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Eric Morath / Real Time Economics:
Labor Department ‘Working Hard’ to Ensure Jobs Report Released on Time — UPDATE: The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it is “working hard to ensure the timely release” of the October jobs report, saying it intends to released the report on schedule Friday despite Hurricane Sandy.
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Alleges Obama May Delay Friday's Jobs Numbers To Boost Re-election Prospects — When last month's jobs report showed a dramatic drop in unemployment, some conservatives invented a new conspiracy that the Labor Department numbers were politically motivated.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
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Politico, Hot Air, Pat Dollard and Vodkapundit
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver: One-term celebrity? — Nate Silver could be a one-term celebrity. — The New York Times's resident political predictor says President Barack Obama currently has a 74.6 percent chance of winning reelection. It's a prediction that liberals, whose heart rates continue to fluctuate …
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The Atlantic Wire:
People Who Can't Do Math Are So Mad At Nate Silver — The New York Times' Nate Silver has created a model to predict the outcome of the presidential election that's watched by just about every pundit, and yet Silver's model refuses to perfectly reflect the conventional wisdom spouted by just about every pundit.
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead — MARION, Ohio — With eight days to go until the election, President Barack Obama has recaptured a narrow national lead over Mitt Romney, riding increased support from women and an edge in early voting. — A new POLITICO/George Washington …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
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Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com:
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
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JohnMcTernan / John McTernan's Insights:
URGENT: Prayer Tonight — The Solemn Assembly — Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, — Commentary — The hurricane that is going to hit 21 years to the day from the Perfect Storm
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Joe Morgan / Gay Star News:
Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy
Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney campaign bus to deliver supplies to storm-relief centers
Romney campaign bus to deliver supplies to storm-relief centers
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Team Mitt: He wouldn't cut FEMA — The Romney campaign stressed Monday that states should take the lead in responding to emergencies like hurricanes. But the campaign said Romney would not abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency. — “Gov. Romney believes that states should be in charge …
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney In GOP Debate: Shut Down Federal Disaster Agency, Send Responsibility To The States … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Politics News, Fema, Frankenstorm 2012, Hurricane Sandy 2012, Hurricane Sandy Fema …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Romney Wants To Cut FEMA
Romney Wants To Cut FEMA
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Misleading Romney Auto Ad Backfires With Media — Mitt Romney's final attempt to swing Ohio polls in his direction is a bit too much for a number of political reporters, and is now facing an aggressive response from the Obama campaign. — In news articles, tweets, and other media …
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Keith Laing / Ballot Box:
New Obama ad fires back at Romney over Jeep claims
New Obama ad fires back at Romney over Jeep claims
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Politico and The Raw Story
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Shocking Footage Emerges of Mitt Romney Spouting His Bigoted Bile Against Gays (VIDEO) … Mitt Romney , Gay Marriage , LGBT , Politics , Gay Marriage , Video , Gay Parenting , Romney-Ryan 2012 , Election 2012 , Evangelicals , Gay Adoption , Gay Voices , Marriage Equality , Massachusetts …
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Noah Bierman / The Boston Globe:
Senate race in dead heat, new Globe poll shows — A new Boston Globe poll shows the race between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren in a dead heat, with ample opportunity for both candidates to win the nation's most expensive Senate race eight days from now.
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Adam Frank / NPR:
Frankenstorm: Has Climate Change Created A Monster? — It was not a good year for people, weather and climate. The winter was strangely warm in many places and the summer ridiculously hot. As a large fraction of the country suffered through extreme or even extraordinary drought …
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Presidential Race Dead Even; Romney Maintains Turnout Edge — Obama 47%-Romney 47% — OVERVIEW — As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Barack Obama has failed to regain much of the support he lost in the days following the first presidential debate and the race …
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Taylor Marsh, The Other McCain, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Voted least popular? — Obama could win in a split vote. But to the GOP, any Democratic victory is illegitimate, whatever the details are — We all remember that George W. Bush became president 12 years ago despite receiving 543,816 fewer votes than Al Gore.
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Crooks and Liars and No More Mister Nice Blog
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Romney to Business Crowd: Obama Sees You As an “Evil” — The GOP candidate—and his wife—are caught on tape at a private fundraiser dismissing the president as not a “grown-up” and an arch foe of commerce. — Ever since I revealed Mitt Romney's 47 percent rant, tips and tapes have come through the transom—including this and this.
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama floats plan for a ‘secretary of Business’ if he wins second term — President Obama says he would like to establish a “secretary of Business” if he wins a second term. — In an interview with MSNBC, the president said he wants to consolidate a number of business and trade-related agencies …
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John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
The Track Record of Pre-Election Polls (in 2 Graphs) — How trustworthy are this year's presidential polls? On Monday, November 5, will they be able to tell us who is likely to win the election? We'll know soon enough, but in the meantime the historical record provides some important context.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Clinton: Obama's Feelings Most Hurt Over Jeep Ad — Bill Clinton revealed at a campaign rally today that President Barack Obama's feeling were hurt over Mitt Romney's ad suggesting Jeep might move some of its production facilities overseas: — “I saw the reports of Governor Romney's latest ad saying …
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