Top Headline Comments 10-5-12

Happy Friday.

REMINDER: the September jobs report will be out this morning from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most are saying there will be no change in the unemployment rate.

Investigators are looking into whether the shooting of two Border Patrol agents on Tuesday was the result of friendly fire. Agent Nicholas Ivie was killed; another agent was wounded.

Former NBA player and CBS basketball analyst Greg Anthony has recorded a TV ad for Mitt Romney to air in Nevada. It's another one of the "it's okay to vote against Obama" ads.

UBL TV movie will air the weekend before the election.

A Democratic candidate for Maine's state senate is getting slammed in a mailer sent by the Maine GOP for leading a "bizarre double life." She plays World of Warcraft. I don't know how PR savvy this Democrat is (as a rule, state legislators aren't the brightest bulbs in the sky), but she could probably play this into a ton of donations from WoW gamers. It's what I'd do if I ever got hit for leading a "bizarre quadruple life" in Guild Wars 2, as I tend to do...

Democrats are hyperventilating that Romney surrogate Gov. Sununu said Obama was lazy for not properly preparing for the debate. I rather like Byron Tau's summation here, though: "Obama and his staff spent a good deal of time participating in the usual Beltway media game of lowering expectations — emphasizing how little preparation Obama was doing and how he spent last Sunday watching football." In other words, Obama was asking for it.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:59 AM

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