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Art Swift / Gallup:
For First Time, Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana — Support surged 10 percentage points in past year, to 58% — WASHINGTON, D.C. — For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana.
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Jason Marks / WAVY-TV:
Suggestive campaign posters litter NSU campus — (1/4)Jason Marks reports on sexually suggestive campaign posters at NSU — (4/4)Photo provided by Norfolk State University — Related Content — NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - Sexually suggestive campaign posters turned up on campus …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Virginia Governor: McAuliffe (D) 50%, Cuccinelli (R) 33%, Sarvis (L) 8% — Democrat Terry McAuliffe has jumped to a 17-point lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia gubernatorial race following the federal government shutdown that hit Northern Virginia hard and Hillary Clinton's weekend visit to the state.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bottom Falls Out For Cuccinelli
Bottom Falls Out For Cuccinelli
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Greg Botelho / CNN:
HHS chief: President didn't know of Obamacare website woes beforehand — (CNN) — President Barack Obama didn't know about the problems with the Affordable Care Act's website — despite complaints from insurance companies and the site's crashing during a test run — until days …
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Steve Contorno / Washington Examiner:
Steny Hoyer wants more money to fix Obamacare exchanges
Steny Hoyer wants more money to fix Obamacare exchanges
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Obamacare speech, Obama makes a desperate sales pitch
In Obamacare speech, Obama makes a desperate sales pitch
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
Is Obamacare in a Death Spiral?
Is Obamacare in a Death Spiral?
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Emily Cahn / Roll Call:
Alan Grayson Ties Tea Party to KKK (Updated) — Grayson sent a controversial fundraising email. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo) — Updated 1:11 p.m. | Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., an outspoken liberal, is taking heat from Republicans for raising money off an email that associates the tea party with the Ku Klux Klan.
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Washington Post:
Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
Poll: Major damage to GOP after shutdown, and broad dissatisfaction with government
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
CNN Poll: GOP & tea party unfavorables at all-time highs
CNN Poll: GOP & tea party unfavorables at all-time highs
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Democratic Congressman depicts tea party as Ku Klux Klan
Democratic Congressman depicts tea party as Ku Klux Klan
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HHS.govStrategy:
A Technology Surge for HealthCare.gov — Site Tags: — Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services — Tuesday, October 22, 2013 — Today, we are announcing key steps the Department is taking as part of a tech surge to continue to improve the consumer experience on HealthCare.gov.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Liberal pundit fail: Rush to attack Obamacare site only aids unhinged right — Pundits breathlessly pivot from covering GOP extremism to Healthcare.gov glitches, with the backing of liberals — As predictably as night follows day, on Monday the media establishment pivoted away from obsessing …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
Take this, conservatives: Criticism only makes Obamacare stronger!
Take this, conservatives: Criticism only makes Obamacare stronger!
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Mike Tipping:
Gov. LePage lets slip what he really thinks about Maine people — At a speech to a conservative audience in Falmouth last week, Governor Paul LePage made a statement that is deeply revealing. — Informed that the event was wrapping up, LePage said he had two more points to make.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Congress to close down, fly Air Force planes to Florida for funeral of Rep. C.W. Bill Young — Congress will shut down on Thursday, and leaders have told lawmakers the Defense Department will fly them to Florida for the funeral of Rep. C.W. Bill Young, who died late last week.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bill Young's wife warns Charlie Crist: Stay away
Bill Young's wife warns Charlie Crist: Stay away
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Fecundophobia: The Growing Fear Of Children And Fertile Women — Last week Deadspin ran six sentences and a picture under the headline “Philip Rivers Is An Intense Weirdo.” The final two sentences about the San Diego Charger quarterback were blunt: … Ah yes.
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irs.gov:
2014 Tax Season to Start Later Following Government Closure; IRS Sees Heavy Demand As Operations Resume — WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today announced a delay of approximately one to two weeks to the start of the 2014 filing season to allow adequate time to program …
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Erica Ritz / TheBlaze.com:
GLENN BECK PRESENTS ‘JUST THE BEGINNING’ OF WHY YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO GROVER NORQUIST — Glenn Beck on Monday began what he said is “just the beginning” of his work to reveal the background and motivations of Grover Norquist, the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Jeanne Shaheen calls for open enrollment extension — Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is calling on the White House to extend Obamacare's open enrollment period amid continued frustration with the troubled HealthCare.gov. — “The difficulty that people in New Hampshire and in other states …
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: White House Official Fired for Tweeting Under Fake Name — A White House national security official was fired last week after being caught as the mystery Tweeter who has been tormenting the foreign policy community with insulting comments and revealing internal Obama administration information for over two years.
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Eliza Newlin Carney / Beltway Insiders:
Democratic Donors Surge Amid GOP Slump — It's hard to say which should trouble Republican Party leaders the most right now: the sour mood among GOP donors, or the money suddenly swelling Democratic campaign and super PAC coffers. — Not only have the Democratic campaign committees …
James Hohmann / Politico:
Liz Cheney: John McCain a ‘liberal Republican’ — Liz Cheney tried to raise money Tuesday by calling John McCain a “liberal Republican” who's backing her opponent in the Wyoming Republican Senate primary, Republican Sen. Mike Enzi. — “Liberal Republican Senators like John McCain …
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ThinkProgress:
Confronted With Example Of Obamacare Success, GOP Rep Freaks Out — A CNN host confronted a Republican congresswoman on Tuesday for dismissing some of the successes uninsured people have has in signing up for Obamacare, accusing the GOP lawmaker of rooting for the law's failure.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Finance:
Frexit fever reaches heart of French establishment — Calls for EMU break-up are spreading into the upper echelons of the French foreign policy establishment, and the pro-European core. — An astonishing new book by François Heisbourg - La Fin du Rêve Européen …
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David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Why is the Obamacare Rollout Failing? — Why, it's obviously because President Barack Obama and his top aides hate government, and therefore can't be trusted to run a major government program. When the government is run by political forces committed to the belief that government is always the problem …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
A Republican Senator Doubts His Party Can Govern — It's the day after Congress voted to fully reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling. The senator I'm meeting, who would fall roughly in the middle of the Senate's Republicans if they were lined up by ideology, voted with the majority.
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