A Vote for a President to Lead on Climate Change  —  The devastation that Hurricane Sandy brought to New York City and much of the Northeast — in lost lives, lost homes and lost business — brought the stakes of Tuesday's presidential election into sharp relief.

Oct. 31: Obama's Electoral College ‘Firewall’ Holding in Polls  —  On Oct. 11, this blog posed the question of whether President Obama's “firewall” in battleground states was all that it was cracked up to be.  —  At that point, Mr. Obama still technically held the lead in the FiveThirtyEight forecast …

A Play for Pa.  —  Exclusive: Romney's heading to Pennsylvania as GOP drops millions on ads  —  Mitt Romney is set to make a last-minute campaign stop on Sunday in Pennsylvania, The Daily has learned.  —  Details are still being determined and with scheduling for the final days …

CNN Poll: Tight race in Rocky Mountain battleground  —  (CNN) - Hours before President Barack Obama campaigns in Boulder, Colorado, a new survey indicates a very close contest between the president and Republican nominee Mitt Romney for the Centennial State's nine electoral votes.

Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.  —  In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic.

D.C. paparazzi fear a Mitt Romney win  —  People may have differing opinions on President Barack Obama's handling of such things as the economy, health care and foreign policy, but on one issue, the consensus is clear: He's ushered in an unparalleled wave of celebrity visits to D.C. …

‘Troubling’ Surveillance Before Benghazi Attack  —  Sensitive documents found amid the wreckage of the U.S. consulate shine new light on the Sept. 11 assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.  —  BENGHAZI, Libya — More than six weeks after the shocking assault …

Withdrawal of a Congressional Research Report on Tax Rates Raises Questions  —  WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of conservative economy theory …

Show Me Your Model  —  It might be easy to believe we're approaching Peak Trutherism, what with good old-fashioned birthers now being supplemented by BLS truthers and poll truthers.  But just you wait—should Barack Obama win this election, we'll see an explosion of election trutherism that will be truly unprecedented in scope.

Can Kerrey Republicans lift him to win?  —  You've heard of Reagan Democrats.  But what about Bob Kerrey Republicans?  And are there enough to push the maverick Democrat over the finish line in a GOP-dominated Nebraska?  —  That's the question raised by what's become the moderates' mutiny …

Obama's campaign goes empty and strident  —  “It is a great advantage to a president, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.”  —  Energetic in body but indolent in mind, Barack Obama in his frenetic campaigning for a second term is promising …

Does Fox News Know What Media Bias Is?  —  If there's one drum the right wing likes to bang it's the one about the “liberal media”, which, by law, must appear in every right-wing editorial or come out of the mouths of every Fox News and radio show pundit at least four times a day or Rupert Murdoch strips …

Gay Left-Wing Radio Host Advises Gay Romney Supporter to Commit Suicide, Says He Should Not Be Allowed to Vote  —  Our reader Tim in MT shared this video with us that he had made after catching Michelangelo Signorile on SiriusXM radio yesterday.  —  The left-wing radio talker, twice in the segment …

Late Super PAC Ad Buy Urges African Americans In Ohio To Vote Republican Because Lincoln Freed The Slaves  —  In the final days of the campaign in Ohio, the stops have been pulled out in the scramble to eke out a win.  And that means one super PAC calling on African Americans to vote …

Our Next Long National Nightmare: A North Dakota Recount  —  The election recount room for the Senate race between Al Franken and Norm Coleman at the Ramsey County election office on November 19, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota.  —  Let's move on from last week's vogue of electoral-college deadlock scenarios …

I. In Focus This Week  —  Election 2012: What to watch  —  Voter ID, Sandy, elections observers on this year's watch list  —  By This email address is being protected from spambots.  You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  —  With Election 2012 just five days away …