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Employment Situation Summary — Transmission of material in this release is embargoed USDL-12-2164 until 8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, November 2, 2012 — Technical information: — Household data: (202) 691-6378 * cpsinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/cps
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Payrolls rise sharply, giving Obama some relief — (Reuters) - Employers stepped up hiring in October and the jobless rate ticked higher as more workers restarted job hunts, a hopeful sign for a lackluster economy that has been a drag on President Barack Obama's reelection chances.


Modest Growth in Jobs Seen in Final Report Before Election
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This is no way to get us up & running — Generators should give power to people — not marathon — As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday's New York City Marathon.
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‘We Need Food, We Need Clothing’: Staten Island Residents Plead for Help 3 Days After Sandy — The residents of Staten Island are pleading for help from elected officials, begging for gasoline, food and clothing three days after Sandy slammed the New York City borough. — “We're going to die!


Should the Race Be Run? — O.K., let's see if we have this straight: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wisely slaps down the N.B.A.'s initial ridiculous idea to play the Nets-Knicks opener as scheduled Thursday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn because of the devastation of Hurricane Sandy …
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New York's Incredible Shrinking Mayor
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Reid says he can't work with Romney — Five days before the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out trying to work with Mitt Romney should he win next week. — “Mitt Romney's fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his ‘severely conservative’ agenda is laughable …
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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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Reid: ‘Laughable’ For Romney To Say Dems Will Help Him Pass His Agenda
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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 …
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How the Romney Camp Sees the Early Vote in Iowa
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CIA Takes Heat for Role in Libya — When the bodies of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans killed in Benghazi, Libya, arrived at Andrews Air Force Base after the Sept. 11 attack, they were greeted by the president, the vice president and the secretaries of state and defense.
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Sources, emails point to communication breakdown in Obama administration during Libya attack
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Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief
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In Benghazi timeline, CIA errors but no evidence of conspiracy
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Morning Jay: Why Romney Is Likely to Win — When I started making election predictions eight years ago, I had a very different perspective than I do today. I knew relatively little about the history of presidential elections or the geography of American politics. I had a good background in political science and statistics.
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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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Nonunion Ala. crews turned away from Sandy recovery — The hurricane-ravaged east coast has been receiving north Alabama help, but crews from Huntsville Utilities learned they'll be doing work in Long Island, New York instead of in New Jersey. — Crews from Huntsville …

Poll gives Donnelly 11-point lead over Mourdock — (CNN) - A poll of likely voters in Indiana showed Democratic Senate candidate Joe Donnelly with an eleven point lead over GOP rival Richard Mourdock, whose comments on rape and abortion in October drew consternation from Democrats and some Republicans.
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Biden: 'There's Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I've Been Proud To Be His Vice President' — Joe Biden, at a campaign event today said, “There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president.”
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The choice — “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was right. Reagan was an ideological inflection point, ending a 50-year liberal ascendancy and beginning a 30-year conservative ascendancy.
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Mitt Romney's Pennsylvania gamble — Until a week ago, Pennsylvania was virtually an afterthought in the presidential race. — Now, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are making a late advertising and in-person push in the state, parachuting into the Keystone State this weekend for last-minute visits with scant days left to go in the race.
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President Barack Obama: My vision for America — Editor's note: Barack Obama is president of the United States. — (CNN) — For the past few days, all of us have been properly focused on one of the worst storms of our lifetimes. We mourn those who were lost.
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Benghazi Investigator Slams America and ‘Islamophobes’ — America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administration's lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities.
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An Unpredictable End to a Very Predictable Election — A Commentary By Scott Rasmussen — Election 2012 has had few surprises. So it's somewhat surprising that heading into the final weekend of the election season, we are unable to confidently project who is likely to win the White House.
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