AP/The Huffington Post | Posted: 09/01/2012 12:29 am Updated: 09/01/2012 4:45 pm

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.


"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."

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Rachel Maddow MSNBC ‏@maddow
Photos of early voting this weekend: http://is.gd/72SfHb Shouldn't be this hard. We need more early voting days, hours, places.




http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/29/14784952-early-voting-drawing-crowds-in-several-states

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Political Wire October 28



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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/10/28/latest_swing_state_polls.html

October 28, 2012, 2:50 PM

Oct. 27: Minnesota Moonlights as Swing State, but Ohio and Virginia Are More Crucial
By NATE SILVER
With the election so close, Saturday is no longer a day of rest for pollsters. Eight polls were released from potentially competitive states:

See Source for chart and his Post:

http://tinyurl.com/993tnhj



http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/oct-27-minnesota-moonlights-as-swing-state-but-ohio-and-virginia-are-more-crucial/

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS | 10/24/12 4:15 PM EDT

Via Time magazine's new poll out just now, the latest numbers out of Ohio show President Obama holding onto his lead there:

Counting both Ohioans who say they will head to the polls on November 6, and those who have already cast a ballot, Obama holds a 49% to 44% lead over Romney in a survey taken Monday and Tuesday night.

The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

The poll makes clear that there are really two races underway in Ohio. On one hand, the two candidates are locked in a dead heat among Ohioans who have not yet voted but who say they intend to, with 45% of respondents supporting the President and 45% preferring his Republican challenger.

But Obama has clearly received a boost from Ohio’s early voting period, which began on Oct. 2 and runs through November 5. Among respondents who say they have already voted, Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Romney, 60% to 30%.

Alex and I wrote last week about Obama's durable lead in Ohio, and these numbers a week later are pretty consistent with what we've seen in the last couple of weeks there.

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http://tinyurl.com/974cxpk

Inside the early vote numbers: North Carolina
By Jeremy Bird, National Field Director on October 28, 2012


http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/inside-the-early-vote-numbers-north-carolina

(Note Early registration and Early Vote)

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October 27, 2012, 5:16 PM

October 26 State Poll Averages Usually call Election Right



Source:http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/oct-26-state-poll-averages-usually-call-election-right/


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By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 10/27/12 8:40 PM EDT



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http://tinyurl.com/8e589q7

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/us/politics/newspaper-presidential-endorsements.html?ref=politics

October 27, 2012
Taegan Goddard's Politcal Wire

Ohio Is Not a Toss Up
Nate Silver looks at the polling average in Ohio -- made up of roughly a dozen polling firms who have surveyed the state over the past 10 days -- and notes it shows President Obama with a 2.4 percentage point lead over Mitt Romney.

"There are no precedents in the database for a candidate losing with a two- or three-point lead in a state when the polling volume was that rich... It is misinformed to refer to Ohio as a toss-up. Mr. Obama is the favorite there, and because of Ohio's central position in the Electoral College, he is therefore the overall favorite in the election."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/10/27/ohio_is_not_a_toss_up.html