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6:10 PM ET, October 17, 2014

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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Michelle Nunn supports Ebola travel ban, reaffirms support for Obama  —  MACON, Ga. — Add Michelle Nunn to the growing list of Democrats who support a temporary travel ban from West Africa to the United States in order to control the spread of Ebola.  —  “I support a temporary travel ban …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Six Reasons to Panic
Discussion: American Prospect
Steve Mason / ABC News:
Hospital Worker Who Handled Ebola Samples Is on Cruise Ship  —  A Dallas health care worker who handled clinical specimens from an Ebola-infected patient is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, with the worker self-quarantined and being monitored for signs of infection, the State Department said in a statement.
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Belizean:
Belize Confirms Patient With Ebola Symptoms On Cruise Ship Off Its Coast  —  Reports tonight are that two individuals possibly infected with the Ebola virus are in Belizean waters.  Local TV station Channel 7 monitored in the capital City Of Belmopan tonight, reported having credible reports …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Charles Krauthammer: Ebola vs. civil liberties
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Jake Tapper / CNN:
First on CNN: Obama will name Ron Klain as Ebola Czar  —  Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama will appoint Ron Klain his “Ebola czar,” knowledgeable sources tell CNN.  —  The president on Thursday signaled his openness to the idea to have one individual coordinating the entire federal response …
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David McCabe / The Hill:
GOP blasts Obama Ebola czar pick  —  No sooner had the White House announced that it had selected Ron Klain to coordinate the administration's response to concerns about the Ebola virus than several congressional Republicans were expressing anger about the pick.  —  Most highlighted Klain's past as a political operative.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
President Obama's credit card got rejected last month.  Here's what happened next.  —  Presidents, they're just like us — their credit cards get declined.  —  President Obama's credit card was rejected last month at a restaurant in New York.  —  “I went to a restaurant up in New York when I was …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
Obama: ‘My Credit Card Was Rejected’  —  In what must have been an awkward moment for everyone involved, President Barack Obama said his credit card was declined at a New York City restaurant last month.  —  “My credit card was rejected.  It turned out I guess I don't use it enough,” …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Luke Brinker / Salon:
This may be the worst race-baiting campaign ad since Willie Horton  —  Fighting to save an embattled congressman, GOP tries to spook voters with menacing images of a black convict  —  The National Republican Campaign Committee unveiled a race-baiting ad Friday linking the Democratic candidate …
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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
New GOP ad tries to tie Brad Ashford to felon who went on Omaha killing spree
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Not Following the Midterms?  You're Missing All the Fun  —  Not Following the Midterms?  You're Missing All the Fun  —  I have a confession: I think this is a great election.  It's way better than 2012.  All around, it might be the best general election in a decade.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties  —  In August, Tom Steyer and seven campaign advisers sat in a small conference room in Coral Gables, Fla., trying to figure out how to save the world.  Steyer, who is 57, has a fortune of roughly $1.5 billion …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Kentuckians Now More Likely to Align With GOP  —  Democratic presence, Obama approval at six-year lows in Kentucky  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A series of disheartening figures could make Democratic Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes' attempt to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell all the more difficult.
Discussion: Washington Post and Firedoglake
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Rasmussen Reports:
Kentucky Senate: McConnell (R) 52%, Grimes (D) 44%
Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Koch Group Sends Fake Voter Information To Discourage Illinois Voters  —  They're not satisfied to be breaking the law in North Carolina.  Now they're aiming at Illinois.  —  First it was North Carolina, now it's Illinois.  Same pattern of voter suppression by fraudulent mailing, too.
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Joan McCarterFollow / Daily Kos:
Kochs now harassing voters in Illinois with registration mailers
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Political Polarization in Action: Insights into the 2014 Election from the American Trends Panel  —  The Pew Research Center has developed a new tool for looking at the 2014 elections - a panel survey that enables us to check in with the same representative group of Americans several times during the course of the campaign.
Michael W. Chapman / CNSNews:
Rev. Billy Graham: ‘America is Just as Wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah Ever Were’  —  Reverend Billy Graham, arguably the most well-known and respected evangelical preacher of the last 50 years, said in a recently published commentary that America was “founded by men who believed in prayer” …
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Vox Popoli
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republican Joni Ernst Admits Why Republicans Really Hate Obamacare  —  Another secret recording.  —  Shares  —  Conservatives have made a series of specific predictions about the effects of Obamacare — overall costs would rise, insurers would flee the exchanges, premiums would go up, the ranks of the uninsured would not even fall.
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Leon Panetta and Hillary Clinton: It's Complicated  —  Reporters have focused on how the former defense secretary's memoir praises her and criticizes the president.  The book itself tells a different story.  —  I'm thinking of teaching my journalism students about Leon Panetta's book tour—as a case study in how to game the press.
Discussion: Politico
Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal:
In a Louisiana Race for Congress, Edwin Edwards Can't Wait  —  Edwin Edwards is trying to live up to and live down his reputation.  —  The former congressman, four-term governor and one-time federal inmate is running for Congress in Louisiana's sixth district, trying to win the wide-open race …
 
 
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Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
The Second Obamacare Election
Matt Higgins / CBS Tampa:
Satanic Group Wants To Put Display In Capitol Rotunda Showing Devil Descending Into Hell
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
GOP Congressman: Hamas Could Infect Themselves With Ebola And Come To America
Steven Beutler / The New Republic:
An infectious-disease specialist says the time for half-measures is over
Discussion: The Dish
Irin Carmon / msnbc.com:
This conservative cause is the GOP's worst nightmare
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Arizona Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, Marriages To Begin “Immediately”
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
What Markets Will  —  In the Middle Ages, the call for a crusade …
 

 
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