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8:55 AM ET, October 30, 2012

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New York Times:
A Big Storm Requires Big Government  —  Most Americans have never heard of the National Response Coordination Center, but they're lucky it exists on days of lethal winds and flood tides.  The center is the war room of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where officials gather to decide …
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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 …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Romney would pass the buck on disasters
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Team Mitt: He wouldn't cut FEMA
Joe Morgan / Gay Star News:
Christian preacher blames gays for Hurricane Sandy
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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Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS:
Soldiers Guard the Tomb of Unknowns During Hurricane Sandy
Discussion: Power Line and Outside the Beltway
Lymari Morales / Gallup.Com:
Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In U.S., 15% of Registered Voters Have Already Cast Ballots  —  Early voting highest in the West and among seniors; similar by party ID  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Fifteen percent of registered voters nationwide have already cast their ballots in this year's election, according to Gallup Daily tracking for the week ending Oct. 28.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
GALLUP SHOCK: ROMNEY UP 52-45% AMONG EARLY VOTERS  —  Very early on, before this campaign started in earnest, live or die, I publicly cast my lot with Gallup and Rasmussen.  As a poll addict going back to 2000, these are the outlets that have always played it straight.
Discussion: Poor Richard's News
Chicago Tribune:
At least 16 deaths, 7.5 million without power in Superstorm Sandy's wake  —  Much of New York was plunged into darkness Monday by a superstorm that overflowed the city's historic waterfront, flooded the financial district and subway tunnels and cut power to hundreds of thousands of people.
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Brad Plumer / Wonkblog:
Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change  —  Every time a major natural disaster barrels along, people want to know whether it has anything to do with global warming.  Is climate change causing this storm?  That drought?  Will we see more disasters like it if the planet keeps warming?
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.
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 …
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Forstall Refused to Apologize  —  Apple Inc. executive Scott Forstall was asked to leave the company after he refused to sign his name to a letter apologizing for shortcomings in Apple's new mapping service, according to people familiar with the matter.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Congresswoman Accuses Obama Of ‘Harming’ Auto Company That Went Defunct In 1988  —  A Republican congresswoman accused the Obama administration of promulgating regulations that are undermining job creation at an auto manufacturer that has been defunct since 1988.
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
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Video Surfaces Of Romney Defending Birth Certificate Discrimination Against Same-Sex Couples  —  Last week, news surfaced that as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney refused to issue birth certificate forms inclusive of same-sex couples after marriage equality became law.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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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.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Eric Morath / Real Time Economics:
Labor Department ‘Working Hard’ to Ensure Jobs Report Released on Time
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
Discussion: Addicting Info and CNN
 
 
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Tries to Coordinate Anti-Militant Push in Mali
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:
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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Obama on ‘Flexibility’ with Putin: 'It's Hard to Negotiate Additional Treaties When I'm Off Campaigning'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
James S. Robbins / Washington Times:
TRR: Is a General losing his job over Benghazi?
Jessica McWilliams / CBS Philly:
Sandy Makes Landfall At The Jersey Shore
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Sen. McCaskill's mother dies
Discussion: Associated Press, CNN and Politico
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Ann Romney: We Need To ‘Throw Out’ The Public Education System
Discussion: Addicting Info
 Earlier Items: 
BuzzFeed:
Romney Endorses Candidate Who's Had His Own 47% Moment
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
The Track Record of Pre-Election Polls (in 2 Graphs)
Discussion: Wonkblog
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Clinton: Obama's Feelings Most Hurt Over Jeep Ad
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and Hot Air
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Same-Sex Couples' Supreme Court Fate Set For Nov. 20
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Skschust / CBS New York:
Top Of Crane Dangles From Luxury High Rise 75 Stories Above 57th Street
Discussion: Gothamist and Associated Press
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Presidential Race Dead Even; Romney Maintains Turnout Edge
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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