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10:45 AM ET, May 5, 2014

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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Midterm Election Indicators Daunting for Democrats  —  No Improvement in Perceptions of Job Market  —  With the midterm elections six months away, Democrats are burdened by an uneven economic recovery and a stubbornly unpopular health care law.  Perhaps equally important …
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USA Today:
Poll: For the midterms, a tilt to the GOP … LEANING REPUBLICAN OBAMA'S IMPACT  —  IMPORTANT ISSUES  —  VIEWPOINTS  —  Source: USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll taken April 23-27 of 1,501 adults.  Margin of error: +/-3 percentage points.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats hoping improvements …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Inventing a Failure  —  Last week, House Republicans released a deliberately misleading report on the status of health reform, crudely rigging the numbers to sustain the illusion of failure in the face of unexpected success.  Are you shocked?  —  You aren't, but you should be.
Discussion: Washington Post
Jenna Levy / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate Drops to 13.4%  —  Uninsured rate down nearly four percentage points since late 2013  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate for U.S. adults in April was 13.4%, down from 15.0% in March.  This is the lowest monthly uninsured rate recorded since Gallup and Healthways began tracking it in January 2008.
Michael Hirsh / Politico:
The Benghazi-Industrial Complex  —  Will the pseudo-scandal be enough to stop Hillary from running?  —  Perhaps if the Republicans can't beat Hillary Clinton fairly in 2016, they can make her so disgusted by the prospect of running that she'll stay out of the race.  —  That's where the Benghazi-Industrial Complex comes in.
Discussion: Mediaite and Taylor Marsh
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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:   Obama Plays to Liberal Base, Not Independents
Peter Hamby / CNN:
GOP establishment looks nervously at North Carolina Senate primary  —  Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN) — For a Republican establishment still spooked by the ghosts of Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock — grassroots-backed conservatives who threw away winnable Senate races in recent elections …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Manu Raju / Politico:
May primaries to test GOP establishment clout
Discussion: The Hill
William Harms / UChicago News:
Gary S. Becker, Nobel-winning scholar of economics and sociology, 1930-2014  —  Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker, AM'53, PhD'55, made historic changes to the study of economics and the social sciences, combining disciplines to understand decisions in everyday life, while spawning rich new questions for scholars in diverse fields to pursue.
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Ilya Somin / Washington Post:
Gary Becker, RIP
Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:   Gary S. Becker, 83, Nobel Winner Who Applied Economics to Everyday Life, Dies
Stephen Guillermo / San Francisco Chronicle:
Man shot to death after he gets out on the wrong floor  —  A 26-year-old San Francisco man was shot to death early Saturday when he went to a unit on the wrong floor of his apartment building after returning home from a night out.  —  Stephen Guillermo had been out drinking with friends …
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
At Derby Day With Murdoch, Rand Paul Goes Through His Paces  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On the afternoon of the Kentucky Derby, Rand Paul, the state's junior Republican senator and likely presidential candidate, spilled out of an elevator in the exclusive Jockey Club Suites of Churchill Downs …
Wall Street Journal:
Standing to Sue Obama  —  Congress should challenge his refusal to enforce the law.  —  The legal left and media are always last to know, but there are the makings of a correction in how the courts police conflicts between the political branches.  President Obama's serial executive power abuses …
Discussion: Instapundit
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
This Man Is the Future of Super PACs  —  Multimillionaire John Jordan is one of a growing number of donors taking matters into their own hands.  —  Lights, camera, super PAC action: Jordan(Courtesy of Jordan Winery)  —  HEALDSBURG, Calif.—It's a Monday afternoon in mid-March …
Discussion: ABC News
Dan Barry / New York Times:
Libertarians Trail Meter Readers, Telling Town: Live Free or Else  —  KEENE, N.H. — In most places, the parking enforcement officer reflects the municipal compact.  Armed only with a gadget that can spit out a ticket at the forgotten drop of a dime, the officer quietly serves civic and commercial life by ensuring that meters are fed.
Washington Post:
E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Hillary difference  —  There are two majorities in the country right now.  One disapproves of President Obama.  The other is still inclined to vote Democratic.  The key question for the 2014 elections is whether voting this fall — and Obama's approval ratings …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
Democratic, Republican voters worlds apart in divided Wisconsin
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
The courts will not save us
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Answers sought following Benghazi revelations; ObamaCare's impact on job creation
Discussion: Althouse and Washington Post
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Liberal donors eye new long-term investments in states and new voters to boost Democrats
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
‘Bring Back Our Girls’  —  DOZENS of heavily armed terrorists rolled …
Janet Lorin / Bloomberg:
Student Loan Interest Rates to Rise With Treasury 10-Year Note
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Katie Couric in talks to co-host ‘Today’
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Daily Mail
Associated Press:
Joe Manchin ponders gubernatorial run
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Perry: No pause in executions in Texas
Discussion: WJLA-TV, Politico and CNN
CNN:
‘Human chandelier’ falls: 9 performers hurt in Rhode Island circus accident
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging
Discussion: The Week
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In California Race, a Latina Democrat Carries Hopes of Her Party and People
Ian Lovett / New York Times:
When Hitting ‘Find My iPhone’ Takes You to a Thief's Doorstep
Discussion: The Verge
Fox News:
GOP candidate booted from editorial meeting after calling out ‘blah blah’ dis
Discussion: Hot Air
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US

 
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