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Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com:
‘Fan’ dispute overshadows sharp debate between Charlie Crist and Gov. Rick Scott — › — ‹ — In the weirdest start of a gubernatorial debate, Florida Gov. Rick Scott initially refused to take the stage Wednesday night because Democrat Charlie Crist insisted on a fan to keep him cool.
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
The Absolute Weirdest Thing Ever To Happen At A Political Debate — The Florida gubernatorial debate got off to a rocky start Wednesday night when Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) refused to come out because his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Charlie Crist, asked for and received a fan under his podium.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Rick Scott Spouts Gibberish While Explaining Fan Delay In Debate
WATCH: Rick Scott Spouts Gibberish While Explaining Fan Delay In Debate
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Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Times poll: All tied up in Florida governor's race between Rick Scott, Charlie Crist
Times poll: All tied up in Florida governor's race between Rick Scott, Charlie Crist
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National Review and The Daily Banter
NY Daily News:
Paging Dr. Obama — The American health-care system's failure to prepare for Ebola became even more terrifyingly evident with the revelation that a Dallas nurse traveled by air after treating a patient who ultimately died from the virus. — Amber Joy Vinson began running a fever the day after her flight …
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Hinterland Gazette and Hot Air
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Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Second Ebola nurse was given green light to fly back to Dallas by CDC
Second Ebola nurse was given green light to fly back to Dallas by CDC
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Truth Revolt
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers call for CDC director to resign
GOP lawmakers call for CDC director to resign
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New York Times and Fox News
Brittany M. Hughes / CNSNews:
CDC: You Can Give—But Can't Get—Ebola on a Bus
CDC: You Can Give—But Can't Get—Ebola on a Bus
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
President Obama's Ebola problem — The Ebola crisis in the United States has become an anchor threatening to sink the Obama presidency. — Already under fire from critics who saw the federal response to the outbreak as disorganized and timid, things went from bad to worse on Wednesday …
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Brendan Nyhan / New York Times:
The Partisan Divide on Ebola Preparedness — A scene from a training course on Ebola preparedness. The three-day course, operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and held at an old Army base in Anniston, Ala., will provide instruction to about 40 health care workers a week through January.
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Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Witness adds new perspective to Ferguson shooting — • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8087 — CLAYTON • A stream of eyewitnesses has been testifying in secret before a grand jury considering whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting …
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Dave McKenna / Deadspin:
Is A Colorado Senate Candidate Lying About His Football Career? — UPDATE: Gardner campaign spokesman Alex Siciliano sent the following, presented in its entirety, via email: “Cory Gardner played football from Junior High through Sophomore year in high school.”
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
The Democrats' Most Effective Midterm Message: Outsourcing — Taking a page from Obama's 2012 playbook, Democrats have found a winning message in a dismal political environment. — CHICAGO—Of all the negative campaign messages that Democrats have used this midterm election …
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Washington Monthly, Political Insider blog, Booman Tribune, Democratic Strategist and New York Times
Peter Foster / Telegraph:
John Grisham: men who watch child porn are not all paedophiles — As best-selling novelist John Grisham prepares to publish his new legal thriller, he argues America's prison system has run out of control — America is wrongly jailing far too many people for viewing child pornography …
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ThinkProgress, John Grisham, Mediaite, Gawker, Shakesville and Jezebel
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Meghan McCain: My dad hates Rand Paul — Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) daughter said on Wednesday that her father and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) “hate each other.” — Meghan McCain appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show to promote her “TakePart Live” talk show on Pivot TV.
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
The Divorce-Proof Marriage — A diamond is forever, but an expensive engagement ring means the marriage might not last that long. According to a new study, spending between $2,000 and $4,000 on an engagement ring is significantly associated with an increase in the risk of divorce.
Michael Scherer / TIME:
The Reinventions of Rand Paul — Subscriber content preview. or Sign In — Can he fix what ails the GOP? — The tattooed and pierced longhairs never showed up to see Senator Rand Paul speak with students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia last month.
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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Markets Panicked On Wednesday. Here's Why the U.S. Economy Is OK. — Wednesday was an ugly day for the global economy. British and German stocks each fell around 3 percent. Greek stocks fell 6 percent. (That's huge.) In the U.S., a trifecta of economic indicators—retail sales …
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Andrew Johnson / National Review:
Michelle Nunn Won't Say If She Voted for Obama — Another Democratic Senate candidate has refused to say whether she voted for President Obama: This time it was Michelle Nunn in Georgia. — The same question has tripped up other red-state Democrats on the campaign trail.
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The Other McCain, Power Line, The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice and FOX News Radio
Gina Barton / JSOnline:
Milwaukee officer in fatal Red Arrow Park shooting fired — By Gina Barton and Ashley Luthern of the Journal Sentinel — The Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Dontre Hamilton at Red Arrow Park has been fired because he did not follow department procedures for dealing …
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
How Presidents Handle Pandemics — Obama's response to the Ebola outbreak will affect his legacy. But he's far from the first president to deal with such a crisis. — The government's response to Ebola's arrival in America has been rocky at best, with each new case raising legitimate questions …
Dion Leflerthe / Kansas City Star:
Pat Roberts, Greg Orman spar on abortion, political gridlock in Kansas Senate debate — › — ‹ — Washington gridlock took the spotlight at Wednesday's Kansas Senate debate, with challenger Greg Orman calling Sen. Pat Roberts part of the problem and Roberts saying that Orman …
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Ascrouch / CBS Dallas:
CDC: Ebola Patient Traveled By Air With “Low-Grade” Fever — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - The CDC has announced that the second healthcare worker diagnosed with Ebola — now identified as Amber Joy Vinson of Dallas — traveled by air Oct. 13, with a low-grade fever, a day before she showed up at the hospital reporting symptoms.
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Jonathan LaPook / CBS News:
Infected Ebola healthcare worker flew on commercial flight
Infected Ebola healthcare worker flew on commercial flight
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