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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs — Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated …
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GOP.com:
BEWARE OF EXIT POLLS — Biased And Inaccurate Predictions Have Led To Poor — GOP Exit Poll Showings In Past Three National Elections — Election Experts Believe Exit Polls Give An Edge And Sway Towards Democrat Candidates. — National Exit Polls Will Skew In Favor Of Democrats This Year …
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Associated Press:
New Rules, Machines Frazzle Poll Workers — Programming errors and inexperience dealing with electronic voting machines frustrated poll workers in hundreds of precincts Tuesday, delaying voters in several states and leaving some with little choice but to use paper ballots instead.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
For Democrats, Even a Gain May Feel Like a Failure — In most midterm elections, an out-of-power party picking up, say, 14 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate could call it a pretty good night. — But for Democrats in 2006, that showing would mean coming up one seat shy of taking control of both the Senate and the House.
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MSNBC:
FBI looking into possible Va. voter intimidation — Officials probing reports of phone calls allegedly intended to confuse voters … The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the possibility of voter intimidation in the U.S. Senate race between Sen. George Allen, a Republican …
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Judd / Think Progress:
FBI Investigating Voter Intimidation In Virginia »
FBI Investigating Voter Intimidation In Virginia »
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Washington Post:
It's a Candidate Calling. Again. — Republicans Deny Subterfuge as Phone Barrages Anger Voters — This year's heavy volume of automated political phone calls has infuriated countless voters and triggered sharp complaints from Democrats, who say the Republican Party has crossed the line …
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New York Times:
Repeat Calls Spur a Debate Over Tactics
Repeat Calls Spur a Debate Over Tactics
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Confederate Yankee:
"Absolutely True:" Rather Continues to Defend 60 Minutes TANG Story — Just moments ago on North Carolina's Morning News with Jack Boston on Raleigh-based News-Talk 680 WPTF, former CBS anchor Dan Rather defended the infamous 60 Minutes story using forged documents to attack President Bush's service …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice — Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery. — Under the rule being considered …
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Michael Kinsley / Slate:
Pelosi's Platform — HOW THE DEMOCRATS COULD GOVERN IF THEY WIN THE HOUSE. — What will a Democratic House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi be like? The Republicans have been painting an unattractive portrait of Democrats roasting young children on a spit in the Capitol rotunda and whatnot.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Following the Election Returns — An hour-by-hour guide to tonight's results. — This year the networks say they are guarding their exit poll results as if they were crown jewels. The results will be delivered to a "quarantine room," access to which will be granted to only two staffers …
MSNBC:
Olbermann: Where are the checks, balances? — Bush has been 'making it up' for too long, and the people have let him … MSNBC TV — We are, as every generation, inseparable from our own time. — Thus is our perspective, inevitably that of the explorer looking into the wrong end of the telescope.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Election season is bad time for slip of the quip — My face time with John Kerry has been brief but choice. In 2003, I was at a campaign event in New Hampshire chatting with two old coots in plaid. The senator approached and stopped in front of us. The etiquette in primary season …
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David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Election chief concerned about voter confusion — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Secretary of State Robin Carnahan raised concerns about potential voter confusion in Tuesday's elections, citing her own experience casting an absentee ballot as an indication that some poll workers may wrongly …
Jack Shafer / Slate:
How To Read the Election-Day Newspaper — DON'T. — How to Read the Election-Day Newspaper — A quiet sets over the press corps on the Monday before a national election. The boys and girls who have covered the campaigns for the last six months have nothing left in their tanks, and the headline writers know it.
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Stuff that may or may not happen — Anything can happen. — Except Katherine Harris winning. — That's not gonna happen. — I try not to get too excited about elections because, like having sex with celebrities, it never really turns out to be as good as you expect it to be (I mean Salma Hayek was good...but I've had better).
N.C. Aizenman / Washington Post:
Ortega Set To Reclaim Nicaraguan Presidency — Daniel Ortega, the former Marxist president and nemesis of President Ronald Reagan, appears to have won back Nicaragua's top job. — With 62 percent of precincts reporting, Ortega was comfortably leading the field of five presidential contenders …