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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump's Polls — Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
John Kasich Trying To Take Down Donald Trump — Republican presidential candidate John Kasich is not holding back. He's launched an all-out offensive against fellow Republican Donald Trump. On the day that Trump is holding a rally in Kasich's state, the Ohio governor is hosting …
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Last Refuge and Washington Post
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying — Donald Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week (above) is a great distillation of why covering the Republican frontrunner is proving so difficult for mainstream press outlets. — On the one hand, he demands coverage.
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
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Peter Kinder / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” …
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” …
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Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest — Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
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The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck — A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission. Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government — Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas — Overview — A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed
The Daily 202: Why Vitter's last-minute Syrian refugee gambit failed
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Facing South, The Moderate Voice, NOLA River, Daily Kos, US News, Pew Research Center and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Rosemary Barton / CBC News:
Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families — Unaccompanied men not included because of ongoing security concerns — Canada's Syrian refugee plan: No single men 1:36 — The federal government's much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted …
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German Lopez / Vox:
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access — Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC Reaches Agreement on Equal Time After Trump's ‘SNL’ Gig — NBC has come to an agreement with the campaigns of John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, James Gilmore and Lindsey Graham for equal time following Donald Trump's “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig on Nov. 7, the network said.
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Talking Points Memo and The Verge
Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority — White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party. — According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans say Trump Most Likely to Ruin Thanksgiving Dinner; GOP Opposes Obama on Turkey Pardons — Donald Trump leads PPP's newest poll by a wide margin...on which candidate Americans think would be the most likely to say something inappropriate at the table and ruin Thanksgiving Dinner.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders is top contender in Time's Person of the Year poll — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) currently leads online polling for Time magazine's 2015 Person of the Year, with less than two weeks to go before voting ends. — The Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described democratic socialist …
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Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands — Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Erik Baard / Gothamist:
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars? — Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees — Rand Paul said on Friday that the Boston bombers came to America as refugees and were “coddled” and given “free stuff,” before they “decided to attack us.” — “The Boston bombers came here and as refugees …
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Princeton's Snowflake Fascists Get a Scalp — We have yet to find a term for the student protests going on across the country that beats Mona Charen's “snowflake fascists” and last week the precious little Maoists at Princeton got the biggest scalp since Tim Wolfe: They brought down Woodrow Wilson himself.
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Politico and New York Times
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion — 'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says — A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it — It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787. But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
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Dana Treen / Florida Times Union:
Costumed Dark Lord overcome by the ‘force’ of a jar of salad dressing in Jacksonville Beach — The all-encompassing Force made famous in the fictional “Star Wars” universe didn't extend to a Dark Lord wanna-be in Jacksonville Beach Sunday. — Instead, the Darth Vader-costumed would-be robber …
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