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10:35 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 ...
Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
What's Behind the State-National Poll Divergence?
Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Romney's Window In Ohio Is Closing
Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Obama leads Romney in Wisconsin in new Marquette poll
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Poll: Obama up by 8 in Wisconsin
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Chris Christie aide denies rift with Mitt Romney
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 …
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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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.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden already thinking about 2016
CNN:
TRENDING: Biden: 'You'll vote for me in 2016'
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
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: Hullabaloo, AMERICAblog and Salon
James Richardson / Georgia Tipsheet:
Lowery: all whites are going to hell  —  The man who delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration said that he believes, as he once did in his “militant” youth, that all whites are hell-bound.  —  The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a patriarch of the civil rights movement …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and GayPatriot
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Diane Glidewell / mymcr.net:
Civil rights icons pump Obama in Forsyth
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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Jilian Fama / ABCNEWS:
Little Girl Cries Over ‘Bronco Bamma’
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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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 …
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: The Daily Dish and Mother Jones
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 …
Americans for Tax Reform RSS:
IRS Tax Form for Obamacare Individual Mandate  —  Our projected IRS form assists 140 million Americans in their obligation to disclose personal identifying health information and calculate the IRS tax penalty.  —  As a service to the public, Americans for Tax Reform has released …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Washington Examiner
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 …
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 and Hot Air
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Economix
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.
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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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Race for the White House a dead heat
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Super PAC funds voter fraud app
Elizabeth Flock / US News:
Ohio High School Students Told To Remove Rainbow T-Shirts Supporting Gay Rights
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Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
Benghazi Coverup Much Worse Than “Third-rate Burglary”
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Free Beacon
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
GOP super-PAC flips to support Akin
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Ballot Box and Politico
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Communications / OpenSecrets.org:
2012 Election Spending Will Reach $6 Billion, Center for Responsive Politics Predicts
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Dish and The Caucus
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
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Messina gives up on Arizona
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