memeorandum: Obama will win the state, Heller will barely squeak by, Horsford takes CD4 and the GOP will take the state Senate (Jon.Ralston/Ralston Reports)

5:20 PM ET, November 4, 2012

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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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Business Insider and Election 2012

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?

Discussion: Power Line, No More Mister Nice Blog, WMUR, The Strata-Sphere, CANNONFIRE, americanthinker.com, Battleground Watch and Scared Monkeys

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

Discussion: Reuters, CNN, Ballot Box and BREITBART.COM

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

Discussion: Politico and Business Insider

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: CNN, NO QUARTER USA NET, The Lonely Conservative, Guardian, protein wisdom, Conservatives4Palin and The PJ Tatler, more at Mediagazer »

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

Discussion: Politico

Newsday:
Elect Mitt Romney president of the United States

Discussion: GayPatriot

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, First Read, Guardian, Viral Read, Scared Monkeys, msnbc.com, National Review, Ballot Box, American Power, Business Insider, The Gateway Pundit and Election 2012

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

Discussion: Wake up America and Scared Monkeys

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Ohio Sen. Portman says Ohio likely to prove decisive

Discussion: CNN and Politico

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

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote

Discussion: Orlando Sentinel, The Raw Story and The Maddow Blog

New York Times:
Editorial | The Struggle to Cast a Vote: Voting Rights: Upholding Democracy

Discussion: Daily Kos

Jon.Ralston / Ralston Reports:

Obama will win the state, Heller will barely squeak by, Horsford takes CD4 and the GOP will take the state Senate — And I thought Reid-Angle was hard. — For two years, I have rested on my laurels after ignoring the public polls, trusting my reporting and gut and predicting Harry Reid would defeat Sharron Angle.

Discussion: Election 2012 and The Fix

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 Political Carnival, The Hinterland Gazette and Sense of Events

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

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, dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com, Booman Tribune, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Connecting.the.Dots, ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice and The Reality-Based Community

Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
Eleventh-Hour GOP Voter Suppression Could Swing Ohio

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Sky Dancing, No More Mister Nice Blog, Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal, The BRAD BLOG, theGrio and The Raw Story

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: The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com, PoliPundit.com and AMERICAblog

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

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Middle Earth Journal

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: Sense of Events, The Hinterland Gazette and National Review

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, Power Line and The Gateway Pundit

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, Newser, Michelle Malkin and CNN

BuzzFeed:
“Million Muppet March” Descends On Capitol Hill

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

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

Discussion: CBS Miami, Naked Politics, theGrio and The Buzz Florida Politics Feed

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

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

Brent Budowsky / The Huffington Post:

Elizabeth Warren Would Be the Conscience of the United States Senate — Besides the election for president, in my humble opinion the Massachusetts Senate race is by far the most important election in the nation, and may well be the most important Senate election in a generation.

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