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There's actually polling on early voting. Last time I checked, Obama was leading by a wide margin among early voters 50s/30s.

I'm not familiar with the t-shirt Chris is wearing.

59 millions watched, according to Nielsen.

No, no, no! Here is where we jump up and down seeing how much time they spend together:) It seems like they haven't been apart since the last leg of MX Tour ended.

Wouldn't be the 1st time! :lol:

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I hope we get access to the live stream.

A little humor never hurts Come and try them on! Looking good in Gwyneth's heels!

Do we know what the Nadals (Rafa's family) think about the conflict? They are Catalonians and still live on the island of Mallorca.

We shall know soon enough, better be in his place than in Romney's. fivethirtyeight Nate Sliver is the guy to follow. He's got a very good track record when it comes to elections predictions. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/rhode-island-the-most-elastic-state/

4 Steps to Getting Gwyneth Paltrow's Perfect Smoky Eyes, Straight From Her Makeup Artist Thursday, 10/18/2012 10:00 AM You have to look at this photo: Not only is Gwyneth Paltrow modeling the most wearable smoky eye we've seen in a while, she also happens to be wearing my favorite mascara. And it's drugstore mascara! At the Michael Kors Golden Heart Gala on Monday, Gwyneth wore one of the designer's sexy cutout black dresses with a chic, smooth pony, complete with new lowlights. Makeup artist Katey Denno, who created this look, was kind enough to reveal her how-to. "The hard edges of the dress told me that her makeup should be minimal and focus on one feature," she says. "She suggested a smoky eye, but I took it a touch heavier than she's used to; luckily, she liked it! I love her in a dark smoky eye, particularly with a little navy and gray blended with black. I opted to forgo lining the inner rim, which I felt gave her smoky eye a softness." Here are the exact steps and products you'll need to recreate Gwyneth's eyes: 1. Curl your lashes and apply several coats of CoverGirl LashBlast in Very Black (that's my fave--read all about it here!) on top and bottom, then comb your lashes once they're almost dry. 2. Smudge Alima Pure Luminous Shimmer Eyeshadow in Navy along your lashes and blend it up into the lid, as well as along the outer corner of the lower lid. 3. Press Make Up For Ever Eyeshadow in Dark Grey into the outer V shape of your top lids, up to the crease. 4. Smudge Vapour Organic Eyeliner in Black along your top lashes and the outer 1/3 of bottom lashes. Doesn't sound too tricky, right? I really think this would be such a wearable look, unlike 90 percent of the red carpet stuff we see. What do you think of Gwyneth's soft smoky eye? Would you like to wear this look? Have you tried any of these products before? Read More http://www.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2012/10/gwyneth-paltrows-smoky-eye-is.html#ixzz29fXQKMKh

? I can only go with the answers they've given when asked why they decided to let their music be used on those shows. If you know something the rest of us don't, go ahead and say it instead of being sarcastic.

