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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.
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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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Pastor who prayed at Obama's inauguration says all white people will go to hell … Obama awarded Lowery the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 / AP — Pastor Joseph Lowery, a civil rights movement hero who delivered the benediction at President Obama's inauguration …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Yeah, me too. — Question: How do you lay a guilt trip on somebody who's already damned?
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Obama's inauguration reverend: All whites are going to hell
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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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Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: Obama leads in Iowa, running neck and neck in N.H, Wis. — Less than a week before Election Day, President Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the battleground of Iowa, while the two candidates are locked in tight races …
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Marist Poll:
11/1: Obama Leads Romney in Iowa — With the clock counting down to Election Day, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden receive the support of 50% of likely voters in Iowa, including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate and those who voted absentee, to 44% for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
NEWS FLASH — BREAKING: THREE BUSH-APPOINTED JUDGES GIVE THUMBS UP TO VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN OHIO | Late last week, a federal district court ordered Ohio to stop disenfranchising voters who are directed to vote at the wrong polling place due to poll worker error.
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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.
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:
3 Stupid Responses to Hurricane Sandy - and Every Other Disaster You Can Think Of
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? — President Obama …
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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 …
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Beeson: Obama ‘firewall is burning’ — Romney political director Rich Beeson said Wednesday that the Obama team's electoral firewall — aka, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin — is “burning.” — “The firewall that I think they talked about was Iowa, Wisconsin,and Ohio,” he said on a conference call …
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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
What I'm Hearing About The Sex Scandal — I've heard the story, but I don't want to say what it is because, well, I have no idea if it's true. — But in the interests of sparing you 1 heart attacks and 2 overly optimistic guesses: What it's about, rumors say, is a Senator.
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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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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
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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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GOP 12, Business Insider, Politico and The Greenroom
Paul M. Barrett / Business Week:
It's Global Warming, Stupid — Yes, yes, it's unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they're right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.
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Al Arabiya / Alarabiya.net English:
Arab tweeps should stop gloating over Sandy disaster: Saudi Grand Mufti — The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holliest sites, has condemned the gloating by radical “tweeps” in the Arab world over the Sandy storm disaster, which left more than 100 people dead in the U.S. East Coast, as “illegitimate”
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
New ADP Count Slashes Job Creation for September — Revisions to the way payroll data firm ADP counts private sector job creation have resulted in a sharp drop in the September employment count. — ADP's new calculations put the monthly job creation at just 88,200, down from the 162,000 …
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Acculturated:
George Lucas Just Saved Star Wars by Firing George Lucas — So at long last, George Lucas has decided to get out of the moviemaking business. He's selling out Lucasfilm, including all of its properties and moneymaking storylines, to the Mouse. This is a good thing. Maybe even a great thing.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
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 …
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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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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama's Powell ad: Stay the course — After announcing radio buys yesterday featuring Colin Powell's endorsement, the Obama campaign rolls out a TV spot featuring clips of the former secretary of state's endorsement on CBS News — the script: … It's sort of an interesting note to end on …
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The Hinterland Gazette
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Political Memo: Romney Tones Down Campaign Rhetoric as Vote Nears — TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney used to talk up the “crucial” importance of having two parents in the home, saying “a mom and dad together” have a big impact. But over the past week, he has been extolling the virtues …
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Mark Shade / Reuters:
Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison — HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Atlantic City mayor accuses Christie of ‘double standard’ in Sandy response — Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford accused New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) of having displayed a “double standard” in his handling of communities affected by the landfall of Hurricane Sandy.
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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John Althouse Cohen / Jaltcoh:
Observations in the aftermath of Sandy — 1. The traffic in the blackout areas of Manhattan is lawless in the most literal sense: the traffic lights aren't working, so the law cannot be applied as usual. But “lawless” doesn't seem to be a fitting description; the driving seems better-behaved than usual.
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BuzzFeed:
Larry Flynt Offers $1 Million For Proof That Pregnancy From Rape Is “Something That God Intended” — Full-page ad running in today's Indianapolis Star addressed to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock. — Having already offered $1 million for information on Mitt Romney's taxes, Flynt puts another million up for...:
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