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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 …
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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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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Althouse, RedState, The Charlotte Observer and National Review
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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Liberaland, OnPolitics, Feministing, Washington Times, Mediaite, Raw Story and Bloomberg Politics
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Lindsey Graham: White Men Will ‘Do Great’ Under My Presidency (AUDIO) — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joked in a private meeting this month that white men would “do great” under his presidency, according to audio obtained by CNN. — The South Carolina Republican confirmed to the news outlet …
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Balloon Juice and Shakesville
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
NATO says Russian jets, bombers circle Europe in unusual incidents — MOSCOW — NATO said Wednesday that it had intercepted a large number of Russian aircraft flying close to European airspace in the past two days, in an “unusual” series of incidents that brought Russian bombers as far afield as Portugal.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Antic Right Wing Blogger Now Stalking His Biggest Critic — After a pitstop for an Italian dinner on Tuesday night, right-wing agitator Charles C. Johnson showed up at what he thought was the residence of his biggest online adversary — a man who just so happens to share his name …
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Balloon Juice
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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The Gateway Pundit, Defense One, Washington Post, JustOneMinute, VodkaPundit, Hot Air, Power Line, Ed Driscoll and Viking Pundit
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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 and Real Clear Politics
BBC:
Burkina Faso parliament set ablaze — Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament. — Correspondents say the city hall and ruling party headquarters are also in flames.
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The PJ Tatler, NPR and Outside the Beltway
CBS News:
What Americans think of Congress and the President — Shares - — Regardless of whether they will vote in a Senate race this year, 51 percent of registered voters nationwide expect the Republican Party to win control of the U.S. Senate. Self-identified Republicans expect their party to prevail …
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Hot Air and Washington Post
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rand Paul: GOP brand ‘sucks’ — DETROIT — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) acknowledged Wednesday a problem that many Republicans admit only privately: their party brand “sucks.” — The weakness, Paul added, is particularly serious when it comes to appealing to black voters. — “Remember Domino's Pizza?
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CNN, Washington Times, Mediaite and The Reaction
Dan O'Donnell / News/Talk 1130 WISN:
Former Trek President and CEO Confirms Mary Burke was Fired — In 1993, Tom Albers learned about big problems with Trek Bicycle Corporation's European division. Sales numbers were down, and employees were in a near mutiny against the young woman Trek founder Richard Burke had put in charge.
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M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:
Trek sources: Mary Burke's family fired her for incompetence
Trek sources: Mary Burke's family fired her for incompetence
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Power Line, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, JSOnline, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Rush Limbaugh, FOX6Now.com, PJ Media, National Review and Althouse
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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OnPolitics, Bloomberg Politics and National Review
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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Hot Air, National Review and The Dish
Staten Island Advance:
For Congress: Advance endorses Michael Grimm (editorial) — Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island-Brooklyn) has served in Congress since 2011. (Advance photo) — There are, on occasion, electoral races in which both candidates are of high quality and high integrity and conduct a tough but fair campaign about the issues.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats — Why Polls Tend to Undercount Democrats — A crucial problem is that pollsters, for a variety of reasons, are more successful at reaching Republican-leaning voters. — Peter Gamlen — ON THE BALLOT | OCTOBER 30, 7:01 AM
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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 …
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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Fox News, The PJ Tatler and National Journal
Clark Mindock / Roll Call:
Democrats Losing Youth Vote: Millennials Turning to the GOP — Democrats have lost ground with millennials compared to past election cycles — a development that suggests the country's youngest voters are open to both parties, according to a new Harvard Institute of Politics poll.
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Hullabaloo and Instapundit
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