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9:35 PM ET, October 31, 2012

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Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
After Brutal Polling Day, Romney Team Reassures That They'll Win  —  Mitt Romney's top staff offered reporters an endless number of reasons they're going to beat President Obama on a conference call Wednesday.  Not included on their list of Romney advantages: a clear lead in the polls.
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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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in OH, FL, VA show Obama up ...
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Romney's Window In Ohio Is Closing
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Obama leads Romney in Wisconsin in new Marquette poll
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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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 …
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Poll: Obama up by 8 in Wisconsin
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 50-45 in Ohio
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 a stop at a restaurant in Sarasota, Fla. today.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
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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 …
CNN:
TRENDING: Biden: 'You'll vote for me in 2016'
Discussion: Mediaite and Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: 'I'm Going to Give You the Whole Load Today'
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:
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
Discussion: AMERICAblog, Hullabaloo and Salon
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Storm Response Earns Obama Praise Amid the Election's Deadlock Drama  —  President Barack Obama, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, second from left, and others, speaks about superstorm Sandy during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters in Washington, Oct. 31, 2012.
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Washington Post:
Storm provides Obama with a commander-in-chief moment
BuzzFeed:
Gay Rights Group Files Complaint Over Tuesday's Text Messages  —  “It's unacceptable to launch these types of despicable attacks from dark corners,” a Human Rights Campaign spokesman said about the Federal Communications Commission complaint filing.  —  Via: @cyrsucker
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Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Steve King: Hurricane Sandy Aid Must Have Strings Attached To Avoid Waste On ‘Gucci Bags’ … FOLLOW:  —  Steve King, Elections 2012, Natural Disasters, Steve King, Video, Christie Vilsack, Christie Vilsack 2012, Disaster Relief, Hurricane Sandy 2012, Hurricane Sandy 2012, Iowa 2012 …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case for Obama: Why He Is a Great President.  Yes, Great.  —  I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary, around spring of 2007.  But unlike so many of his supporters, I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy.
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Dish
Diane Glidewell / mymcr.net:
Civil rights icons pump Obama in Forsyth  —  Lowery: Don't think whites going to heaven  —  UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAYOR'S COMMENTS: 5 p.m.  —  Two icons of the civil rights movement visited Forsyth on Saturday to campaign for the reelection of Barack Obama.
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James Richardson / Georgia Tipsheet:
Lowery: all whites are going to hell
Discussion: The Daily Caller and GayPatriot
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn't withstand ‘coordinated attack’  —  The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Facebook admits error in censoring anti-Obama message  —  Larry Ward will concede that he “poked the bear.”  As president of the D.C.-based Political Media Inc., Ward administers the Facebook page of a group called Special Operations Speaks (SOS), an anti-Obama group consisting of “veterans …
Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
Benghazi Coverup Much Worse Than “Third-rate Burglary”  —  The ride on the Obama bus gets bumpier as more bodies are thrown under it.  —  The latest to go thumpity thump are journalists who trumpeted the administration's excuse that faulty intelligence is why the president said for so long …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Free Beacon
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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.
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Emails show Obama admin used DOE loan money to help Harry Reid's 2010 campaign … President Obama claims that political considerations did not influence the Energy Department's green energy loan program, but newly-released internal emails show that his administration subsidized Nevada companies …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
In Deadlocked Race, Neither Side Has Ground Game Advantage  —  Early Voting Also Tied  —  OVERVIEW  —  Just as the presidential race is deadlocked in the campaign's final days, the candidates are also running about even when it comes to the ground game.  Voters nationally …
Discussion: Power Line, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
 
 
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Dave Levinthal / Politico:
Super PAC funds voter fraud app
Elizabeth Flock / US News:
Ohio High School Students Told To Remove Rainbow T-Shirts Supporting Gay Rights
Discussion: The Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
2012 Election Spending Will Reach $6 Billion, Center for Responsive Politics Predicts
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Dish and The Caucus
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Anger Aside, Voters Favor D.C. Status Quo
Discussion: Daily Kos, BobKrumm.com and msnbc.com
Addiestan / AlterNet:
Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take ‘Civics Course’ With Anti-Obama Content
Discussion: American Prospect and Hullabaloo
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
Iowa warns international observers of arrest
Rush Limbaugh:
Why the Media Shelters Obama
Discussion: Politico
Wonkblog:
INTERACTIVE: Make Mitt Romney's tax plan add up!
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Economix
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He's a Delusional One-Percenter
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Messina gives up on Arizona
New York Times:
For Years, Warnings That It Could Happen Here
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
1 week, 2 versions of reality
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