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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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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
New Projection: Romney 52, Obama 47 — The bipartisan Battleground Poll, in its “vote election model,” is projecting that Mitt Romney will defeat President Obama 52 percent to 47 percent. The poll also found that Romney has an even greater advantage among middle class voters, 52 percent to 45 percent.
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Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Romney holds slim lead on Obama in latest national tracking poll
Romney holds slim lead on Obama in latest national tracking poll
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Hurricane Sandy: 5 political questions — The presidential campaigns are publicly hitting pause on East Coast electioneering as Hurricane Sandy spirals toward Atlantic beaches, but privately political professionals are starting to assess important questions about how it might affect next week's elections up and down the ballot.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Political Memo: Hurricane, and Other Worries, Buffet Presidential Race — WASHINGTON — In the dark of night, when they get what little sleep they get these days, the people running the campaigns for president have more than enough fodder for nightmares. Worse, come daybreak, they realize their worst fears may yet come true.
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Hurricane Sandy: 5 political questions — “The president will be in the thick of it — which is when he's at his best,” the Democratic source said. “There is no way for Romney to replicate that.” — Romney's answer: His campaign bus in Virginia was loaded up with relief supplies on Sunday …
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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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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney in 2011: ‘We Cannot Afford’ Federal Disaster Relief
Mitt Romney in 2011: ‘We Cannot Afford’ Federal Disaster Relief
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Candy Crowley / CNN:
Sandy introduces big unknown into campaign
Sandy introduces big unknown into campaign
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USA Today:
Column: Romney wrong to use “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts” — Romney may have co-opted the show's motto, but the women of “Friday Night Lights” know we need Obama. — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — 2:09PM EDT October 28. 2012 - “Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose,” was the battle cry …
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Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
Bill Clinton sneaks in before storm to boost Murphy — Waterbury — On the eve of a hurricane-induced break in the political season, Bill Clinton gave Democrats a 30-minute pep talk Sunday, framing U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy's race for U.S. Senate as an election of national interest.
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Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations — In 1997, Congress cracked down on a popular tax shelter that allowed rich people to take advantage of the exempt status of charities without actually giving away much money. — Individuals who had already set up these vehicles were allowed to keep them.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Election 2012
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Medicaid on the Ballot — There's a lot we don't know about what Mitt Romney would do if he won. He refuses to say which tax loopholes he would close to make up for $5 trillion in tax cuts; his economic “plan” is an empty shell. — But one thing is clear: If he wins, Medicaid …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama's independent problem — President Obama has a problem with independents. And it's not a small problem. — In the last three releases of the tracking poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News, Obama has trailed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney among independent voters by between 16 and 20 percentage points.
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Early briefings on Libya strike focused on Al Qaeda, before story changed — Two days after the Libya terror attack, representatives of the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center gave Capitol Hill briefings in which they said the evidence supported an Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda-affiliated attack, Fox News has learned.
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Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Suggests ‘Secretary of Business’ in a 2nd Term — President Barack Obama signaled if he wins a second term he would appoint a Secretary of Business to oversee newly-consolidated government agencies, including the Small Business Administration, and predicted “a war” …
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
In Morning Joe Interview, Obama Talks Libya And Ideas ‘I Stole From A Massachusetts Governor’ — As mentioned earlier, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spoke with President Barack Obama during a New Hampshire campaign stop in a segment aired early Monday morning.
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Bookworm Room:
The Obama Curse strikes again: Detroit Tigers lose the world series — Not only did the Detroit Tigers lose the world series, they lost spectacularly, with the Giants winning in a solid four game streak. I predicted this outcome a few days ago, not because I know anything about baseball …
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The Lonely Conservative and Israel Matzav
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants four cases, seeks government views — The Supreme Court, fully at work while most of the rest of official Washington takes a weather day off, agreed on Monday to hear four new cases, including a plea to give convicted individuals a new chance to claim that their defense lawyers in state court failed to perform adequately.
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Releases Auto Ad That Misleads On Facts … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Auto Bailout , Elections 2012, Video, Romney Ad, Chrysler China, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Ads, Mitt Romney Auto, Mitt Romney Auto Ad, Mitt Romney Auto Bailout, Mitt Romney China …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Broken promises — O has dashed lefties' hopes — As the 2012 presidential campaign winds to a close — it's mostly about Big Bird and binders, apparently — it's hard to recall the heady days of 2008. But thinking back, things have really gone downhill.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Obama says ‘first order of business’ in second term would be deficit — President Obama in a second interview has highlighted deficit reduction and immigration reform as issues he'd tackle in a second term. — In an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brezezinski and Joe Scarborough, Obama said the …
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
Girls of 13 given birth control jab at school without parents' knowledge — Schoolgirls as young as 13 are being given contraceptive injections and implants during lunch-breaks without their parents' knowledge. — Vaginal Ring, Intra Uterine Device, Contraceptive Implant and Pills
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Twitter Users Who Threatened Romney's Life Remain Active — More than a dozen Twitter accounts that were used as a medium to publically threaten Republican candidate Mitt Romney's life after the second presidential debate remain active, nearly two weeks later.