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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Why Exactly Is Chris Christie Subverting Mitt Romney? — Chris Christie is love-bombing President Obama — the man he labeled clueless just last week — and Maureen Dowd is asking why: … Here are three theories about Christie: — 1) The first, most benign theory: Christie, in my experience …
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BuzzFeed:
President Obama And Chris Christie Tour Storm Damage — The president and the New Jersey governor toured the absolutely devastated New Jersey seaboard from Marine One Wednesday. — President Obama and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate step off Airforce One and meet with Governor Christie.
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Chris Christie aide denies rift with Mitt Romney
Chris Christie aide denies rift with Mitt Romney
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CNN, The Daily Caller, The Hill and American Power
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The ‘I’ of the Storm — The dramatic homestretch ad …
The ‘I’ of the Storm — The dramatic homestretch ad …
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, Telegraph, Prairie Weather, The Stranger … and Washington Wire
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Opinion: Here comes the landslide — Voters have figured out that President Obama has no message, no agenda and not even much of an explanation for what he has done over the past four years. His campaign is based entirely on persuading people that Mitt Romney is a uniquely bad man …
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Balloon Juice, Liberal Values, Taylor Marsh, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos and The Hinterland Gazette
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Through the Looking Glass — I know, I know: everybody knows Dick Morris is a lying, spin-mad hack, so why would I pay any attention to what he's saying? Here's why: everybody does not know (or more likely, care) that Morris is full of it, which is why he has a column in a respectable publication …
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The Moderate Voice
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 50-45 in Ohio
Obama leads 50-45 in Ohio
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New York Times, Politico and PoliticusUSA
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up ... We're down to the final week of the election, where we'd normally expect to see pollsters fine-tuning their samples in order to get the most predictive survey results ahead of the election. It's refreshing, therefore …
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The Other McCain, New York Times, The Fix, The Greenroom, NewsBusters.org blogs, Da Tech Guy's Blog and GayPatriot
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Roanoke College:
Roanoke College Poll:Late deciders push Romney to narrow lead over Obama in Va.; Allen overtakes Kaine …
Roanoke College Poll:Late deciders push Romney to narrow lead over Obama in Va.; Allen overtakes Kaine …
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CBS News, Hot Air, AEIdeas, Weekly Standard, LifeNews.com and Power Line
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Obama leads Romney in Wisconsin in new Marquette poll
Obama leads Romney in Wisconsin in new Marquette poll
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Marquette Law School Poll, BobKrumm.com and Outside the Beltway
David Weigel / Slate:
Quinnipiac: Obama Leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania Is Obama's
Quinnipiac: Obama Leads in Ohio, Pennsylvania Is Obama's
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CNN, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and GOP 12
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll: Obama up 5 points in Ohio, holds narrower leads in Virginia, Florida
Poll: Obama up 5 points in Ohio, holds narrower leads in Virginia, Florida
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Reuters, New York Times and Prairie Weather
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden: “Are You Indian?” Man: “American!” — Awkward exchange on the campaign trail in Florida. — Image by The Oshkosh Northwestern, Joe Sienkiewicz / AP — Vice President Joe Biden had an awkward exchange at an stop at a restaurant in Sarasota, Fla. today.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden already thinking about 2016 — Election Day isn't for another six days, but Vice President Biden is already thinking about 2016. — Appearing at an eatery in Florida on Wednesday, Biden was chatting by phone with a Republican voter when the vice president half-jokingly …
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Politico, Taegan Goddard's … and The Maddow Blog
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: 'I'm Going to Give You the Whole Load Today'
Biden: 'I'm Going to Give You the Whole Load Today'
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The Gateway Pundit and Michelle Malkin
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Joe Biden: Transgender Discrimination Is ‘The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time’
Joe Biden: Transgender Discrimination Is ‘The Civil Rights Issue Of Our Time’
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AMERICAblog and NewsBusters.org blogs
BuzzFeed:
The Making Of Romney's Storm Relief Event — A scramble to depoliticize a political campaign, and $5,000 in supplies from Wal-Mart. “Just grab something.” — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters — DAYTON, Ohio — The last-minute decision by Romney high command Monday to suspend politics …
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Romney Campaign Staged Donations At Storm Relief Event — As the East Coast and parts of Ohio struggled to regroup in the devastating wake of “Superstorm” Sandy, the Romney campaign hastily transformed a scheduled victory rally in Dayton, Ohio into a non-political “storm relief event” on Tuesday.
