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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Why a GOP Senate could be short-lived — Senate Democrats have long awaited the 2010 tea party wave to splash back on Republicans during the 2016 election cycle. — That moment is almost here. — After two years of obsessive focus on the teetering reelection prospects of red-state Democrats …
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Obama's Midterm Loss Record Could Make History — President Barack Obama is about to do what no president has done in the past 50 years: Have two horrible, terrible, awful midterm elections in a row. — In fact, Obama is likely to have the worst midterm numbers of any two-term president going back to Democrat Harry S. Truman.
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American Thinker
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Hollywood pumps cash to candidates — Celebrities are putting on a money-raising show, digging into their wallets in a last ditch effort to help Democrats and Republicans before Election Day. — David Letterman, Ben Affleck, former NFL quarterback John Elway, and “Scandal's” …
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Weekly Standard
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton network to meet for strategy session — The pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Ready for Hillary is planning a National Finance Council meeting featuring speakers like National Urban League president Marc Morial, former Obama 2012 pollster John Anzalone and longtime Bill Clinton …
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Washington Monthly and Mediaite
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dreamers heckle Hillary Clinton in Maryland — COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Hillary Clinton was heckled repeatedly during a rally Thursday in potential 2016 rival Martin O'Malley's home state of Maryland, when more than a dozen pro-immigrant activists staggered their protests so they lasted throughout most of her speech.
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Yahoo! News and Hot Air
Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite:
Jeb Bush Blasts Hillary Clinton's 'Businesses Don't Create Jobs' Remark
New York Times:
The Prospect of a Republican Senate — In a rare fit of realism on Tuesday, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, admitted he would be unable to repeal the Affordable Care Act if Republicans win the Senate next week and he becomes majority leader.
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg View and NPR
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Scott Brown Tackles New Hampshire Geography In Final Debate — WASHINGTON — Republican Senate challenger Scott Brown's efforts to cast himself as a New Hampshire native went awry in his final debate against Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) on Thursday when a question on economic problems facing Sullivan County turned into a geography lesson.
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Daily Kos, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal and Hot Air
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Tim Buckland / unionleader.com:
Senate candidates sharply divided on Islamic threat, Ebola, Obamacare
Senate candidates sharply divided on Islamic threat, Ebola, Obamacare
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WMUR, Talking Points Memo and Washington Times
CNN:
Kaci Hickox's boyfriend: 'We don't believe that we can get anyone sick' — (CNN) — The boyfriend of a Maine nurse who defied an Ebola quarantine is speaking out, saying isolating returnees from West Africa will affect their partners as well. — Nurse Kaci Hickox recently returned …
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The PJ Tatler
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KFOR-TV:
Graphic: New details released in near-beheading murder of Stillwater teen, one in custody … STILLWATER, Okla. - A 21-year-old Stillwater man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of an area college student who, according to police, was nearly decapitated.
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Liberaland and Raw Story
New York Post:
Democrats: Vote or we'll kick your ass — Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else. — The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.
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Power Line, Washington Times, National Review and RedState
John Stoehr / Washington Monthly:
Guns Are a Greater Public Health Threat Than Ebola — Shepard Smith was the rare voice of reason during the most fevered hours of the Ebola madness that temporarily gripped the nation this month (October). The Fox News anchor dedicated four minutes of a newscast to explaining what had been evident once you took a deep breath.
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Booman Tribune
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Apologizing to Japan — TOKYO — For almost two decades, Japan has been held up as a cautionary tale, an object lesson on how not to run an advanced economy. After all, the island nation is the rising superpower that stumbled. One day, it seemed, it was on the road to high-tech domination …
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Bloomberg View
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
State Attorney General Candidates Cite Concerns Over Political Donations — WASHINGTON — The political associations run by Democratic and Republican attorneys general must discontinue taking money from corporations that are targets of investigations, the two candidates for the job in New York State said at a debate Thursday night.
Dr. Milton Wolf / Facebook:
My fellow patriots, in regards to the United States Senate race in Kansas... It is no secret that President Barack Obama and Democrats like Senator Harry Reid and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi are destroying the American Dream by crushing individual liberties under the oppressive weight …
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American Spectator, National Review, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Instapundit
Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg View:
How Candy Conquered Halloween — In her book “Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure,” retired Rutgers University literature professor Samira Kawash investigates the surprisingly neglected story of how business and technological innovations turned the U.S. into what a 1907 visitor called “the great candy eating nation.”
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Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Art Swift / Gallup:
Less Than Half of Americans Support Stricter Gun Laws — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than half of Americans, 47%, say they favor stricter laws covering the sale of firearms, similar to views found last year. But this percentage is significantly below the 58% recorded …
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Hot Air
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The state is failing in almost every imaginable way. The reason why is rooted in its violent and racist past. — Driven by its high poverty rate, Mississippi ranks low on health and wellness. It has one the highest rates of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in the country …
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Washington Monthly
National Journal:
They're Not Allowed to Talk. But Candidates and PACs Are Brazenly Communicating All the Time. — Candidates, committees, and outside-group allies are sharing more information than ever thanks to a law easily bypassed and a Federal Election Commission stuck in gridlock.
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ABC News
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Richard Berman Energy Industry Talk Secretly Taped — WASHINGTON — If the oil and gas industry wants to prevent its opponents from slowing its efforts to drill in more places, it must be prepared to employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about environmentalists and liberal celebrities …
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, The Huffington Post and Election Law Blog