Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:30 PM 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:
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog”  —  Joe Biden will become “an underdog” if he fails to win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver said on ABC's “This Week” Sunday.  —  Why it matters: Trump won the battleground by less …
Siena College Research Institute:
The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Polls: Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Scott Rasmussen / Political IQ:
Florida Final Poll: Biden 51% Trump 47%
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
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.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's plan to declare premature victory  —  President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's “ahead,” according to three sources familiar with his private comments.  — That's even if the Electoral College outcome still hinges …
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 …
RELATED:
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes  —  A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal, and invalidate votes that have already been cast.
RELATED:
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose  —  The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits.  That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.  —  The President was despondent.
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:
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Trump, GOP will need big Election Day margins to win in Iowa  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump and other Republicans will head into Election Day likely trailing by tens of thousands of votes in Iowa, a deficit they hope to overcome with a strong turnout of their supporters at polling places.
RELATED:
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day  —  President Trump has been trying to pre-emptively delegitimize ballots counted after Nov. 3.  But states have always counted past election night.  —  For weeks, President Trump and his allies have been laying groundwork to challenge the results of the election if he loses.
RELATED:
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
When will your ballot be counted in the 2020 election? A look at what goes into the tallying process
Discussion: Axios, Associated Press and NPR
Politico:
‘They All Got Careless’: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual ‘Games,’ Self-Dealing  —  When Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki strolled around the Lynchburg, Va., campus of Liberty University, the evangelical school which Falwell led as president, they would play a secret game called “Would you rather.”
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Scholars warn of collapse of democracy as Trump v Biden election looms … Dozens of historians of fascism and authoritarianism have signed a letter warning that democracy “is either withering or in full-scale collapse globally”, and urging ordinary people to take action.
USA Today:
Lincoln Project: We're fighting for a better America.  A Biden era would be a good start.  —  The party we once called home is a political Chernobyl, radioactive and dangerous but with a still unknown half-life.  We must brace for a long struggle.  —  Last December, we launched …
RELATED:
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Lincoln Project targets 3 deep red states with million-dollar ad buy as election map ‘turning against’ Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
The son of Lev Parnas offers one more Trump tell-all  —  As Rudy Giuliani searched for damaging information on the Bidens in Ukraine, waged shadow diplomatic campaigns in Venezuela and Turkey, and spoke regularly to President Donald Trump about all of it, a 19-year-old law student was quietly watching and soaking it all in.
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.
Discussion: The Verge
CBS News:
Biden leads, Trump needs Election Day surge to win — CBS News Battleground Tracker  —  Joe Biden heads into Election Day preferred by voters who have already cast their ballots early.  President Trump has a lead among those who plan to show up on November 3.  So will Biden's lead hold up?
Maria Cardona / The Hill:
The coronavirus election  —  The final days of the 2020 election are finally upon us.  President Trump and former Vice President Biden are making their closing arguments in a historic election that will determine who will lead the country amid a global pandemic that has killed …
Discussion: Reuters, Fox News and Climate Depot
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
Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
Trump noticeably absent from key US Senate race in Montana  —  A parade of Republican Party leaders fearful of losing the majority in the U.S. Senate has visited Montana to rally behind incumbent Steve Daines as he faces a strong challenge from the state's Democratic governor, Steve Bullock
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:30 PM 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: 
Geoffrey Kabaservice / Washington Post:
What's driving so many Republicans to support Joe Biden?
WRAL-TV:
Police use pepper spray on crowd who blocked roadway during march to the polls in Alamance County
CBS News:
Transcript: Scott Gottlieb discusses coronavirus on “Face the Nation,” November 1, 2020
Discussion: Axios
American Greatness:
A Momentous Choice Faces Us Today as in 1776
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
If Biden Wins Wisconsin, These New Black Community Groups Will Be a Major Reason Why
 Earlier Items: 
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
U.S. Diplomat Coughs Online, and European Allies Wonder if They Were Exposed
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
A safe, sane way to navigate election night — and beyond
Discussion: New York Times
Larry D. Croom / Villages-News:
Villages sees spike in COVID-19 cases as state tops 800,000 positive results
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
That Sound You Hear Is Trumpworld Panicking
Lawfare:
Newly Released FBI Documents Show Troubling Double Standard on Political Speech
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump's Henchmen
Discussion: Mediaite
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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