• Karl Frisch of Bullfight Strategies calls in at 9am ET / 6am PT to co-host Right Wing World

• Nate Silver the statistical genius behind FiveThirtyEight.com, calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to give her his predictions for 2012 and talk about his new book “THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t”

• Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau for the 10am ET / 7am PT hour to talk about what the election means for LGBT rights, national security, and the economy and jobs

• Political strategist Dave “Mudcat” Saunders calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT to handicap the debates, and to update us on the Cantor/Powell race in Virginia

• One day after their contentious debate, President Obama and Mitt Romney vied aggressively for the support of women voters Wednesday, as they and their running mates charged across nearly a half-dozen battleground states in the close race for the White House with 20 days to run.

• A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in NYC and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation.

• Lance Armstrong lost three major sponsorship contracts Wednesday and stepped down as the chairman of the Livestrong charity as the fallout from doping allegations continued to plague him.