Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:20 AM ET, November 1, 2020

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads President Trump in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and, by a wide margin, in Wisconsin, according to a Times/Siena College poll.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a clear advantage over President Trump across four …
RELATED:
Politico:
‘You can certainly see how he could win’: Why Trump isn't done yet  —  Everything would have to break exactly right for Donald Trump to win reelection.  —  But the recipe for an upset is there.  —  Trump is polling within striking distance of Joe Biden in Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden has slight lead in Pennsylvania; Florida a toss-up
Discussion: The Hill
Scott Rasmussen / Political IQ:   Florida Final Poll: Biden 51% Trump 47%
Siena College Research Institute:
The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Polls: Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Gary Langer / ABC News:   Florida maintains toss-up status while Biden leads slightly in Pennsylvania: POLL
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
Biden camp cancels multiple Texas events after a “Trump Train” surrounded a campaign bus  —  The highway skirmish came as Democrats close ground in a state that is polling competitively in the race for president.  Recent polls indicate the presidential race in Texas between President Donald Trump …
RELATED:
Republican Party of Texas:
Statement Regarding ‘Biden Bus’ Incident  —  Abby Livingston from The Texas Tribune reached out to the RPT today and asked a question about a Biden campaign bus in her attempt to portray conservatives as violent radicals, even though it is leftists from Antifa and BLM who have been assaulting …
Discussion: Slate and Althouse
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The man and the record  —  “He's unpresidential.”  —  “He's crude and unkind.”  —  “He's just not a good man.”  —  These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump.  His personality totally eclipses his record.  —  So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.
Discussion: Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
‘A whole lot of hurt’: Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response  —  President Trump's repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden leads Trump by 10 points in final pre-election NBC News/WSJ poll  —  WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden maintains his double-digit national lead over Republican President Donald Trump in the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the 2020 presidential election …
Discussion: The Hill, CNBC and POLITICUSUSA
Lawfare:
Newly Released FBI Documents Show Troubling Double Standard on Political Speech  —  This morning, we received more than 30 pages of material from the FBI illustrating a remarkable disparity in its treatment of its employees: Five employees, the documents show, have been disciplined …
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
A safe, sane way to navigate election night — and beyond  —  We all need to be clear-eyed about the social and political volatility heading into Election Day: The chances of sporadic violence, significant unrest or voting issues are quite high, according to basically every federal …
RELATED:
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:   Trump Camp Uses Online Gimmick to Fuel Donations Into December
Larry D. Croom / Villages-News:
Villages sees spike in COVID-19 cases as state tops 800,000 positive results  —  The Villages saw a significant jump in COVID-19 patients on Friday as Florida surpassed 800,000 cases of the potentially deadly virus.  —  Thirty-nine new COVID-19 cases were reported Friday in and around Florida's Friendliest Hometown.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Dishonesty Has Defined the Trump Presidency.  The Consequences Could Be Lasting.  —  Whether President Trump wins or loses on Nov. 3, the very concept of public trust in an established set of facts necessary for the operation of a democratic society has been eroded.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
That Sound You Hear Is Trumpworld Panicking  —  The old tricks aren't working.  The October Surprise surprised nobody.  Junior says nobody's dying.  But like, a lot of people still are.  —  BEAST INSIDE … Madame Tussaud's in Berlin dumped its wax version of America's worst president …
Discussion: Raw Story
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Lincoln Project targets 3 deep red states with million-dollar ad buy as election map ‘turning against’ Trump  —  WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump's enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states.  The Lincoln Project …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump allies, largely unconstrained by Facebook's rules against repeated falsehoods, cement pre-election dominance  —  From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies  —  The researchers used a statistical model to extrapolate infections tied to 18 rallies, and the study's figures were not based on individual cases traced directly to particular campaign events.
Discussion: Japan Times
RELATED:
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Joe Biden has finally disclosed who is raising him big money just days before Election Day  —  Joe Biden released the list of his general-election fundraisers after 90 million people had already voted.  Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images  —  Biden has been sharply breaking …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
White House plots possible second-term Cabinet purge  —  A second-term Trump administration is considering expelling Cabinet members who have crossed the president, refused to mount investigations he has demanded or contradicted him on coronavirus.  —  White House advisers say Trump is likely …
Discussion: Washington Post
David Rothkopf / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's Complicity With Traitor Trump Has Tainted Israel-U.S. Ties  —  Of all the world's leaders, its right-wing populists and ethno-nationalists, no one embraced America's betrayer as fully and as short-sightedly as Netanyahu.  The years ahead will reveal the deep-seated damage that has caused
Washington Post:
Biden's still locked in a bitter fight.  But the jockeying is already underway for jobs in his would-be administration.  —  Joe Biden remains locked in a bitterly fought race for the presidency, but the Congressional Black Caucus is nonetheless already gathering résumés for jobs in his would-be administration.
Discussion: NPR
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
When will your ballot be counted in the 2020 election?  A look at what goes into the tallying process  —  The exact procedures — including deadlines — depend on where you live.  —  Voting in 2020 during COVID-19  —  How coronavirus has made mail-in voting and the general election more complicated in 2020.
Discussion: Associated Press and NPR
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump's Henchmen  —  The problem with anonymity is that you don't know who is speaking.  That's not as obvious as it sounds: we tend to think that ideas can exist entirely outside of the people who bring them to light.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
“It's wholly un-American”: Harris County drive-thru voters await court rulings as Texas Republicans push to invalidate 127,000 votes  —  A conservative activist and three Republican candidates have asked state and federal courts to toss the votes and shut down drive-thru voting in the state's most populous …
Barry Yeoman / Washington Post:
N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids  —  GRAHAM, N.C. — Law enforcement officers fired a spray they described as a “pepper-based vapor” that left demonstrators — including children — coughing at an “I Am Change” march for voter turnout.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:20 AM ET, November 1, 2020.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Politico:
‘They All Got Careless’: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual ‘Games,’ Self-Dealing
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and New York Post
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Another election night nears, with trepidation replacing hope
Discussion: Fortune and The Guardian
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The last push
Discussion: NPR, Bloomberg, CNBC and The Guardian
Washington Examiner:
The Trump administration scores another win for peace
Discussion: The National Interest
Merrill Matthews / The Hill:
Could Blacks and Hispanics hand Trump a November victory?
Discussion: The Guardian
Dan Kaufman / New Yorker:
Will Trump's Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
 Earlier Items: 
Joseph E. Stiglitz / New York Times:
Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes
Discussion: Raw Story
ABC:
They once peddled misinformation for Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon. Now they're speaking out
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Julie Strauss Levin / Tennessee Star:
Commentary: The Nightmare Scenario of Biden-Harris and the Ascendancy of Kamala
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democrats grow more anxious about Pennsylvania
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Boris Johnson announces month-long COVID-19 lockdown in England
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Financial Times:
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5

Reporters Without Borders:
Investigation: how hack-for-hire Appin tried silencing 15+ outlets since 2022 over articles, newsletters, and podcasts covering Appin's “ethical hacking”

Max Tani / Semafor:
Sources: CNN is considering making network anchor Kaitlan Collins its chief White House correspondent and relocating her show from New York to DC

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page