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WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
* The pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future is launching a very significant $17.7 million ad buy this week, including three ads that attack President Obama's handling of the economy. The ads will run in 10 states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
* The pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is hitting Romney with a new TV ad returning to its attacks on Bain Capital. The commercial features employees at companies Bain took over who lost their jobs. The ad will air in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
* Two top Democratic outside groups are going up with ad buys on behalf of Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) -- the first major spending from outside groups in an increasingly tight race. Majority PAC has purchased $515,000 in the Pittsburgh media market, and a GOP source says another group, Patriot Majority, is also going up with an ad buy in the state. Casey faces businessman Tom Smith, who has self-funded $17 million and steadily closed the gap on Casey.
* The GOP outside group Crossroads GPS is up with a new ad featuring the Oparowskis, the couple whose son formed a bond with Romney while being treated for cancer three decades ago. Romney later gave the eulogy at the boy's funeral.
* Obama isn't pulling out of any battleground states, campaign manager Jim Messina told reporters Tuesday morning. "I've heard a lot of gossip about which states campaigns are staying in or leaving," Messina said. "We are tied or ahead in every battleground state, and we're not leaving any state where we're tied or ahead."
WHAT YOU SHOULDN'T MISS
* Romney is not committing to any network television interviews during the final two weeks of the campaign.
* Rep. Chris Murphy (D) holds a slight 46 percent-to-40 percent lead over Linda McMahon (R), according a new poll of the Connecticut Senate race conducted for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The poll of 800 likely Connecticut voters was conducted by Hamilton Campaigns from Oct. 19-22. Quinnipiac University, which will release its next survey Wednesday, has shown the race to be a dead heat in recent weeks.
* Obama and Romney are tied at 47 percent among likely Florida voters, according to a new poll conducted by Mark Mellman for the liberal group Americans United for Change. The poll of 800 likely voters was conducted from Oct. 18-21 and also indicates a close race among early voters, with Obama at 50 percent and Romney at 45 percent. The five-point lead isn't statistically significant, though, given that just 17 percent of respondents said they voted early. Overall, the fact that a pro-Obama group would release an internal poll showing him tied in Florida could suggest the state is tilting towards Romney.
* A new poll conducted for Democrat Richard Carmona's Arizona Senate campaign shows him at 45 percent and Rep. Jeff Flake (R) at 41 percent. The poll was conducted by Anzalone Liszt from Oct. 17-21.
* Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), a retired Army lieutenant colonel, said Tuesday that Obama doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to "horses and bayonets." The Post's Ed O'Keefe reports that West said American soldiers were issued bayonets in Iraq in 2003 and rode on horseback in Afghanistan in 2001. "So obviously we have a president who does not understand the full capabilities and capacities and what we do in the United States military," West said. (We should note that Obama never said at Monday's debate that the military doesn't use horses and bayonets -- simply that it uses fewer of them.)
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