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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Corrects Fumbled “Jobs” Line — “I short-handed this point the other day.” — Mark Makela / Reuters — SOMERS, N.Y. — When Hillary Clinton fumbled a line at a rally last Friday — “Don't let anybody tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs” …
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Warren vs. Clinton: Dems say ‘Why not?’ — The Democratic field in 2016 has more than enough room for two women competing to be the nation's first female president, according to liberal activists. — They pour scorn on the notion that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), or any other woman …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton clarifies jobs comment — Hillary Clinton on Monday mopped up her botched statement from a rally in Massachusetts last week, making it clear she'd misspoken and hadn't intended to deliver a fresh economic policy message. — Clinton's cleanup came as she campaigned …
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New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Scott Walker to Chris Christie: Thanks for nothing — MAYVILLE, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he needs more help from the national GOP in his reelection fight — and an upcoming visit from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't going to cut it. — Speaking with reporters …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Rush Limbaugh: The GOP Ought To Quarantine Chris Christie — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh isn't impressed by the way New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) handled the involuntary quarantine of a nurse who arrived Friday in Newark after working in Sierra Leone.
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New York Times, Salon, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, NY Daily News and Capital New York
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
What Will the GOP Senate Be Like? — Republicans promise that if they seize the majority, they'll stop Obama—and stop the Washington gridlock. Can they really do both? — In Kansas recently, Republican Senator Pat Roberts, who's in a tough race for reelection, made a statement that left me puzzled.
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN poll: Voters are angry — Washington (CNN) — Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows.
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PoliticusUSA, The Economic Collapse and Hot Air
James Monteleone / Albuquerque Journal:
Journal Poll: U.S. Senate race tightens
Journal Poll: U.S. Senate race tightens
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RedState, Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, Real Clear Politics and National Review
Toronto Star:
CBC fires Jian Ghomeshi over sex allegations — Ousted host of Q denies claims by three women of unwanted sexual violence and threatens to sue broadcaster for $50 million. — Ousted host of Q denies claims by three women of unwanted sexual violence and threatens to sue broadcaster for $50 million.
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Jian Ghomeshi / Facebook:
Dear everyone, — I am writing today because I want you to …
Dear everyone, — I am writing today because I want you to …
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Globe and Mail, Ms. Magazine Blog, Guardian, Toronto Star, Canada Blog …, Raw Story, canada.com and Gawker
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
Feds identify suspected ‘second leaker’ for Snowden reporters — Yahoo News 2 hrs ago — The FBI has identified an employee of a federal contracting firm suspected of being the so-called second leaker who turned over sensitive documents about the U.S. government's terrorist watch list …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
House Dems fret debilitating losses — The political environment continues to deteriorate for House Democrats ahead of a midterm election that's certain to diminish their ranks. — With President Barack Obama's unpopularity hindering their candidates and Republican cash flooding …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Latest Alaska Polls Show Surprising Shift Toward Mark Begich — Kansas, Georgia, South Dakota. We have cycled through a lot of wild-card red states over the last month in surveying the landscape of competitive Senate races. But the most likely wild card might be the one we always expected: Alaska.
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The Huffington Post and FiveThirtyEight
Timothy Noah / Politico:
Minimum wage working as issue for Dems — For Republicans this year, the minimum wage is the wedge issue from hell. — Even as Democrats lurch toward a potentially disastrous midterm election, support for raising the federal minimum wage is resonating with voters.
Heyun Jeong / The Daily Californian:
Students spring into opposition after Bill Maher announced as keynote speaker — In response to an announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley's fall commencement, an online petition started circulating Thursday that demanded that the campus rescind its invitation.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Jezebel
Argus Leader:
Weiland accuses own party of sabotaging his campaign … Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland accused his own political party of trying to undermine his campaign in a striking news conference Monday. — Weiland said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's ads attacking …
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Associated Press, Bloomberg Politics, Fox News and Mediaite
Carl Gibson / ThinkProgress:
Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid — Carl Gibson is a contributing editor for Reader Supported News and Occupy.com, and author of the book “How to Oust a Congressman.” Follow him on Twitter at @uncutCG. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel
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Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Politics:
The Persuadables — How strategists see the 2014 Senate battlefield, state by state, featuring exclusive voter data. — One doesn't have to wait until the polls close on election night to begin counting votes. In fact, the vote counting in these midterm elections has been going on for months.
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Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Trulia Trends:
Blue Markets Face Bigger Housing Challenges Than Red Markets — The housing crisis hurt Democratic- and Republican-leaning markets similarly, but today blue markets have lower affordability, lower homeownership, and greater income inequality. — As Election Day 2014 approaches …
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Business Insider and Washington Post
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
John Boehner Still Hasn't Sued Obama Over Obamacare. Why Not? — Three months ago, John Boehner threw a bone to the tea-party faction that was nipping at his heels and demanding action against the lawless tyrant Obama and his executive orders that routinely defied both the Constitution and the duly enacted laws of the land.
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Bloomberg View and Washington Monthly