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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Obama Gains Edge in Campaign's Final Days — Obama 50% - Romney 47% — OVERVIEW — Barack Obama has edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final days of the presidential campaign. In the Pew Research Center's election weekend survey, Obama holds a 48% to 45% lead over Romney among likely voters.
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Talking Points Memo, Ballot Box and Election 2012
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Detroit's Fox 2:
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?
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Power Line, WMUR, CANNONFIRE, The Strata-Sphere, americanthinker.com, Battleground Watch, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit and Politico
Mark Murray / First Read:
Final national NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 48%, Romney 47%
Final national NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 48%, Romney 47%
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CNN, The Moderate Voice and Ballot Box
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Romney Deadlocked, Poll Shows
Obama and Romney Deadlocked, Poll Shows
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Politico and Business Insider
Dustin Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
PENNSYLVANIA TIED, 47-47, ON EVE OF ROMNEY'S ARRIVAL
PENNSYLVANIA TIED, 47-47, ON EVE OF ROMNEY'S ARRIVAL
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Hot Air, The Ulsterman Report, American Power and protein wisdom
NY Daily News:
Our choice for America's future: The Daily News endorses Mitt Romney for president — Four years after endorsing Obama, News finds the hopes of those days went unfulfilled — Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally with his wife Ann at Colorado Springs municipal airport …
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CNN, NO QUARTER USA NET, The Lonely Conservative, Guardian, The PJ Tatler and Conservatives4Palin, more at Mediagazer »
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Lee Enterprises / host.madison.com:
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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Poynter, americanthinker.com, Election 2012 and BREITBART.COM
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
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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Curt Villarosa / ABCNEWS:
Sunday Sound: Heard on ‘This Week’ — Tune in to ABCNews.com on Tuesday, Nov. 6 for livestreaming coverage of Election 2012. Our Election Day show kicks off at noon, and the Election Night event begins at 7 p.m. … HEADLINERS — 1. Plouffe thinks Karl Rove will confront ‘crossroads’ after Tuesday's election
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The Hinterland Gazette, The Political Carnival and Sense of Events
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Jeremy Herb / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Romney's effort in Pennsylvania a sign GOP campaign in ‘deep trouble’ — Senior Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said Mitt Romney's visit to Pennsylvania shows the GOP nominee's campaign is in “deep trouble” and losing in the traditional battlegrounds.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Nov. 3: Romney's Reason to Play for Pennsylvania — The Saturday before the election produced a predictably large volume of polling in battleground states — but also some predictable-seeming results, with most of the polls coming close to the average of other polls.
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msnbc.com, PoliPundit.com and AMERICAblog
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Ohio Sen. Portman says Ohio likely to prove decisive — Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said his home state is likely to prove decisive for the presidential election Sunday morning. — When asked by CNN's Candy Crowley if he thought there was a way Romney could win without carrying the state, he smiled.
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Freudian Slip: Candy Crowley Calls Him ‘President Romney’
Freudian Slip: Candy Crowley Calls Him ‘President Romney’
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys and Wake up America
Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
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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Politico, Guardian, Viral Read, Scared Monkeys, msnbc.com, Ballot Box, National Review, Washington Post, Business Insider and Election 2012
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
“Million Puppet March” on DC Misses Historic Head Count by Just 999,500! — Last week, we warned of the impending “Million Puppet March,” a pro-public-broadcasting and anti-Mitt Romney demonstration whose goal “is to preserve the inalienable right of Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Ira Glass …
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Agence France Presse, Newser, Michelle Malkin and CNN
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Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
Jim Cramer: Obama Is Going To Obliterate Romney In A Historic Landslide — The Washington Post asked a bunch of pundits/gurus/big-names for their electoral predictions. — There's a big list of folks, and almost all see Obama winning. — Among the names on the list.
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The Hinterland Gazette, Sense of Events and National Review
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Authorities Detonate 2nd Suspicious Package At Florida Early Voting Site — Authorities in Winter Park, Fla. have detonated a second suspicius package found near an early voting site on Saturday, a spokersperson for the Winter Park Public Library confirmed to TPM. — “They detonated it 15 minutes ago,” Mary Gail Coffee said.
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Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote — Last year, Florida's Republican dominated legislature “rolled back the number of early-voting days from a maximum of 14 days to eight days.” The result? Floridians are finding it much more difficult to vote …
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Orlando Sentinel, The Raw Story and The Maddow Blog
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Jasper Copping / Telegraph:
British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg — Britain has invaded all but 22 countries in the world in its long and colourful history, new research has found. — The British Empire, highlighted in red, used to dominate any map
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Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Griffin / Fox News:
What laser capability did Benghazi team have? — Sources who have debriefed the team that was at the CIA annex the night of the attack in Benghazi say that the CIA operators from the Global Response Staff, or GRS, were equipped with Mark 48 machine guns and had two types of laser capability.
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Jawa Report
MiamiHerald.com:
Miami-Dade to resume in-person absentee voting after temporarily shutting it down — Miami-Dade will re-open the doors of its Doral elections headquarters, after temporarily locking its doors because it was overwhelmed with people wanting to cast absentee ballots in person. — PMAZZEI@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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CBS Miami, Naked Politics, theGrio and The Buzz Florida Politics Feed
Politico:
Lessons learned from 2012 — The 2012 election will be remembered by history for its smallness in a big, historic moment: The high drama of the first debate was a rare respite from months of petty rhetoric, egged on from start to finish by gobs of money from millionaires and billionaires.
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American Prospect and Lawyers, Guns & Money