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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In Democratic Election Ads in South, a Focus on Racial Scars — In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin's death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation …
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
White House in Denial: President Obama Is Costing Democrats Control of the Senate — The administration insists that vulnerable Democrats should have supported him more. That couldn't be further from the truth. — White House officials are preemptively spinning a midterm defeat, and they're using their own fantasies to do it.
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
Senate Democrats' Last Bastion: Single, College-Educated Women
Senate Democrats' Last Bastion: Single, College-Educated Women
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Campaign for America's Future and Democratic Strategist
Tim Cook / Businessweek:
Tim Cook Speaks Up — Throughout my professional life, I've tried to maintain a basic level of privacy. I come from humble roots, and I don't seek to draw attention to myself. Apple is already one of the most closely watched companies in the world, and I like keeping the focus on our products …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Could Replace 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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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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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Clark Mindock / Roll Call:
Democrats Losing Youth Vote: Millennials Turning to the GOP
Democrats Losing Youth Vote: Millennials Turning to the GOP
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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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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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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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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Pentagon Orders 21-Day Ebola Quarantine for Troops
Pentagon Orders 21-Day Ebola Quarantine for Troops
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Los Angeles Times, Real Clear Politics, BuzzFeed, The Hill and Weekly Standard
Katie Kindelan / ABC News:
Nurse Kaci Hickox ‘Will Go to Court’ Over Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule
Nurse Kaci Hickox ‘Will Go to Court’ Over Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule
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New York Times, Hot Air, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway, TODAY, The Gateway Pundit and CBS News
Politico:
President Barack Obama's legacy pitch — Everywhere he goes these days, President Barack Obama talks about his economic legacy in a way that he's been reluctant to do before — as an indisputable success, even as he acknowledges there's much left to fix. — White House officials …
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — October 30, 2014 - Independent Voters Boost Crist In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Like Republican Turned Dem A Little More — A jump in support from independent likely voters in the Florida governor's race leaves Democrat Charlie Crist with 43 percent …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Top Dem ‘shocked’ by ‘chickens—’ remark — Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, hit the Obama administration on Wednesday over an official calling the Israeli prime minister a “chickens**t.” — “I was shocked and disappointed on reading …
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Detroit Free Press:
Poll: Absentees put Snyder, Schauer race in dead heat — The race for governor has tightened into a virtual dead heat heading into the final days of this election cycle. And the Democrats' strategy to increase turnout by getting people to vote by absentee ballot is a big driver.
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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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NY Daily News:
Hillary Clinton could run, on Vogue's cover, as likely candidate and Anna Wintour visit Michael Kors studio for fitting — Ariana Grande is at a loss for words at Michael Bublé taping; Rudy Giuliani is on top at a summit; Sting runs into Bruce Springsteen before Broadway show
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National Review, Jezebel, New York Magazine and Bloomberg Politics
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Final pre-election Marquette Law School Poll finds Walker leading Burke in Wisconsin governor's race — MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll finds Republican Gov. Scott Walker leading Democratic challenger Mary Burke 50 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in the Wisconsin governor's race.
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Craig Gilbert / JSOnline:
MU poll has Walker leading Burke, with turnout still key
MU poll has Walker leading Burke, with turnout still key
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aco.nato.int:
NATO TRACKS LARGE-SCALE RUSSIAN AIR ACTIVITY IN EUROPE — MONS, Belgium - NATO detected and monitored four groups of Russian military aircraft conducting significant military manoeuvers in European airspace over the Baltic Sea, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, and Black Sea on 28 and 29 October 2014.
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