Hotline Sort: McMahon, Murphy Spar in Heated Debate
Welcome back to Hotline Sort. Obama has the best fundraising month of his campaign, Warren hits back at Brown over asbestos, Murphy and McMahon engage in a feisty debate, and Obama makes fun of his own debate performance.
13) If you're one of those people who says they'll leave the country if their favored candidate doesn't win the presidential race: JetBlue has you covered.
12) Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly debated Saturday -- and Washington Post's The Fix roundup up the best one-liners of the night.
11) President Obama gets in on making fun of his debate performance. The Associated Press:
Speaking at a celebrity-led fundraiser at the Nokia Theatre, Obama came on stage after performances by such singers as Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi and Stevie Wonder and remarks by actor George Clooney. He marveled at how they are able to perform flawlessly night after night and then said, quote, "I can't always say the same."
10) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says there's a simple reason for the state's sluggish economic growth: The failed effort to recall him from office.
9) The contest between Rep. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., and her GOP challenger, Chris Collins, remains tied, according to a new Buffalo News/WRGZ-TV/Siena College poll.
The poll shows the two candidates tied at 47 percent. Six percent of likely voters are undecided. In the previous poll, conducted in mid-August, Collins held a statistically-insignificant lead, 47 percent to 45 percent.
8) In Connecticut's Senate race, Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy and GOP opponent Linda McMahon met for their first debate. The Hartford Courant:
During the feisty, hourlong forum, hosted by WFSB-Channel 3 and broadcast live, McMahon questioned Murphy's honesty and accused him of accepting a "sweetheart" loan while Murphy painted McMahon as an ideologically empty captive of an increasingly right-wing Republican party.
And Majority PAC and Connecticut's Future PAC announced the launch of a new ad campaign in the state. The ad targets McMahon on wanting to "sunset" Social Security.
Meanwhile, check out this Huffington Post story on the McMahon campaign leaking an email from one of their reporters.
7) Majority PAC is also going up with a new ad in the North Dakota Senate race, attacking Berg on voting for a tax break for himself and to cut student loans.
Mitt Romney is intensifying his efforts to draw a sharp contrast with President Obama on national security in the presidential campaign's closing stages, portraying Mr. Obama as having mishandled the tumult in the Arab world and having left the nation exposed to a terrorist attack in Libya. In a speech on Monday at the Virginia Military Institute, Mr. Romney will declare that "hope is not a strategy" for dealing with the rise of Islamist governments in the Middle East or an Iran racing toward the capability to build a nuclear weapon, according to excerpts released by his campaign.
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