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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.
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Which one? — America could do better than Barack Obama; sadly, Mitt Romney does not fit the bill — FOUR years ago, The Economist endorsed Barack Obama for the White House with enthusiasm. So did millions of voters. Next week Americans will trudge to the polls far less hopefully.
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Bloomberg Backs Obama, Citing Climate Change — In a surprise announcement, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Thursday that Hurricane Sandy had reshaped his thinking about the presidential campaign, and he announced that he was endorsing President Obama. — Mr. Bloomberg, a political independent …
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What Mike Bloomberg's Endorsement Means — A return to the politics of climate, just in time for Barack Obama. — Mike Bloomberg knows the power that the leader of a disaster-torn city holds in American politics: Mayor Rudy Giuliani handed the mayoralty off to Bloomberg in 2001 …
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It's Global Warming, Stupid
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Bloomberg endorses Obama (Updated)
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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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GOP pollster: Romney up in Ohio, closing the gap in Wisconsin
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‘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 …
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Sources: Key task force not convened during Benghazi consulate attack — CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).
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New Details on Benghazi — Two U.S. officials tell Eli Lake …
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Under Attack, Nate Silver Picks the Wrong Defense — “Anybody that thinks that this race is anything but a tossup right now is such an ideologue, they should be kept away from typewriters, computers, laptops and microphones for the next 10 days, because they're jokes.”
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Show Me Your Model — It might be easy to believe we're …
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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 …
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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.
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Akin ad features rape victim
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Abortion, rape focus of new Akin ad; new funding a mystery
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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 …


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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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 …
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Ohio moves back into the ‘tossup’ category on Fix electoral map — The Fix is moving Ohio from “lean Obama” to “tossup” in our presidential ratings amid a slew of polling that suggests that the race has tightened over the past month, even as the incumbent retains the slightest of edges.
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House Not Looking Good for Democrats — Democratic hopes of capturing the House next Tuesday are long gone. And Democrats now could wind up actually losing seats. — David Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's expert on House races, changed his rating of 15 contested House races, 11 of them to the benefit of Republicans.
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Ro-mentum watch: Karl Rove — In this year's race, national polls show a tie, while state polls show a decisive Obama advantage. Here I suggest that the difference may arise from the fact that the same systematic pollster errors can have different effects depending on whether they occur in national vs. state surveys.
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Brad DeLong and Wall Street Journal


Staten Island Borough President: Don't Give Money to the Red Cross — At a press conference this morning on Staten Island, a host of local officials, including Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, gathered to highlight the needs of the hard-hit borough in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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Secret Service agent commits suicide amid affair probe — A member of the president's Secret Service protective detail, who was being investigated for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement sources.
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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 …
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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 …

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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Errant Email to Newt Gingrich Supporters Says ‘Obama Is Going to Win’ — An email message mistakenly sent to Newt Gingrich's list serve this morning told subscribers that President Obama would no doubt win in 2012 and that they should be more worried about Obama's winning in 2016.
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