground states from the beginning of the 2008 campaign in the ground game. In tens of thousands of door knocks, and phone calls, and social media outreach. And what our advantage will be, and the reason we're ahead in Ohio, is because President Obama rescued the American automobile industry. 80 of 88 counties in Ohio, George, have an auto manufacturing facility. 850,000 jobs in Ohio tied to the automobile industry. On trade, Mitt Romney said, no, we shouldn't -- we shouldn't actually sanction China for dumping tires. President Obama said yes, we should, and did. And now there is a $1 billion --
STEPHANOPOULOS: But the polls are tightening in Ohio.
JONES: Yes, the polls are tightening. And I agree with Mr. Reed on this point. And welcome to our world. The ground operation in Ohio is extraordinary. People need to take that very seriously. But the other thing is, the manufacturing jobs are beginning to grow again in America for the first time, and Ohio has benefited from that. And one of the reasons, not just auto manufacturing, but there is 125,000 clean-energy jobs. Every time they go on the attack and say the green jobs don't exist, there's 125,000 of them right there in Ohio, and Mitt Romney wants to get rid of them.
So I think what you're going to see is you're going to pay a cost for having been on the wrong side of the auto bailout, on the wrong side of the clean energy manufacturing jobs that are growing. And the ground game that you're going to see there -- it will be tight. It will be even tighter than 2004.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you prepared for a lot of recounts this time around?
VAN SUSTEREN: I hope I get South Florida again this time.
VAN SUSTEREN: With my luck, I'll be in home state of Wisconsin.
REED: I'll tell you what I think is going to happen. That band of 28 counties that re-elected Bush in '04, heavily Catholic, heavily evangelical, they'll come out in the biggest numbers you've ever seen, even bigger than in '04.
STEPHANOPOULOS: They're going to have to overturn where it is right now. Ralph Reed, thank you very much. Everybody, stick around. We want to come back in just a minute and remember George McGovern.
MCGOVERN: And it's a victory for love and for reconciliation, not for -- not for fear and division. It's a victory for truth and candor rather than deception and manipulation.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The night George McGovern was propelled to the Democratic nomination back in 1972, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, with a big win Massachusetts. And, of course, we all know that he got defeated so badly by Richard Nixon back in 1972. But always had a special place in the heart of Democrats.
SCHULTZ: And he had a special place in his heart for women. He was the first presidential candidate to nominate and select a chair of the Democratic National Committee, a woman. He also was the first candidate for president who said that we should have women on the Supreme Court and run for vice president. So...
SCHULTZ: Yes, yes, so a generation of women owe him a debt of gratitude.
DOWD: To me, they had a ticket with Sargent Shriver, probably the most idealist ticket that has ever run in the country, that these two men sort of had the moral voice and here's what we should do.
But I think the McGovern thing is a very tough teaching moment, which is, you can lose, but still basically carry the day. Without George McGovern we would have never had Jimmy Carter and we would have never had Bill Clinton. Without Al Smith, we would have never had John F. Kennedy. And without Barry Goldwater, we would have never had Ronald Reagan.
You can lose, but with a moral voice, carry on.
REED: Yes, there have been two campaigns -- presidential campaigns, in the post-World War II period, that completely changed the trajectory of the two parties. And both of them suffered ignominious defeats. Goldwater carrying only seven states in 1964, but changing the direction of the Republican Party, as Matthew said, paving the way for Reagan.
And, remember, in 1972, when McGovern carried only one state, his Texas campaign coordinator was a Yale Law student named Bill Clinton. So, in many ways, the legacy of both Goldwater and McGovern changed the direction of American politics.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Good point.
VAN SUSTEREN: You know, what -- the congresswoman talks about what he did for women and for Democrats. Let's not forget what he did for the world. He flew about 33 bombing flights in World War II. That was -- I mean, he did so much for the whole world by flying those...
DOWD: Which is why it made his anti-war message so credible.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And not only that, and also in his time after the Senate, after being defeated for the Senate in 1980, he did run for president one more time but also continued his work against world hunger for years and years and years.
VAN SUSTEREN: And alcoholism in later years of his life, because he...
JONES: Yes, I think, you know, he has been vindicated. I mean, that's the one thing that you can say.
VAN SUSTEREN: I don't think he needed to be vindicated.
JONES: I think vindicated in terms of that humiliating defeat. I think you look at his face with that defeat, and then you go on, you serve 30 more years, you do as much good for the world when you're not in office as you ever were able to do when you're in office.
And, you know, he means a lot not just to Democrats.
DOWD: It's just great thing in politics to see somebody can lose, but basically in the end win because of what their message was and the moral clarity they spoke with. And he was that guy.
SCHULTZ: And continue with their life and their career.
JONES: National service, concern for the poor, all of those things.
STEPHANOPOULOS: We all remember him well. Thank you all very much for a great "Roundtable," for those great memories of George McGovern as well.
And for all of you at home, Ralph, Greta, and Van are standing by to answer your questions on Twitter: @RalphReed, @GretaWire, and @VanJones68, just use the hashtag #ThisWeek.
And we'll be back with "Your Voice THIS WEEK."
STEPHANOPOULOS: And now we honor our fellow Americans who serve and sacrifice. Over the past two weeks, the Pentagon released the names of six soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
And I'll be right back with "Your Voice THIS WEEK."
STEPHANOPOULOS: And finally, "Your Voice THIS WEEK," today's question comes from Lisa Larimer Burtis. "We're in town today, having toured the White House, just wondered what it would take to ensure all items in the gift shop were made in the USA?"
That is a good question, Lisa. Last year, Jon Karl dug into this as part of the "World News: Made in America" series. And he found that virtually all of the products at the U.S. Capitol Gift Shops are made in America.
The Smithsonian opened its first ever all-American-made shop last summer as well. And we took your question to the White House, they haven't gotten back to us yet. But we're going to be sure to follow up.
Anyone else with a question, send it to me on Facebook and Twitter @GStephanopoulos.
And that is all for us today. Thanks for sharing part of your Sunday with us. Check out "World News with David Muir" tonight. And tune in tomorrow night for "One on One," the candidates' debate, the final Romney-Obama face-off, at 9:00 Eastern/6:00 Pacific. I'll see you tomorrow on GMA.


