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Rain expected across Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. Will keep the fair weather voters at home.

Is the RNC's vast phone-banking efforts working so well that the voters they reach are fed up with a ringing phone by the time a pollster reaches them?

Recent poll numbers in Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, and Minnesota have Democrat National Committee staffers nervous, while an even smaller group closer to party chair Howard Dean may secretly be a bit happy about what is looking to be a much tougher final week of campaigning than most Democrats are willing to admit. ...Republicans in some Senate seats are seeing a surge in polling that already appeared to be underpolling GOP voters.

Looks like Sherrod Brown has a little tax problem that's come to light. Here's a press release from the DeWine camp that just hit my inbox: "Sherrod Brown admitted the State of Ohio had to take legal action to force him to pay his taxes. As state officials confirmed, Sherrod Brown did not pay the unemployment taxes that every other employer in Ohio is required to pay. Sherrod Brown first said that he did not pay them for 12 years; he is now saying that he made a mistake and that he did finally pay them but only after the...