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• My plea to the undecided: Stay home!
• Nor'easter threatens battered East Coast
• War on poverty? Why campaigns don't talk about the poor
• Romney targets Ohio, Pennsylvania on Election Day
• Two final polls split between Obama and Romney
• Store near Obama rally has a message for the Secret Service
• Jay-Z sings ’99 Problems But a Mitt Ain’t One’ at Obama rally
• Early voting results favor Obama, but popular vote remains uncertain
• The 2012 election is the closest race in 76 years
• Polls suggest undecided voters might not help Romney
• Tale of two New Jersey towns now linked by Sandy
• Prosecutor: U.S. soldier had blood of Afghan massacre victims on him
• Everything you wanted to know about voting machines
• The middle class: Worse off than you think?
• Amazing story of survival after NJ man leaves ‘farewell’ note
• New York man crushed by giant crucifix has leg amputated
• Astrophysicist finds real location for Superman's home planet
• Hurricane Sandy blows migrating birds off track
• ‘Dragon Baby’: Dad creates ‘Kill Bill’-inspired short film
• Extreme voting: How astronauts cast ballots from space

My plea to the undecided: Stay home! Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PST Yahoo! News columnist Jeff Greenfield explains why he thinks some people just shouldn't vote.

Nor'easter threatens battered East Coast Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:06 PM PST A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging storm.

War on poverty? Why campaigns don't talk about the poor Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:32 AM PST A presidential campaign, it would seem, is not the best time to have a comprehensive debate about poverty in America.

Romney targets Ohio, Pennsylvania on Election Day Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:51 AM PST It turns out that what Mitt Romney billed as his final campaign rally tonight in New Hampshire won't be the final political event of his White House bid.

Two final polls split between Obama and Romney Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:56 PM PST Polls from Gallup and the Washington Post/ABC News were released Monday, with the former showing Mitt Romney up 1 point among likely voters and the latter favoring President Obama by 3 points.

Store near Obama rally has a message for the Secret Service Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:40 PM PST The president is planning an outdoor rally in Des Moines, but one store within the event's security zone is taking a stand against searches inside the shop.

Jay-Z sings ’99 Problems But a Mitt Ain’t One’ at Obama rally Posted: 05 Nov 2012 03:03 PM PST The Hip-hop artist performed at a rally for the president where he sang a version of his song "99 Problems" with the refrain, "99 Problems But a Mitt Ain't One."

Early voting results favor Obama, but popular vote remains uncertain Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:12 PM PST Thirty million votes are already cast for the next president of the Unites States, and the turnout so far favors President Barack Obama over GOP challenger Mitt Romney. The contest for the White House has hardly begun, however: These results, from 34 states and the District of Columbia, account only for the party affiliation of [...]

The 2012 election is the closest race in 76 years Posted: 05 Nov 2012 02:46 PM PST As of Monday, President Obama has a very slim 0.4 percent lead in the popular vote based on consensus data from Real Clear Politics.

Polls suggest undecided voters might not help Romney Posted: 05 Nov 2012 12:48 PM PST Undecided voters have been focus grouped, split up into tiny subdivisions, and above all, relentlessly mocked this election. And now, after hundreds of millions of dollars spent to win their vote, there's finally some evidence from pollsters that they're reaching a decision. The latest WSJ/NBC national poll puts Obama up over Romney by the narrowest margin, 48 percent to 47 percent. But it's the poll's breakdown of respondents who are either undecided or still willing to consider switching that stands out. ...

Tale of two New Jersey towns now linked by Sandy Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:08 AM PST Asbury Park and Bay Head are two towns on opposite ends of the Jersey Shore's socio-economic spectrum - one with many poor people, the other with professionals in lucrative Wall Street careers.

Prosecutor: U.S. soldier had blood of Afghan massacre victims on him Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:46 PM PST Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has been charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder in one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Everything you wanted to know about voting machines Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:52 AM PST After the "hanging chad" kerfuffle of 2000, most of the country moved to voting machines. But they present their own issues.

The middle class: Worse off than you think? Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:40 AM PST The decline of the middle class has emerged as a key issue in the presidential campaign with both candidates promising policies to restore the economic stability of the middle class.

Amazing story of survival after NJ man leaves ‘farewell’ note Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:50 AM PST A Toms River, N.J., man who didn't think he would survive Sandy's storm surge, broke into a stranger's house and left a farewell note asking her to "tell my Dad I love him." Thankfully the letter writer, identified only as Mike, was reunited with his father, Tony. And both will have a lifetime to retell [...]

New York man crushed by giant crucifix has leg amputated Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:17 AM PST A deeply religious man in upstate New York who believes a church's giant crucifix cured his wife of cancer had his own leg amputated after the same crucifix collapsed on top of him. CBS New York reports that the accident occurred when 45-year-old David Jimenez was cleaning the 600-pound crucifix, which was allegedly held up [...]

Astrophysicist finds real location for Superman's home planet Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:15 AM PST A prominent astrophysicist has pinned down a real location for Superman's fictional home planet of Krypton.

Hurricane Sandy blows migrating birds off track Posted: 05 Nov 2012 12:06 PM PST Gannets in New York Harbor, jaegers at Cape May, NJ, storm petrels on the Hudson River and even a red-billed tropicbird are just some of the rare birds sighted along the Atlantic coast after Hurricane Sandy.

‘Dragon Baby’: Dad creates ‘Kill Bill’-inspired short film Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:49 AM PST In what should easily secure him the Father of the Year title if not an Oscar, Patrick Boivin has created "Dragon Baby," a "Kill Bill"-inspired short film starring his infant son who uses martial arts to slay a stuffed dragon. According to Boivin, a Montreal-based filmmaker, the minute-long, CGI-heavy trailer is an homage to both [...]

Extreme voting: How astronauts cast ballots from space Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:11 AM PST Call it the ultimate absentee ballot. NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have the option of voting in tomorrow's (Nov. 6) presidential election from orbit, hundreds of miles above their nearest polling location.

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