Campaign winds down with swing state trips
President Obama embraced his wife, Michelle, during the night’s last rally, in Des Moines. Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, at a rally at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H.

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The country heads into an Election Day in which the outcome between President Obama and Mitt Romney remains too close to call.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hugs his wife, Ann, after she introduced him Monday for his final speech in New Hamphire of the 2012 general election campaign.

Analysis

Mitt Romney faces specter of presidency — or private life

After six years of campaigning, the promise of the White House is as tantalizingly close for Romney as the bitterness of defeat.

Long campaign punctuated with turning points

The presidential election’s outcome will hinge more centrally on crucial turning points and surprises over the course of a multiyear campaign.

The convention center Monday was a hive of activity both inside and out.

Republican side ready for a big party in Boston

Depending on the results Tuesday night, Mitt Romney’s Seaport District soiree could either be a raucous celebration or a subdued gathering.

Boston Capital

The economic limits for our next president

No president can turn the American economy around with a series of policy decisions issued from the White House.

Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren stake out vital turf

The Mass. Senate race has its own crucial communities that Senator Brown and Warren will be counting on to help them roll to victory.

Campaign signs claim equal attention on the same corner on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.

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Neighbors’ political differences don’t show signs of strife

Across the region, many who live on either side of the hedges live in domestic harmony while advertising their differing political views.

Viewer’s guide to the election

What to watch for in the elections when the results start to come in.

Starting at 6 p.m. tonight, BostonGlobe.com will have results, video analysis, and live updates for the elections.

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Globe exclusives

From left: Steven Tyler, Joey Kramer, Joe Perry, and Tom Hamilton show off their commemorative street signs before Monday’s concert.

Names

Aerosmith rocks the old neighborhood
Sherry Pagoto, associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, at her standing/walking desk.

G Cover

Anti-sitting movement gaining followers
“Bruce,” a new biography, looks at Bruce Springsteen, the enduring rocker and charismatic leader of the E Street Band.

Book Review

‘Bruce’ by Peter Ames Carlin

Album Review | HIP-HOP

Public Enemy still hitting targets on ‘Evil Empire’

Special Section

The Senate race in Mass.

Derrick Z. Jackson

Wis., once solid for Obama, now wild card

Special section

Romney’s record
Family-friendly Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway, N.H., is offering a raft of deals in celebration of its 75th anniversary.

Special section | Chill: Let it snow

Bargains in New England ski country
The turnover rate at Millennium, where Teena Varghese works, has dropped to 5 percent — among the lowest in an industry where competition for workers is fierce.

Top Largest Company

Cultural synergy at Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Elizabeth Brem checks Roger Jensen at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Diagnosed with lung cancer while hospitalized for pneumonia, Jensen participates in a program offering close follow-up care to Medicare patients at risk for frequent hospitalizations.

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Hospitals look to lower readmission rates
Kimberly Smith-Cofield abruptly resigned as executive director of the Community Action Agency of Somerville in June. She had held the post since 2009.

Audit details turmoil at Somerville nonprofit

Perspective

In defense of Lance Armstrong

Sports

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David Ortiz (with his eight-year-old son, D’Angelo) likes having a contract that could be worth $30 million.

Red Sox, David Ortiz happy with two-year deal

The Red Sox celebrated the return of Ortiz, throwing a catered afternoon news conference at Fenway Park to announce his new contract.

Metro

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Former state treasurer Timothy P. Cahill awaited the start of his trial on public corruption charges Monday in Suffolk Superior Court.

Opening arguments are made in Tim Cahill trial

Prosecutors said the former state treasurer “reached into the lottery’s pocket” for an ad blitz to boost his candidacy for governor in 2010.

Columnists

Aqib Talib is undeniably talented on the field, and troubled off it.

Dan Shaughnessy

Patriots just want to win, like everybody else
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy led a mule-drawn wagon at the head of Martin Luther King’s last campaign.

farah stockman

Activists no more

Kevin Cullen

Leaving an empty seat in tribute to POWs and MIAs

joanna weiss

A hurricane, a blackout, and an election

Boston Capital

The economic limits for our next president
US Air Force crews in New York offload power grid repair equipment from Southern California Thursday. The Defense Department initiated the airlift operation.

JULIETTE KAYYEM

After Sandy, environmentalists, military find common cause
Touchfire screentop keyboard for iPad, by Touchfire Inc.

Tech Lab Plus

Clip-on keyboard pushes the right buttons
Walt Siegl’s custom motorcycles.

Innovation Economy

Starbucks tests wireless way to charge phones

Adrian Walker

Region still has a passion for politics
Among Sox sluggers, David Ortiz ranks in the top 10 in hits, runs, doubles, homers, RBIs, extra-base hits, and walks.

Dan Shaughnessy

No complaints on Red Sox’ David Ortiz deal

Kevin Cullen

Giving back to the other ‘1 percent’

Yvonne Abraham

Having the choice to die matters

Business

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Antonin Scalia said he thinks it is proper to settle such questions early on in the suit.

Supreme Court considers limits on class actions

The Supreme Court appeared divided in two cases in which businesses are trying to make it harder for customers or investors to band together to sue them.

Politics

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Political Notebook

President Obama held a 48 to 45 percent lead over Romney, according to Pew’s national survey of likely voters last week.

In aftermath of Sandy, Obama on top in last Pew poll

The latest poll by The Pew Research Center shows the president rebounding and edging ahead of Mitt Romney.

Nation & World

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A rebel had just fired a missile toward a building housing army troops in Aleppo. Fighting was also intense in Damascus.

Palestinians joining the fray in Syria

Infighting flared in Syria’s civil war, with rebel groups clashing and Palestinian supporters and opponents of the regime doing battle.

Arts

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“Lightning Dreams” documents Alan Gibbs’s passion for harnessing power as he commissions the world’s largest Tesla coil for his estate in New Zealand.

Art and science collide in ‘Lightning Dreams’

“Lightning Dreams” documents Alan Gibbs as he commissions the world’s largest Tesla coil for his estate in New Zealand.

Lifestyle

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Q&A

NOVA host hopes to generate buzz about science

David Pogue is the new host this season for NOVA scienceNOW, a PBS program that aims to make cutting-edge science entertaining.

Top Places to Work

Special section

Top largest, large, medium, and small employers

The Globe’s 2012 Top Places to Work survey ranks the best employers in Massachusetts.

“It is the surprises that tend to shake up the race and we have had a lot of surprises this year. The 47 percent tape — who knew that was there?”

Stu Rothenberg,  editor of the Rothenberg Political Report

Magazine

The cover for the November 4 2012 issue

How to be a New England vegetarian in winter
The cover for the October 28 2012 issue

The PANDAS puzzle: Can a common infection cause OCD in kids?
The cover for the October 21 2012 issue

A new home with a traditional feel
The cover for the October 14 2012 issue

How grocery shopping got personal

Opinion

“Thousands of college — and even high school — students risked arrest, beatings, and even death to get the right to vote for blacks in Mississippi.”

Farah Stockman 

Ideas

“This growly and pugnacious Canada bears little resemblance to the nation of unobtrusive peacekeepers that Americans have known. And the change in tone has been nothing if not deliberate.”

Leon Neyfakh,  on the new Canadian nationalism