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3:25 PM ET, November 1, 2012

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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.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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 …
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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Libya storyline still crumbling  —  Fox News reports: … This is yet another contradiction of the White House narrative.  ("While the administration's public statements have suggested that the attack came without warning, the Aug. 16 cable seems to undercut those claims.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Catherine Herridge: State Department Culpable in Death of Ambassador & Three Americans (Video)
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Doug Ross
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Former GOP Sen. Hagel backs Democrat Kerrey in Nebraska Senate race  —  Kerrey is in a heated battle with Republican state Sen. Deb Fischer to replace the retiring Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson.  — Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker  — Check out the CNN Electoral Map …
Discussion: Politico
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CNN:
Romney ad pins Obama to Chavez and Castro
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
UPDATED Positive campaign? Romney gives Obama the Chavez-Castro-Che treatment in Spanish ad
Discussion: Washington Wire and FP Passport
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Romney super PAC attacks Obama ‘fantasy land’
Discussion: The Hill
Steve Eder / New York Times:
Former Penn State President Charged in Sandusky Case  —  Graham B. Spanier, the former president of Penn State, was charged Thursday with helping to cover up the child abuse allegations involving Jerry Sandusky that have roiled the university and its famed football program over the past year.
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Associated Press:   Penn State's ex-president accused of perjury, endangering children in Jerry Sandusky case.
Mark Shade / Reuters:
Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison
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.
Kate Nocera / Politico:
Akin ad features rape victim  —  Rep. Todd Akin is out with a new ad featuring a supporter who says she was raped and had an abortion.  —  Akin, who is trying to unseat Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill in Missouri, found his campaign in turmoil and faced a wave of criticism …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Maddow Blog
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Andrew Sullivan: 'If You Voted For Obama in 2008 and Don't in 2012, You Never Really Voted For Him'  —  As hard as it might be to believe, the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan has become a bigger cheerleader for President Obama than virtually anyone else in the media including the shills on MSNBC.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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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
Discussion: CNN and Firedoglake
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 …
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.
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
D.C. paparazzi fear a Mitt Romney win  —  People may have differing opinions on President Barack Obama's handling of such things as the economy, health care and foreign policy, but on one issue, the consensus is clear: He's ushered in an unparalleled wave of celebrity visits to D.C. …
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Us Weekly:
Exclusive: President Barack Obama: 5 Things You Don't Know About Me  —  Barack Obama has been campaigning for many months to be reelected as the President of the United States next Tuesday, Nov. 6 — but there's still more to learn about the leader, father, husband . . . and TV fan!
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Show Me Your Model  —  It might be easy to believe we're approaching Peak Trutherism, what with good old-fashioned birthers now being supplemented by BLS truthers and poll truthers.  But just you wait—should Barack Obama win this election, we'll see an explosion of election trutherism that will be truly unprecedented in scope.
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.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Bobby Cervantes / Politico:
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.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Bill Maher / HBO:
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 …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
B. Daniel Blatt / GayPatriot:
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 …
Sarah Fecht / Popular Mechanics:
Should the Northeast Bury its Power Lines to Prevent Outages?  —  Underground power cables are largely protected from storms like Hurricane Sandy.  So why not bury them all and skip the blackouts?  —  After blasting the Northeast with 80-mile-per-hour winds, Hurricane Sandy has left 6 million people without power.
Discussion: AEIdeas
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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.
Emily Heffter / STBlogs Alpha:
Koster draws fire over comments about abortion, “the rape thing”  —  Congressional candidate John Koster has been very squeamish in recent weeks when talking publicly about his views on abortion.  The Republican is a longtime foe of abortion rights, but on a KING-TV appearance he sidestepped questions …
 
 
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
GOP pollster: Romney up in Ohio, closing the gap in Wisconsin
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama, Romney return to campaign trail with fists up
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Talking Points Memo:
Romney: I Would Give FEMA Necessary Funding
PBS NewsHour / Online NewsHour:
Is Sandy a ‘Cassandra’? How Cities Should Prepare for Future Natural Disasters
Discussion: Power Line
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Allen West's Primary Opponent ‘Embarrassed’ By West, Endorses Democrat Patrick Murphy
Discussion: Politico and Daily Kos
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
National Polls, State Polls, and Democrat Turnout
Discussion: Power Line
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama's Powell ad: Stay the course
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Beeson: Obama ‘firewall is burning’
Discussion: msnbc.com, ABCNEWS and First Read
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Atlantic City mayor accuses Christie of ‘double standard’ in Sandy response
Discussion: ABCNEWS and ABCNEWS
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Political Memo: Romney Tones Down Campaign Rhetoric as Vote Nears
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
What I'm Hearing About The Sex Scandal
Discussion: Hot Air and The Greenroom
Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
A Partisan Advantage for Obama?
 

 
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