• Jim Graves, who is challenging Michelle Bachman for her seat in congress calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to talk about the narrowing gap in their race

• Shannon O’Brien, the Dem candidate who ran against Romney in the 2002 governor’s race in Massachusetts, calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about his Binders Full of Women

• Ruth Conniff, Political Editor for The Progressive, calls in at 11am ET / 8am PT to talk about Tammy Baldwin’s campaign to be elected to the US Senate

• Actor, director, and activist Rob Reiner calls in at 11:30 am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about his new ad for the Obama Campaign on Women’s Issues

• President Obama and Mitt Romney took a break from their often rancorous campaigns to poke fun at each other and themselves at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, last night.

• New NBC News/WSJ/Marist polls show President Obama maintaining his lead over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin.

• More than 1,200 formerly secret Boy Scouts’ files detailing accusations of child sex abuse from 1965 to 1985 were published online Thursday by lawyers, one who said the documents revealed a “de facto cover-up of abuse.”