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5:55 PM ET, October 29, 2012

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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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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 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain  —  I'm not sure whether I render the greater disservice by contemplating the political effects of a natural disaster — or by ignoring the increasingly brisk winds whipping outside my apartment in Brooklyn.
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Romney 50% - Obama 49% in Florida
Discussion: LifeNews.com and Orlando Sentinel
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Romney campaign aids Sandy relief effort
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.
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
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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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 …
Wonkblog:
FEMA loses nearly $900 million if sequester cuts hit
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Download
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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Samuel Popkin / American Prospect:
Nate Silver, Artist of Uncertainty  —  We're heading into the last week of a tight presidential campaign, and polls are coming in too fast to count.  Partisans everywhere are desperate for omens.  But at moments like these, it's people who care most intensely that the “right outcome” …
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
Discussion: Feministing
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney campaign bus to deliver supplies to storm-relief centers
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
Discussion: Politico and The Raw Story
BuzzFeed:
Romney Camp Defends Auto Bailout Ad
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
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Brown drops out of Mass. Senate debate, citing storm
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and The Hill
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.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Ann Romney: America needs a ‘grown-up’ who understands the economy
Discussion: Ballot Box
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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Rush Limbaugh:
Weather Gods Interfere in the Campaign — and the Left Prays the Storm Helps Obama
Discussion: Politico
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How Much Will Hurricane Sandy Cost the U.S. Economy?
Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Wonkblog and Metropolis
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 …
Skschust / CBS New York:
Top Of Tower Crane Dangles 75 Stories Up On 57th Street  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Emergency crews are at a high-rise under construction in Midtown where a crane has collapsed.  —  The call came in around 2:30 p.m. Monday at the building on West 57th Street.
Discussion: Associated Press, WTVR-TV and Gothamist
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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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Reaches Out To Republican Governors
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