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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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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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Politico, GOP 12, Washington Monthly, The PJ Tatler, Outside the Beltway, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, The Hill, EBL and Hot Air


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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his vorpal sword, Georgia Tipsheet, The Hinterland Gazette, Pat Dollard and Weasel Zippers
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Pastor who prayed at Obama's inauguration says all white people will go to hell
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Blazing Cat Fur and americanthinker.com

Yeah, me too. — Question: How do you lay a guilt trip on somebody who's already damned?
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GayPatriot

Obama's inauguration reverend: All whites are going to hell
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Riehl World News and EBL

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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Michelle Malkin, The Hill, The Moderate Voice, The Heritage Foundation, Walid Shoebat, Examiner, Pundit & Pundette, Scared Monkeys, Riehl World News, The Gateway Pundit, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The Right Scoop, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Nice Deb, Jihad Watch, National Review Online and American Spectator
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Libya storyline still crumbling
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The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys and Fox News Insider


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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Talking Points Memo, Marist Poll, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, theGrio, New York Times, GOP 12, Marquette Law School Poll, Election 2012 and JSOnline
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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 …
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msnbc.com, The New Civil Rights Movement, Talking Points Memo and The Mahablog

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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Firedoglake


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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3 Stupid Responses to Hurricane Sandy - and Every Other Disaster You Can Think Of
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Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway

Will Climate Get Some Respect Now? — President Obama …
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Pirate's Cove, Mother Jones, News Desk, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite and Firedoglake


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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Business Insider, GOP 12, Politico and The Greenroom
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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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The Raw Story, Philly.com and msnbc.com, more at Mediagazer »

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.
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Gov. Chris Christie, an Obama critic, praises the president amid N.J. storm damage
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The Moderate Voice, USA Today, Prairie Weather, Althouse and Taylor Marsh

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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Washington Wire, Power Line, Wall Street Journal and Hot Air


International observers say states out of line — The group hosting international election observers said Thursday that state officials in Iowa and Texas are needlessly blocking access to the decades-old process the United States already has agreed to, an official said Thursday.

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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Hot Air and The Greenroom


Barclays faces record £290m penalty — British bank suffers another hit to its battered reputation as it confronts huge costs for alleged US energy market manipulation — Barclays took another major hit to its already bruised reputation last night when a US regulator threatened …
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Firedoglake


Obama widens lead in Nevada — President Barack Obama has expanded his lead over Mitt Romney in Nevada, according to a new poll that shows the incumbent edging his GOP challenger 50 percent to 46 percent and headed toward victory Tuesday unless Romney halts the Democrat's momentum in the state that could settle the White House race.
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Ballot Box and Election 2012


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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The Jawa Report, Israel Matzav, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers

National Polls, State Polls, and Democrat Turnout — NRO is back this morning! Hurrah! — Also this morning, I'm scheduled to appear on Chuck Todd's “Daily Rundown” on MSNBC around 9:40 or so.
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Power Line

A GOP switch on Todd Akin? — Rep. Todd Akin and the Missouri Republican Party are launching a nearly $700,000 TV ad blitz in the closing days of his challenge to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, but the source of the funds for the effort is unclear. — These are the first ads run …
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, The Maddow Blog and Ballot Box


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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Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs

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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ABCNEWS, Taegan Goddard's … and First Read


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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The PJ Tatler, EBL, Riehl World News, The Lonely Conservative and The Greenroom

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


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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Washington Monthly