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MiamiHerald.com:
A voting debacle in Doral causes chaos and confusion — Mayor Carlos Gimenez said part of the reason the county elections headquarters temporarily shut down Sunday with a crowd waiting outside to vote was because he had not authorized the additional hours. — PMAZZEI@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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New York Times:
Obama and Romney Campaigns Begin Skirmish Over Balloting — In Florida, the state's Democratic Party filed a lawsuit on Sunday morning that would force the Republican-led government to extend early voting in South Florida after complaints that extremely long lines on Saturday had prevented some people from casting their ballots.
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The Caucus
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold — Last night, voters in Miami-Dade County were forced to wait in line up to six hours to vote. In some precincts voters who arrived at 7PM were not able to cast their ballots until 1AM.
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CBS Miami, Sky Dancing, skippy the bush kangaroo and Connecting.the.Dots
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge
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Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Politico, Naked Politics, Hullabaloo, The Reality-Based Community, ThinkProgress and The Stranger …
Lizette Alvarez / The Caucus:
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting
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The Atlantic Online, Plunderbund, ABCNEWS, The BRAD BLOG, Naked Politics and Marbury
CNN:
CNN National Poll: Dead heat between Obama and Romney — Washington (CNN) - It's all tied up, according to a new national poll released two days before the presidential election. — And the CNN/ORC International survey not only indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House …
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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.
Politico:
If Obama loses.... A defeat for Barack Obama on Tuesday would be no ordinary loss for Democrats. — It would be a traumatic experience: the death of the dream of liberal realignment embodied in Obama's insurgent 2008 campaign. And it would be all the more distressing to Democrats …
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Pirate's Cove
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
ROMNEY GAINS 3 TO TIE OBAMA IN CNN'S D+11 POLL
ROMNEY GAINS 3 TO TIE OBAMA IN CNN'S D+11 POLL
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GayPatriot and Wizbang
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Wisdom of Politico — From an article just out from Politico ... As I've written many times before, the second rate product. If this is a subject that interests you, I'd encourage you to read the piece I linked right there. — Or to be more specific, Obama's winning but not with the best votes.
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The Mahablog, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jesus' General and Brad DeLong
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Sandy Versus Katrina — As Sandy barreled toward New Jersey, there were hopeful mutters on the right to the effect that it might become President Obama's Katrina, with voters blaming him for the damage, and that this might matter on Tuesday. Sorry, guys: polls show overwhelming approval …
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Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Linda McMahon Doorhanger: Vote For Obama ... And Me — Connecticut Republican Senate nominee Linda McMahon has been telling voters lately that it's okay to vote for President Obama as well as her. Now she's taking it a step further — and getting about as far away from her own party's nominee …
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Outside the Beltway, CT Senate 2012, The Daily Caller, Riehl World News and The Hinterland Gazette
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BREITBART.COM:
ROBERT THE BRUCE — Today marks the final installment of our weekly feature #WAR. Combing through footage of Andrew over the past few months is something I have not taken lightly. And now, on the eve of this historic election, I have been tasked with selecting one more video.
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iOwnTheWorld.com
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
28,000 SUPPORTERS Turn Out in the Cold to See Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania! — 28,000 SUPPORTERS Turned Out to See Mitt in Bucks County Pennsylvania! — Mitt is pulling in larger crowds - IN THE COLD - than Barack Obama and Bill Clinton - COMBINED! — Philip Rucker
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Scared Monkeys, American Power and The Lonely Conservative
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Romney staff refusing to let frostbitten children leave PA rally — This is happening right now at Mitt Romney's rally in Pennsylvania. Apparently it's freezing, and Romney's staff is refusing to let rally-goers leave. People are begging reporters for help. — Absolutely incredible.
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Firedoglake
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why Should You Vote? Visualize Romney World — My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea. Bea is now 95 years old. Bea was born in 1917. — She was born in a country where women couldn't vote. In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been legal.
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Pirate's Cove and The Gateway Pundit
Matt Dixon / Florida Times Union:
Mitt Romney has 5-point lead in Florida, Times-Union/InsiderAdvantage poll says — Mitt Romney's lead with independent voters has propelled him to a 5-point lead in Florida two days before Election Day, according to a Times-Union/InsiderAdvantage poll released Sunday night.
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Ballot Box and Wake up America
Wall Street Journal:
Health-Care Law Spurs a Shift to Part-Time Workers — Some low-wage employers are moving toward hiring part-time workers instead of full-time ones to mitigate the health-care overhaul's requirement that large companies provide health insurance for full-time workers or pay a fee.
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Questions and Observations
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
MSNBC: Joke Network, Cont'd — Over the years, we have chronicled MSNBC's lack of journalistic standards. The worst offender, Keith Olbermann, is now gone, not because of his crazed leftism or frequently embarrassing errors, but because he was an insubordinate employee.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Does Mitt Romney's Mormonism make him too scary or weird to be elected to president of the United States?” — Asks Glenn Beck, a Mormon, speaking to Evangelical Christians, reported in the NYT. … It's fascinating — isn't it? — how little anti-Mormon material has been spread about in this election.
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The Reality-Based Community
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Mitt's Pennsylvania Push: Real or Fake? — The Romney campaign seems to have committed to a late push into Pennsylvania, to the derision of Team Obama. The latter sees this as a desperation ploy by a foundering campaign, similar to John McCain's late entrance into the Keystone State in 2008.
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Brad DeLong, Riehl World News, Blue Crab Boulevard and The Fix
Alan Duke / CNN:
Extra day of voting possible in New York — A dump truck empties trash collected from homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Saturday, November 3, in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. New York is trying to clean up and resume normal activities days after the storm hit.
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