memeorandum: “Million Puppet March” on DC Misses Historic Head Count by Just 999,500! (Nick Gillespie/Hit & Run)

3:30 PM ET, November 4, 2012

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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?

Discussion: Power Line, WMUR, CANNONFIRE, The Strata-Sphere, americanthinker.com, Battleground Watch, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys and Politico

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 …

Discussion: NO QUARTER USA NET, The Lonely Conservative, Guardian, Conservatives4Palin and The PJ Tatler

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.

Discussion: Poynter, americanthinker.com, Election 2012 and BREITBART.COM

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.

Discussion: CNN and Politico

Mark Murray / First Read:
Final national NBC/WSJ poll: Obama 48%, Romney 47%

Discussion: CNN, The Moderate Voice and Ballot Box

Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Cantor: Romney, Allen will win big in Virginia

Discussion: Politico

Newsday:
Elect Mitt Romney president of the United States

Discussion: GayPatriot

Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Romney Deadlocked, Poll Shows

Discussion: Business Insider

Dustin Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
PENNSYLVANIA TIED, 47-47, ON EVE OF ROMNEY'S ARRIVAL

Discussion: Hot Air, The Ulsterman Report, American Power and protein wisdom

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 …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Sky Dancing, dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com, Booman Tribune, Connecting.the.Dots and The Reality-Based Community

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Last-Minute Ohio Directive Could Trash Legal Votes And Swing The Election

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story and Balloon Juice

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

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, The Political Carnival and Sense of Events

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box: Top Obama adviser: Romney's play for Pennsylvania a ‘desperate ploy’

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.

Discussion: Politico and CNN

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Freudian Slip: Candy Crowley Calls Him ‘President Romney’

Discussion: Scared Monkeys

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.

Discussion: msnbc.com, PoliPundit.com and AMERICAblog

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.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo

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.

Discussion: Politico, msnbc.com, Guardian, Viral Read, Scared Monkeys, Ballot Box, Washington Post, National Review, 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 …

Discussion: Agence France Presse, Michelle Malkin, Newser and CNN

BuzzFeed:
“Million Muppet March” Descends On Capitol Hill

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, The Lonely Conservative, NewsBusters.org blogs and Weasel Zippers

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.

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette, Sense of Events and National Review

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.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

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 …

Discussion: CBS Miami, Orlando Sentinel and The Raw Story

Trip Gabriel / New York Times:

Ryan, Quiet for Now, Is Said to Be Planning for an Active Role — CINCINNATI — Representative Paul D. Ryan may have largely disappeared from the national spotlight down the campaign homestretch, ceding attention to Mitt Romney. But if the Republican ticket prevails, Mr. Ryan plans to come back roaring …

Discussion: The Caucus and Taylor Marsh

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.

Discussion: American Prospect and Lawyers, Guns & Money

New York Post:

Devastated Rockaways residents lash out at Bloomberg during unannounced visit — Storm-ravaged and weary Rockaways residents cornered Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to angrily demand more aid for their devastated neighborhood. — “When are we gonna get some help?” blasted one desperate woman …

Discussion: protein wisdom

David Martosko / The Daily Caller:

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.

Discussion: The Hinterland Gazette and Taylor Marsh

Matt Blaze / Matt Blaze's Exhaustive Search:

Voting by Email in New Jersey — Some very preliminary thoughts. — New Jersey was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, and many parts of the state still lack electricity and basic infrastructure. Countless residents have been displaced, at least temporarily. And election day is on Tuesday.

Discussion: Addicting Info, Mashable!, The Atlantic Online and BuzzFeed