President Obama’s answers in second debate pull double-duty for him, against Mitt Romney 10/17/2012 12:36 AM HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - For most every question asked on Tuesday night, President Obama had two answers: the one about him, and the one about Mitt Romney. From the outset of their spirited 90-minute debate, Obama replied to each query both by spelling out his own policies and attacking Romney’s record or ideas. After losing his first debate with Romney, Obama had no choice but to pull double-duty. He sought to undercut building support for his opponent among undecided voters, while allaying concerns about his own commitment within his own political base. At the end, his staff and supporters felt relieved both on style and substance points, while Romney was quick off the stage and out of the debate hall. Romney’s aides, though, felt in the long run that fact-checkers would declare their candidate the winner in the night's war of words. The first question of the townhall-style debate at Hofstra University came from a 20-year-old college student, who asked Romney how he could assure him he would be able to support himself after graduation. It was a tee-ball for a self-proclaimed turnaround artist running on the strength of his business record, and promising to accelerate the pace of the nation’s recovery from the Great Recession. “Your question is one that’s being asked by college kids all over this country,” said Romney. “So, what we have to do is two things. We have to make sure that we make it easier for kids to afford college. And also make sure that when they get out of college, there’s a job.” The Republican concluded: “It’s not going to be like the last four years. The middle-class has been crushed over the last four years, and jobs have been too scarce.” When it was the president’s turn to speak, he assumed the mantle of the nation’s inspirational leader, proclaiming, “First of all, your future is bright.” But barely 110-words later, during which he said he wanted to promote manufacturing jobs, Obama pivoted to his second answer: “Now, when Governor Romney said we should let Detroit go bankrupt, I said we’re going to bet on American workers and the American auto industry, and it’s come surging back.” After Romney was given a chance to rebut, Obama replied, bluntly: “What Governor Romney said just isn’t true.” The Democrat added: “And Governor Romney’s says he’s got a five-point plan? Governor Romney doesn’t have a five-point plan. He has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules. That’s been his philosophy in the private sector, that’s been his philosophy as governor, that’s been his philosophy as a presidential candidate.” Those exchanges set the tone for the rest of the evening, which featured remarkable theatrics from two candidates used to talking about each other from a distance or before thousands of cheering supporters. On Tuesday night, they walked around a stage before a group of 82 local questioners and hundreds more watching from the arena sidelines. At points, the candidates spoke over each other and trailed one another across the floor, as they sought to have their opponent acknowledge their answer. One in particular drew gasps, when Romney cut off the president of the United States by saying, “You’ll get your chance in a moment; I’m still speaking.” Several of the questions had an almost comical pro-Obama tilt. One focused on equal pay for women (a bill Romney once demurred about supporting). A second was about how Romney might differ from former President George W. Bush (a comparison he sought to avoid throughout the GOP primary campaign). A third centered on immigration (where Romney has encouraged “self-deportation”). And a fourth was on job outsourcing (an accusation leveled against companies Romney invested in while heading Bain Capital). Nonetheless, Romney did not yield any quarter to Obama. “The president’s statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong,” he said as he defended his contraception views in an answer typical of several he gave during the night. Romney also seized the challenger’s prerogative, aiming to hold the incumbent accountable not for the promises he’s now making on the trail, but those he issued during his first campaign. “The president has tried, but his policies haven’t worked,” the former Massachusetts governor said after a questioner who voted for Obama in 2008 said he was having doubts this time around. “He’s great as a speaker and describing his plans and his vision. That’s wonderful, except we have a record to look at,” added Romney. “And that record shows he just hasn’t been able to cut the deficit, to put in place reforms for Medicare and Social Security to preserve them, to get us the rising incomes we need. Median income is down $4,300 a family and 23 million Americans out of work. That’s what this election is about. It’s about who can get the middle-class in this country a bright and prosperous future, and assure our kids the kind of hope and optimism they deserve.” Romney also prospered as Obama avoided direct answers to two consecutive questions. One man, who said he drafted a question with the help of his co-workers, asked simply and succinctly, Who was it that denied enhanced security for the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and why? The president began, “Well, let me first of all talk about our diplomats...” After paying homage to the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans killed in a Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the facility, Obama turned away from the answer to another attack on Romney. “While we were still dealing with our diplomats being threatened, Governor Romney put out a press release, trying to make political points, and that’s not how a commander in chief operates,” said Obama. When it was his turn to answer, Romney said: “It was a terrorist attack, and it took a long time for that to be told to the American people. Whether there was some misleading, or instead whether we just didn’t know what happened, you have to ask yourself why didn’t we know five days later, when the ambassador to the United Nations went on TV to say that this was a demonstration. How could we have not known?” The next questioner also asked Obama about his vow, at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, to keep AK-47 assault rifles out of the hands of criminals. “What has your administration done, or planned to do, to limit the availability of assault weapons?” the woman asked. The president replied, “We’re a nation that believes in the Second Amendment, and I believe in the Second Amendment. We’ve got a long tradition of hunting and sportsmen and people who want to make sure they can protect themselves.” After expressing anguish at having to comfort the families of mass shooting victims, Obama went on to say that he believed in enforcing the nation’s existing gun laws and possibly reintroducing an assault weapons ban. But it took him 253 words to begin the sentence responding to the woman’s 16-word question. Obama recovered in what turned out to be a closing statement. He was given the last chance to answer after a man asked him and Romney to address the biggest misconception about themselves. Romney, having escaped any mention all night of his assertion that 47 percent of Americans believe they are “victims” who deserve government handouts, brought up the remark as he asserted he is not the heartless person he is sometimes depicted. “I want 100 percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future,” he said. Obama disputed the caricature that he believes in big government and doubts the free enterprise system. Then he pivoted to an attack on Romney. “I believe Governor Romney is a good man, loves his family, cares about his faith,” the president added. “But I also believe that when he said behind closed doors that 47 percent of the country considered themselves victims who refuse personal responsibility, think about who he was talking about: Folks on Social Security who’ve worked all their lives. Veterans who’ve sacrificed for this country. Students who are out there trying to hopefully advance their own dreams, but also this country’s dreams. Soldiers who are overseas fighting for us right now. People who are working hard every day, paying payroll tax, gas taxes, but don’t make enough income.” Obama concluded: “I want to fight for them. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last four years. Because if they succeed, I believe the country succeeds.” His last answer, like his first, had two parts: the one about him and the one about his opponent. http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/10/16/president-obama-answers-second-debate-pull-double-duty-for-him-against-mitt-romney/XLhJ8I5gDLEHp3XU782SNJ/story.html?comments=all#readerComm

I'm very independent and have no party allegiance, but I hate wars with passion, especially the unprovoked ones. Romney has the same neo-cons behind the Iraq War counseling him on foreign policy and for me, that's a deal breaker. I never want to see my sons sent to fight for causes we don't believe in. The all volunteer military will become unsustainable in a long run if we keep insisting on putting boots on the ground in every conflict. We keep sending the same few to battle over and over again and don't even take good care of them when they're done fighting. Ultimately, the only thing that will make sense is returning to the draft. I really don't want my children's lives wasted. That trumps any social or economic reason for voting for a candidate.

