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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
BOMBSHELL MEMO: Jeanne Shaheen Conspired With White House Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal — Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama's political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment …
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his vorpal sword, The Gateway Pundit, Truth Revolt, The PJ Tatler, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Power Line
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: ELECTION-EVE BOMBSHELL MEMO EMBROILS JEANNE SHAHEEN IN IRS TARGETING SCANDAL
REPORT: ELECTION-EVE BOMBSHELL MEMO EMBROILS JEANNE SHAHEEN IN IRS TARGETING SCANDAL
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Scared Monkeys and Bloomberg Politics
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Final Update: Republicans Have A 3 In 4 Chance Of Winning The Senate — After two months of forecasting, it comes down to this: Republicans are favored to win the Senate. Their chances of doing so are 76 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight's Senate forecast, which is principally based …
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New York Times:
What to Watch For as G.O.P. Expects Big Night at Polls — WASHINGTON — It is a recipe for sensory overload: Election returns will start flooding every device and screen Tuesday evening, capturing the outcomes of 36 governors' contests, the battle for control of the Senate …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show, ThinkProgress, Liberaland and FOX News Radio
David Brooks / New York Times:
Death by Data — Over the past decade or so, political campaigns have become more scientific. Campaign consultants use sophisticated data to micro-target specific demographic slices. Consultants select their ad buys more precisely because they know which political niche is watching which TV show.
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Washington Monthly, American Prospect and Diane Ravitch's blog
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Crystal Ball's Final 2014 Picks — Who we favor in all 507 of Tuesday's Senate, gubernatorial, and House races — If you're in Charlottesville tonight, please join the Crystal Ball team — Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley — for a free presentation on the 2014 midterms …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden Blows Greg Orman's Cover: He ‘Will Be With Us’
Biden Blows Greg Orman's Cover: He ‘Will Be With Us’
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Hot Air
TIME:
Lena Dunham: ‘I Do Not Condone Any Kind of Abuse’ — In an exclusive statement to TIME, the author addresses recent controversy over a passage in her book, Not That Kind of Girl, regarding her relationship with her younger sister — I am dismayed over the recent interpretation of events described in my book Not That Kind of Girl.
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Stephanie Ando / myfox8.com:
Burlington man eating Olive Garden every day, twice a day for seven weeks — BURLINGTON, N.C. — A Burlington man has used his “Never Ending Pasta Pass” from Olive Garden to eat 95 meals over the last six weeks. — Alan Martin bought it for $100 and he says he's gotten $1,510 worth of food so far.
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
McConnell: ‘This Is A Chance To Begin To Save This Country’ — WASHINGTON (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — Public campaigning gives way to the privacy of the voting booth today with control of the Senate, the makeup of the House and three dozen governorships at stake.
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Georgia Republican Secretary of State's voter info website abruptly crashes on Election Day
Georgia Republican Secretary of State's voter info website abruptly crashes on Election Day
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Jeffrey Rosen / The New Republic:
The Supreme Court Will Be a Disaster If a Justice Dies During a Republican Congress — On Friday, New York magazine's Jon Chait argued that the media has “wildly overstated the legislative importance of Republican Senate control” while at the same time understating its judicial importance.
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Power Line, The Atlantic Online, SCOTUSblog and Washington Post
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Senate Filibuster Rule
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Senate Filibuster Rule
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Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Former CBS News Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Claims Existence of Obama Enemies' List — “I kind of assume I'm on a list. I don't think I'm the only one” — Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative journalist who became the story when she quit CBS News after two decades amid allegations …
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Mediaite, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Rush Limbaugh and Talking Points Memo
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Coach K: Obama Is a Bad Coach in the ISIS War — The legendary Duke coach said Obama is foolishly telling ISIS what the U.S. team will or won't do - a bad strategy in both war and basketball. — Barack Obama is a bad coach in the U.S. military war against ISIS, according …
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Talking Points Memo, Mashable, USA Today, New York Magazine and SBNation.com
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
How Big a Night Will It Be for the GOP? — At this point, a seven-seat gain would seem the most likely outcome for Senate Republicans. — The odds of Republicans winning a Senate majority are obviously getting very high. Indeed, it would be a real shocker if Democrats held the GOP …
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Ferguson protester: No one can find the bullet police say they didn't fire into my head — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A Florissant, Missouri woman says that police in Ferguson shot her in the head while she was leaving a rally supporting slain teen Michael Brown.
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Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
Map: The Africa without Ebola — Ebola is a frightening, unpredictable disease. Nearly 5,000 West Africans have died from the current outbreak with more than 13,000 people thought infected. — However, so far the problem remains largely limited to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Stephanie Ballesteros / WAVY-TV:
Virginia Beach, Newport News report voting machine calibration issues — VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The Virginia Department of Elections has confirmed Virginia Beach and Newport News have experienced technical difficulties with the calibration of some touch-screen voting machines, Tuesday.
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Washington Post:
Where did Obama go wrong? — The week after his reelection, President Obama was a man full of promise and promises: His job-approval rating stood at 54 percent, the 2010 tea party wave that had knocked his first term off balance appeared to have receded and he seemed as sober about the future as he was hopeful.
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The Dish
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
De Blasio Unveils New Plans for Troubled Schools in New York — In the packed auditorium of an East Harlem high school, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a new approach to fixing New York City's most troubled public schools on Monday, offering them more money and staffing, extending the length of their day …
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Karoli / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Utah Cops Exonerated For Shooting Darien Hunt Seven Times In The Back — Is it any wonder at all that the black community is angry? — Darien Hunt received the death penalty for the crime of carrying a toy sword, and his killers were absolved of any criminal wrongdoing after they shot him seven times as he fled.
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Los Angeles Times
Zachary Roth / msnbc.com:
Texas sees surge of disenfranchised voters — HOUSTON - A day before Texans go to the polls, an unusual group gathered for lunch at a Mexican restaurant not far from downtown: an unemployed African-American grandmother; a University of Houston student originally from Pennsylvania …
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Ronald Brownstein / National Journal:
The Tectonic Plates of 2014 — Several key structural factors will help keep in perspective what Tuesday's results say about the balance of power between the parties. — Candidates matter, campaigns matter, spending matters, and local quirks matter, too.
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Washington Monthly
Patrick J. Egan / Washington Post:
Welcome to the most unrepresentative Senate election since World War II — With less than 24 hours to go before Election Day, confidence is growing that Republicans are poised to win enough of the battleground Senate races to take control of the upper chamber of Congress.