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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …