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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
GOP strategist: Romney is right, close FEMA, nobody cares about it — As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast, GOP strategist Ron Bonjean just said on CNN that Mitt Romney is right, FEMA should be closed. … As background, we'd reported last night that there's video of Romney during …
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Annie Colbert / Mashable!:
7 Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos You're Sharing on Social Media — Fake Hurricane Sandy photos flew around Twitter and Facebook on Monday, as users shared jaw-dropping images. Unfortunately, the race to post the most striking pics has most folks skipping the all-important fact check.
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Gawker, AllThingsD, Babalú Blog and The Atlantic Online
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
Soldiers Guard the Tomb of Unknowns During Hurricane Sandy — A photo of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from September that went viral on the Internet today, as Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. (Karin Markert/OldGuard/Facebook) — An inspirational picture making …
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Power Line and Outside the Beltway
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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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Team Mitt: He wouldn't cut FEMA
Team Mitt: He wouldn't cut FEMA
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Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com:
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
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Wonkblog, AMERICAblog, CNN, American Prospect, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, Althouse, nation.foxnews.com, The Monkey Cage and The Daily Dish
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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Samuel Popkin / American Prospect:
Nate Silver, Artist of Uncertainty
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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The Raw Story
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
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Politico, Pat Dollard, Hot Air and Vodkapundit
Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
Mitt Romney Has Been Telling A Huge Whopper About The Auto Industry, And His Campaign Is Finally Paying For It — Mitt Romney is facing intense pushback today over a new Ohio campaign ad that appears to suggest — falsely — that Chrysler is moving U.S. jobs to China.
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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
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney and Ryan announce ‘storm relief’ efforts for Tuesday — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan scheduled “storm relief” events Tuesday after previously canceling planned campaign rallies. — Romney will attend an event in Kettering, Ohio …
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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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Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
EXODUS: INNER CITY BLACKS FLEEING OBAMA, DEMOCRATS — After his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country's history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of President of the United States.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Bookworm Room
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Ann Romney: We Need To ‘Throw Out’ The Public Education System — Ann Romney told Good Housekeeping magazine that the campaign issue closest to her heart is taking on teachers unions and dismantling public education as we know it. In an interview, she told the publication:
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Addicting Info and Balloon Juice
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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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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Wonkblog
Laura / Democracy Corps:
Cell phones: why we think Obama will win the popular vote, too — We will poll this week - awaiting the unfolding storm on the East Coast - but we want to share why we think the national tracking averages likely underrepresent Obama's vote. The main issue is cell phones and the changing America that most are under-representing.
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Mother Jones and The Reaction
Jessica McWilliams / CBS Philly:
Sandy Makes Landfall At The Jersey Shore — PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Sandy made landfall along the coast of South Jersey on Monday evening at about 6 p.m. with 90 MPH winds. — “This storm is HISTORIC,” said CBS 3 meteorologist Katie Fehlinger on her Twitter page.
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Jammie Wearing Fools and Pat Dollard
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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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The Other McCain, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, 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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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Report: Fast and Furious a product of DOJ ‘deliberate strategy’ laid out by Eric Holder, other senior Obama officials — The latest congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious found that the gunwalking-program-turned-scandal was the result of a “deliberate strategy created …
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Weasel Zippers
James S. Robbins / Washington Times:
TRR: Is a General losing his job over Benghazi? — See also the update that General Ham is retiring from the force. — (Updated 10/29) Is an American General losing his job for trying to save the Americans besieged in Benghazi? This is the latest potential wrinkle in the growing scandal surrounding …
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The Other McCain, Clayton Cramer's Blog, The Captain's Journal and The Gateway Pundit
Angie / MoveOn.Org:
A Moving Message About The Election From A 97 Year Old And Her Friends — Michael Moore helped us produce this moving, inspirational message from the greatest generation. — P.S. This isn't safe for work. Not by a lonnnng shot. WATCH: … This entry was posted in 2012 Elections …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and Hullabaloo