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Politico:
Exclusive: Christie was Mitt's first choice for VP — One of the most tantalizing subplots of the 2012 campaign has been the curious and sometimes controversial performances of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Now, campaign insiders tell POLITICO that Christie was Mitt Romney's first choice …
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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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Ballot Box, The PJ Tatler and CNN
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Holds Lead in Florida and Ohio Polls — President Barack Obama holds an edge over Mitt Romney in Florida and Ohio, the two largest battlegrounds in determining who will win the White House on Tuesday, new polls show. — The Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist Poll surveys …
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Mark Murray / First Read:
Polls: Obama stays ahead in Ohio, deadlocked with Romney in Fla. — Three days until Election Day, President Barack Obama maintains his lead in the key battleground state of Ohio and is locked in a close contest with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Florida, according to new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls.
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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 …
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Alex Leary / Tampa Bay Times:
Times/Bay News 9/Herald Florida Poll: Mitt Romney 51, Barack Obama 45
Times/Bay News 9/Herald Florida Poll: Mitt Romney 51, Barack Obama 45
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Bill Maher Warns Romney Supporters: ‘Black People Know Who You Are and They Will Come After You’ — Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time Friday might have said one of the most disgraceful things uttered during the 2012 campaign season. — “If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney …
Roger Simon / Politico:
‘Swift-Boating’ of Obama fails — Obama should have been destroyed by now. That was the plan. — He was going to be “Swift Boated” in this election, just like John Kerry was in 2004. — It would be about Benghazi, where on Sept. 11 of this year, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
NBC PREPS HURRICANE SANDY FUNDRAISER STARRING OBAMA CELEBS — Get ready for the mainstream media's last big sucker punch before next Tuesday's presidential election. Raising money for the victims of disaster by doing a benefit concert is nothing new. But NBC is trotting out all of its favorite anti-Romney celebrities to do it.
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Washington Post:
Virginia voter fraud case expands to focus on GOP firm — The investigation into the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Va., has widened, with state officials probing whether a company tied to top Republican leaders had engaged …
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Raw Story, The BRAD BLOG and KDVR.com
Ashley Killough / CNN:
In fiery speech, Giuliani calls on Obama to resign, faults him for Libya — (CNN) - Not long after taking a few seconds of silence for those affected by Superstorm Sandy, Rudy Giuliani began ripping into President Barack Obama on Friday while speaking at major campaign event for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in Ohio.
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Gabriella Schwarz / CNN:
TRENDING: Axelrod: Obama closing argument ‘from his loins’
TRENDING: Axelrod: Obama closing argument ‘from his loins’
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama 50% - Romney 47% in Ohio
CNN Poll: Obama 50% - Romney 47% in Ohio
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Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's campaign insults voters — THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate. — How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information?
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Prairie Weather, Brad DeLong and Politico
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Fox attacks Bruce Springsteen for hosting charity concert — Fox and Friends think the Boss' hurricane relief benefit is actually secret Obama propaganda — In case you somehow don't know by now, Bruce Springsteen loves his native New Jersey, and pretty much everyone in New Jersey loves him.
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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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Washington Times:
Support for Kill List and NDAA make Obama and Romney unfit for office — TAMPA, November 2, 2012 - It wasn't so long ago that the following statement could only appear in a dystopian novel or movie script: — The U.S. President has killed an American citizen without due process, without even charging him with a crime.
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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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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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
From “Hope and Change” to “Revenge”