Friday Morning Breakfast Menu

Here’s your Friday morning roundup of breakfast links.

Candidates Make Final Pitch - Rucker & Markon, Washington Post
Chrysler Executive Lashes Out At Trump - Bernie Woodall, Reuters
Advisers Say Romney Momentum Is ‘Myth” - Janet Hook, The Wall Street Journal
Sandy's Link to Climate Change - Tom Zeller, The Huffington Post
Independents won’t save Mitt - Steve Kornacki, Salon.com
My Favorite Republican – Gov. Jennifer Granholm, CurrentTV/Politico
The Case for Obama - E.J. Dionne, Time
Which Side's Polls Reflect Reality - Reid Wilson, Natl Jrnl
The Blackmail Caucus - Paul Krugman, The New York Times
How Far Obama Has Fallen - Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal

Political Tea Time (No Tea Party Involved)

Here’s your Thursday evening roundup of tea time links.

The politics of Friday’s jobs report – Neil Irwin, Washington Post
Romney forces see Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota ripe for turning red – Dan Balz, Jerry Markon and Paul Kane, Washington Post
Senate 5: Todd Akin says he’s in the game – David Catanese, Scott Wong and Kate Nocera, Politico
Cory Booker to Newark residents: Come on over – Katie Glueck, Politico
Bloomberg Endorses Obama, Citing Climate Change – Raymond Hernandez, New York Times
How Does Bernie Sanders Do It? – John Nichols, The Nation

October Surprise Garners New Meaning

Courtesy: NASA

Contributed By: William Snyder; Co-Founder Fourth Party Politics
 
The term October Surprise has garnered a whole new meaning in the wrath of Hurricane Sandy. Sandy has devastated people along the eastern seaboard and knocked out power to over 8.5 million homes from North Carolina to Maine and as far west as Michigan. The Presidential campaign has temporarily been put on pause with just one week remaining until Americans cast their ballots to decide the next leader of the free world.

It remains to be seen how Sandy will effect next Tuesday’s election especially in down ballet races in coastal communities in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. Will the candidates be able to return to battleground Virginia, where its 13 electoral votes could decide next week’s election, or is the campaigning in Virginia now going to be decided by each campaigns ground game? New questions arise out of a natural disaster in the middle of a hotly contested Presidential election. How do the candidates continue to campaign amidst a disaster? With the death toll now at 50 and expected to rise in the coming days, how will people view politicians courting votes in Ohio and the Midwest while 50 million plus people continue to feel to effects this historic perfect storm?

Tomorrow Gov. Romney is expected to go back to the campaign trail while President Obama will continue to play the role of President and tour the devastation in New Jersey with Gov. Chris Christie. It is expected that the earliest President Obama will regain his campaign schedule is on Thursday. Until then, Former President Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden will be darting across the country making the closing arguments for the Obama campaign in a race that is now simply too close to call.

BREAKING NEWS

Update: 11:11 P.M. Hurricane Sandy Death toll mounts to 12

Update: 10:21 P.M. Reports of Trading floor of New York Stock Exchange under water confirmed to be FALSE. CNN retracts earlier statement claims twitter was to blame.

Update: 9:56 P.M. CNN is reporting three feet of standing water on the floor of the NYSE.

BREAKING NEWS: Romney Camp temporarily suspends active campaigning in wake of Hurricane Sandy. The campaign has cleared its complete public schedule for both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan through at least Tuesday. The President announced early this morning that he was canceling a scheduled stop to the Orlando area this morning and returning back to the White House to help manage the crisis. Former President Bill Clinton was supposed to join Mr. Obama at the Orlando Stop.

BREAKING NEWS

BREAKING NEWS: The New York Stock Exchange will not open on Monday in response to the threat posed by Hurricane Sandy. Earlier in the day it was reported that trading would take place on Monday.