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12:15 PM ET, October 29, 2012

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James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking Poll: Obama retakes lead  —  MARION, Ohio — With eight days to go until the election, President Barack Obama has recaptured a narrow national lead over Mitt Romney, riding increased support from women and an edge in early voting.  —  A new POLITICO/George Washington …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
New Projection of Election Results: Romney 52, Obama 47  —  The bipartisan Battleground Poll, in its “vote election model,” is projecting that Mitt Romney will defeat President Obama 52 percent to 47 percent.  The poll also found that Romney has an even greater advantage among middle class voters, 52 percent to 45 percent.
Daniel Strauss / Ballot Box:
Romney holds slim lead on Obama in latest national tracking poll  —  Mitt Romney is holding on to a slim lead over President Obama in the Washington Post-ABC News national tracking poll for the third day in a row.  —  Released on Monday, the latest poll finds Romney leading Obama …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 51-47 in Ohio
Discussion: Firedoglake, Politico and The Greenroom
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Hurricane Sandy: 5 political questions  —  The presidential campaigns are publicly hitting pause on East Coast electioneering as Hurricane Sandy spirals toward Atlantic beaches, but privately political professionals are starting to assess important questions about how it might affect next week's elections up and down the ballot.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Political Memo: Hurricane, and Other Worries, Buffet Presidential Race  —  WASHINGTON — In the dark of night, when they get what little sleep they get these days, the people running the campaigns for president have more than enough fodder for nightmares.  Worse, come daybreak, they realize their worst fears may yet come true.
Discussion: Washington Wire and Taylor Marsh
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Hurricane Sandy: 5 political questions
Discussion: CNN, Washington Monthly and CANNONFIRE
Associated Press:
Sandy poised to make a direct hit on New Jersey
Bob King / Politico:
Sandy strengthens ahead of landfall
Discussion: Firedoglake and msnbc.com
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney In GOP Debate: Shut Down Federal Disaster Agency, Send Responsibility To The States … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Politics News, Fema, Frankenstorm 2012, Hurricane Sandy 2012, Hurricane Sandy Fema …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney in 2011: ‘We Cannot Afford’ Federal Disaster Relief
Candy Crowley / CNN:
Sandy introduces big unknown into campaign
Discussion: National Review and Mediaite
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Medicaid on the Ballot  —  There's a lot we don't know about what Mitt Romney would do if he won.  He refuses to say which tax loopholes he would close to make up for $5 trillion in tax cuts; his economic “plan” is an empty shell.  —  But one thing is clear: If he wins, Medicaid …
USA Today:
Column: Romney wrong to use “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts”  —  Romney may have co-opted the show's motto, but the women of “Friday Night Lights” know we need Obama.  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  2:09PM EDT October 28.  2012 - “Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose,” was the battle cry …
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations  —  In 1997, Congress cracked down on a popular tax shelter that allowed rich people to take advantage of the exempt status of charities without actually giving away much money.  —  Individuals who had already set up these vehicles were allowed to keep them.
Discussion: Election 2012
Eric Morath / Real Time Economics:
Labor Department Says No Decision Yet on Whether to Delay Jobs Report  —  The Labor Department said Monday that it has yet to make a decision on whether to delay Friday's closely-watched October employment report due to the effects from Hurricane Sandy.  —  Federal government offices …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Obama's independent problem  —  President Obama has a problem with independents.  And it's not a small problem.  —  In the last three releases of the tracking poll conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News, Obama has trailed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney among independent voters by between 16 and 20 percentage points.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Early briefings on Libya strike focused on Al Qaeda, before story changed  —  Two days after the Libya terror attack, representatives of the FBI and National Counterterrorism Center gave Capitol Hill briefings in which they said the evidence supported an Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda-affiliated attack, Fox News has learned.
Jennifer C. Braceras / Boston Herald:
Benghazi scandal demands answers  —  Prez shows utter lack of integrity, leadership  —  Last week, in the final presidential debate on foreign policy, Mitt Romney made a deliberate decision not to go after the president on Benghazi.  Romney's task was to present himself as a plausible commander in chief.
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:   The Benghazi Story Refuses To Die, And It's Hurting The President
Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
Bill Clinton sneaks in before storm to boost Murphy  —  Waterbury — On the eve of a hurricane-induced break in the political season, Bill Clinton gave Democrats a 30-minute pep talk Sunday, framing U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy's race for U.S. Senate as an election of national interest.
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Suggests ‘Secretary of Business’ in a 2nd Term  —  President Barack Obama signaled if he wins a second term he would appoint a Secretary of Business to oversee newly-consolidated government agencies, including the Small Business Administration, and predicted “a war” …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
New York Post:
NYU terrorism class asks students to plot terrorist attack  —  It's Terrorism 101.  —  A New York University class on transnational terrorism is requiring students to “hypothetically plan a terrorist attack” — and shocked cops say the outrageous lesson plan is an insult to the officers killed on Sept. 11.
Discussion: Gawker and Jihad Watch
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
In Morning Joe Interview, Obama Talks Libya And Ideas ‘I Stole From A Massachusetts Governor’  —  As mentioned earlier, Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spoke with President Barack Obama during a New Hampshire campaign stop in a segment aired early Monday morning.
Discussion: The Raw Story
BuzzFeed:
Romney Camp Defends Auto Bailout Ad  —  “What is there that's false?”  —  Source: youtube.com  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Mitt Romney aide defended a campaign television ad focusing on the assertion that Chrysler is preparing to build Jeep trucks in China.  —  The ad has drawn widespread charges …
Bookworm Room:
The Obama Curse strikes again: Detroit Tigers lose the world series  —  Not only did the Detroit Tigers lose the world series, they lost spectacularly, with the Giants winning in a solid four game streak.  I predicted this outcome a few days ago, not because I know anything about baseball …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court grants four cases, seeks government views  —  The Supreme Court, fully at work while most of the rest of official Washington takes a weather day off, agreed on Monday to hear four new cases, including a plea to give convicted individuals a new chance to claim that their defense lawyers in state court failed to perform adequately.
Garett Jones / EconLog:
Did Nations that Boosted Education Grow Faster?  —  No. Each dot in the graph below represents a nation: Change in education on the x-axis and change in per capita GDP growth on the y-axis.  Between the 60's and the 90's every country in this sample boosted its average years of education …
 
 
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Tom Stoukas / Bloomberg:
Greek Journalist Held Over List of Swiss-Account Holders
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
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Al Qaqaa and Benghazi: That Was Then, and This Is Now
Discussion: GayPatriot
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