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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
How The Debate Debacle Could Backfire On Republicans — A new round of chaos in the 2016 presidential primary has erupted, with a full-on revolt by GOP 2016ers against this cycle's debate structures. — After widespread frustration with the tough questioning candidates faced in last week's CNBC debate …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Ninety days until Iowa caucuses: Turmoil in the Republican race — With just 90 days left before the Iowa caucuses, the race for the Republican presidential nomination is wide open — and the party appears to be losing control of the process. — The last 48 hours have been characterized …
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CNN:
Obama rips into 2016 GOP field, mocks their debate complaints — (CNN)President Barack Obama tore into Republican presidential candidates Monday night at a Democratic fundraising event in New York, saying their complaints about CNBC's debate moderation aren't an encouraging preview for their governing abilities.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama mocks GOP hopefuls for CNBC snit — President Obama on Monday mocked Republican presidential candidates as thin-skinned for lashing out at CNBC over the network's handling of last week's primary debate. — “They say, 'when I talk to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Great Debate Debate Is Unraveling — I realize news outlets (and for that matter, news-cycle blogs) have to go with what they've got, but I hope a few eyes were rolling over the weekend at the Great Debate Debate of 2015, said to be a rallying point for the vast Republican presidential field that was …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republicans struggle with defections from debates plan
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New York Times:
G.O.P.: Save Your Candidates From Themselves
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Republicans Debate Their Debates
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Hbo Pr / Medium:
JON STEWART AND HBO CONCLUDE EXCLUSIVE FOUR-YEAR PRODUCTION PACT — Deal Kicks Off With Creation Of Topical Short-Form Digital Content — Jon Stewart and HBO have concluded an exclusive four-year production pact, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.
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Ginger Gibson / Reuters:
Republicans trust Trump on economy, nuclear weapons: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Donald Trump is the Republican candidate most trusted to manage the economy, deal with foreign leaders and serve as commander in chief, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll of Republicans conducted after the party's third debate.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump scorches his rivals as he trots out new book
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Can Jeb Fix It?
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Illinois District Violated Transgender Student's Rights, U.S. Says — CHICAGO — Federal education authorities found on Monday that an Illinois school district had violated anti-discrimination laws when it did not allow a transgender student who identifies as a girl and participates in athletics …
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CBS Los Angeles:
6 Passengers Kicked Off Plane At LAX Accused Of Being Unruly Claim Discrimination — LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (CBSLA.com) - Six passengers kicked off a Spirit Airlines plane at Los Angeles International Airport Monday night accused a flight attendant of discrimination.
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Stephen A. Crockett Jr / The Root:
Spirit Airlines Accused of Discrimination After 6 Black Passengers Kicked Off Plane
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Ben Carson on Americans: “Many of Them Are Stupid.” — When retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, the current GOP 2016 front-runner, campaigns, he routinely pitches “common sense solutions from We the People.” But it seems the candidate who celebrates a cheerful and straightforward populism …
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Lisa Belkin / Yahoo:
Being married to Bernie — From the stage at the first Democratic presidential debate, nearly all the candidates opened with talk about their families. — “My wife, Hong, came to this country as a refugee from war-torn Vietnam,” said Jim Webb, who then went on to name his five children …
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Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project:
U.S. Public Becoming Less Religious — Modest Drop in Overall Rates of Belief and Practice, but Religiously Affiliated Americans Are as Observant as Before — Is the American public becoming less religious? Yes, at least by some key measures of what it means to be a religious person.
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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg.com news:
Charles Koch Says He, Brother Largely Fail at Influence-Buying — “So far we're largely failures at it, as you can tell,” Republican mega-donor Charles Koch says in interview on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” when asked if he is buying political influence and if that is at odds with his desire to end so-called corporate welfare.
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Brendan James / International Business Times:
MSNBC Hosts Who Went On Palm Springs Koch Junket Score Historic Koch Interview
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Koch brothers: We're ‘failures’ at changing America
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New York Times:
In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law — A few months before he took a toxic mix of drugs and died on a stranger's couch, Nicklaus Ellison wrote a letter to his little sister. — He asked for Jolly Ranchers, Starburst and Silly Bandz bracelets, some of the treats permitted …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Franken gets serious about flipping Senate to Democrats — On a recent October afternoon, Democratic Sen. Al Franken mistakenly ambled toward the Mansfield Room, where the party in control — namely Republicans — meets weekly to hash out strategy. — “I keep thinking we're in the majority …
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos / The Atlantic:
A Feasible Roadmap to Compulsory Voting — Not enough people vote. It's a perennial source of concern in American politics. There's no shortage of reforms designed to address the problem, but one idea that seems particularly promising, at least in theory, is compulsory voting.
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Eitan Hersh / FiveThirtyEight:
How Democrats Suppress The Vote
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Ahmad Chalabi, Iraqi Politician Who Pushed for U.S. Invasion, Dies at 71 — Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who from exile helped persuade the United States to invade Iraq in 2003, and then unsuccessfully tried to attain power as his country was nearly torn apart by sectarian violence, died at his home in Baghdad on Tuesday.
RT:
Migrant crisis pushing Germany towards ‘anarchy and civil war’ … Germany now is somewhere at the edge of anarchy and sliding towards civil war, or to become a banana republic without any government, says Hansjoerg Mueller of the Alternative for Germany party.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Top Republican says ObamaCare could ‘collapse’ this year — A top Senate Republican is predicting that ObamaCare could “collapse” this year. — Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.), the No. 4 Senate Republican and a leading critic of the healthcare law, made the prediction one day after ObamaCare's new sign-up period began.
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Josh Harkinson / Mother Jones:
Study: White Dudes Rule. Literally. — If you turned out to vote in today's off-year general election, the chances are you voted for a bunch of white dudes. Not because you're racist. (Although you probably are.) But because the ballots are overflowing with white dudes.
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