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Are the Democrats Trying to Steal Pennsylvania? [Updated] — It is being reported that Democratic Party operatives are evicting court-appointed Republican poll watchers from polling places in Philadelphia. Specifically, this reportedly has happened in Ward 32, Div 13; Ward 43, Div 14 …
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Twitchy, TBogg, Wonkette, The Mental Recession and The Greenroom
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Judge issuing order to reinstate booted Philadelphia election officials, Republicans say — A Pennsylvania judge is issuing an order to reinstate Republican election officials across Philadelphia who allegedly were ejected or refused entry by on-site Democratic voting chief judges, GOP officials tell Fox News.
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Obama Mural in Philadelphia Polling Place — Here's a picture of an Obama mural at a Philadelphia polling place: … The exact location is the 35th ward-D18 Franklin School. — UPDATE: A judge has reportedly ordered the mural to be covered up:
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, LifeNews.com, Wake up America and The PJ Tatler
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Philly GOP: Poll inspectors being ousted for Dems … Court-appointed Republican poll inspectors are being forcibly removed from voting stations in some Philadelphia wards and replaced in some cases by Democratic inspectors and even members of the Black Panthers, according to GOP officials.
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protein wisdom, The Heritage Foundation, The Gateway Pundit, Moonbattery, The Mahablog and Instapundit
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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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Nate Silver Would Rather Vote For Ebola Than Political Pundits
Nate Silver Would Rather Vote For Ebola Than Political Pundits
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If You Want to Stay out of Jail, Don't Instagram Your Ballot — A not-so-surprising thing happened this morning: My Instagram feed morphed from photos of dogs, kids, fancy coffees and food porn into a stream of people's voting ballots. — Photo courtesy of Instagram.
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Why It May Be Illegal to Instagram Your Ballot — Proud voters are already posting photos of their ballots on Instagram—sometimes with the names of their chosen candidates filled in. But before you snap a shot of your vote, you might want to check your state laws.
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The Atlantic Online, Mashable!, citmedialaw.org, TechCrunch and Shakesville
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DETROIT POLLS: OBAMA CAMPAIGNER PUNCHES VOTER IN FACE — REPORT: A woman in a Detroit polling location was aggressively campaigning for Obama. A female voter in line objected. The Obama supporter punched the woman in the face.
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Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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Mitt's key to victory — What pollsters aren't blaring — If Mitt Romney wins tonight, it'll likely be because of something revealed by a little-noticed statistic released yesterday by the polling firm Rasmussen — following a similar statistic last week from Gallup.
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Questions and Observations, americanthinker.com, Brad DeLong and CANNONFIRE
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Michael Van Sickler / Tampa Bay Times:
Hundreds of Pinellas voters get robocall from supervisor of elections saying Election Day is Wednesday — ST. PETERSBURG — An hour after polls opened Tuesday morning, the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office mistakenly placed hundreds — possibly thousands …
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The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice, Orlando Sentinel and The Raw Story
Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
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Christie: Hug from Bruce made me weep — After days touring the devastation at the Jersey Shore and across New Jersey, Governor Christie said there was a highlight to his emotional week: Finally getting the chance to talk to Bruce Springsteen, his music idol.
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Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
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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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Evidence Suggests PA GOP Poll Watchers Systematically Targeting African American Precincts — WASHINGTON, DC - After receiving information indicating that the Pennsylvania Republican Party and the Pittsburgh Tea Party may be systematically sending poll watchers to predominantly African American precincts …
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Wonkette, The Jawa Report, The Impolitic, Addicting Info and The Raw Story
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Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
New Evidence Shows Poll Watching Efforts Target Minority Precincts
New Evidence Shows Poll Watching Efforts Target Minority Precincts
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Hullabaloo, Democracy in America, Addicting Info and Plunderbund
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A CBS News Obama-Libya scandal? Certainly. — Oct. 17. That's the date on which President Obama's position on the Benghazi, Libya, attack peaked as a national issue. The night before, in a town hall debate moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley, the president made a spectacle of noting …
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Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller and Power Line
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Revised poll: Crockett-McAdams race is a virtual tie — Elections • 4th District's new poll numbers also shrink Love's lead over Matheson. — The Salt Lake County mayoral race between Republican Mark Crockett and Democrat Ben McAdams is almost dead even, much closer than the 10-point lead …
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Battleground Watch and The Greenroom
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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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Roger Ailes and The PJ Tatler
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Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Obama's Chicago Ward — Here's a photo of an election judge checking in voters in Barack Obama's Chicago ward—wearing an Obama baseball cap: — “This photo, taken by a voter this morning at the Ward 4, Precinct 37 polling place …
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Mitt Romney Is Running Out of Time — Pulling up in the press bus onto the grounds of Stony Brook Farm in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, you couldn't help but be struck by the size and sweep of the crowd awaiting Mitt Romney. At least 25,000 strong — 30k-plus if you believed the campaign …
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Taylor Marsh and NewsBusters.org blogs
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Romney up 92K in OH early voting? Update: Gannett pulls link; Update: EV up 14% in 2008 McCain counties, down in Obama counties; Update: Gannett “regrets the error” — Update: The data is still up at the Gannett site, but they've pulled the link from the front page.
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The PJ Tatler
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[UPDATED] True The Vote Forged Signatures To Get Observers At Ohio Polls — Yesterday we reported that True the Vote was attempting to place observers at precincts in Central Ohio, focusing on African American districts. We also noted that there might be some problems with the forms …
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Election Crystal Ball — ROBERT ALT — Ohio has been evenly divided for so long that it is hard to remember a time when we were not in this interminable election season or when Ohio was not “in play” or tied. But fortune favors the bold, and momentum and a faltering economy favor the challenger.
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VoteSeeing and Booman Tribune
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An Expert Weighs in on That Viral Reddit ‘Voter Fraud’ Video — When we asked people to share their stories of voting irregularity earlier today, dozens of people shared this video — currently on the Reddit front page with nearly 20,000 up-votes — of a Pennsylvania voting machine seemingly altering a man's vote from Obama to Romney.
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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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Washington Post and Right Wing News
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Chrysler gives workers day off to vote … The car company that attacked Mitt Romney for falsely claiming it was moving operations overseas is going a step further, ostensibly for President Obama. — Chrysler's vice president of design, Ralph Gilles, tweeted Tuesday that the company gave its entire work force the day off to vote.
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Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and Election 2012
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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