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8:55 AM ET, November 1, 2012

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Diane Glidewell / mymcr.net:
Civil rights icons pump Obama in Forsyth  —  Lowery: Don't think whites going to heaven  —  UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAYOR'S COMMENTS: 5 p.m.  —  Two icons of the civil rights movement visited Forsyth on Saturday to campaign for the reelection of Barack Obama.
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Pastor who prayed at Obama's inauguration says all white people will go to hell … Obama awarded Lowery the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 / AP  —  Pastor Joseph Lowery, a civil rights movement hero who delivered the benediction at President Obama's inauguration …
Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Yeah, me too.  —  Question: How do you lay a guilt trip on somebody who's already damned?  Hey, white folks, if you're headed to Hell regardless, you may as well vote the way you want.  —  Hat tip to the Georgia Tipsheet, which notes that last week, Lowery said: “If Obama was white …
Discussion: GayPatriot
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Obama's inauguration reverend: All whites are going to hell
Discussion: Riehl World News and EBL
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Sifting the Numbers for a Winner  —  A crucial element: the mix of Democrats and Republicans who show up this election.  —  It comes down to numbers.  And in the final days of this presidential race, from polling data to early voting, they favor Mitt Romney.  —  He maintains a small but persistent polling edge.
Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and EBL
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Tom Holbrook / The Numbers:
A Partisan Advantage for Obama?
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case Against Romney: At Heart, He's a Delusional One-Percenter
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Storm Response Earns Obama Praise Amid the Election's Deadlock Drama  —  President Barack Obama, accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, second from left, and others, speaks about superstorm Sandy during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters in Washington, Oct. 31, 2012.
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:
3 Stupid Responses to Hurricane Sandy - and Every Other Disaster You Can Think Of
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hit & Run
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Two women from the Dominican Republic told The Daily Caller that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez paid them for sex earlier this year.  —  In interviews, the two women said they met Menendez around Easter at Casa de Campo, an expensive 7,000 acre resort in the Dominican Republic.
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The Facebook spike  —  As John notes in the adjacent post, a group of former special operators have set up a Facebook page called SOS: Special Operations Speaks.  SOS posted the graphic below on their Facebook page:  —  Facebook took the graphic down twice on the ground that it violated …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Facebook admits error in censoring anti-Obama message
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
After Brutal Polling Day, Romney Team Reassures That They'll Win  —  Mitt Romney's top staff offered reporters an endless number of reasons they're going to beat President Obama on a conference call Wednesday.  Not included on their list of Romney advantages: a clear lead in the polls.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Exclusive: Classified cable warned consulate couldn't withstand ‘coordinated attack’  —  The U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an “emergency meeting” less than a month before the assault that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, because Al Qaeda had training camps …
Frank Newport / Gallup.Com:
Status Update on Gallup Election Polling Following Superstorm Sandy  —  Here's an update on Gallup's thinking when we suspended our national daily tracking of the presidential election campaign as of Monday, Oct. 29.  Basically, we reached the conclusion that Superstorm Sandy had compromised …
Discussion: GOP 12, Politico and The Greenroom
Mark Murray / First Read:
NBC/WSJ/Marist polls: Obama leads in Iowa, running neck and neck in N.H, Wis.  —  Less than a week before Election Day, President Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the battleground of Iowa, while the two candidates are locked in tight races …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Election 2012
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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll finds Obama ahead in Wisconsin, Baldwin with slight edge in close Senate race
Discussion: JSOnline and Outside the Beltway
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Obama's Libya stonewalling isn't working  —  President Obama is having no luck convincing voters and the media there is nothing amiss regarding his handling of the Benghazi attack.  —  My colleague David Ignatius is among the latest to acknowledge that there are real questions about what happened …
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
What was Obama told at the September 10, 2012, NSC meeting on ‘9/11 threats’?
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
You Can't Go Home Again  —  Tom Friedman ventured into the wilds this week, to his home state of Minnesota: … I wish I believed he is kidding.  But this wasn't just a routine visit home; Friedman was looking for insight into the national scene: … Which means that he found what he was looking for.