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Dr Fredric Wertham "Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics"
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Dr Fredric Wertham "Lied And Lied And Lied About Comics"
There have been rumours about anti-comics
crusader Fredric Wertham falsifying
his research for years, but now University
professor Carol L. Tilley has uncovered proof:
For example, in Seduction, Wertham links Batman comic books to the case of a 13-year-old boy on probation and receiving counseling for sexual abuse of another boy: Like many other homo-erotically inclined children, he was a special devotee of Batman: Sometimes I read them over and over again. It could be that Batman did something with Robin like I did with the younger boy.
What Tilley found in Werthams notes, however, was that the boy preferred Superman, Crime Does Not Pay and war comics over Batman, and that he had previously been sexually assaulted by the other boy
all information that Wertham left out.
I'd always though Wertham meant well but was
misguided about going after comics, but the
fact that he altered his research shows he had
little respect for factual accuracy.
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College Football on ESPN kicks off on Tuesday as once again college football fans will not have to wait to see football. This week the Sun Belt conference once again takes center stage as Troy takes on Florida International.
The college football odds for this game opened up as Florida International as 6.5 point favorites. Don't be surprised if this number goes over and jumps the key number of seven, as 81% of the early betting action is coming in at FIU. This is most likely due to the fact that FIU played last Tuesday night and the public had a chance to watch them in action.
Although the FIU Golden Panthers lost 34-16, the public often does not know the smaller teams and instead of doing research they will just go off of what they saw the previous week. Troy is still a decent team, although they have fallen on hard times. Troy is a regular at the top of the standings in the Sun Belt conference, but are off to a slow start at just 2-4 on the season.
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That slow start could be dismissed when you realize that the Troy Trojans have played a pretty intimidating schedule that includes playing two top ranked BCS teams. The Trojans are still loaded with talent and have the sports betting trends to back them up in this contest.
The road team in this series is 5-1 against the spread (ATS) in the last six meetings, so home field advantage is not that significant. The Trojans are 8-2 ATS in their last 10 games after allowing more than 200 yards rushing in their previous game, 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games as an underdog of 3.5-10.0, and 5-2 ATS in their last 7 games as a road underdog of 3.5-10.0.
The Golden Panthers are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games as a home favorite, 0-6-1 ATS in their last 7 games following a loss, and 0-4 ATS in the last four games overall.
The Golden Panthers showed late in the game they have a tendency to fall apart andthat could lead to the backdoor cover or the outright loss to the Trojans.
College Football Picks Week 9: Troy +6.5


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- Makes: 24 Servings
- Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 60 mins
Rich sour cream, tangy cream cheese, and a hint of almond make these brownies unforgettable. Dr. Greene suggests you use organic ingredients when possible, especially for dairy and egg products.
- Calories: 246
- Fat: 14g
- Protein: 4g
- Sodium: 207mg
- Carbohydrates: 28g
- Cholesterol: 85mg
Nutritional Information (per serving)
- Cream Cheese Layer:
12 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Brownie Layer:
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
5 large eggs
2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp. almond extract
3/4 cup sour cream
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- Preheat the oven to 300° F. Line the bottom and sides of a 13 x 9-inch pan with foil, then butter the foil.
- Prepare the cream cheese layer first: Using an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and sugar at high speed until smooth and fluffy, scraping the bowl often. Reduce the speed to low and add the egg and vanilla, mixing to blend. Set aside.
- Prepare the brownie layer: In a spacious bowl, whisk together the melted butter, eggs, sugar, and almond extract. Whisk in the sour cream. Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the bowl and whisk by hand until combined.
- Spread about three fourths of the brownie batter into the prepared pan in an even layer. Gently pour the cream cheese mixture over, spreading it with a spatula to create a smooth surface. Drop the remaining brownie batter over the cream cheese in evenly spaced blobs, then use a knife to swirl the two mixtures together slightly, creating a marbled effect.
- Bake in the preheated oven for one hour, until the brownies feel firm and springy in the center. Cool thoroughly, then refrigerate until well chilled before cutting.
- Horizon brownies can be stored in the refrigerator, wrapped airtight, for up to four days, or frozen for three months. For best flavor and texture, restore to room temperature before serving.


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People rarely get attacked for an opinion when they make it clear it's just an opinion. The problem is, people pose their opionions as facts, and way too often.
There's a difference between saying "Derrick Green is a Michigan lean" and "Based on his recent tweets, I bet Derrick Green is a Michigan lean." Too many people say the first, when they really mean the second. You won't get attached for the second statement. People might reply with a counter argument, or ask you to tell why you think that, but they aren't going to attack you.