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12:40 PM ET, November 4, 2008

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Amanda Carpenter / Townhall.com:
A Repeat of 2004 Philly Voter Chaos, Fraud  —  GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status.  —  A Pennsylvania judge previously ruled that court-appointed poll watchers …
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John / Power Line:
VOTER FRAUD UNDERWAY IN PHILADELPHIA  —  It's a time-honored tradition in some Philadelphia precincts: commandeer the premises and start running ballots through the machines, voting for Democrats.  It's happening again this year.  Amanda Carpenter reports:
Discussion: Nice Deb, Campaign Silo and TBogg
CNN:
Dixville Notch has spoken: It's Obama in a landslide  —  DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
First town weighs in on election at midnight  —  (CNN) — The first wave of election returns won't flow in until 7 p.m. ET Tuesday night, but the results in one precinct will be known much sooner.  —  Dixville Notch, a village in New Hampshire's northeast corner, will begin voting at the stroke …
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: A VIEWERS' GUIDE TO TONIGHT
Discussion: UnionLeader.com and The RBC
Mark Steyn / The Corner:   And so it begins...  Re Dixville Notch, several readers point …
Marist Poll:
Battle for the White House: The Final National Poll  —  This Marist Poll reports:  —  · The End of the Road...Obama Leads McCain by 9 Percentage Points Nationally Going Into Today's Election: The campaign trail comes to an end today for Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.
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John Fund / Wall Street Journal:
Milwaukee Puts a Vote-Fraud Cop Out of Business  —  Local Democrats don't take the issue seriously.  —  Last week Mike Sandvick, head of the Milwaukee Police Department's five-man Special Investigative Unit, was told by superiors not to send anyone to polling places on Election Day.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Palin's Doctor Writes  —  I'll let AP tell the story: … We have been given no actual records of the last pregnancy, or any reccords at all, although we are told by the elusive Dr. Catherine Baldwin-Johnson that labor was at 35 weeks - not as premature as previously believed …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Palin Aides Release Her Medical History
Discussion: Political Machine
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left  —  A President Obama would not face the same constraints as his Democratic predecessors.  —  There's an old saying that politics in America is played between the 40 yard lines.  What this means, for those unfamiliar with football, is that we're a centrist country …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Election Night Guide (Popcorn Included)  —  Pundits and pollsters may be trying to take all the fun out of Election Day.  So many have predicted a lopsided victory for Senator Barack Obama over Senator John McCain that you might wonder why even to bother watching the returns on Tuesday night.
Discussion: Threat Level, Althouse and TVNewser
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Political Punch:
Among the Other Voters  —  CHICAGO, Ill. — Among the other voters who have shown up to vote at Shoesmith Elementary School this morning, where Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will vote: Louis Farrakhan and William Ayers.  —  Seriously.  —  Welcome to the South Side of Chicago.  — jpt
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls  —  Oh, let me count the ways.  Almost all of this, by the way, is lifted from Mark Bluemthnal's outstanding Exit Poll FAQ.  For the long version, see over there.  —  1. Exit polls have a much larger intrinsic margin for error than regular polls.
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The Campaign Spot:
Something Else To Keep in Mind When You Hear Leaked Exit Poll Results Tomorrow...
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Gateway Pundit
Ariana Eunjung Cha / Washington Post:
As China's Losses Mount, Confidence Turns to Fear  —  Officials Use Bailouts to Forestall Unrest  —  SHENZHEN, China — When Chong Yik Toy Co. went bankrupt, the bosses fled without meeting their payroll and angry workers took to the streets in protest.  Less than 72 hours later, the local government came to the rescue.
HillBuzz:
WARNING: this is how Election Day is going to go down.  Do not get sucked in, Eeyores!  —  We don't want to beat a dead horse here (or, donkey, as the case may be), but we need to remind you all, once more, not to be Eeyores today.  —  The Obamedia is going to do to you what they did to …
Discussion: Nice Deb and Yourish.com
Reihan Salam / Forbes:
What If McCain Wins?  —  A John McCain victory would represent an almost miraculous comeback.  But is miraculous the right word?  I'm in Austin, Texas, right now, a lefty enclave in the heart of Republican Texas, and I sense that many of my Barack Obama-supporting friends would consider …
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Vodkapundit
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Networks May Call Race Before Voting Is Complete  —  At least one broadcast network and one Web site said Monday that they could foresee signaling to viewers early Tuesday evening which candidate appeared to have won the presidency, despite the unreliability of some early exit polls in the last presidential election.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Last laugh may replace the scream  —  Howard Dean doesn't believe in luck, nor does he leave matters to chance.  —  “My favorite quote is from Louis Pasteur: Chance favors the prepared mind,” Dean said in an interview Monday while campaigning in John McCain's home state of Arizona.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
CNN:
Voting machine breakdowns lead to long lines  —  (CNN) — Some voters Tuesday morning encountered machine breakdowns, long lines and late poll openings, while others cast their ballots in minutes with no problems.  —  While a record turnout is expected for the historic presidential election …
Maggie Gallagher / The Corner:
The Return of Open Attacks on Religious Minorities: Prop 8's Legacy  —  Well this is certainly change.  —  The voices of tolerance in California are concluding their campaign against Prop 8 with this TV ad, which engages in a level of blatant religious hatred I've never seen in American politics.
Discussion: Dirty Harry's Place
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Long Lines  —  It's worth saying that I do think this Corner reader is on to something — long lines can be a sign of extraordinary voter enthusiasm, but they can also be a sign of all kinds of other things.  The line at my polling place was tremendous.  But in part that was because the process moved very slowly.
Discussion: The Corner and Washington Monthly
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Schumer on Fox: Fairness Doctrine ‘fair and balanced’  —  Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I think we should all be fair and balanced, don't you?”  —  Schumer's comments echo other Democrats' views …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Hot Air
Christopher Stern / Bloomberg:
Obama Counts on Text Messages to Drive Turnout of Youth, Blacks  —  Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama's campaign is counting on a potent new weapon for Election Day: the humble cell-phone text message.  —  Texting — an obsession of the young and a necessity for lower-income voters …
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Date With Scarcity  —  Nov. 4, 2008, is a historic day because it marks the end of an economic era, a political era and a generational era all at once.  —  Economically, it marks the end of the Long Boom, which began in 1983.  Politically, it probably marks the end of conservative dominance, which began in 1980.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
After Epic Campaign, Voters Go to Polls  —  Americans went to the polls on Tuesday to choose the next president of the United States, deciding whether Senator Barack Obama or Senator John McCain was better suited to guide the nation through an economic crisis at home and two wars abroad.
Discussion: Democracy in America
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Beyond “Bias”  —  For an institution shot through with liberal bias, the liberal media sure does seem to love conservatives.  On one cable network, for example, a former Republican congressman hosts a three-hour show every weekday.  And that's the most liberal of three networks!  Impressive.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Turning out, everywhere  —  As far as I can figure out from my morning email, turnout is unprecedented everywhere, from Democratic enclaves in Northern Virginia to Florida to Central Pennsylvania.  Readers in both Republican and Democratic spots say the lines are longer than they were four years ago.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and marbury
 
 
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