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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.”
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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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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 …
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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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Ted Cruz's best moment of the debate was also completely wrong — “The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media,” Ted Cruz said with considerable disgust. “This is not a cage match.” — Cruz ticked off the insults …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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.
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
The CNBC Republican Debate Was A Total Trainwreck — Reporters from both conservative and liberal-minded news organizations seem to agree: the CNBC Republican presidential debate was kind of a trainwreck. — That wasn't really because of the candidates, though — it was because of the moderators.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Ben Carson calls on rival campaigns to help him end ‘gotcha’ debate questions
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Brittany M. Hughes / mrctv.org/videos:
Kasich: ‘I Was Very Appreciative’ of CNBC Moderators
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Third Republican Presidential Debate: The 6 Moments That Mattered
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Jeff Jacoby / BostonGlobe.com:
The biggest loser? The media
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Peace Breaks Out Among the Republican Candidates
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Rubio tries to cool expectations of a surge
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Insiders: Bush bombed, Rubio won
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Noisy GOP Debate Leaves Republican Race Unsettled
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush Continues “Death Spiral” At GOP Debate
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Jeb's Dead: Adiós Amigo
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Tax Foundation:
Details and Analysis of Senator Ted Cruz's Tax Plan — Key Findings: — Senator Cruz's (R-TX) tax plan would enact a 10 percent flat tax on individual income and replace the corporate income tax and all payroll taxes with a 16 percent “Business Transfer Tax,” or subtraction method value-added tax.
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg.com news:
Fact Check: Study Says Rubio's Tax Plan Helps Rich More Than Middle Class, Less Than Poorest
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Surprise! John Harwood Lied About Marco Rubio's Tax Plan
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Roger L Simon / Diary of a Mad Voter:
CNBC and Jeb Bush Commit Suicide in Boulder
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Paul Ryan elected Speaker — Lawmakers on Thursday elected Rep. Paul Ryan as the 54th Speaker of the House, putting an end to weeks of uncertainty over who would lead the raucous 247-member GOP conference after John Boehner's (R-Ohio) surprise resignation. — On a day filled with pomp …
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Energy.gov:
Turn Your Halloween Pumpkins Into Power — WHAT ARE THE KEY FACTS? … With the passing of Halloween, millions of pounds of pumpkins have turned from seasonal decorations to trash destined for landfills, adding to more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.
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Jennifer Pompi / Washington Times:
Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change
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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Jeannine Aversa: (202) 606-2649 (News Media) — National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product: Third Quarter 2015 (Advance Estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the value of the goods and services produced by the nation's economy less the value of the goods …
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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 …
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Ted Nugent / WND:
That high-school brat had it coming — Exclusive: Ted Nugent defends cop who took down ‘tragically trained troublemaker’ — Ted Nugent is an American rock ‘n’ roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is the author of “Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto” and “God, Guns & Rock ‘N’ Roll” (Regnery Publishing).
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