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12:05 PM ET, November 2, 2008

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P.J. Gladnick / NewsBusters.org:
Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry  —  (Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama's willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.)  —  Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry?
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Gateway Pundit:
EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO— Obama Promises San Francisco Audience He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry!!  —  OBAMA TOLD A SAN FRANCISCO AUDIENCE THAT HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY!!!  —  ATTN: Coal states Virginia , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Indiana, guess what Obama told San Francisco about you?
CNN:
Obama seven points ahead in CNN's final poll  —  (CNN) — Two and seven: With two days left until election day, a new national poll suggests that Barack Obama holds a seven-point lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.  —  In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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David Yepsen / Des Moines Register:
Obama may lead Democratic landslide  —  McPain.  —  Barack Obama is beating John McCain in Iowa by a whopping 17 percentage points, according to the Iowa Poll published in today's Register.  —  Obama gets 54 percent of the vote, while McCain captures 37 percent among likely voters, according to the survey.
Discussion: TIME.com
Thomas Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
New Iowa Poll: Obama widens lead over McCain
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jennifer Agiesta / Washington Post:
WaPo-ABC Tracking: Nine Divided by 56 is...
Discussion: JTA Election Central
Michael Cooper / The Caucus:
McCain on ‘Saturday Night Live’  —  Live from New York, it was Senator John McCain, saying that he was thinking of some radically different strategies for the last three days of the presidential race.  —  “I thought I might try a strategy called the Reverse Maverick,” Mr. McCain told his interviewer.
Discussion: The Heretik
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Dale Eisman / Virginian-Pilot:
Down to the wire, Va. still too close to call, poll shows  —  The earliest signs of who will be the next president might spring from Virginia and how undecided white voters such as John Morris and Sidney Blankenbeckler cast their ballots.  —  “I'm pretty disappointed in Republicans right now …
Jonah Goldberg / New York Post:
OBAMA 2012: FOUR YEARS LATER  —  A LOOK BACK AT HIS PRESIDENCY  —  It's hard to believe that just four years ago, some were talking about Barack Obama as a national savior, a secular redeemer, a “light worker.”  Even more shocking, President Obama lost the nomination of his own party to none other than Hillary Clinton.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The single worst expression in American politics  —  Joe Biden, speaking yesterday at a rally in Ohio (h/t Jonathan Schwarz): … As I wrote a couple of weeks ago (see the last few paragraphs): if I could be granted one small political wish, it would be the permanent elimination of this widespread …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: OUR FINAL MAP  —  From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann  —  *** Our final map: With two days before Election Day, the final NBC News map shows Obama remaining above the 270 electoral-vote mark, with a 286-157 lead over McCain.  Last week, Obama held a 286-163 advantage.
Discussion: Donklephant
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE TOWN-HALL MYTH.... In an otherwise complimentary column, David Broder notes one of his biggest disappointments about Barack Obama's campaign. … This is, almost word for word, the argument that John McCain has made since August to explain why he felt it necessary to take his sleazy campaign tactics into the gutter.
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Violated Privacy Policy  —  The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether its privacy policy was violated after a news organization reported that an aunt of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is an illegal immigrant from Kenya, officials said yesterday.
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Obama Unaware of Status of Aunt, Campaign Says
Discussion: JustOneMinute and MSNBC
Peter J. Parisi / Washington Times:
Unasked questions for Obama  —  With just two days to go before the presidential election, an election the chattering class has flatly declared to be the most consequential of our lifetimes - or, some would have you believe, ever - Barack Obama is playing a sort-of prevent defense, waiting for the clock to run out.
Discussion: Macsmind and JammieWearingFool
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
In the '08 Horse Race, the Cart Pulls Ahead  —  “IT'S OVER,” wrote Charles M. Blow on the Op-Ed page of The Times 15 days ago.  “I've studied the polls and the electoral map for months, and I no longer believe that John McCain can win.”  Blow allowed as how a serious mistake by Barack Obama …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
'My Heart and My Values Didn't Change'  —  In Bush, Loyalists See a Good and Steadfast Man Who Has Gotten a Bad Rap  —  On a cold, gray morning a week before Election Day, President Bush briefly emerged from the White House for an unannounced visit to the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Southeast Washington.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner  —  AND so: just how far have we come?  —  As a rough gauge last week, I watched a movie I hadn't seen since it came out when I was a teenager in 1967.  Back then “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner” was Hollywood's idea of a stirring call for racial justice.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Darrel Rowland / Editorial RSS:
Obama keeps his lead in Ohio  —  After an unprecedented campaign that seemed to break a record for breaking records, Barack Obama stands on the threshold of history — if his poll numbers hold up.  —  The final Dispatch Poll shows the Illinois Democrat with a 6-point lead in Ohio …
Discussion: MSNBC
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Predictions: Election Night  —  This morning on our This Week Roundtable we made our predictions for Tuesday night's outcome:  —  Mark Halperin, Time Magazine:  —  Electoral Vote — 349 Obama  —  Senate — 58 Democratic seats  —  House — Democrats net 28 House seats
Associated Press:
Guests for the Sunday TV news shows  —  By The Associated Press - 1 day ago  —  Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:  —  ___  —  ABC's “This Week” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain.  —  ___
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
 
 
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