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Mike Zapler / Politico:
The final sprint — In Kentucky, Democrats were crying foul over a last-minute GOP flier they called a dirty trick to suppress turnout. In Kansas, independent Greg Orman met the full brunt of a Republican machine determined to rescue one of its own. Louisiana's Democratic …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Democrats Count on Edge With Women to Limit Election Losses — WASHINGTON — Democrats are nervously counting on an enduring edge among female voters in most states to prevent a Republican rout in Tuesday's elections. Yet so great is the uncertainty that even before the returns are in …
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Althouse, The PJ Tatler and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Grimes Sues McConnell Over ‘Despicable’ Voter Mailers
Grimes Sues McConnell Over ‘Despicable’ Voter Mailers
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Salon, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Daily Banter
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
McConnell Mailers Imply Ky. Voters Are Involved In ‘Election Violation’ (PHOTOS)
McConnell Mailers Imply Ky. Voters Are Involved In ‘Election Violation’ (PHOTOS)
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Political Correctness Is Back — The kerfuffle over Bill Maher's invitation to speak at UC Berkeley brings me back to my college days. And not in a good way. — In the late 1980s and early 1990s, campus life featured a depressing sequence of actions and reactions by the right and left on the subject of race.
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Sam Wang / Princeton Election Consortium:
Races I'll Be Watching On Election Night — Senate polls in individual states have moved around...but the Meta-Margin and the average seat count have stayed stable. Nonetheless, the crystal ball is cloudy. Why is that? The Midterm Polling Curse. Spoooooky!
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FOX News Radio, New York Times and FiveThirtyEight
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Democrats fear Iowa slipping away — DES MOINES, Iowa —Democrats' hopes of keeping the Senate may well rest on the outcome of the race in this state on Tuesday. But party faithful here are increasingly anxious that victory is slipping away, with some Democrats openly saying …
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Jason Noble / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Dems may hold thin edge in early voting — Democrats may have an advantage over Republicans in an all-out battle to attract party loyalists who didn't cast ballots four years ago, an exclusive Des Moines Register analysis of absentee voter data suggests.
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Politico, Washington Post and Booman Tribune
Sendhil Mullainathan / New York Times:
The Vital Role of the Occasional Voter — Low voter turnout is a bad thing. Let's get that out of the way immediately. — The midterm elections take place on Tuesday, but it's highly likely that relatively few Americans will actually go to the polls. In 2010, in the last midterm election …
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Brad Knickerbocker / Yahoo! News:
Daylight saving time: Is it worth it? — Christian Science Monitor 1 hr ago — It's that time of year again. Time to “fall back” an hour as we go around the house changing the clocks on the features of modern life - appliances and such like. The really modern stuff - computers …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Alarmed by Ebola, Public Isn't Calmed by ‘Experts Say’ — When public health leaders and government officials make the case against isolating more people returning from the Ebola hot zones in West Africa, or against imposing more travel restrictions from that region, time and again they cite science and experts.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
There's Only One Thing at Stake in the Senate Race — But it's a pretty big thing. — Shares — There are lots of people telling you what the race for control of the Senate is about. Maybe it's about Republicans turning the Senate into a temple of bipartisan governance.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
The Party of Nonvoters — Younger, More Racially Diverse, More Financially Strapped — With just four days before the midterm elections, the spotlight understandably is focused on the estimated 40% of voting age adults who are expected to show up at the polls next Tuesday.
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Washington Post and Liberaland
Associated Press:
Boko Haram Leader: All Kidnapped Girls Now Married Off — MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom.
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