memeorandum: Ohio's Provisional Ballot Order: The Biggest Legal Story of the Weekend (Andrew Cohen/The Atlantic Online)

2:35 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?

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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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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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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:

Cantor: Romney, Allen will win big in Virginia — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) predicted Mitt Romney will win in Virginia on Tuesday — and win by a bigger margin than deadlocked polls have shown. — Cantor also said on NBC's “Meet the Press” that former Sen. George Allen …

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

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Newsday:
Elect Mitt Romney president of the United States

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

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

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

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Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Ohio provisional ballot voting order criticized

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

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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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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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BuzzFeed:

“Million Muppet March” Descends On Capitol Hill — Protestors marched on Capitol Hill Saturday for the “Million Muppet March” in support of federal funding for public television. Occupy Sesame Street t? — (Reuters) — (Reuters) — (Reuters) — (Reuters) — View Entire List ›

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

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NewsMax.com:

Zogby: Sandy Helping Obama With Independents — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Despite President Barack Obama turning the tide with a five-point swing among Independents …

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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 50-47 nationally

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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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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.

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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 …

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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.

Discussion: msnbc.com, PoliPundit.com, AMERICAblog and Battleground Watch

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:

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.

Discussion: MN Progressive Project