Weekend talking points: 7 top stories - September 28, 2012
What happened this week? Obama made gains in key states. Apple apologized for the iPhone's subpar map app. And the NFL's real refs returned to work
By The Week Staff | September 28, 2012
Weekend talking points: 7 top stories
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his week, a flurry of polls showed President Obama opening up substantial leads in the crucial battleground states of Ohio and Florida, making it a very real possibility that Obama could win the election in a landslide. In other good news for the president, the government reported that the economy added 386,000 more jobs than previously reported, enabling Obama to claim that he has won back every job lost during his first term.
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