memeorandum: Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election (German Lopez/Vox)

2:10 PM ET, November 4, 2016

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New Jersey Online:

Bridgegate verdict: Bill Baroni and Bridget Kelly guilty on all counts — NEWARK — Two former Christie administration insiders charged in a bizarre scheme of political retaliation against a mayor who refused to endorse the governor for re-election were found guilty Friday on all counts in the long-running Bridgegate saga.

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CNN:
Bridgegate case verdict: Former officials guilty on all counts

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New Jersey Online:
Bridgegate verdicts are in, follow live updates

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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
2 ex-Christie aides were just convicted in Bridgegate. Christie is still running Trump's transition.

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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
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Ryan Hutchins / Politico:
Two former Christie allies found guilty on all counts in Bridgegate trial

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FBI finds emails related to Hillary Clinton's State Department tenure — The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official.

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CBS News:

Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday — NEW YORK — CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. — Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces …

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David Ingram / Reuters: U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election

German Lopez / Vox:

Southern states have closed down at least 868 polling places for the 2016 election — The shutdowns follow a Supreme Court decision that limited federal oversight of elections. — Next week, Americans will hold the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Multiple Courts Weighing Possible Voter Intimidation

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Presidential Election: Any Surprises Left?

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German Lopez / Vox:
North Carolina Republicans are using one shameful trick after another to keep Democrats from voting

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Election Update: Why Clinton's Position Is Worse Than Obama's — There's been a potential breach of Hillary Clinton's electoral firewall. And it's come in New Hampshire, a state that we said a couple of weeks ago could be a good indicator of a Donald Trump comeback because of its large number of swing voters.

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New York Times:

Donald Trump's Impeachment Threat — Donald Trump and other embattled Republican candidates are resorting to a particularly bizarre and dangerous tactic in the closing days of the campaign — warning that they may well seek to impeach Hillary Clinton if she wins, or, short of that …

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Who Broke Politics? — As far as anyone can tell, Paul Ryan …

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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine: America and the Abyss

Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

The real Clinton email scandal is that a bulls**t story has dominated the campaign — If you agree with her on policy, vote with a clear conscience about the server. — Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used …

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Gary Langer / ABC News:

Hint of Momentum for Clinton, With Issues a Defining Factor (POLL) — A hint of momentum for Hillary Clinton has produced a 3-point race in the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll results, with wide leads for the Democrat in trust to handle the economy and health care among likely voters focused on those two issues.

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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton up 47-44 in Post-ABC Tracking Poll, despite Trump's 9-point edge on dealing with corruption

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WALV-TV:

EXCLUSIVE WTHR/HPI Poll: Young pulls ahead of Bayh in Senate race — INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) - Republican Todd Young inched ahead of Democrat Evan Bayh in the hotly contested Senate race by 5-points. — The WTHR/HPI Indiana Poll has Young with a 46% to 41% lead over Bayh with Libertarian Lucy Brenton with 6% and 7% still undecided.

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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Bayh used taxpayer cash for Indianapolis hotel stays

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Jim Kasuba / The News-Herald:

Allen Park man charged for allegedly holding kids at gunpoint over damaged Trump lawn sign — A 56-year-old Allen Park man has been charged with seven felonies after he allegedly pointed a gun at six children he accused of destroying his Donald Trump lawn sign.

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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

Surrogate Mike Huckabee Calls Trump ‘A Car Wreck’ — Former Arkansas governor and Donald Trump surrogate Mike Huckabee called the Republican nominee a “car wreck” on Friday morning. — “Trump may be a car wreck, but at least his car is pointed in right direction,” Huckabee wrote in a tweet.

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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Mike Huckabee: Trump a ‘car wreck,’ Clinton a ‘drunk driver’

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New York Times:

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Bloomberg:

These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can't Afford Treatment — High deductibles keep patients from seeking care for ailments — 'It hurts, but we don't have that kind of money,' patient says — While Obamacare has brought health insurance to millions of people in the U.S. …

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