October 18, 2012: Afternoon
- To economists' surprise, housing is turning around fast: Home builders are ramping up and foreclosures are falling.
- At a June conference call, Romney advised business owners to inform employees which candidate they should vote for.
- The think tanks speak: Romney's deduction caps and proposed tax cuts won't add up to his promised savings.
- If today's candidates can't spar like Lincoln and Douglas, we shouldn't have to endure the debates.
- Jon Huntsman: Neither Obama nor Romney are choosing the correct foreign policy power levers.
- Tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria, the candidates will attempt to be in the same room without attacking each other.
- The authors only obliquely address what I think of as the "F-U Theory" of Yard Signs.
- The clear winner in Tuesday's debate was Veronica De Souza, who pounced on the "Binders Full of Women" quip.
- Jimmy Kimmel asks people who they thought won the presidential debate—four hours before it started.
- The Lincoln-Douglas town hall debate.
- The University of Phoenix, the largest for-profit university in the U.S., to close 115 locations.
- Aphex Twin brings his remote-controlled orchestra to London.
- Robots at work and play.
- The very people who most need the mental exercise of slang are those who most resist it.
- Korea's writing system wins World Alphabet Olympics.
- Twenty-five years ago this week, Baby Jessica ushered in the cable news era.