memeorandum: Kasich: Romney will carry Ohio (Anna Palmer/Politico)

6:30 PM ET, October 28, 2012

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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Minnesota Poll: Obama leading, but Romney sees gains — The president's 3-point lead in state is within poll's margin of error. — As the presidential race tightens across the country, a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll has found that it is narrowing here as well, with President Obama holding …

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Cincinnati.com:

Obama slips, still has lead — Poll finds Romney support growing among males while the President commands a large section of central and northern Ohio. — ZOOM — The Ohio Newspaper Poll — The telephone poll - which used both land lines and cell phones - of 1,015 likely voters across Ohio …

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Virtual tie in ... Minnesota? — I'd be the first to tell people that my state is a quadrennial sucker bet for Republicans. In 2008, no one thought we had a prayer, but in 2000 and 2004, Republicans actually thought they had a chance to break the Democrats' presidential winning streak, as the state last went to the GOP in 1972.

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John Hinderaker / Power Line: Minnesota, Now In Play

Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll: Romney, Obama tied at 49-49 in Ohio

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Rich Heldenfels / Akron Beacon Journal:
Presidential race tied in Ohio newspaper poll

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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

Andrew Sullivan To ABC: If Romney Wins Florida And VA, It's The ‘Confederacy’ — During this Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan claimed that if Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins back Florida and Virginia in the upcoming 2012 presidential election …

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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:

Gingrich: Obama Cancels Campaign Trips Due to Hurricane, Didn't Cancel Them Over Benghazi — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich took quite a shot at Barack Obama Sunday. — Appearing on ABC's This Week, Gingrich said of the President, “You'll notice he's canceling his trips over the hurricane.

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Associated Press:
OBAMA CANCELS CAMPAIGN EVENTS TO MONITOR STORM

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First Read:
Obama assails Romney's Massachusetts record

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The / TheGazette:

Gazette endorsement for president: Romney — President Barack Obama has made his mark during his historic first term. The Affordable Care Act of 2010, a massive overhaul of the health care system that has some features we support. A stimulus measure that the majority of economists …

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Lee Enterprises / Quad City Times:
Our presidential endorsement: Ready for change

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Joshua Davidovich / The Times of Israel:

Obama offered to reestablish full ties with Iran, Israeli paper reports — Israel was told about and opposed president's diplomatic incentives package, initiated soon after he took office, and Iran rebuffed it, according to Maariv — Soon after he took office, President Barack Obama began …

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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:

Romney Auto Bailout Ad Tells Four Myths In 30 Seconds — As Mitt Romney continues to struggle to explain his various positions on the auto rescue that saved General Motors and Chrysler, his presidential campaign has released an ad about the bailout that is littered with falsehoods and misdirections.

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Anna Palmer / Politico:

Kasich: Romney will carry Ohio — Gov. John Kasich predicted on Sunday that Mitt Romney will come out on top in Ohio on Election Day. — “I believe right now we are currently ahead, internals show us currently ahead,” Kasich said on NBC's “Meet the Press.”

Bernie Becker / Ballot Box:
Gov. Kasich downplays role of auto bailout in Ohio's recovery

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Yahoo! News:

Insurers nervous over prospect of a Romney victory — You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary. — Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law …

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James Barron / New York Times:

Hurricane Sandy Predicted to Bring ‘Life-Threatening’ Surge — Hurricane Sandy, a menacing monster of a storm that forecasters said would bring “life-threatening” flooding, churned toward some of the nation's most densely populated areas on Sunday, prompting widespread evacuations and the shutdown of New York City's transit system.

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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Urgent Warnings as Hurricane Sandy Strengthens and Heads to Northeast

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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

Why I Am Pro-Life — HARD-LINE conservatives have gone to new extremes lately in opposing abortion. Last week, Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate in Indiana, declared during a debate that he was against abortion even in the event of rape because after much thought he …

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