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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Obamacare ‘War Room’ docs: We're concerned next media story is some consumers getting on website and finding fewer options, higher prices — Washington (CNN) - Officials expressed concern that the next shoe to drop in the evolving story about the Affordable Care Act would be disappointment …
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The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Betsy's Page, The Hill, Scared Monkeys, CNN and Weasel Zippers
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama: “What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed” — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Strategic Move Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S. Statute — WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies …
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Conservative Intelligence …, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
HealthCare.gov ducked final security requirements before launch — (CBS News) WASHINGTON — The health care website went down again Monday for an hour and a half, and no one is sure why. It's being taken offline on purpose every night from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. for repairs.
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Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon and Doug Ross
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Senators Grapple With Health Care Rollout Woes
Senators Grapple With Health Care Rollout Woes
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Politico
Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov
Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov
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Wonkblog, Los Angeles Times and Firedoglake
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com:
REVEALED: OBAMA CAMPAIGN BUNDLER HELPING FUND LIBERTARIAN IN TIGHT VA. GUBERNATORIAL RACE — A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot …
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Michelle Malkin, Hit & Run, The Right Scoop and Weekly Standard
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion
Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion
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VodkaPundit, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com and The Lonely Conservative
Michael O'Brien / NBCNews:
It's Election Day: From N.J. to Va., what contests to watch
It's Election Day: From N.J. to Va., what contests to watch
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ABC News, Politico, A plain blog about politics, Taegan Goddard's …, Washington Post, First Read and New York Times
Washington Post:
How to watch the exit polls in the Virginia governor's race
How to watch the exit polls in the Virginia governor's race
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Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, CNN, Washington Blade, Real Clear Politics, BBC and Talking Points Memo
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania
Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania
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Washington Monthly, Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Slate, The Daily Beast and PostPartisan
Politico:
Final sprint in Election 2013
Final sprint in Election 2013
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CNN, Talking Points Memo, Guardian and Hullabaloo
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Sections Of Rand Paul's Op-Ed On Drug Sentencing Plagiarized From Article Week Earlier — Portions of the Kentucky senator's op-ed in The Washington Times appear to be copied word-for-word from an article published a week earlier. — Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Conservative Intelligence …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fresh Plagiarism Charges Raised Against Rand Paul
Fresh Plagiarism Charges Raised Against Rand Paul
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Hit & Run and Dependable Renegade
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Senator Rand Paul Faces New Charges of Plagiarism
Senator Rand Paul Faces New Charges of Plagiarism
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Mediaite, Liberaland, Washington Free Beacon, The Fix, The Raw Story and The Reaction
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom — You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for. We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits …
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and VodkaPundit
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Hillary in 2016? Not So Fast — Hillary Clinton of all people knows how political fortunes turn on a dime. But she must be puzzled nonetheless, and spooked, that over a six-month period when she made no big news whatsoever, her popularity took a double-digit tumble.
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Power Line and Ken Cuccinelli …
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Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
We Call B.S.! Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press
We Call B.S.! Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press
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Erik Wemple and Taegan Goddard's …
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Obama's Catastrophic Victory — A few years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called “A Sense of Where You Are.” I keep thinking about that title. You have to know where you are in time and space, you have to know who you are and what you're doing …
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Samizdata, Forbes, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Connecting.the.Dots, National Review, Weasel Zippers and Ace of Spades HQ
Chris Rauber / bizjournals:
Blue Shield forced by state to delay its Obamacare cancellations — California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will announce Tuesday an agreement with a “major health insurance company” in California to delay by three months cancellation of more than 115,000 individual policies due to Affordable Care Act rules.
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Politico and ProPublica
CNN:
New Jersey mall gunman found dead hours after shooting — (CNN) — A gunman who opened fire at a New Jersey mall Monday night later holed up in a back room and shot himself in the head, authorities say. — No one else was injured in the mall shooting. — Richard Shoop's body was found …
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Liberaland, CBS New York and Runnin' Scared
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP? — Democratic dreams of long-term Republican fallout may be fading as Obamacare rollout issues grab the spotlight. — People look at a sign informing them that the Statue of Liberty is closed due to the government shutdown …
Wall Street Journal:
Early Buyers of Health Coverage Are Older Than Expected, Raising Expense Concerns — Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nation's troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Examiner:
Exclusive: Teacher calls parent a ‘neo-nazi’ after he challenged indoctrination — Josh Barry, the parent of an eighth grader at the East Pennsboro Area School District in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, told the Examiner that an assignment his eldest daughter brought home from school was clear political indoctrination.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers