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3:20 PM ET, October 29, 2012

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Eric Morath / Real Time Economics:
Labor Department ‘Working Hard’ to Ensure Jobs Report Released on Time  —  UPDATE: The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it is “working hard to ensure the timely release” of the October jobs report, saying it intends to released the report on schedule Friday despite Hurricane Sandy.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
OUTRAGEOUS: LABOR DEPARTMENT MAY DELAY JOBS REPORT
Discussion: Vodkapundit
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Dept. Of Labor Aims For Jobs Numbers Friday, Despite Storm
Discussion: Politico and Pat Dollard
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
Discussion: ABCNEWS and CNN
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads 51-47 in Ohio
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: Romney 50% - Obama 49% in Florida  —  (CNN) - With eight days to go until Election Day, a new survey indicates an extremely close race for Florida's 29 electoral votes.  —  According to a CNN/ORC International poll released Monday, 50% of likely voters in the Sunshine State …
Discussion: LifeNews.com
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
Hurricane Politics: Obama and Romney Play It Safe
Discussion: Politico and ABCNEWS
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama cancels campaign events, to speak at 12:45 p.m.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Romney campaign aids Sandy relief effort
Discussion: Reuters and Texas on the Potomac
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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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Misleading Romney Auto Ad Backfires With Media  —  Mitt Romney's final attempt to swing Ohio polls in his direction is a bit too much for a number of political reporters, and is now facing an aggressive response from the Obama campaign.  —  In news articles, tweets, and other media …
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David Corn / MoJo Articles:
Romney to Business Crowd: Obama Sees You As an “Evil”  —  The GOP candidate—and his wife—are caught on tape at a private fundraiser dismissing the president as not a “grown-up” and an arch foe of commerce.  —  Ever since I revealed Mitt Romney's 47 percent rant, tips and tapes have come through the transom—including this and this.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:   Ann Romney: America needs a ‘grown-up’ who understands the economy
Noah Bierman / The Boston Globe:
Senate race in dead heat, new Globe poll shows  —  A new Boston Globe poll shows the race between Senator Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren in a dead heat, with ample opportunity for both candidates to win the nation's most expensive Senate race eight days from now.
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Voted least popular?  —  Obama could win in a split vote.  But to the GOP, any Democratic victory is illegitimate, whatever the details are  —  We all remember that George W. Bush became president 12 years ago despite receiving 543,816 fewer votes than Al Gore.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Political Memo: Hurricane, and Other Worries, Buffet Presidential Race
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Presidential Race Dead Even; Romney Maintains Turnout Edge  —  Obama 47%-Romney 47%  —  OVERVIEW  —  As the presidential campaign enters its final week, Barack Obama has failed to regain much of the support he lost in the days following the first presidential debate and the race …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Shocking Footage Emerges of Mitt Romney Spouting His Bigoted Bile Against Gays (VIDEO) … Mitt Romney , Gay Marriage , LGBT , Politics , Gay Marriage , Video , Gay Parenting , Romney-Ryan 2012 , Election 2012 , Evangelicals , Gay Adoption , Gay Voices , Marriage Equality , Massachusetts …
Samuel Popkin / American Prospect:
Nate Silver, Artist of Uncertainty  —  We're heading into the last week of a tight presidential campaign, and polls are coming in too fast to count.  Partisans everywhere are desperate for omens.  But at moments like these, it's people who care most intensely that the “right outcome” …
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Obama, In Morning Joe Interview, Predicts War Inside Republican Party If He Is Reelected … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Barack Obama , House Republicans, Mitch McConnell, GOP, Elections 2012, Video, Election 2012, Obama Morning Joe, Obama Morning Joe Interview, Obama Republican Party, Politics News
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
In Morning Joe Interview, Obama Talks Libya And Ideas ‘I Stole From A Massachusetts Governor’
Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Anderson Cooper Talk Show Won't Return for a Third Season  —  The syndication arm of the Warner Brothers studio has decided that there will not be a third season of “Anderson,” the daily talk show hosted by Anderson Cooper.  —  Citing disappointing ratings, a studio executive …
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.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Oliver Stone's new book rips Obama  —  A new book from filmmaker Oliver Stone offers a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's time in office.  —  Stone, who wrote “The Untold History of the United States” with historian Peter Kuznick, puts forth a liberal interpretation of American history …
Patrick Caddell / BREITBART.COM:
THE OCTOBER SURPRISE AND THE NOVEMBER ELECTION  —  The October Surprise in 2010  —  President Barack Obama stepped into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House and announced some startling news: Two bombs, hidden inside printer cartridges, had been detected the previous …
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 …
 
 
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama floats plan for a ‘secretary of Business’ if he wins second term
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Is Even More Unpopular Now than in 2010
Arnold Ahlert / Front Page Magazine:
Benghazi and the Lethal Price of Arming Jihadists
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Sen. Rubio's daughter released from hospital after golf-cart crash
Discussion: Politico
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Benghazi scandal demands answers
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Court grants four cases, seeks government views (UPDATED)
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
Obama Suggests ‘Secretary of Business’ in a 2nd Term
Jesse Drucker / Bloomberg:
Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations
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