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5:25 PM ET, October 30, 2012

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BuzzFeed Politics:
How One Well-Connected Pseudonymous Twitter Spread Fake News About Hurricane Sandy  —  The twitter user @comfortablysmug is one of a handful of pseudonymous Manhattan professionals who keep their widely-followed Twitter voices separate from their careers.  His bio describes him as “My Interests …
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Bush's FEMA Director During Katrina Criticizes Obama For Responding To Sandy Too Quickly  —  Former FEMA Director Michael Brown offered criticism of President Obama's early responses to Hurricane Sandy yesterday, including a dig at the administration's response to last month's attack in Libya.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Gov. Christie praises Obama response to Hurricane Sandy as ‘outstanding’  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) praised President Obama's work to help states battered by Hurricane Sandy as “outstanding” Tuesday, but cautioned that the recovery would be a prolonged effort.
BuzzFeed:
The Man Behind @ComfortablySmug, Hurricane Sandy's Worst Twitter Villain  —  He's a hedge fund analyst, Republican political consultant, and deliberate spreader of false information.  —  During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information …
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Hullabaloo
Al Gore / Al's Journal:
Statement on Hurricane Sandy  —  This week, our nation has anxiously watched as Hurricane Sandy lashed the East Coast and caused widespread damage—affecting millions.  Now more than ever, our neighbors need our help.  Please consider donating or volunteering for your local aid organizations.
Stuef / BuzzFeed FWD:
Shashank Tripathi, Last Night's Twitter Villain @ComfortablySmug  —  This post is now <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/ jackstuef/the-man-behind-comfortablysmu g- hurricane-sandys">available on BuzzFeed FWD</a>, which was down for a time due to Sandy.  —  During the storm last night …
Sam Levin / The Latest Word:
Michael Brown, ex-FEMA head, has advice, criticism for Obama about Hurricane Sandy  —  Colorado is not facing any danger from Hurricane Sandy, but the effects of the storm can still be felt here, with the Obama and Romney camps canceling scheduled rallies.  Today, we decided to check …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Meghan McCain to GOP after Sandy: Do you still doubt climate change?  —  Political analyst Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is challenging widespread GOP skepticism about climate change in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.  —  “So are we still going to go with climate change not being real fellow republicans [sic]?”
BuzzFeed:
Bill Clinton: Maybe Mitt Romney Shouldn't Be Making Fun Of Global Warming
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
A Big Storm Requires Big Government
Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Nature and Nature's God
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Christie: I don't give ‘a damn’ about presidential politics right now
Discussion: Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
Mark Fischetti / Scientific American Blog Network:
Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Sandy?
Discussion: Dot Earth and Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Storm Pushes Aside Presidential Politics, Mostly
Rich Beeson / mittromney.com:
Memo: Pennsylvania  —  Rendell: ‘Startling upset’ for Romney ‘a possibility’ in Pennsylvania  —  When Governor Ed Rendell made these comments last week, he was clearly sending a desperate call to Chicago for help in the Keystone State.  At the time, his comments were met with derision …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney starts reserving time in Pennsylvania for last two days of race (Updated)
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: Romney's Jeep-to-China lie earns brutal headlines in Ohio
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney expands false Jeep-to-China ad campaign
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In U.S., 15% of Registered Voters Have Already Cast Ballots  —  Early voting highest in the West and among seniors; similar by party ID  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Fifteen percent of registered voters nationwide have already cast their ballots in this year's election, according to Gallup Daily tracking for the week ending Oct. 28.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Politico: Looks like a draw on early voting
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Clinton: Romney Wrong to Hit Obama for Promising ‘to Turn Back the Seas’  —  Former President Bill Clinton, using the backdrop of Hurricane Sandy, blasted Mitt Romney for criticizing Barack Obama's unkept promise of “turn[ing] back the seas”:  —  “I was actually listening closely …
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NPR:
NPR Poll Finds Presidential Race Too Close To Call … The latest and last NPR Battleground Poll for 2012 shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holding the narrowest of leads in the national sample, but trailing President Obama in the dozen states that will decide the election.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
NPR: 8-point swing puts Romney in front
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
Paul Santos / The Walt Disney Company Press Releases:
DISNEY TO ACQUIRE LUCASFILM LTD.  —  An investor conference call will take place at approximately 4:30 p.m. EDT / 1:30 p.m. PDT today, October 30, 2012.  Details for the call are listed in the release.  —  Global leader in high-quality family entertainment agrees to acquire world-renowned Lucasfilm Ltd …
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin  —  Mitt Romney's campaign has been training poll watchers in Wisconsin with highly misleading — and sometimes downright false — information about voters' rights.  —  Documents from a recent Romney poll watcher …
Jennifer Maloney / Metropolis:
Dozens of Homes Destroyed in Breezy Point … At least 80 flooded homes were destroyed by fire Monday night in Breezy Point, a neighborhood on the tip of New York's Rockaway Peninsula.  Hundreds of homes in this Queens neighborhood suffered flood damage and at least five houses were swept off …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Chris Bragg / Crain's New York Business:
The Insider: Rep. Bob Turner's home lost to fire
Ben Domenech / Real Clear Politics:
Are We Looking at an Undertow Election?  —  The nature of elections is to surprise.  Candidates who are thought to be safe lose races where they insufficiently recognized potential threats.  Incumbents with enormous built-in advantages squander their opportunities to define the opposition.
Discussion: Vodkapundit
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Upside of Opportunism  —  Let's try to imagine what the world would look like if President Obama is re-elected.  —  Washington over the next four years would probably look much as it has over the last two: Obama running the White House, Republicans controlling the House and Democrats managing the Senate.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The president who seems not to care  —  One of the more melancholy moments of the presidential campaign occurred for me in a screening room.  The film was Rory Kennedy's documentary about her mother, Ethel — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy.  Much of it consisted of Kennedy-family home movies …
 
 
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Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
‘Forward’: Obama gets a little electioneering in during FEMA briefing
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Democrats Are Right to Politicize Sandy
Rupert Shortt / Telegraph:
Christians persecuted throughout the world
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Michael Barone / Financial Times:
Either way, the vote will end the New Deal
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Halperin: Democrats now on defense in blue states
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Case Against Sending TV Reporters Out in Hurricanes
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Joe Nocera / New York Times:
The Right Man for the Job?
Investor's Business Daily:
Newspapers Increasingly Dump Obama For Romney
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