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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, msnbc.com and Institute for Policy …
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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
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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Riehl World News and EBL
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
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
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 Atlantic Online, The Reaction, The Democratic Daily, CNN and The Daily Caller
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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BuzzFeed, The Atlantic Wire, Michelle Malkin, The PJ Tatler and NATIONAL REVIEW
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden already thinking about 2016
Biden already thinking about 2016
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Ballot Box, Politico, CNN, Weekly Standard, Red Alert Politics, Scared Monkeys, Mediaite, The Maddow Blog and Taegan Goddard's …
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
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
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
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 …
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Special Operations Speaks, Bookworm Room and The Jawa Report
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The Facebook spike — As John notes in the adjacent post …
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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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
What was Obama told at the September 10, 2012, NSC meeting on ‘9/11 threats’? — On the White House Web site, the president's calendar for September 10, 2012 — the day before the Benghazi, Libya, attack — is blank and and the daily press guidance says “The President has no public events scheduled.”
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NewsBusters.org blogs, CNSNews, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Israel Matzav
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's Libya stonewalling isn't working
Obama's Libya stonewalling isn't working
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AEIdeas, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, Taylor Marsh and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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
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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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Nice Deb, Hot Air, National Review Online, The Right Scoop and Atlas Shrugs
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, The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones, The Political Carnival, msnbc.com and BuzzFeed
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
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 …
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Dick Morris / The Hill:
Opinion: Here comes the landslide
Opinion: Here comes the landslide
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JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Liberal Values, Balloon Juice, Taylor Marsh and The Hinterland Gazette
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
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.
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
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
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 and The Daily Dish
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.