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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37% — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare — Support for Obamacare continues to decline, with the law hitting a new low in approval, and a new high in disapproval, as the second enrollment period has opened for Americans, according to Gallup. — Just 37 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act …
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Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws — Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
Kaci Hickox / Guardian:
Stop calling me ‘the Ebola nurse’ — I never had Ebola, and politicians who lie do nothing to protect your health — I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie's private prison in Newark.
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO] — President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home — SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare — VIDEO — Explosive New Gruber Video Uncovered — Issa Out! Republicans To Pick New Oversight Chairman — POLITICS | PATRICK HOWLEY
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Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Ferguson Cop Supporters Crowdfunded a “Pants Up, Don't Loot” Billboard — Spurred on by a Tennessee resident who is concerned about the Ferguson protesters and their catchy chants, supporters of police officer Darren Wilson have donated more than enough money to post a billboard in the heart …
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Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games — Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league. The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The man whose memory failure helped save Bill Clinton's presidency — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA — This weekend, dozens of former top Clinton White House officials will gather in Little Rock to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library.
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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers — An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph — The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Before the Beheadings — Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them — In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Law Turns Obama and Insurers Into Allies — WASHINGTON — With the health insurance marketplace now open for a second year, President Obama will be depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick.
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The Hill:
Will the Obama coalition survive? — The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning. — Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …
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New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces — WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Direct new challenges to Bakke ruling — The saga over the use of race in selecting new college entrants that began with the Supreme Court's famous ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke nearly four decades ago now has a new chapter — and it is intended to be the final one.
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Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Cassidy Headed for a Landslide in Louisiana Runoff — A new Magellan Strategies poll in Louisiana finds Bill Cassidy (R) crushing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) in their runoff race for U.S. Senate, 57% to 41%. — “The president has got to learn that he lost this last election round.
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Kevin Baker / New York Times:
Delusions of the Democrats — DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough. — For years now, it's been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country's changing demographic mix. The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos …
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New York Times:
With Bold Park Plan, Mogul Hopes to Leave Mark on New York's West Side — It would be a bold addition to the Manhattan waterfront — a $170 million, futuristic park built atop an undulating platform 186 feet off the Hudson River shoreline with a series of wooded nooks and three performance venues, including an amphitheater.
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Associated Press:
New data show long wait times remain at many VA hospitals — WASHINGTON — More than 600,000 veterans — 10% of all the Veterans Affairs patients — continue to wait a month or more for appointments at VA hospitals and clinics, according to data obtained by USA TODAY.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Partisanship Breaks the Government — This could be a rather heated winter. All three branches of government are on course to collide over partisan politics, constitutional authority and scope of power, particularly as vested in the executive branch. — The president has wasted no time moving beyond the Democrats' midterm defeats.
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Violet Blue / ZDNet:
Anonymous seizes Ku Klux Klan Twitter account over Ferguson threats — UPDATED. — Violet Blue — Two Twitter accounts belonging to American racial segregation org Ku Klux Klan, @KuKluxKlanUSA and @YourKKKCentral, have been seized by Anonymous as part of the hacker-activist entity's new campaign, #OpKKK.
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Michael Lallo / Sydney Morning Herald:
Karl Stefanovic's sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year — Follow Michael on Twitter Follow Michael on Google+ Email Michael — Karl Stefanovic wore the same suit for a year to show the disparity in the way men and women are judged and no-one noticed.
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