In 2008, Italianwinemakersreportedlyproducedroughly 46 million hectoliters and theyare expected toproduceslightly more this year, despiteheavy rainsacross theItalian peninsula inearly July.
The signature moment inthis year's use of the W word came inearlyJuly when an Obama staffer said that Romney was either a "felon" or was "misrepresenting" in his Federal filing about the length of his tenure as head of Bain Capital.