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10:40 AM ET, October 28, 2012

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oct. 26: State Poll Averages Usually Call Election Right  —  The FiveThirtyEight forecast model has found the past several days of battleground state polling to be reasonably strong for Barack Obama, with his chances of winning the Electoral College increasing as a result.
Olivier Knox / Associated Press:
Obama did not deny requests for help in Benghazi: Aide  —  The White House on Saturday flatly denied that President Barack Obama withheld requests for help from the besieged American compound in Benghazi, Libya, as it came under on attack by suspected terrorists on September 11th.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Will Obama's Benghazi Cover-Up Succeed?  —  Barack Obama's prospects for re-election have been fading for some time now.  As Mitt Romney surges, Obama flails, embarrassing himself with silly trivialities that are often summed up as Big Bird, binders and bayonets.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Ten Questions for the White House
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Third Party Nihilism: The Arguments Can Always Get Worse!  —  To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia.  Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but 1)with fewer references to Madonna …
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Matt Stoller / Salon:
The progressive case against Obama  —  Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal — and unjust — society  —  A few days ago, I participated in a debate with the legendary antiwar dissident Daniel Ellsberg on Huffington Post live on the merits of the Obama administration …
New York Times:
Barack Obama for Re-Election  —  The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold.  The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster.
Josh Jordan / National Review:
The Two Polls That Have Chicago Terrified  —  For all of the polls that are flying out almost hourly now, there are two common trends emerging: Mitt Romney is leading independents by healthy margins, and who holds the overall lead is entirely dependent on the party split within the sample.
Discussion: The Daily Dish and GayPatriot
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Romney lands key endorsement in crucial swing state - Iowa  —  (CNN) - The Des Moines Register, Iowa's largest newspaper, endorsed Mitt Romney for president Saturday, reversing its 2008 support for President Barack Obama and marking the first time the paper has endorsed a Republican in 40 years.
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Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Obama's birth certificate quip
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
House elections spell a Republican story and victory  —  President Obama remains at least an even bet to win reelection.  Democrats are favored to hold on to the Senate — an outcome few prognosticators envisioned at the beginning of the year.  And yet, with a little more than a week to go …
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Obama assails Romney's Massachusetts record  —  NASHUA, N.H. - During a New Hampshire campaign stop Saturday, President Barack Obama focused on Mitt Romney's record as governor of the state that's less than an hour south of here, Massachusetts:  —  “During Governor Romney's campaign …
Marc Santora / New York Times:
Urgent Warnings as Hurricane Sandy Strengthens and Heads to Northeast  —  With forecasts showing Hurricane Sandy and another powerful storm system likely to collide with devastating effect somewhere on the Eastern Seaboard as early as Sunday evening, tens of millions of people began to make preparations …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Losing from Behind  —  On September 11, 2012, Rasmussen Reports had President Obama's job approval at 52 percent approve, 47 percent disapprove.  Today, October 27, the numbers have reversed—47 percent approve, 52 percent disapprove.  The economic news over these past six weeks …
 
 
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
VA chief in Las Vegas questioned in Berkley ethics probe
Discussion: The Hill
David Weigel / Slate:
The Fraud That Failed  —  How the GOP's voter suppression laws …
Discussion: Daily Download
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
George Herbert Walker Obama
Fredrick Kunkle / Washington Post:
GOP's Bartlett in fight for political survival in district tailored for Democratic challenger
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Republican upset brewing in RI-01 (Patrick Kennedy's former seat)
Discussion: Roll Call and WPRI.com Blogs
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod On 2012 Campaign: Trajectory Of Race Is Set
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Todd Akin draws closer to Claire McCaskill in Missouri Senate poll
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Cynthia McFadden / ABCNEWS:
Miss. Grand Wizard Heralds Rise of New KKK, Calls for Segregation
Alan Carter / CBS Los Angeles:
Vandal Keys ‘Obama’ Into 2 Cars In Alta Loma
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Instapundit