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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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American Power, Real Clear Politics, msnbc.com, Institute for Policy …, The Strata-Sphere and The Glittering Eye
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Nate Cohn / The New Republic:
Romney's Window In Ohio Is Closing
Romney's Window In Ohio Is Closing
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Slate, Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway
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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ABCNEWS, New York Magazine, CT Politics and Ballot Box
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The Fix:
WaPo-ABC tracking poll: High marks for President Obama on Hurricane Sandy response — President Obama gets sky-high marks for his response to Hurricane Sandy, which cut a brutal path along the country's East Coast on Monday, according to the latest release of the Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Race for the White House a dead heat
Fox News poll: Race for the White House a dead heat
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Examiner and The PJ Tatler
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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Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers and The Hinterland Gazette
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Obama's inauguration reverend: All whites are going to hell
Obama's inauguration reverend: All whites are going to hell
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EBL and Riehl World News
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Pastor who prayed at Obama's inauguration says all white people will go to hell
Pastor who prayed at Obama's inauguration says all white people will go to hell
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Blazing Cat Fur
James Richardson / Georgia Tipsheet:
Lowery: all whites are going to hell
Lowery: all whites are going to hell
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The Daily Caller and GayPatriot
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Sifting the Numbers for a Winner — A crucial element: the mix of Democrats and Republicans who show up this election. — It comes down to numbers. And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney. — He maintains a small but persistent polling edge.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He's a Delusional One-Percenter
The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He's a Delusional One-Percenter
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly
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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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Chris Christie aide denies rift with Mitt Romney
Chris Christie aide denies rift with Mitt Romney
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Power Line, BuzzFeed, The Reaction, The Atlantic Online, The Democratic Daily, CNN and The Daily Caller
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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Ballot Box, Politico, Red Alert Politics, Scared Monkeys, CNN, Weekly Standard, Mediaite, The Maddow Blog and Taegan Goddard's …
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BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden: “Are You Indian?” Man: “American!”
Joe Biden: “Are You Indian?” Man: “American!”
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BuzzFeed, The Atlantic Wire, Michelle Malkin, NATIONAL REVIEW and The PJ Tatler
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden jokes about forgetting what state he was in
Biden jokes about forgetting what state he was in
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Weasel Zippers
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The Facebook spike — As John notes in the adjacent post, a group of former special operators have set up a Facebook page called SOS: Special Operations Speaks. SOS posted the graphic below on their Facebook page: — Facebook took the graphic down twice on the ground that it violated …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Facebook admits error in censoring anti-Obama message
Facebook admits error in censoring anti-Obama message
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Special Operations Speaks, Bookworm Room and The Jawa Report
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
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.
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The Other McCain, EBL, Nice Deb and The Right Scoop
Evan Axelbank / WPTV Newschannel 5:
Florida GOP memo: Democrats are ‘cleaning our clock’ — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A memo obtained by NewsChannel 5's Evan Axelbank, from an adviser to a Florida GOP campaign, says that the Democratic turnout effort is “cleaning our clock.” — The memo says, “The early and absentee turnout is starting to look more troubling.”
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The Political Carnival, Crooks and Liars, Naked Politics and The Maddow Blog
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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Boston Globe, AMERICAblog, Los Angeles Times, Poynter, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Mashable! and The Latest Word
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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 …
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The Gateway Pundit, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Right Scoop, National Review Online and Atlas Shrugs
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's Libya stonewalling isn't working — President Obama is having no luck convincing voters and the media there is nothing amiss regarding his handling of the Benghazi attack. — My colleague David Ignatius is among the latest to acknowledge that there are real questions about what happened …
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AEIdeas, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
What was Obama told at the September 10, 2012, NSC meeting on ‘9/11 threats’?
What was Obama told at the September 10, 2012, NSC meeting on ‘9/11 threats’?
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Ricochet Conversations Feed, CNSNews and Israel Matzav
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
You Can't Go Home Again — Tom Friedman ventured into the wilds this week, to his home state of Minnesota: … I wish I believed he is kidding. But this wasn't just a routine visit home; Friedman was looking for insight into the national scene: … Which means that he found what he was looking for.
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
U.S. yanks support for Syrian opposition group, warns of extremist takeover of uprising — ZAGREB, Croatia — The Obama administration on Wednesday renounced the proclaimed leaders of the Syrian political opposition and said any group seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad must reject attempts …
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Weasel Zippers
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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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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Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online, The Political Carnival, msnbc.com and BuzzFeed
Shawna Shepherd / CNN:
Politics can't scare off Ryan from his appointed Halloween rounds — Janesville, Wisconsin (CNN) - Even in an election year, Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan stuck to a family trick-or-treat tradition. — On Wednesday, Mitt Romney's running mate held three rallies in his home state …
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Weekly Standard and ABCNEWS
Frank Newport / Gallup.Com:
Status Update on Gallup Election Polling Following Superstorm Sandy — Here's an update on Gallup's thinking when we suspended our national daily tracking of the presidential election campaign as of Monday, Oct. 29. Basically, we reached the conclusion that Superstorm Sandy had compromised …
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Politico and The Greenroom
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.
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Mother Jones, The Daily Dish and AEIdeas
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 …
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative and Jammie Wearing Fools
Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
A Partisan Advantage for Obama? — As I pointed out at the end of August, I see political and economic context of the election as favoring Mitt Romney, though not overwhelmingly so. In fact, I think that Romney's gains after the first debate partly reflected a dissatisfied electorate responding …
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The Monkey Cage
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.
New York Times:
New Jersey Continues to Cope With Hurricane Sandy — HOBOKEN, N.J. — National Guard troops sought on Wednesday to rescue thousands of residents still trapped by sewage-laced floodwaters in this city on the Hudson River, as local officials pleaded for volunteers to help.
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Weather Nerd