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10:35 AM ET, October 29, 2015

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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
We Have Our Final Six  —  Tonight's debate showed that the GOP field is smaller than it looks.  Technically, there are still fourteen people running, but the winnowing is far along.  We probably have a final six and possibly a final four.  —  The three winners of the night were pretty obvious …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bush campaign manager confronts CNBC producer  —  Jeb Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz got into a heated confrontation with a CNBC producer outside the debate as it was happening, according to two sources familiar with the incident.  —  One of the sources said Diaz was complaining about speaking time allotments.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
CNBC moderators defend debate amid criticism  —  A pair of CNBC moderators defended the network's handling of Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate amid a flurry of criticism from the candidates and party leaders.  —  “There were a lot of conservatives before the debate who were urging …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
After CNBC debacle, Carson camp vows revolt over debates  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Boulder, Colo. — After a performance by CNBC moderators that Republicans characterized as both biased and inept, a manager for a top GOP campaign says he will try to organize …
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Third Republican Presidential Debate: The 6 Moments That Mattered  —  At times it seemed the night was defined not by the candidates' attacks on each other, but on the moderators who lobbed challenging and, at times, contentious questions at them.  —  Some fought back and some candidates …
Discussion: Politico and Outside the Beltway
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Best Lines and Zingers From the Third Republican Debate  —  The third Republican debate hosted in Boulder, Colorado was not short on drama and memorable moments.  —  Here are some of the best lines and zingers said by some of the 10 candidates on stage:
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Some Initial Thoughts on the Debate  —  As I said in my previous post, this was a pretty poorly run debate.  But that's media criticism.  The real question is how it will affect the race.  Jeb Bush needed to get back into this campaign.  And he absolutely didn't do that.
Douglas E. Schoen / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton won the third GOP debate.  Here's why  —  In conventional terms Senators Cruz and Rubio won Thursday night's debate.  They were laser focused, quick, smart and passionate.  They defended themselves, their records and went on the offensive at all the right times …
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Noisy GOP Debate Leaves Republican Race Unsettled  —  Testy exchanges nudge front-runners Donald Trump and Ben Carson into the background  —  For the first time in the campaign, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio took jabs at one another.  How did social media capture the tension and drama of this moment of the GOP debate?
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Feud Between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio Boils Over
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Rubio tries to cool expectations of a surge
Discussion: ABC News and Belmont Club
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Insiders: Bush bombed, Rubio won
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook, presented by Comcast …
Discussion: New York Times
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
CNBC Moderator Harwood Admits Premise of His Question on Rubio's Tax Plan is Erroneous
Discussion: TIME, BizPac Review and National Review
Washington Post:
The third Republican debate transcript, annotated  —  Wednesday night, 10 candidates participated in the third Republican debate: Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), former Florida governor Jeb Bush, former tech executive Carly Fiorina, Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) …
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Jeb Died on That Stage  —  And the Republican Party's refusal to update its ideas may doom the rest of the field.  —  Wednesday's Republican presidential debate was critical for Jeb Bush.  He had to show donors and voters that he was a fighter, with life in his campaign …
Discussion: Salon, The Week, Althouse and Hit & Run
RealClearPolitics:
Cruz Rips Press At CNBC Debate: “This Debate Illustrates Why We Can Not Trust The Media”  —  At the Republican debate hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado Wednesday night, presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the moderators, particularly John Harwood of The New York Times …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Yeah, Jeb Bush Is Probably Toast  —  The post-debate spin could become a self-fulfilling prophecy  —  “You know, I think Jeb Bush is toast,” I told one of my editors after Wednesday night's debate.  —  “I kinda do too,” he replied.  “I'm just worried because that's what everyone else seems to think too.”
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Towleroad
Simon Denyer / Washington Post:
China lifts one-child policy amid worries over graying population  —  BEIJING — China said it would abandon its controversial “one-child policy” on Thursday and allow all couples to have two children, pulling back from the biggest experiment in modern population control in a sign …
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Chris Buckley / New York Times:   China to End One-Child Policy, Allowing Families Two Children
Bloomberg Business:
China Drops One-Child Cap After Three Decades to Lift Growth
Discussion: The Week
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Here's Donald Trump's Epic Throwdown With John Kasich  —  It didn't take long for Wednesday's Republican presidential debate to devolve into an angry back-and-forth between rival candidates.  And for once, it was actually kind of substantive.  —  Ohio Gov. John Kasich spent his first moments …
Discussion: Slantpoint
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Ted Cruz / Wall Street Journal:
A Simple Flat Tax for Economic Growth  —  A 10% income tax and a 16% business tax would put an end to the Eight Lean Years of Obama.  —  Imagine 4.9 million new jobs.  Imagine, instead of President Obama's income stagnation, average wages rising 12.2% over the next decade.  Capital investment rising 43.9%.
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
McCain: Sanders has better record on veterans than Hillary  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a better track record when it comes to caring for veterans than Hillary Clinton.  —  McCain said the Vermont senator, who is competing with Clinton …
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Jeff Tollefson / Nature:
US science agency refuses request for climate records  —  House of Representatives committee is demanding documents relating to a study that refuted a global-warming ‘hiatus’.  —  Rights & Permissions  —  The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has refused to comply …
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Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Agency won't give GOP internal docs on climate research
Discussion: Vlad Tepes and The Gateway Pundit
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders proposes nixing marijuana from federal list of dangerous drugs  —  Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders announced his support Wednesday for removing marijuana from a list of the most dangerous drugs outlawed by the federal government — a move that would free states to legalize it without impediments from Washington.
Discussion: The Week, ThinkProgress and Hit & Run
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Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
Bernie Sanders Vows To Fight Back Against Islamophobia In The 2016 Race
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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