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Hullabaloo and Salon
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 30: What State Polls Suggest About the National Popular Vote — Mitt Romney and President Obama remain roughly tied in national polls, while state polls are suggestive of a lead for Mr. Obama in the Electoral College. Most people take this to mean that there is a fairly good chance …
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
What's Behind the State-National Poll Divergence? — The Hurricane Sandy-related lull in tracking polls gives us a good opportunity to look at one of the more interesting aspects of polling to develop this month: the divergence between national and state polls.
Steve Friess / Politico:
Anti-Obama texts traced to conservative activist — The spate of unsolicited anti-Obama text messages that have hit hundreds of cellphones in recent days appears to be the work of conservative activist Jason Flanary and his Virginia-based communications firm, ccAdvertising.
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theGrio, Mediaite and The Hinterland Gazette
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
GoDaddy suspends GOP ad firm's websites for anti-Obama texts
GoDaddy suspends GOP ad firm's websites for anti-Obama texts
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The Atlantic Online, The Political Carnival, Mother Jones, msnbc.com and BuzzFeed
Christopher Robbins / Gothamist:
Outrage In The Powerless Zone: A Dispatch From Downtown Manhattan — Mayor Bloomberg said last night that we've come to “the end of the downside” of Hurricane Sandy—hey, if you can spare $150 and a cab ride, you can join him at the very first Brooklyn Nets game tomorrow.
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New York Times, FT Alphaville, New York Magazine, Towleroad News #gay, Joe. My. God. and The Daily Dish
Mark Memmott / NPR:
Dear Little Girl: Sorry We Made You Cry About ‘Bronco Bamma’ And Mitt Romney … Oh my goodness, do we feel bad now: — “A 4-year-old Fort Collins girl expressed her frustration over the seemingly never-ending presidential campaign,” Denver's 9News reports.
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Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Poynter, JOSHUAPUNDIT, AMERICAblog, Mashable!, Influence Alley and The Latest Word
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Camp: Pay No Attention To The Auto Companies Calling Us Liars — Two auto companies made a surprise foray into the presidential campaign on Tuesday, bluntly calling out Mitt Romney for his deceptive Ohio ads that suggest they plan to ship local jobs to China.
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Little Green Footballs, emptywheel, The Maddow Blog and Washington Post
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Gingrich: Senator told me networks may have White House emails commanding counterterrorism group to stand down on Benghazi rescue — On Tuesday night's “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on the Fox News Channel, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that major news networks might …
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CNSNews, Hot Air, Nice Deb, The Powers That Be, protein wisdom, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
1 week, 2 versions of reality — As if Hurricane Sandy weren't doing enough to muddle the presidential race a week before the election, the two campaigns now seem to be embracing two sharply different versions of political reality. — The Mitt Romney narrative: The electoral map is expanding and we are on the march.
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Iowa warns international observers of arrest — Iowa has joined Texas in warning international election observers of possible criminal prosecution if they violate state laws and get near polling places on Election Day. — Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz — like Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott …
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Taking Note and FP Passport
Wonkblog:
INTERACTIVE: Make Mitt Romney's tax plan add up! — The two parties may not agree on much, but they do agree on this: It's time to reform the tax code. — The last time the tax code got a deep clean was 1986. Since then, it has been clogged up with deductions, credits and loopholes …
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The Atlantic Online and Economix
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The tea party gets a news site — Tea Party conservatives are getting their very own news site. — The Tea Party News Network, self-described as “the only trusted news source and the antidote to mainstream media bias,” is already live but will announce its launch tomorrow morning, with plans to start live video on election day.
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Romney's Window In Ohio Is Closing — Since early August, Obama's modest but consistent lead in Ohio seemed to defy history, partisanship, and demographics. The Buckeye State has voted more Republican than the country in all but a handful of presidential elections and Democratic chances hinge …
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Outside the Beltway
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Messina gives up on Arizona — Obama strategists have suggested on and off this cycle — and earlier — that the president could make a play to compete in Arizona, a traditionally conservative-leaning state that has become more competitive thanks to a growing Latino population.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He's a Delusional One-Percenter — Every election is a choice between imperfect alternatives. I will examine both choices in turn, but the first one, Mitt Romney, has rendered the normal analytic tools useless. The different iterations of his career differ so wildly …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Daily Dish
Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
2012 Election Spending Will Reach $6 Billion, Center for Responsive Politics Predicts — The 2012 election will not only be the most expensive election in U.S. history, the cost will tower over the next most expensive election by more than $700 million. — Earlier this year …
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