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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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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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Gawker, AllThingsD, The Atlantic Online and Babalú Blog


Soldiers Guard the Tomb of Unknowns During Hurricane Sandy — A photo of soldiers guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from September that went viral on the Internet today, as Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. (Karin Markert/OldGuard/Facebook) — An inspirational picture making …
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Power Line and Outside the Beltway


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 …


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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Wonkblog, AMERICAblog, Washington Monthly, Dot Earth, Weasel Zippers, FP Passport, Cagle Post, PlanetSave and Instapundit


Gallup Polling During Hurricane Sandy
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Business Insider, CNN and The Daily Caller

Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain
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AMERICAblog, Wonkblog, The Moderate Voice, American Prospect, The Hill, CNN, Althouse, The Daily Dish, nation.foxnews.com and The Monkey Cage

Obama Camp Asks People To Do Election Phone Banks While Hurricane Sandy Hits
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Townhall.com and Weasel Zippers

Romney now flip-flopping on abolishing FEMA
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hullabaloo, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Daily Kos

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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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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Daily Kos, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, GOP 12, Lawyers, Guns & Money, BuzzFeed and Paul Krugman, more at Mediagazer »


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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ABCNEWS, The Political Carnival, Towleroad News #gay and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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.
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Daily Kos and Zandar Versus The Stupid

New Obama ad fires back at Romney over Jeep claims
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Politico and The Raw Story

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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GOP Senator Alleges Obama May Delay Friday's Jobs Numbers To Boost Re-election Prospects
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The Raw Story

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 …
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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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Bookworm Room


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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The National Memo, Mother Jones and The Reaction


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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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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Addicting Info and Balloon Juice


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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A Moving Message About The Election From A 97 Year Old And Her Friends — Michael Moore helped us produce this moving, inspirational message from the greatest generation. — P.S. This isn't safe for work. Not by a lonnnng shot. WATCH: … This entry was posted in 2012 Elections …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and Hullabaloo


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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Wonkblog


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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Crooks and Liars and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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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The Other McCain, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo and Politico


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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Superstorm Sandy blamed for at least 11 U.S. deaths as it slams East Coast
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