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
What I'm Hearing About The Sex Scandal  —  I've heard the story, but I don't want to say what it is because, well, I have no idea if it's true.  —  But in the interests of sparing you 1 heart attacks and 2 overly optimistic guesses: What it's about, rumors say, is a Senator.
Discussion: Hot Air and The Greenroom
Shawna Shepherd / CNN:
Politics can't scare off Ryan from his appointed Halloween rounds  —  Janesville, Wisconsin (CNN) - Even in an election year, Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan stuck to a family trick-or-treat tradition.  —  On Wednesday, Mitt Romney's running mate held three rallies in his home state …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and ABCNEWS
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Case for Obama: Why He Is a Great President.  Yes, Great.  —  I decided to support Barack Obama pretty early in the Democratic primary, around spring of 2007.  But unlike so many of his supporters, I never experienced a kind of emotional response to his candidacy.
Evan Axelbank / WPTV Newschannel 5:
Florida GOP memo: Democrats are ‘cleaning our clock’  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A memo obtained by NewsChannel 5's Evan Axelbank, from an adviser to a Florida GOP campaign, says that the Democratic turnout effort is “cleaning our clock.”  —  The memo says, “The early and absentee turnout is starting to look more troubling.”
Jilian Fama / ABCNEWS:
Little Girl Cries Over ‘Bronco Bamma’  —  Sick of the elections yet?  So is four-year-old Abigael Evans from Colorado.  Her mother, Elizabeth Evans, 27, posted a Youtube video of her daughter saying that she is tired of “Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.”  —  The 22-second YouTube clip …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs
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Acculturated:
George Lucas Just Saved Star Wars by Firing George Lucas  —  So at long last, George Lucas has decided to get out of the moviemaking business.  He's selling out Lucasfilm, including all of its properties and moneymaking storylines, to the Mouse.  This is a good thing.  Maybe even a great thing.
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BuzzFeed:
15 Best Star Wars/Disney Merger Memes
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Why Exactly Is Chris Christie Subverting Mitt Romney?  —  Chris Christie is love-bombing President Obama — the man he labeled clueless just last week — and Maureen Dowd is asking why: … Here are three theories about Christie:  —  1) The first, most benign theory: Christie, in my experience …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden already thinking about 2016  —  Election Day isn't for another six days, but Vice President Biden is already thinking about 2016.  —  Appearing at an eatery in Florida on Wednesday, Biden was chatting by phone with a Republican voter when the vice president half-jokingly …
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
U.S. yanks support for Syrian opposition group, warns of extremist takeover of uprising  —  ZAGREB, Croatia — The Obama administration on Wednesday renounced the proclaimed leaders of the Syrian political opposition and said any group seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad must reject attempts …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Mark Shade / Reuters:
Child sex convict Sandusky sent to Pennsylvania maximum security prison  —  HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Former Penn State assistant football coach and convicted child sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his days in a maximum security prison in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania …
 
 
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Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Obama's endgame: Hard sell of record, ridicule of rival
Darrel Rowland / The Columbus Dispatch:
Election may not wrap up Tuesday
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Political Memo: Romney Tones Down Campaign Rhetoric as Vote Nears
Joe Newby- / Examiner:
AFL-CIO mailer warns Oregon voters: We know your voting history
Discussion: GayPatriot
New York Times:
New Jersey Continues to Cope With Hurricane Sandy
Discussion: Weather Nerd
Chad Griffin / hrc.org:
Act Now: Join Brad Pitt in Fighting for Marriage Equality
Peter Schwartzstein / Reuters:
90 percent of Europeans would vote for Obama: poll
 Earlier Items: 
Denver Post:
Romney outsourcing the truth on Jeeps
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News poll: Race for the White House a dead heat
BuzzFeed:
Gay Rights Group Files Complaint Over Tuesday's Text Messages
Discussion: Joe. My. God. and msnbc.com
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
In Deadlocked Race, Neither Side Has Ground Game Advantage
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The tea party gets a news site
Addiestan / AlterNet:
Major Retailer Urges Workers To Take ‘Civics Course’ With Anti-Obama Content
Discussion: American Prospect and Hullabaloo