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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Going out on a limb: Romney beats Obama, handily … Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.
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Power Line, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin and National Review
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Who's Really Winning Early Voting? — With both parties spinning early-vote totals, here's the bottom line: Republicans are significantly improving on 2008 in several big early-voting states. — Reuters — If you're following the presidential election closely, you know that Election …
Ken Belson / New York Times:
New York City Marathon Will Not Be Held Sunday — After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to cancel the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event's organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race.
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New York Times:
Hardship Strains Emotions in New York
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The Talking Dog, MarketBeat and Gawker.com
Lynn Zinser / New York Times:
Should the Race Be Run? — O.K., let's see if we have this straight …
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Shot in the Dark, NY Daily News, Via Meadia and Politicker
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Romney: Elect Me Or House GOP Will Wreck The Economy — In what his campaign billed as his “closing argument,” Mitt Romney warned Americans that a second term for President Obama would have apocalyptic consequences for the economy in part because his own party would force a debt ceiling disaster.
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Daily Kos, Firedoglake and The Stranger …
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: How Far Obama Has Fallen
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neo-neocon, Hot Air and Betsy's Page
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Reid says he can't work with Romney
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, protein wisdom and Outside the Beltway
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Reid: ‘Laughable’ For Romney To Say Dems Will Help Him Pass His Agenda
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Mediaite and Shakesville
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama 50% - Romney 47% in Ohio — (CNN) - With four days to go until the presidential election, a new poll indicates the race for arguably the most important battleground state remains very close. — According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Friday …
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The Hill, GOP 12, Politico, Business Insider, Election 2012 and Reuters
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Gabriella Schwarz / CNN:
TRENDING: Axelrod: Obama closing argument ‘from his loins’ — Lima, Ohio (CNN) - David Axelrod described the message coming from President Barack Obama days before Election Day as “coming from his loins.” — “I've never seen him more exhilarated than he is right now. He believes in what he's doing.
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Poll gives Donnelly 11-point lead over Mourdock
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The Fix, Firedoglake, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Political Carnival and Roger Ailes
Nigel Jaquiss / Willamette Week:
Department of Justice Investigating Alleged Ballot Fraud At Clackamas County Elections — A Clackamas County elections worker is under criminal investigation for tampering with ballots, WW has learned. — The underlying allegation is that the woman, whose name has not been released …
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Firedoglake, The BRAD BLOG and The Stranger …
Politico:
Romney holds all-star Ohio rally — WEST CHESTER, Ohio — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan fired up the Republican base here Friday night with the biggest rally yet of their campaign as they headed into the final weekend before Election Day. — On a frigid fall night — you could see your breath in the air …
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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Romney surrogates fan out across US — Mitt Romney used a star-studded rally Friday night in West Chester, Ohio, to launch his final push before Election Day. The event featured nearly every one of the Republican presidential candidate's top surrogates in an attempt to rally support in the crucial battleground state.
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Max Boot / Commentary Magazine:
Why Did We Abandon Benghazi Compound? — Yet more amazing revelations continue to emerge about the Benghazi attack. — Foreign Policy magazine has a story on its website by two Dubai-based Arabic TV reporters who visited the site of the former U.S. consulate on Oct. 26 …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Benghazi news round-up
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TheBlaze.com, The Other McCain and National Review
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
New Details Discredit Fox News Reports On Benghazi Attacks
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McClatchy Washington Bureau, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Wired and BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Fox News: Benghazi consulate warned 3 hours before attack of militia gathering arms
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Bookworm Room, American Power, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit and CBS News
The Fix:
The Obama defectors — Barring some kind of last-minute surge, President Obama is going to fall well shy of the 52.9 percent he won in the 2008 election. It might still be good enough to win, but it won't be resounding. — But just who exactly has deserted Obama over the last four years?
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neo-neocon, Instapundit, Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, AEIdeas, PoliPundit.com and Election 2012
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Mitt Romney's Pennsylvania gamble
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Morning Call, Hot Air and Taylor Marsh
CNN:
Clinton to head to PA in battleground state swing
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Politico, PoliticusUSA and New York Times
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA: VOTING ‘BEST REVENGE’ AGAINST ROMNEY — As is often the case when he goes off-teleprompter, at a campaign stop in Ohio today, Obama revealed a side of himself we haven't seen since Hurricane Sandy gave him the opportunity to play The American President for a few days.
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Paul Krugman:
Karl Rove's Mission Accomplished — The estimable Rick Perlstein has a fascinating essay about the seamless continuum from direct-mail marketing scams to direct-mail right-wing fundraising, and from there to the whole character of modern movement conservatism. Go read.
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The Daily Beast and The Stranger …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Nov. 1: The Simple Case for Saying Obama Is the Favorite — If you are following some of the same people that I do on Twitter, you may have noticed some pushback about our contention that Barack Obama is a favorite (and certainly not a lock) to be re-elected.
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New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Mashable!, Booman Tribune, The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post and Balloon Juice
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Miami Herald FL Poll: Romney 51%-Obama 45% — Mitt Romney has maintained a solid lead over President Barack Obama in the latest Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald poll of likely voters who favor the Republican by six percentage points. — Romney's strengths: independent voters and more crossover support …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Oceans of Red Ink — I feel a sort of kinship with Michael Ramirez: if I were a genius and could draw really, really, well, I would be just like him. His latest will appear in newspapers tomorrow; it blends old themes (Obama's pretensions and the federal debt) with new ones :
The Fix:
WaPo-ABC tracking poll: Most see U.S. on ‘wrong track’. So can Obama win? — Most likely voters see the country as seriously offtrack; barely half say the president is doing a good job; and the challenger's supporters rival the incumbent's when it comes to being “fired up,” …
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Business Insider, Election 2012 and National Review
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Hurricane Sandy Threatens to Disrupt Voting on Election Day — Some New Jersey voters may find their hurricane-damaged polling sites replaced by military trucks, with — in the words of the state's lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno — “a well-situated national guardsman and a big sign saying …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
House Republicans may actually add to their majority on Election Day — The Fix now projects that the 2012 race for the House is likely to be close to a draw, and there is even a fair chance that Republicans will add to their biggest majority in six decades on Tuesday.
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Power Line and The Greenroom
BREITBART.COM:
STATEN ISLAND RESIDENT CONFRONTS CHUCK SCHUMER; ‘WE ARE GONNA DIE!’ — Schumer: “I know what you're going through, sweetheart.”
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New York Post, Gothamist, CBS New York and Althouse
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