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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senate Update: With 4 Days Left, Here's The State Of The Races — The GOP's chances of winning the Senate are 68.5 percent, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast, its highest figure of the year. — Among the 20 new polls released Thursday — it looks like there will be no Great Poll Shortage …
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
If You Like Personhood, You'll Love The GOP Senate
If You Like Personhood, You'll Love The GOP Senate
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Right Wing Watch
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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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Democratic donors prepare for disappointment
Democratic donors prepare for disappointment
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American Prospect and BuzzFeed
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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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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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Dreamers heckle Hillary Clinton in Maryland
Dreamers heckle Hillary Clinton in Maryland
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Yahoo! News and Hot Air
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg View and NPR
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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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Talking Points Memo, Power Line, Business Insider, RedState, Washington Times, National Review and The Daily Caller
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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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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Talking Points Memo, WMUR, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
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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Daniel J. Flynn / American Spectator:
The Growing Halloween Depravity of Grownups — Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers kill kids rushing to become adults. Is it too much to ask of the ghoulish trio to apply their talents toward adults rushing to become kids? — The grownups who have decimated the ranks …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson releases video of apparent computer hack — Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS News correspondent who claims that her computers were hacked by the government while she was reporting on the Benghazi scandal, has released a video she took with her cellphone of one apparent hack.
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Post
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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Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:
Second-Hand Grocery Store To Open In Pennsylvania — Expiration dates are a luxury America's neediest cannot afford. — CREDIT: Shutterstock — A small town outside Pittsburgh is getting a new, unusual grocery shopping option. Denise Marte is opening a store that will sell dented cans …
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Balloon Juice, Shakesville and Greensburg Tribune-Review
The Standard:
Don't be a slave to reform, says finance figure — The chairwoman of the Financial Services Development Council, Laura Cha Shih May-lung, has spelled out her stand on pushing for election reform. — She says be patient. — “American slaves were liberated in 1861 but did not get voting …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Reuters and Business Insider
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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National Review, Hit & Run, Maggie's Farm and Outside the Beltway
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, Gawker, Hullabaloo and Election Law Blog
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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