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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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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Rick Scott, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Barack Obama 2012 , Video, Barack Obama Florida, Mitt Romney Florida, Obama Florida, Early Voting …
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Lizette Alvarez / The Caucus:
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting — MIAMI - In a state where legal action often goes hand in hand with presidential elections, the Florida Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit early Sunday to force the state government to extend early voting hours in South Florida.
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ABCNEWS, The BRAD BLOG and Marbury
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold
South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold
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CBS Miami and skippy the bush kangaroo
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote
After Republicans Restrict Early Voting Hours, Floridians Wait More Than 6 Hours To Vote
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Orlando Sentinel and The Raw Story
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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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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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking poll: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama tied
Battleground Tracking poll: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama tied
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Power Line, CNN, Public Policy Polling, Taegan Goddard's … and NewsMax.com
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Obama, Romney in even race two days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Obama, Romney in even race two days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Fix and Business Insider
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Don't Blame Mitt Romney — A new Republican consensus: The candidate, and the party, have done a pretty good job. “You just keep throwing money at the problem and it doesn't resolve,” mourns a Republican operative. — Romney in Cleveland Sunday. — Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters
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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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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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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
In Ohio Vote, A Form-Checking Nightmare — For recount-ready legal teams, every vote could be The Deciding Factor. A weekend squabble in Ohio shows just how seriously and closely every decision is being watched. — The provisional ballot affirmation form at the center of the latest Ohio voting dispute.
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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.
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Biden: GOP ‘fever’ will break after election — Vice President Biden said that if President Obama is re-elected, the Republican “fever” will break and some level of bipartisanship would return to Washington. — In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Sunday, Biden said he's already …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ryan, Quiet for Now, Is Said to Be Planning for an Active Role
Ryan, Quiet for Now, Is Said to Be Planning for an Active Role
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The Caucus, The Political Carnival and Taylor Marsh
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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USA Today:
ENTHUSED ABOUT THE ELECTION, CERTAIN OF THEIR VOTE — AND TIED — USA TODAY and Gallup have conducted 11 surveys over the past year or so in the nation's dozen top battlegrounds. Here is a rundown on how the contest has changed over that time and where it stands now.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Ballot Box
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, Sense of Events, The Political Carnival and Lippmann's Ghost
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.
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Election 2012 and The Fix
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 and Middle Earth Journal
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
N.J. to allow voting by e-mail and fax — Using a system already accessible to military members deployed overseas, hurricane-damaged New Jersey will allow displaced residents to cast their votes using e-mail or fax on Election Day. — “To help alleviate pressure on polling places …
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Washington Examiner:
November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation … President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.
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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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The Hinterland Gazette and msnbc.com
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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The Greenroom, The Gateway Pundit and Power Line