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2:33 AM ET, November 5, 2012

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MiamiHerald.com:
A voting debacle in Doral causes chaos and confusion  —  Mayor Carlos Gimenez said part of the reason the county elections headquarters temporarily shut down Sunday with a crowd waiting outside to vote was because he had not authorized the additional hours.  —  PMAZZEI@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold  —  Last night, voters in Miami-Dade County were forced to wait in line up to six hours to vote.  In some precincts voters who arrived at 7PM were not able to cast their ballots until 1AM.
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Rick Scott, Barack Obama 2012 , Elections 2012, Barack Obama 2012 , Video, Barack Obama Florida, Mitt Romney Florida, Obama Florida, Early Voting …
Lizette Alvarez / The Caucus:
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Obama Gains Edge in Campaign's Final Days  —  Obama 50% - Romney 47%  —  OVERVIEW  —  Barack Obama has edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final days of the presidential campaign.  In the Pew Research Center's election weekend survey, Obama holds a 48% to 45% lead over Romney among likely voters.
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CNN:
CNN National Poll: Dead heat between Obama and Romney  —  Washington (CNN) - It's all tied up, according to a new national poll released two days before the presidential election.  —  And the CNN/ORC International survey not only indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House …
Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Obama, Romney in even race two days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: The Fix and Business Insider
Reuters:
New Jersey Governor pledges to vote Romney despite plug for Obama  —  (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended his praise for President Barack Obama's support after superstorm Sandy, but said he would stick with his Republican ticket and vote for Mitt Romney in this Tuesday's election.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Linda McMahon Doorhanger: Vote For Obama ... And Me  —  Connecticut Republican Senate nominee Linda McMahon has been telling voters lately that it's okay to vote for President Obama as well as her.  Now she's taking it a step further — and getting about as far away from her own party's nominee …
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Don't Blame Mitt Romney  —  A new Republican consensus: The candidate, and the party, have done a pretty good job.  “You just keep throwing money at the problem and it doesn't resolve,” mourns a Republican operative.  —  Romney in Cleveland Sunday.  —  Image by Brian Snyder / Reuters
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Wisdom of Politico  —  From an article just out from Politico ...  As I've written many times before, the second rate product.  If this is a subject that interests you, I'd encourage you to read the piece I linked right there.  —  Or to be more specific, Obama's winning but not with the best votes.
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Politico:
Lessons learned from 2012  —  The 2012 election will be remembered by history for its smallness in a big, historic moment: The high drama of the first debate was a rare respite from months of petty rhetoric, egged on from start to finish by gobs of money from millionaires and billionaires.
Alan Duke / CNN:
Extra day of voting possible in New York  —  A dump truck empties trash collected from homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Saturday, November 3, in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York.  New York is trying to clean up and resume normal activities days after the storm hit.
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Alyssa Newcomb / ABCNEWS:
Nor'easter Storm Following in Sandy's Path, 2 Million Without Power as Temperatures Drop
Discussion: Gothamist, ABCNEWS and Doug Ross
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:   Clinton, Obama, Campaign On Sandy
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Romney staff refusing to let frostbitten children leave PA rally  —  This is happening right now at Mitt Romney's rally in Pennsylvania.  Apparently it's freezing, and Romney's staff is refusing to let rally-goers leave.  People are begging reporters for help.  —  Absolutely incredible.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Ryan Rocks Minnesota [Updated]  —  Some scoff at the idea that Mitt Romney might carry Minnesota, but actions speak louder than words.  Both Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan campaigned in Minnesota today.  This morning, I put out a call to Power Line readers who attended the Ryan event to send me photos and accounts of the rally.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
MSNBC: Joke Network, Cont'd  —  Over the years, we have chronicled MSNBC's lack of journalistic standards.  The worst offender, Keith Olbermann, is now gone, not because of his crazed leftism or frequently embarrassing errors, but because he was an insubordinate employee.
USA Today:
ENTHUSED ABOUT THE ELECTION, CERTAIN OF THEIR VOTE — AND TIED  —  USA TODAY and Gallup have conducted 11 surveys over the past year or so in the nation's dozen top battlegrounds.  Here is a rundown on how the contest has changed over that time and where it stands now.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
In Ohio Vote, A Form-Checking Nightmare  —  For recount-ready legal teams, every vote could be The Deciding Factor.  A weekend squabble in Ohio shows just how seriously and closely every decision is being watched.  —  The provisional ballot affirmation form at the center of the latest Ohio voting dispute.
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Sara Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Calls Obama Re-Election ‘Possible, but Not Likely’  —  CLEVELAND—The last of the Romney campaign's television ads has been shipped.  Fundraising has come to a close.  And the stressful preparation work for pivotal debates has long passed.  —  With just two days until …
Discussion: The Raw Story
Washington Examiner:
November surprise: EPA planning major post-election anti-coal regulation … President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal regulations that are set to be released at the end of November, according to a source inside the EPA.
Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why Should You Vote?  Visualize Romney World  —  My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea.  Bea is now 95 years old.  Bea was born in 1917.  —  She was born in a country where women couldn't vote.  In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been legal.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Nov. 3: Romney's Reason to Play for Pennsylvania  —  The Saturday before the election produced a predictably large volume of polling in battleground states — but also some predictable-seeming results, with most of the polls coming close to the average of other polls.
Curt Villarosa / ABCNEWS:
Sunday Sound: Heard on ‘This Week’  —  Tune in to ABCNews.com on Tuesday, Nov. 6 for livestreaming coverage of Election 2012.  Our Election Day show kicks off at noon, and the Election Night event begins at 7 p.m. … HEADLINERS  —  1. Plouffe thinks Karl Rove will confront ‘crossroads’ after Tuesday's election
Jon.Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Obama will win the state, Heller will barely squeak by, Horsford takes CD4 and the GOP will take the state Senate  —  And I thought Reid-Angle was hard.  —  For two years, I have rested on my laurels after ignoring the public polls, trusting my reporting and gut and predicting Harry Reid would defeat Sharron Angle.
Discussion: Election 2012 and The Fix
 
 
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