memeorandum: President Barack Obama's legacy pitch (Politico)

7:35 AM ET, October 30, 2014

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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 …

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.

Discussion: Washington Post

Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
Senate Democrats' Last Bastion: Single, College-Educated Women

Discussion: Campaign for America's Future and Democratic Strategist

Tarini Parti / Politico:
The most wide-open Senate election in a decade

Discussion: Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Rush Limbaugh, VodkaPundit and Shot in the Dark

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

Discussion: RedState and Hot Air

Harvard University:
Fall 2014 Survey — LIKELY MILLENNIAL VOTERS UP-FOR-GRABS …

Discussion: Politico, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, The College Fix, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and New York Times

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 …

Discussion: Betsy's Page, JustOneMinute, Hot Air, Power Line, Ed Driscoll and Viking Pundit

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mashable and Hit & Run

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

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Real Clear Politics, BuzzFeed and Weekly Standard

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

Discussion: New York Times, Hot Air, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway and The Gateway Pundit

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

Discussion: Politico, Fox News, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, Daily Kos and Chicago Boyz

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

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Post, Hot Air and Bloomberg Politics

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 …

Discussion: National Review and The Dish

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 …

Discussion: Bloomberg Politics

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.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Rush Limbaugh, The Daily Caller, FOX6Now.com, JSOnline, National Review and PJ Media

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 …

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

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.

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

Discussion: Althouse

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, OnPolitics, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Real Clear Politics

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.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg View, Wall Street Journal and NPR

Tarini Parti / Politico:

Thom Tillis internal poll shows tied North Carolina race — North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis' internal poll shows him tied with Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, consistent with more recent public polling of the race that shows Tillis closing the gap as the campaigns comes to an end.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Republican Senator: Full Obamacare Repeal Not “Realistic,” Better To Put Stuff On Obama's Desk He'll Sign — “I want to put things on his desk that he would actually give true consideration to signing.” — View Video › — A Republican senator says an Obamacare repeal isn't going to happen anytime in the next two years.

Discussion: Hot Air and Talking Points Memo