memeorandum: Overall Spending Inches Up in 2014: Megadonors Equip Outside Groups to Capture a Bigger Share of the Pie (Crp Comm/OpenSecrets.org)

9:55 PM ET, October 29, 2014

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Shocking Harvard poll: Millennial voters want GOP in charge, abandon Obama — WASHINGTON SECRETS BARACK OBAMA POLLS 2014 ELECTIONS VIDEO MILLENNIALS HISPANICS HARVARD INSTITUTE OF POLITICS HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2014 MIDTERMS — Harvard University on Wednesday provided new proof that the Democrats …

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Harvard University:

Fall 2014 Survey — LIKELY MILLENNIAL VOTERS UP-FOR-GRABS IN UPCOMING MIDTERM ELECTIONS, HARVARD YOUTH POLL FINDS … Cambridge, MA - A new national poll of America's 18- to 29- year-olds by Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government …

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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Millennials Bolt Obama for GOP in Midterms

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Maine.gov:

Governor LePage Issues Statement About Healthcare Worker in Fort Kent Who Worked in West Africa — Contact: Adrienne Bennett, Press Secretary (207) 287-2531 — AUGUSTA - Governor Paul R. LePage issued a statement Wednesday morning about a healthcare worker who had been quarantined …

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Katie Kindelan / ABC News:
Nurse Kaci Hickox ‘Will Go to Court’ Over Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule

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CBS News:
Do Americans believe there should be a quarantine to deal with Ebola?

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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon Orders 21-Day Ebola Quarantine for Troops

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Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Maine state police dispatched to back nurse's quarantine

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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY:
Nurse Kaci Hickox says she won't obey Maine's Ebola quarantine: I won't be ‘bullied by politicians’

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M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:

Trek sources: Mary Burke's family fired her for incompetence — FIRED: Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke didn't get “burned out” from her overseas job at her family-owned Trek Bicycle Corp She was fired by her family, several former Trek executives and employees tell Wisconsin Reporter.

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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
MU poll has Walker leading Burke, with turnout still key

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Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Final pre-election Marquette Law School Poll finds Walker leading Burke in Wisconsin governor's race

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Mark Landler / New York Times:

Obama Could Swap Out Aides Bruised by a Cascade of Crises — WASHINGTON — One day this month, as the nation shuddered with fears of an Ebola outbreak and American warplanes pounded Sunni militants in Syria, President Obama's national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, invited a group …

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New York Post:

Ebola doctor lied about his NYC travels — New York City police officers enter the building where Dr. Craig Spencer (inset with fiancée Morgan Dixon) lives in New York on Oct. 24. — The city's first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following …

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Dr. Keith Ablow / Associated Press:

It's time for an “American jihad” — Among the many definitions of jihad are a “war or struggle against unbelievers” and “a crusade for a principle or belief.” Given those definitions, I believe it's time for an American jihad. — An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens …

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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Fox's Keith Ablow: 'It's Time For An American Jihad' (VIDEO)

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New York Times:

The Affordable Care Act: Who Was Helped Most — A new data set provides a clearer picture of which people gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. — Change in insured Americans, 2013-14 — +4 — +6 — +8 — +10 pct. pts. more insured

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Sarah Varney / Politico:
Mississippi, Burned — How the poorest, sickest state got left behind by Obamacare.

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Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project:

Latino Support for Democrats Falls, but Democratic Advantage Remains — After more than a year of inaction by Congress and President Obama on immigration reform, Democrats maintain a wide, but diminished, advantage among Hispanic registered voters, according to a new nationwide survey …

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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

Why Middle-Class Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities — On April 2, 2014, a protester in Oakland, California, mounted a Yahoo bus, climbed to the front of the roof, and vomited onto the top of the windshield. — If not the year's most persuasive act of dissent …

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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Iowa Republican Copied And Pasted Passages In Newspaper Dispatches — Passages of local paper pieces under Ernst's name appear to have been copied word for word from templates sent as guidelines to Republican members of the Iowa Senate. — Red Oak Express

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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — October 29, 2014 - Ernst Inching Ahead …

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Timothy Stanley / CNN:

Lindsey Graham unfiltered: jokes about white men, Baptists — Washington (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is toying with the idea of a presidential bid, joked in a private gathering this month that “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency …

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Associated Press:

Jeb Bush Slams Obama On Ebola Response — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's initial handling of the Ebola crisis as “incompetent,” saying it gave rise to unneeded fears among the American public about the virus.

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Joey Garrison / Tennessean.com:
Jeb Bush talks presidential run, Common Core in Nashville

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Eric Russell / The Portland Press Herald:

Cutler to make announcement Wednesday morning — Independent candidate for governor expected to address his chances in the race — Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler will hold a press conference Wednesday morning at his Portland campaign office.

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The Federalist:

New NARAL Ad: Cory Gardner Is Totally Going To Ban...Condoms? — Forget the Wendy Davis wheelchair ad. NARAL, an extreme pro-abortion group, just nominated its own entry for worst campaign ad of 2014. — The new NARAL ad in Colorado suggests that Cory Gardner wants to ban condoms.

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:

For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September suggests that economic activity is expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions improved somewhat further, with solid job gains and a lower unemployment rate.

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Joey / Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com:

Miami Beach police investigating cop after confrontation during traffic stop — Deadline Miami — As a video showing a Miami Beach police officer cursing out a young man during an apparent traffic stop makes the rounds on social media, the police department is saying it has opened an internal affairs investigation.

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CNN:

Ferguson police chief expected to step down, officials say — (CNN) — The police chief in Ferguson, Missouri, is expected to step down as part of the effort by city officials to reform the police department, according to government officials familiar with the ongoing discussions between local, state and federal officials.