The board of directors of Second Mile, a charity for young boys that employed Sandusky, donated over $600,000 collectively to Corbett’s campaign for governor. As Governor, Corbett personally approved a $3 million grant to Second Mile, an okay later withdrawn.

The four national tracking polls as published on Sunday were largely unchanged from their Saturday releases. Mr. Romney maintained a 2-point lead in the Rasmussen Reports tracking poll, but President Obama’s lead held at 2 points in an online poll published by Ipsos and at 3 points in the Gallup tracking poll. In the RAND Corporation’s online tracking poll, which lists its results to the decimal place, Mr. Obama’s lead declined incrementally, to 3.9 percentage points from 4.4 on Saturday.

So what motivates such a distinguished individual to spend Saturdays and likely evenings going door to door, talking with strangers (mostly Republicans) and asking for their support with so little likelihood of success?

From the NEW YORK TIMES: For months, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been funneling money and small arms to Syria’s rebels but have refused to provide heavier weapons, like shoulder-fired missiles, that could allow opposition fighters to bring down government aircraft, take out armored vehicles and turn the war’s tide.

She explains that she basically just checked that the paperwork was there and rubber stamped each certification. She further explains the DCED staff is very small and that there are about 700 or 1000 such municipal bond applications submitted to DCED each year, that it was impossible for the staff to verify bond applications, and that very few, if any, bond applications over the years ever were rejected by her office.

DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: A little more than a month out from Election Day, Washington state’s I-502 marijuana legalization, regulation, and taxation initiative looks to be well-positioned yet to actually win at the ballot box, with powerful supporters, lots of money, and a healthy lead in the polls. But it’s not a done deal yet.

In more bad news for Obama, one in five voters said the Democrat’s performance in the contest in Denver on Wednesday made them feel more negative about him and almost a third said they felt more positive about his Republican challenger…

Pennsylvania’s next attorney general will have a full slate of matters to investigate. Some of these issues have languished for years in the Republican-controlled attorney general’s office. In no particular order, some of these issues include:

The Labor Department said on Friday the unemployment rate, a key focus in the race for the White House, dropped by 0.3 percentage point to its lowest point since January 2009. The household survey is volatile. A survey of business establishments showed employers added 114,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, a touch above economists’ expectations for 113,000 jobs.

From the NEW YORK TIMES: He used the first presidential debate to speak out forcefully to its wide television audience against the idea of cutting taxes for the wealthy, noting that “high-income people are doing just fine in this economy.” Asked if there was too much government regulation, he answered, “regulation is essential.” And he praised the Massachusetts health care bill, calling it a “model for the nation.”

Depending on whom you believe, the retrofit of the city’s incinerator was done with the best of intentions and the blame belongs to now-bankrupt Barlow Construction, the firm hired to conduct the retrofit. Or it is a tangled web of financial interests, parties hellbent on getting the project done, whatever the cost. A conspiracy of consultants and politicians benefiting from the public’s largess…

Ruman said the state would not have its new ads on the ID law produced until next week. The content has not yet been determined. “The ads will comply with the judge’s order, but voters will still be asked for ID,” he said. “The voter ID law is still in effect, and our belief is that it will be in effect in the future.”

From the FINANCIAL TIMES: An energetic and aggressive Mitt Romney challenged Barack Obama for “not getting the job done in government,” dominating the president for large parts of the first primetime televised debate which covered the economy, taxes and healthcare.