memeorandum: Report: Fast and Furious a product of DOJ ‘deliberate strategy’ laid out by Eric Holder, other senior Obama officials (Matthew Boyle/The Daily Caller)

11:15 PM ET, October 29, 2012

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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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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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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Team Mitt: He wouldn't cut FEMA

Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com:
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy

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Joe Morgan / Gay Star News:
Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain

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Annie Colbert / Mashable!:
7 Fake Hurricane Sandy Photos You're Sharing on Social Media

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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead

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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney campaign bus to deliver supplies to storm-relief centers

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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
How Romney And Ryan Would Severely Impair Disaster Relief Efforts

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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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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.

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

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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 …

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Keith Laing / Ballot Box:
New Obama ad fires back at Romney over Jeep claims

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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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Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
Soldiers Guard the Tomb of Unknowns During Hurricane Sandy

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Rush Limbaugh:
Weather Gods Interfere in the Campaign — and the Left Prays the Storm Helps Obama

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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 51-47 in Ohio

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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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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Video Surfaces Of Romney Defending Birth Certificate Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples

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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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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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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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Politico:
4 possible freak election outcomes

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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

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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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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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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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