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Monday, November 5, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Memos From the Presidential Losers' Club

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Today: Much of the Media Is Calling the Presidential Race for Barack Obama , Mayor Bloomberg’s Response to Sandy Leaves Many New Yorkers Out in the Cold , In Afghanistan’s ‘Valley of Death,’ a Medevac Team’s Miracle Rescue
Cheat Sheet: Morning

November 05, 2012
SECOND PLACE

Someone will be unhappy on Wednesday. Presidential losers Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, and Bob Dole on getting over over the sting of second—and advice for this year’s runner-up. By David Freedlander.

FORECAST

The press is heading into Election Day increasingly confident that the president will beat Romney. Howard Kurtz on the polling and the predictions—and what will happen if they’re wrong.

Sandy Outrage

The mayor has brilliantly stage-managed his handling of the storm, but outside the city’s affluent precincts numerous angry residents feel abandoned by his administration as days have passed and help has remained distant, writes Harry Siegel.

HEROES

If wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier has a 90 percent chance of making it home alive—the best survival rate in the history of war. That's largely due to medevac teams like DUSTOFF 73. In a special heroes issue of Newsweek, Tony Dokoupil re-creates one of the most decorated missions ever in military aviation: by the time it was over, DUSTOFF had rescued 14 soldiers, made three critical supply runs, recovered two dead bodies, and nearly died every day for three days straight.

CELEBRITY

From Matt Bissonnette’s bin Laden memoir, No Easy Day, to new film Zero Dark Thirty, the Navy SEALs are in the spotlight like never before—a dangerous development for an organization with a culture of secrecy. Will the siren songs of Hollywood tarnish their reputation? One former SEAL tells Newsweek's Daniel Klaidman, "I think we're fraying around the edges.”


PATRIARCHS
Paul Ryan: Obama’s No Abraham
Says he compromises ‘Judeo-Christian values.’
NO PARTY
Economy May Not Care Who’s President
On course for improvement either way.
SUPPLIES
Marathon Generators Unused
Sit in Central Park while NYers shiver.
ACCUSED KILLER
Police: NYC Nanny Resented Employers
Said they bossed her around.
RECORD SMASH
‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Grosses $49.1M
Opens with Disney record.
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