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3:15 PM ET, November 7, 2022

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Steven Shepard / Politico:
POLITICO's final Election Forecast: Senate up for grabs, GOP on brink of House majority  —  Republicans have a grip on the House majority.  But the Senate is firmly up for grabs.  —  That's the topline of the final updates before Tuesday's vote to POLITICO's Election Forecast …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The 3 Big Questions I Still Have About Election Day  —  With less than 24 hours to go until we freeze our model,1 we're probably not going to see a lot more changes in the topline forecast.  Republicans have a 54 percent chance of winning the Senate and an 83 percent chance in the House, according to our Deluxe forecast.
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Final Ratings for the 2022 Election  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — Our final Senate pick is 51-49 Republican, or a net Republican gain of 1 seat.  — Our final House pick is 237-198 Republican, or a net Republican gain of 24 seats.  — Our projected gubernatorial picture …
Third Way:
Overcoming the Democratic Party Brand  —  If Democrats manage to hold on to the House and Senate, it will be in spite of the party brand, not because of it, according to a pre-election national poll.  Despite a roster of GOP candidates who are extreme by any standard, voters see Democrats as just as extreme …
Margot Cleveland / The Federalist:
Democracy Isn't At Risk, Democrats Are
Discussion: Washington Post and Twitchy
Ruby Cramer / Washington Post:   Beto O'Rourke's third campaign in 6 years embodies Democrats' unrealized gains
The Daily Beast:
Pollsters Have 'No F*cking Idea What's Going to Happen' This Election
Washington Post:
Democrats look to centrists in final hours while GOP amps up its base
Discussion: The Hill and Jezebel
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Pathetic Democratic Pantheon
Discussion: The Guardian and Washington Times
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Gaining Support Among Black and Latino Voters, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Republicans appear to be in a better position with both groups heading into the midterms than they were in 2020 or 2018.  —  A Seismic Shift: Why Latino Voters Could Decide Key Races in 2022  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
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Washington Post:
Republicans sue to disqualify thousands of mail ballots in swing states  —  The lawsuits coincide with a systemic effort by GOP leaders to persuade voters to cast ballots in person, not absentee  —  Republican officials and candidates in at least three battleground states are pushing …
Jack Nissen / WJBK-TV:
Detroit judge dismisses Karamo lawsuit, calls it ‘false flag of election law violations and corruption’  —  Detroit NAACP blasts Kristina Karamo's claims of voter fraud in city  —  DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Detroit judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent the city's absentee ballots …
Discussion: MLive.com, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
'Putin's chef' admits to interfering in U.S. elections  —  Yevgeny Prigozhin, an entrepreneur known as “Putin's chef” because of his catering contracts with the Kremlin, on Monday admitted he had interfered in U.S. elections and said he would continue to do so — for the first time confirming …
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Reuters:
Russia's Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections  —  Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure who has been formally implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Tells His Minions to Vote GOP  —  Twitter's new owner has been indulging conservative commentators all year  —  IN A TWEET that shocked absolutely no one, Elon Musk instructed his sycophants to vote Republican in the midterm elections.
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / The Daily Beast:
Musk Shares a Nazi Meme Then Tells Twitter to Vote Republican  —  MANIC MONDAY  —  Life comes at you fast.  Six months ago, Elon Musk wrote, “For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally.”
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A Bottomless Pinocchio for Biden — and other recent gaffes  —  President Biden is a self-described “gaffe machine.”  That's no excuse, of course, for a president making false or misleading statements.  Readers have asked for fact checks of a variety of recent Biden statements …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Few More Biden Lies about the Debt Before Election Day
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Trump-DeSantis Rift Grows, With Dueling Rallies in Florida  —  The Republican Party's top two stars are campaigning, separately, in the midterms' last days.  —  SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. — Former President Donald J. Trump hasn't endorsed Gov. Ron DeSantis this year because, as he has explained, his fellow Floridian never asked.
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Rallies for . . . Donald Trump
Associated Press:
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion  —  New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio.  Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn …
Eric Geller / Politico:
6 election security threats to watch for on Election Day  —  The midterms face a bevy of digital threats, from stolen Twitter accounts to hacked election websites, that could spark chaos, confusion and unrest that last long after the polls close.  —  The 2020 presidential election was rife …
U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department to Monitor Polls in 24 States for Compliance with Federal Voting Rights Laws  —  The Justice Department announced today its plans to monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in 64 jurisdictions in 24 states for the Nov. 8, 2022 general election.
 
 
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Washington Post:
Oath Keepers' leader Rhodes denies conspiracy to enter Capitol on Jan. 6
Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
A meme about blue pens shows 2020 false claims still warp voting in 2022
NBC News:
Timothy Griffin of New York state is killed fighting Russians in Ukraine
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Sen. Tom Cotton: ‘Family was really the only consideration’ in his decision not to run for president in 2024
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
An Ex-Trump Adviser's Acquittal Shows How Politics and Business Intertwine
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
CISA is taking a hands-off approach to election lies on Twitter
Discussion: New York Times
United States Courts:
New Database Eases Release of Judges' Finance Reports
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Conspiracists Beware: Post-Election Lies Could Land You in Legal Hot Water
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
“My Job in This Role Is to Not Guess”: Jen Psaki's TV Career Is Getting Off the Ground
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Divisive Academic Freedom Conference Proceeds
Discussion: Common Sense
Robert P. Baird / Columbia Journalism Review:
‘The Left Edge of the Possible’