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9:50 AM ET, November 8, 2016

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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.
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The Hill:
Wild race heads for dramatic ending  —  sounded a confident note Monday as she sought to cut off any path to 270 electoral votes for Donald Trump  —  on the final full day of the presidential campaign.  —  Trump, for his part, promised that his supporters would propel him to a surprise victory.
Discussion: The Week, Politico and Vox
CNN:
Early voting data suggests Clinton lags in North Carolina compared to 2012  —  (CNN)The political consensus is virtually unanimous: If Hillary Clinton wins North Carolina, Donald Trump has to win every other competitive state to take the White House.  —  Clinton has other paths …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Spread of Early Voting Is Forging New Habits and Campaign Tactics  —  In 1977, a flood control measure on the ballot in Monterey, Calif., became what historians say was the first modern American election decided by people who voted before Election Day.  —  It was a strange moment …
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
Politico:
Clinton wins Dixville Notch  —  Dixville Notch, the quirky northern New Hampshire town that traditionally votes early on Election Day, has tallied this year's results — and Hillary Clinton is the local winner.  —  Clinton won four votes, while Donald Trump picked up two.
Discussion: ABC News and Taylor Marsh
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Obamas combine forces with the Clintons to fend off Trump  —  PHILADELPHIA — Silencing the vast Philadelphia crowd with his final campaign trail address as president, Barack Obama framed Hillary Clinton as a guardian of his legacy as the clock ticked down on her long, turbulent ride to the White House.
Discussion: ABC News
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 …
New York Times:
Clinton Campaigns in Philadelphia
Discussion: Politico
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: NBC News and The Jawa Report
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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 and FOX40
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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 …
Discussion: Townhall.com
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
2016 Race Stays at 47-43 through Sunday (POLL)
Discussion: Hot Air, The Week and Bloomberg
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
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.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A group of political scientists says Trump's attacks on our democracy are unprecedented and dangerous  —  As a general rule, political scientists tend to shy away from taking public stands for — or against — candidates that might make them appear partisan or somehow lacking in scientific objectivity.
Discussion: Business Insider
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge balks at five-year timeline for release of Clinton emails  —  A federal judge signaled Monday that he's not inclined to agree to a timetable for the release of FBI-recovered Hillary Clinton emails that could have the records dribbling out over the next five years.
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Fox News:
State Department contractors detail how Clinton and her team ignored security rules
Discussion: BizPac Review, TheBlaze and Hot Air
TMZ.com:
Hillary Clinton — Pulls Plug On Election Night Fireworks  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Hillary Clinton will NOT light up the sky over NYC if she wins the Presidency — her campaign is calling off a planned fireworks show ... TMZ has learned.  —  The Clinton campaign had contacted the Coast Guard …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Let's Not Do This Again
Conor Skelding / Politico:
Alt-right provocateur to dress up as ‘mattress girl’ for Columbia speech
Discussion: Heat Street
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Donald Trump mocks hip hop as ‘talking’
Discussion: Balloon Juice
 Earlier Items: 
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
TV Networks Face a Skeptical Public on Election Night
Julia Hahn / Breitbart:
Jill Stein Agrees with Trump: Hillary Clinton Presidency Means Nuclear War, a ‘Mushroom Cloud Waiting to Happen’
Associated Press:
High Court Raises Doubts About Temporary Presidential Picks
Discussion: Washington Post
William Finnegan / New Yorker:
Venezuela, a Failing State
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
This Time, There Really Is a Hispanic Voter Surge
Evan Perez / CNN:
Clinton campaign sends legal warning on ads claiming she's ‘under investigation’
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Our Final 2016 Picks  —  Clinton 322, Trump 216; 50-50 Senate; GOP holds House
 

 
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