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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Chris Christie Denied Mitt Romney Request To Appear At Campaign Event Days Ahead Of 2012 Election … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Video, Chris Christie Obama, Chris Christie Mitt Romney …
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Jason Linkins / The Huffington Post:
Dixville Notch Election Results 2012: Obama And Romney Tie, 5 Votes Apiece … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Video, 2012 Election Results, Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, Dixville Notch 2012, Dixville Notch Election Results 2012 …
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This Just In:
A tie for Obama and Romney in nation's first results — The first presidential election results are in - and it's a tie. — President Barack Obama and his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, each received five votes in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire. — The town in the state's northeast corner …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Christie adviser denies report about Romney invitation — Boston (CNN) - An adviser to Chris Christie is flatly denying a report that the New Jersey governor turned down an offer from the Romney campaign to appear at a Sunday night campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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Gallup:
Romney 49%, Obama 48% in Gallup's Final Election Survey — Early voting so far breaks 49% for Obama and 48% for Romney — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are within one percentage point of each other in Gallup's final pre-election survey of likely voters …
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Dead heat — BOSTON—The presidential race is tied going into Election Day. — The final POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters — conducted Sunday and Monday — shows Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama each claiming 47 percent nationally.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Ohio Law Could Bring Long Delays in a Recount — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Election Day in Ohio is Tuesday, as in every other state in the union. But if the margin in the presidential contest is narrow here, as many polls predict, the winner may not be known until well into December.
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Michael Walsh / National Review:
Crush Them — Conservatives have a rare opportunity tomorrow to do something they signally failed to do in the landslide elections of 1972 and 1984: finish the job. Nixon's victory was vitiated by Watergate and quickly revenged by Woodward and Bernstein, leading to his replacement in 1974 by Jerry Ford …
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Sense of Events, American Power and The Atlantic Online
Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
2012 Exit Polls: Why They Won't Tell You Who Won … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Video, 2012 Election Polls, 2012 Exit Polls, 2012 Polls, Election 2012, Election Polls 2012, Elections, Exit Polls …
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Colin Campbell / Politicker:
Obama Campaign to Supporters: Don't Panic Over Early Exit Polls
Obama Campaign to Supporters: Don't Panic Over Early Exit Polls
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Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
The Mistake That Is the Libertarian Party — Voting the LP line could swing the election to the Democrats. That's not an outcome libertarians should hope for. — In 1972, the Libertarian Party nominated University of Southern California philosophy Prof. John Hospers as its first presidential candidate …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Email Voting Fails Some New Jersey Residents — Bouncing email addresses, personal hotmail accounts. “It's really maddening,” says Tanz. — New Jersey's last-minute offer of email voting to displaced residents was greeted by concern by security experts, who warn that email offers a fast track to voter fraud.
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Salvador Rizzo / New Jersey Online:
N.J.'s emergency email voting system could cause problems, experts say
N.J.'s emergency email voting system could cause problems, experts say
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Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
CHICAGO SOURCE TELLS AUTHOR BRAD THOR: OBAMA CAMPAIGN PLANNING TO PROCLAIM EARLY VICTORY TO ‘DEMORALIZE ROMNEY SUPPORTERS’ — New York Times best-selling author Brad Thor, based in Chicago, tells TheBlaze that the Obama campaign may be planning to preemptively announce victory …
John Althouse Cohen / Jaltcoh:
Live-blogging the final presidential debate of 2012 — I'll say anything I have to say about tonight's presidential debate, which you can watch live online, in this post. — I'll be writing down any quotes on the fly, without the aid of a transcript or pause/rewind button.
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Elizabeth Titus / Politico:
Gary Johnson: Obama will win
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Monday Morning — We begin with the three words everyone writing about the election must say: Nobody knows anything. Everyone's guessing. I spent Sunday morning in Washington with journalists and political hands, one of whom said she feels it's Obama, the rest of whom said they don't know.
Associated Press:
New Congress Likely to Frustrate Obama or Romney — No matter who is elected president, he's likely to find that the next Congress will remain what the current one has been for President Barack Obama — a headache. — Months of speeches, saturation TV advertising, uncountable events …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
The looming GOP civil war - whether Mitt wins or not
The looming GOP civil war - whether Mitt wins or not
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
Briton Killed in China Had Spy Links — A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that murdered Briton Neil Heywood provided information about the family of ousted Communist Party leader Bo Xilai. The WSJ's Jeremy Page reveals what Heywood may have been up to in China.
Politico:
Why 2012 turned small — The 2012 election is over at last, and its supporting cast—a complex of operatives and reporters, locked in an embrace of mutual need and mutual contempt, an audience of millions, at once transfixed and repelled—is gasping at the finish line, collapsed in a heap.
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Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
Romney Supporters Ready To Blame Government Moochers If Obama Wins — FAIRFAX, Va. — If President Obama wins re-election on Tuesday, retired Army Colonel Allen Wild knows exactly who blame: “the 47 percent.” Not the leaked video of Republican nominee Mitt Romney claiming that 47 percent …
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Toby Harnden / Daily Mail:
Exclusive: Romney up ONE POINT in Ohio and TIED in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to his campaign's internal polling — If the figures hold true Romney will almost certainly become the 45th President of the United States — Mitt Romney is ahead by a single percentage point in Ohio …
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Laura Meckler / Washington Wire:
Obama Returns to Iowa for Nostalgic Finale — DES MOINES, Iowa—President Barack Obama finished his second presidential campaign where he began his first, in Iowa, the state that propelled him out of the caucuses and toward the Democratic nomination and ultimately the White House.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Nov. 5: Late Poll Gains for Obama Leave Romney With Longer Odds — Mitt Romney has always had difficulty drawing a winning Electoral College hand. Even during his best period of polling, in the week or two after the first presidential debate in Denver, he never quite pulled ahead …
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Politico:
CBS under fire for withholding Obama's Benghazi remarks — CBS News is continuing to draw fire for withholding footage of a Sept. 12 interview with President Barack Obama in which he said it was “too early to tell” whether or not the previous day's attack in Benghazi, Libya, had been an act of terror.
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Bret Baier / Fox News:
What President Obama really said in that ‘60 Minutes’ interview about Benghazi
What President Obama really said in that ‘60 Minutes’ interview about Benghazi
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