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In a final bid to win Ohio, the Romney campaign has been exceeding even its own vaunted standard of lying in the last 72 hours on the facts of the auto bailout. Jon Cohn has the story.

Mitt Romney is closing out with a big message which seems to be “Mitt Romney has a Big Message!”

With two new polls out today (and possibly more coming) President Obama’s margin in Ohio ticks up to 3.3 percentage points.

Joss Whedon tapes shocker Romney endorsement. Video after jump … Read More

With 9 days to go before election day, I thought I’d take a moment to go over where the polls are as of today and what if anything they can tell us about what the headlines will be on November 7th.

If you’re a polling or data diehard a good bit of what follows may seem obvious. But not everyone’s a data nerd. So I want to go through a lot of data points and basic questions we get in one go. So here goes. Read More

There’s a lot of jousting and headfakery tonight about Wisconsin and whether it might be more in play than people realize. As Huffpo notes, Romney, Ryan and President Obama are going to make appearances in the state next week. So what do the numbers say? Read More

Back when he was severely conservative during the GOP primaries, did Mitt Romney say he’d shut down FEMA and have the states take responsibility for disaster relief? Not quite in one declarative statement. But he certainly seemed to say that disaster preparedness and relief should be taken from the federal government and turned over to the states. Read More

TPM Reader WB makes a good point about the FEMA controversy. People who have contempt for critical government services tend not to run them well. Read More

What are the polls telling us a week and a day before the election? Here’s my take.