Debate returns 2012 focus to fundamentals By JOHN F. HARRIS and JONATHAN MARTIN | 10/17/12 4:47 AM EDT HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Barack Obama did well enough in the second debate that he can rest assured about one thing: If he loses his bid for a second term it won’t be because he is bad at debates. If Mitt Romney wins the presidency, likewise, it won’t be because in the final weeks of the campaign he revealed exciting new dimensions of his personality and record that were somehow obscured during the previous two years. In that sense, the Hofstra University debate and Obama’s spirited performance there succeeded in stripping away atmospherics and peripheral arguments to expose the bare guts of the 2012 choice, in both its personal and ideological dimensions. That choice is now inescapably focused—in a way it was not at the Denver debate and the flood of commentary afterward on Obama’s listless first outing —on fundamental questions. Is Obama’s record, especially on the economy, defensible? The president defended it as effectively as he is ever going to in the face of some skeptical questions from voters assembled for the debate’s town-hall format. Romney’s hope is that no rhetorical argument from the incumbent is sufficient to mask the weak facts behind it. In a nod to that assumption, Obama showed again Tuesday that he’s far more voluble about Romney’s vulnerabilities than he is making the case for his own record. Is the Republican nominee an acceptable alternative? If the candidate in Denver seemed to show a whole new side of himself, the one who showed up in Hempstead was entirely familiar to anyone who watched any of the 20 Republican primary debates: crisp, well-prepared, sometimes a little peevish, sometimes a little awkward. It was a stark if redundant reminder: At age 65, Romney is who he is as a politician, and his performances typically fall within a narrow range. Romney advisers feel that their candidate must do no more than clear a basic plausibility standard to exploit Obama’s weaknesses. Along the way to his party’s nomination, however, Romney embraced a lot of orthodox Republican positions—most notably on immigration and women’s issues—and Obama was relentless in highlighting the most unpopular pieces of Romney’s primary baggage. Both men seemed as if they had been steeped for days on end in their campaign’s opposition research files. “Clearly his advisers told him, drink your Red Bull, get ready to attack, don’t do what you did last time,” said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Romney surrogate, said of Obama. The intense natural competitiveness of both men was on display. Obama was clearly helped by this, snapping-to after a first debate that must have embarrassed him. Romney was probably hurt at least a little by his competitive instincts. He jostled with moderator Candy Crowley to ensure he got the last word on several exchanges, and at several junctures seemed to act as if the evening would be scored like a real debate—with the prize going to whoever recites the most complete set of arguments—rather than as a stage to highlight which person comes off as more credible as a leader and appealing as a person. Because of this, Obama seemed to come out ahead in the second debate, though not by the emphatic margin that Romney did in the first. Going forward, this outcome probably helps reset the race and steer the national conversation away from theater criticism and toward more substantive closing arguments. That itself is a considerable relief for Obama, since another weak show would have turned growing unease among Democrats about a tightening race into genuine panic. After Hofstra, it seems clear the election will not be turn on minutia, such as whether it was cockiness or the thin Rocky Mountain air that made Obama groggy in Denver, or whether Vice President Biden was appealingly forceful or unappealingly annoying with his interruptions of Paul Ryan at the debate in Kentucky. With both nominees having turned in one strong performance, the temptation is to look to next Monday’s debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., as the tie-breaker. Historically, however, later debates matter less than the early ones. The question is whether the first two debates have altered the basic trajectory of the race. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82514.html#ixzz29Y6BqJHa

Those are inaccurate right wing nuts talking points. For one thing, Obama has stopped smoking, only those who can afford to pay for their health insurance but refuse to do so will pay a penalty or tax. The dishonesty in political discourse in this country just drives me crazy from both sides.

The way she travels is just unbelievable! I get sick to my stomach just reading about it. It takes me a very long time to recover from a long flight.

More photos from the Golden Heart event at JustJared http://www.justjared.com/2012/10/15/gwyneth-paltrow-golden-heart-gala/?ref=partnerew

So she stayed behind in NYC. Chris is already back in London.

Watching Red Bull Stratos live and thinking, are the boys watching this?

Paradise (way too cute) ETIAW PoC (Chris is hot) HLH (I don't appreciate Jonny's solos shortened) CB

I think he says I'm a bit drunk in that video, around 3:18

On TV he's already on the ground

Door's opened