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September 25, 2012 | | BIG SPEECH What the misguided right has turned into ugly supremacist nationalism, the president describes as the Founders did. Andrew Sullivan on why Obama’s speech matters. Battleground The Washington Post is out with two new polls that see President Obama leading Mitt Romney in both Ohio and Florida—two key battleground states. Of likely voters in Ohio, 52 percent said they support Obama versus 44 percent who are in favor of Romney. The president’s edge in Florida is a bit slimmer, leading Romney among likely voters 51–47 percent. Last week the Post published a poll revealing that Obama is ahead in Virginia. A majority of campaign funds from both candidates have been spent on Ohio, Florida, and Virginia, and, according to analysts, it will take capturing at least two of those three states for him to have a shot at winning the presidency. Shooting Spree In 10 years, Scottsdale, Ariz., police officer James Peters was responsible for the deaths of six people—in incidents his chief deemed “within policy.” Terry Greene Sterling on the new lawsuit against him and the rise of “justifiable homicides.” Fighting Words In front of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday President Obama said that the United States will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “Make no mistake: a nuclear-armed Iran is not a challenge that can be contained … And that is why the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," the president said. Obama’s comments came after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad laughed off the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran and insisted Tehran is “ready to defend” itself. BACK? The Case-Shiller home-price index—the best measure of national real-estate values around—rose from June to July by 0.44 percent. It's now up 1.2 percent year over year. This, combined with new recent data on home sales and starts, is a very good sign that housing is finally coming back after bottoming out last year. It's still harder to get financing than in boom time. But house prices were higher than last year in 16 of the 20 cities surveyed by the index on a seasonally adjusted basis. Without seasonal adjustments, home prices rose in all 20 cities for a third consecutive month. | | 
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