The Binders and Binders and Binders Gabfest
Listen to Slate's show about the second presidential debate, the fight over Libya, and the hunt for women voters.
Posted Friday, Oct. 19, 2012, at 2:40 PM ET
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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the town hall brawl, the fight over what happened in Libya, and Mitt Romney’s efforts to win women voters.
Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:
- David mentions that the insta-polls scored it for Obama; Nate Silver has a full roundup of instant reaction.
- John also scores the town hall debate an Obama win.
- Emily remembers a night full of rule violations; Slate’s Josh Voorhees pulls out the rule book.
- Emily mentions Will Saletan’s Slate piece about the Republican framing of the attacks in Libya.
- In his look toward Monday’s foreign policy debate, John explores why the campaigns continue to get Libya wrong.
- The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg makes a similar comment to David’s—that building higher embassy walls won’t solve anything.
- David Bernstein, reporting for the Boston Phoenix, fact-checks Romeny's "binders full of women" claim.
- The Washington Post’s Wonkblog brings you the second presidential debate in graphs, including one on the gender wage gap.
- An Oct. 15 USA Today poll found Romney gained significant support among likely women voters.
Emily chatters about a U.S. Court of Appeals decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.
John chatters about the amended seal of the United States which hung between the candidates. Do you know more about the significance of “the union and the Constitution forever?” Post your answers to our Facebook page!
David chatters about White House beer.
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Podcast production by Michael Vuolo. Links compiled by Jeff Friedrich.
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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. Her forthcoming book, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character, will be published in February. Find her at emilybazelon@gmail.com or on Facebook or Twitter.
John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Read his series on the presidency and his series on risk. Follow him on Twitter.
David Plotz is the Editor of Slate. He's the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and Good Book. He appears on Slate's Political Gabfest.