Romney, Obama could split popular and electoral college vote, polls suggest  —  Most polls at this moment suggest GOP nominee Mitt Romney is in the lead nationally, but surveys in the nine or so swing states are registering a narrow advantage for President Obama.

Fortune Favors the Brave  —  For a few days there the Romney campaign was boasting a lot about having Big Mo — and the press corps actually fell for it, briefly.  At this point, however, the reality seems to be sinking in: if Romney has Big Mo, it looks like this:

OMG!  Birther Morons Tout Hilariously Faked Video of Obama Birth as Real  —  Okay, so there this video going viral on the Right purporting to be actual footage of Barack Obama's birth taking place in a hospital in Kenya.  —  I kid you not.  —  The footage is supposedly a VHS transfer …

Poll: Akin, McCaskill locked in statistical dead heat  —  ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — A new poll shows the Missouri Senate race is too close to predict a winner.  —  The News 4, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star poll shows Senator Claire McCaskill with a 2 percent lead over Congressman Todd Akin …

AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks  —  Associated Press/Pablo Martinez Monsivais - FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, in Cleveland Ohio. ...more

9NEWS questions President Obama on Libya attack  —  KUSA - President Barack Obama would not directly address questions from 9NEWS on whether Americans under attack in Libya were denied requests for assistance during the September 11th terror attack.  —  President Obama discussed the situation …

Romney spends big on firms tied to aides  —  Mitt Romney's campaign has paid $134.2 million to political firms with ties to his senior staff, for consulting and other services.  —  Mitt Romney campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom talks to reporters after the second presidential debate at Hofstra University.

The far left turns to Nate Silver for wisdom on the polls  —  Screen shot of the New York Time political blog of Nate Silver.  —  Credits: FiveThirtyEight.com  —  While many conservatives look to former Clinton political consultant Dick Morris to understand the polls and political surveys …

IS VOTER FRAUD BEING COMMITTED IN OHIO?  —  RESIZE:  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — In Ohio, a person can register to vote up to 30 days before the election, with absentee voting starting 35 days before the election.  The 5 day overlap is referred to as the “golden week” — the days during which someone …

Church sign defaced with anti-Romney message  —  HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) - A viewer used Report !t to send our sister station WANE pictures of the sign in front of the South Broadway Church of Christ in Huntington on Friday.  —  One side of the sign read “Christ voted Democrat” and the other read “Romney hates women”.

Lena Dunham, Lesley Gore, And The Importance Of Voting On November 6  —  Whatever you think of Lena Dunham, or the actual efficacy of the playful voter turnout ad she cut for President Obama in which she compares voting for the first time to losing your virginity—which, if you're a civics nerd …

Obama Gets Storm Update Before Campaigning in NH  —  The White House says President Barack Obama had a conference call Saturday to discuss Hurricane Sandy with the Homeland Security secretary, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the director of the National Hurricane Center and his homeland security adviser.

White House considering new tax cut  —  The White House is weighing the idea of a tax cut that it believes would lift Americans' take-home pay and boost a still-struggling economy, according to people familiar with the administration's thinking, as the presidential candidates continue battling …

Poll: Obama still ahead in Pa., but Romney up  —  President Obama holds a six-point lead over Mitt Romney in a new Inquirer Pennsylvania Poll with just over nine full days of campaigning left for the Republican nominee to make a play for the state.  —  Obama was the choice of 49 percent of likely voters …

Still fighting the same old culture war  —  We shouldn't be talking about this silliness — Big Bird, “bull­s—  er” or a girl's “first time.  We should be talking about The Issues, we keep telling ourselves.  But in the waning days of the presidential campaign, these are the issues …

Jeffco ‘Democrat Of The Year’ Convicted Of Felony Theft  —  JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- The woman named “Democrat of The Year” this year by the Jefferson County Democratic Party has been convicted of felony theft by a Jefferson County jury for stealing from a developmentally disabled 71-year-old woman.