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October 03, 2012 | | DEBATE TIME At last, the pregame show is over. Brett O’Donnell, America’s premier debate coach, on the key pivot points in the first Obama-Romney throwdown. SYRIA Twenty-five people are dead and at least 70 wounded after a series of explosions ripped through downtown Aleppo on Wednesday, according to a Syrian official. Syrian media reported “three terrorist explosions” in the city that has been the site of fighting between opposition forces and troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group based in Britain, reported that most of the victims in the explosion that went off in a central city square were members of the Syrian military. BOMBSHELL? The five-year-old tape shows Obama talking about New Orleans, bias, and urban despair. Howard Kurtz on why Fox and others are casting it as a racial controversy. POWERBROKERS A group of eight senators—the Gang of Six plus two—is planning a secret getaway to hash out a bipartisan solution to the looming fiscal cliff, Politico reported on Wednesday. The legislators will be hosted by Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia at an undisclosed location as they work to deal with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and federal spending cuts planned for the end of 2012. The Gang of Six originally convened in 2011 to work on an ultimately unsuccessful solution to the debt-ceiling crisis. “This group continues to meet and work toward a bipartisan solution,” said Kevin Hall, a Warner spokesman. SUFFRAGE The move by a judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to block a state voter ID law is just the latest in a series of moves within the legal system that have stopped or stalled legislation that would make it harder for people to vote by implementing strict identification guidelines. “Every voter restriction that has been challenged this year has been either enjoined, blocked, or weakened,” said Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center for Justice. That includes laws in Texas, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Florida, Ohio, and New Hampshire. New restrictions remain in place, however, in Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Indiana. | | 
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