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11:05 AM ET, November 8, 2016

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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Real Voter Fraud  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The casting of a ballot is the most fundamentally American act that any of us takes.  It connects us to the Enlightenment ideals of the country's founding — the once-radical notion that human beings should think for themselves, rather than merely obey kings and priests.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
Where early voting stands going into Election Day  —  As the candidates make their closing arguments before Election Day, millions of Americans have already cast their ballots for the presidential election.  —  At least 42 million citizens have voted early, with more than 18 million ballots cast in battleground states.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   Spread of Early Voting Is Forging New Habits and Campaign Tactics
The Hill:
Wild race heads for dramatic ending
Discussion: The Week, Politico and Vox
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judges refuse voter-intimidation orders against GOP and Trump in Pennsylvania, North Carolina
Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
Will Michigan voters decide whether Trump or Clinton wins it all?
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Henry McKenna / Patriots Wire:
Gisele posts on Instagram that she and Tom Brady won't back Donald Trump  —  Gisele may have spilled the beans on Tom Brady's presidential vote.  —  The New England Patriots quarterback has done his best not to say who he will vote for in the 2016 Presidential Election.
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Tom E. Curran / CSNNE.com:
Belichick did indeed write letter to Trump  —  CSN New England confirmed this morning that Bill Belichick did indeed drop a note to Donald Trump on Monday.  —  The Republican presidential hopeful, speaking in Manchester, New Hampshire on Monday night said he had the backing of both the Patriots head coach and quarterback Tom Brady.
William Cummings / USA Today:
Trump takes 32-25 lead in New Hampshire after midnight voting  —  15k Shares  —  As the world waits with bated breath for the results of Tuesday's contentious presidential election, its eyes turned briefly to three sleepy hamlets in rural New Hampshire, as their residents — fewer than 100 total …
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Politico:
Clinton wins Dixville Notch
Discussion: ABC News and Taylor Marsh
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Has Shattered Campaign Norms In Damaging, Potentially Lasting Ways  —  We have grown numb to policies, rhetoric and conduct that was once far beyond the bounds of acceptability.  —  Fairly early into his speech in Michigan on Sunday night, Donald Trump stated that five years ago …
Discussion: RedState
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ABC News:
Hillary Clinton, Jon Bon Jovi Do ‘Mannequin Challenge’  —  Hillary Clinton had a little fun on her campaign plane Monday night, joining music superstar Jon Bon Jovi and members of her campaign team in taking on the viral “Mannequin Challenge.”  —  Video captured on Clinton's campaign plane …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Obamas combine forces with the Clintons to fend off Trump
Discussion: ABC News
New York Times:
Clinton Campaigns in Philadelphia
Discussion: Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Clinton Gains, And The Polls Magically Converge  —  First things first: Hillary Clinton has a 70 percent chance of winning the election, according to both the FiveThirtyEight polls-only and polls-plus models.  That's up from a 65 percent chance on Sunday night …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Let's Not Do This Again  —  If I had to sum up the election of 2016 in one clause, I would say it has been a sociological revolution, a moral warning and a political summons.  —  Sociologically, this campaign has been an education in how societies come apart.
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Holds 2-Point Lead Over Clinton As Election Day Arrives: Final IBD/TIPP Poll Results  —  As voters go to the actual polls to cast their ballots in what has been an unprecedented presidential election, Republican Donald Trump held onto a 2-point lead over his Democratic rival …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
2016 Race Stays at 47-43 through Sunday (POLL)
Discussion: Hot Air and The Week
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Panel upholds ‘soft-money’ ban but sends GOP campaign finance challenge to Supreme Court  —  A three-judge federal panel Monday dismissed a renewed Republican challenge to the “soft-money” ban on unlimited donations to political parties from wealthy individuals, corporations and advocacy groups …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's ground game may be more robust than you think  —  SCRANTON, Pa. — If lawn signs are any guide, Donald Trump will win Pennsylvania in a landslide.  In and between Scranton and Bucks County, Pa., on Sunday, I counted more than 20 Donald Trump-Mike Pence signs plus a few bigger-than-average signs and one digital billboard.
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Topless protesters crash Trump's polling place  —  Two nearly nude women were escorted out of a polling station in midtown Manhattan Tuesday.  —  The unidentified women were shouting “out of our polls, Trump,” at the station where Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Orlando to buy Pulse nightclub, turn it into memorial  —  Mayor Buddy Dyer announced that the city of Orlando has agreed to buy Pulse nightclub to create a memorial site. … Privacy Policy  —  The city of Orlando has reached a deal to buy the Pulse nightclub for $2.25 million and plans …
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Ryan: GOP not Donald Trump's party  —  won the nomination “fair and square,” the GOP is not his party, Speaker Paul Ryan  —  (R-Wis.) said Monday on a local radio show.  —  “It is no one person's party.  Donald Trump won the primary fair and square,” Ryan said during an interview on WTMJ …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
 
 
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP insiders worried party's turnout effort will fall short
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
Charles Gasparino / New York Post:
The markets' foolish panic over Donald Trump
Claire Landsbaum / New York Magazine:
So Many Women Put ‘I Voted’ Stickers on Susan B. Anthony's Grave That the Cemetery Is Staying Open Late …
Discussion: Glamour, Vox and Joe.My.God.
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
2016's Big Reveal
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
New York Times:
Are There Really Hidden Trump Voters?
Discussion: Althouse
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Dismal Campaign Presages a Crisis of Government
Conor Skelding / Politico:
Alt-right provocateur to dress up as ‘mattress girl’ for Columbia speech
Discussion: Heat Street
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A group of political scientists says Trump's attacks on our democracy are unprecedented and dangerous
Discussion: Business Insider
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump mocks hip hop as ‘talking’
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
This Time, There Really Is a Hispanic Voter Surge
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Our Final 2016 Picks  —  Clinton 322, Trump 216; 50-50 Senate; GOP holds House
 

 
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Don Lemon, who sued Elon Musk and X after a deal fell apart, says he's leaving X on November 15, citing X's new ToS that moves legal disputes to Texas courts

Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
German royalty licensing group GEMA sues OpenAI and subsidiary OpenAI Ireland in Munich Regional Court, claiming ChatGPT violates copyrights of lyrics

 
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