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Ohio's Provisional Ballot Order: The Biggest Legal Story of the Weekend — A late voting directive from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted begets an “emergency motion” about how to count provisional ballots. — Associated Press — With just a few dozen hours left before polls open on Election Day …
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Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Swing The Election — A last-minute directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) could invalidate legal provisional ballots. Ohio is widely viewed as the most critical state for both presidential campaigns and …
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Ohio provisional ballot voting order criticized — COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Voter advocates on Saturday criticized an order by Ohio's elections chief dealing with the casting of provisional ballots, saying it increases the likelihood that votes could be wrongly rejected.
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Our pick: Mitt Romney — • Wisconsin State Journal editorial — Not enough hope and too little change. — That is President Barack Obama's record on the economy, debt and Washington gridlock after four years in the White House. — The State Journal editorial board endorses Mitt Romney in Tuesday's presidential election.
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AFF poll: Minnesota a toss-up — Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are separated by just 1 point in Minnesota, effectively making the race there a toss-up, according to polling taken for the conservative American Future Fund. — Romney takes 46 percent of the vote to Obama's 45 percent in the poll …
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Final national NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 48%, Romney 47% — With just two days until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are running neck and neck nationally, according to the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election.
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LIKELY VOTER POLL: ROMNEY AHEAD IN DEEP BLUE MINNESOTA
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Obama up 8 in Minnesota, amendments may be going down — PPP's final Minnesota poll of the 2012 election cycle finds Barack Obama leading comfortably, 53-45. We've conducted four surveys of the state since Labor Day and found Obama leading by a margin in the 7-10 point range on each of them.
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Obama leads in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — PPP's final polls of the 2012 election cycle in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin find Barack Obama favored to win both states, although by margins a good deal closer than he won them by in 2008. In Pennsylvania Obama leads 52-46, while in Wisconsin his advantage is 51-48.
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PENNSYLVANIA TIED, 47-47, ON EVE OF ROMNEY'S ARRIVAL
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Obama leads 50-47 nationally
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Dead heat for Romney and Obama in latest Michigan poll — WJBK Fox 2 - — Who are you most likely to vote for in the Presidential election - Democratic President Barack Obama, or Republican Nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, another candidate, or are you undecided?


Dispatch Poll: Ohio's a toss-up — Obama has edge, but high GOP turnout could turn Ohio to Romney — Early voting in Franklin County — The “Ohio firewall” precariously stands for President Barack Obama, but a strong Republican turnout could enable Mitt Romney to tear it down on Election Day.
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Bloomberg Aims to Be Gun-Control Counterweight to NRA — The New York mayor takes on the National Rifle Association in what an aide suggests is a curtain-raiser for elections to come. — As independent Michael Bloomberg nears his final year as New York — City mayor, the billionaire …
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Thursday Report: Bloomberg Wouldn't Let Guard Into Brooklyn Over Their Possession of Guns
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Sandy death toll in US rises to 109; ‘there could be more,’ Bloomberg warns
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GOP nominee Mitt Romney began his final weekend campaign blitz in New Hampshire Saturday morning, ripping President Obama for telling supporters that “voting is the best revenge.” — “Vote for revenge? Let me tell you: Vote for love of country,” Romney said to cheers.
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Romney Seeks Vengeance For Obama's ‘Revenge’ Remark
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Obama campaign struggles to explain ‘revenge’ remark
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Obama's November Blunder
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Hannity show played 2011 union ‘Scabs!’ and ‘Scumbags!’ audio, called it post-Sandy outrage — UPDATE: The Daily Caller has learned that the audio Sean Hannity played during his Friday, Nov. 2 broadcast was taken from a 2011 union protest against replacement workers during a Verizon strike.
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In Ohio, a Study in Contrasts as 2 Campaigns Get Out Vote — CINCINNATI — Inside a peeling former nightclub here, Obama volunteers are perched on any seats they can find, trays of half-eaten sandwiches line an old mirrored bar and a hand-scrawled list of “office needs” includes toilet paper and Teddy Grahams.

BREAKING: NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama — HOUSTON, TX - Friday afternoon at an early polling place located at 6719 W. Montgomery Road in Houston, NAACP members were seen advocating for President Barack Obama according to volunteer poll watchers on location at the time.
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