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11.03.12 | 2:43 pm
Just Like Old Times (i.e., 2008)

On the campaign trail Romney supporters are now apparently turning on the press …

11.03.12 | 2:16 pm
Shameless

It’s not clear to me that this will have a big effect in practice. But it is amazing, even at this late date and having been knocked down by the courts so many times, that Ohio Secretary of State John Husted continues to look for every way possible, even in the most marginal and petty of ways, to restrict voting in his state. Nothing really more to say than that. But the cynicism is really breathtaking.

11.03.12 | 1:44 pm
The Counter-Argument

Here’s what Nate Silver points to as the best conservative counter-argument, devil’s advocate take on how to understand the polls going into Tuesday. It’s very shrewd by a guy named Ted Frank and worth reading. He does significantly misstate one argument I make and which he references.

One point about his argument that I found interesting was the question of whether polls consistently understate Republican support in presidential polls. It’s an interesting argument and question. Silver looks at races back to 1972 and concludes not that polls lack partisan bias but that they’ve been biased in either direction about an equal amount of times. And the numbers clearly back him up. Read More

11.03.12 | 12:25 pm
Three Days Out

Three days out from election day. How are you feeling? What do you expect on Tuesday night?

11.03.12 | 11:36 am
More Details Out of Florida

We’re bring you developments as they happen here. A second suspicious package was found at that early voting center in Winter Park, Florida. It has now also been detonated by local authorities. We’ll bring you more when we have it.

Late Update: Police give all clear.

11.03.12 | 11:12 am
Here They Are

Today’s charts on the big races around the country. Three days out. Here they are.

11.03.12 | 10:40 am
Suspicious Package at FLA Election Site

Early voting site evacuated in Winter Park, Florida after emergency personnel were called about a suspicious package. No sign yet that’s it’s actually a device. Just precautionary. Police and Fire Depts currently investigating.

11.03.12 | 10:37 am
Just Digging Himself Deeper

Christie says he’s “still very satisfied” with Obama disaster response.

11.03.12 | 9:58 am
Is Christie the Unicorn?

As Republicans look into the collective maw of the Four Unicorns of the Apocalypse, we’re hearing yet another line: Chris Christie may in fact be the Unicorn. Or more likely the Horseman on the White Unicorn. Regardless of whether he’s riding the Unicorn or whether he is the Unicorn he looks set to be another explanation of why Obviously Losing Obama (OLO) suddenly seems more likely to win. Read More

11.03.12 | 7:30 am
Meet Peggy

The AJC’s Jay Bookman has a piece up this morning about the travails of a 97-year-old Georgia woman trying to secure a Georgia voter ID card so that she can vote Tuesday.