The Daily Digest: Final arguments made
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In Minnesota
The candidates for U.S. Senate faced off at their final debate on Sunday night. (MPR News)
DFL Governor Mark Dayton and his Republican challenger Jeff Johnson used their final debate of the campaign Friday night to sharpen their attacks, while covering mostly familiar ground on key issues. (MPR News)
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The final KSTP/SurveyUSA poll has Dayton leading Johnson 47-42 while Franken leads McFadden 51-40. (KSTP)
On the last weekend before Tuesday's election, DFLers attempted to counter the political winds that have turned northeastern Minnesota from reliably blue territory into a battleground. (MPR News)
Are negative Democratic ads in the 8th District turning off potential voters there? (MPR News)
What's at stake this year for Minnesota voters? (Pioneer Press)
A super PAC bankrolled by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending more than $500,000 on television ads in support of Sen. Al Franken but Republican candidate Mike McFadden says the ads amount to illegal coordination with Franken's campaign and plans to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. (MPR News)
McFadden's campaign launched its final advertisement Sunday night. (Star Tribune)
Republican secretary of state candidate Dan Severson says his campaign website was hacked on Wednesday night. (MPR News)
A nice graphical look at the biggest outside group contributors to Minnesota elections. No surprise, the DFL's allies have a big edge over Republicans. (MinnPost)
A look at some of the key state House races to pay attention to on Tuesday night. (MPR News)
Minnesota Democrats are continuing their onslaught of criticism for GOP mailers that attack DFL House members for votes on an expungement bill and a drunk driving bill, pointing out that a pair of the Republican party’s own candidates this election cycle backed the same legislation. (Star Tribune)
Voters across the state will be able to ride transit for free this Election Day. The free rides are the result of a law passed earlier this year that's designed to increase voter participation. (MPR News)
An Iron Range political candidate is accused of being intoxicated when he crashed a city-owned front-end loader while responding to a fire in his day job as an Eveleth public works employee. (Pioneer Press)
National Politics
A steady stream of polls appears to show Republicans with a decisive advantage for control of the U.S. Senate. (Washington Post)
A stealthy coterie of difficult-to-trace outside groups is slipping tens of millions of dollars of attacks ads and negative automated telephone calls into the final days of the midterm campaign, helping fuel an unprecedented surge of last-minute spending. (New York Times)
TV viewers in battleground Senate states have been bombarded with ads the past few months from virtually every group under the sun. All but one, that is: the tea party. (Politico)
“It’s not Keith Olbermann, but it’s a name like Keith Olbermann.” Yup, the New York Times covers Bill Maher's attempt to swing the 2nd Congressional District race towards Democrats. (New York Times)