Cheat Sheet - Memos From the Presidential Losers' Club

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 November 05, 2012 SECOND PLACE 1. What It’s Like to Lose 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. Read it at The Daily Beast FORECAST 2. Pundits: It’s Obama 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. Read it at The Daily Beast Sandy Outrage 3. Heck of a Job, Bloomberg 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. Read it at The Daily Beast HEROES 4. Inside the 'Valley of Death' Mission 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. Read it at The Daily Beast CELEBRITY 5. Will the Navy SEALs Sell Out? 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.” Read it at The Daily Beast 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. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET Culture Beast Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. What Makes a Hero? Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that deploys veterans to help with disaster recovery, did their part to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy in lower Manhattan last week. Team member Curtis Coleman, a former Marine, shares his thoughts on heroic leadership. More Videos The Renegade Diplomat by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Scorsese’s Film Heroes by Martin Scorsese The Urge to Serve by Gail Sheehy

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