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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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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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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead
Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead
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Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com:
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
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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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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 …
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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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
Mitt Romney In GOP Debate: Shut Down Federal Disaster Agency, Send Responsibility To The States
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
GOP strategist: Romney is right, close FEMA, nobody cares about it
GOP strategist: Romney is right, close FEMA, nobody cares about it
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Romney Wants To Cut FEMA
Romney Wants To Cut FEMA
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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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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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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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CNN:
‘Post-tropical’ Sandy could affect 60 million
‘Post-tropical’ Sandy could affect 60 million
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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