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Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Trump backers realize they've been played as WikiLeaks fails to deliver October surprise — LONDON — The expectations were breathless. — For weeks, backers of Republican nominee Donald Trump have hyped the tantalizing possibility that the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks was on the verge …
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
No rumored October surprise at WikiLeaks event — A Tuesday morning WikiLeaks event in Berlin did not produce an “#OctoberSurprise” to derail the Hillary Clinton — presidential campaign that many had expected, but Julian Assange said he would release more documents before Election Day.
Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
WikiLeaks' Assange promises election leaks
WikiLeaks' Assange promises election leaks
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Daily Mail, Breitbart, Infowars, Daily Wire, Washington Post, National Review and Guardian
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Promises Raft of Revelations
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Promises Raft of Revelations
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TheStreet.com and New York Magazine
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — WikiLeaks promised …
DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — WikiLeaks promised …
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The Daily Beast, The Verge, Deadline, The Week, Mediaite and BizPac Review
Barack Obama / The Huffington Post:
Republican Obstruction Is Undermining The Supreme Court, Enough Is Enough — This week, the Supreme Court returns to work. The Justices will hear important cases on issues ranging from the separation of church and state to intellectual property to Congressional redistricting to the death penalty.
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Mediaite and Business Insider
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senator: ‘Nobody really believes’ next president should fill Supreme Court vacancy — is knocking his party's Supreme Court strategy, arguing the opposition to taking up President Obama's nominee boils down to politics. — The Arizona Republican, who is a member of the Judiciary Committee …
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RedState, The Daily Beast and Talking Points Memo
Naomi Lim / CNN:
Bill Clinton calls Obamacare ‘the craziest thing in the world’ — Clinton said Obamacare had caused premiums to rise for Americans who did not have access to subsidies — He also touted his wife proposal to allow people without access to subsidies to buy into Medicare and Medicaid
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Bill Clinton slams ObamaCare: 'It's the craziest thing in the world' — steamrolled President Obama's signature healthcare law at a rally, calling it “the craziest thing in the world.” — Speaking Monday in Flint, Mich., Clinton blasted the core principles of ObamaCare as unworkable …
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Politico and The Federalist
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Bill Clinton Trashes Obamacare At Event, Calls It ‘Crazy System’ [VIDEO]
Bill Clinton Trashes Obamacare At Event, Calls It ‘Crazy System’ [VIDEO]
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RedState, Scared Monkeys, Power Line, Fox News and Instapundit
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Pennsylvania — Clinton Maintains Lead; Senate Race All Tied Up — West Long Branch, NJ - Pennsylvania is looking good for Hillary Clinton, driven by gains among white women voters, according to the Monmouth University Poll .
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CBS News:
Hillary Clinton edges ahead of Donald Trump after first debate - CBS News poll — The State of the Race — In the first CBS News Poll following last week's presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Clinton has edged ahead to a four-point lead over her Republican rival among likely voters.
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Rebecca Berg / Real Clear Politics:
Trump Used Foundation Funds for 2016 Run, Filings Suggest — As Donald Trump began making noise about a possible bid for president in 2011, South Carolina conservative activist Oran Smith caught the celebrity businessman's eye as a particularly vocal and potentially influential critic.
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Tuesday's VP debate will shed light on something incredibly important — No vice presidential debate has ever meaningfully altered the outcome of a presidential election, so it's understandable that few are thrilled to see the showdown between Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.
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CNBC and Liberty Unyielding
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NBC News:
Mike Pence Has the Toughest Job in Politics Tonight
Mike Pence Has the Toughest Job in Politics Tonight
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New York Times and Daily Kos
Edward Morrissey / The Week:
Tonight's VP debate will be the most normal thing in this crazy election
Tonight's VP debate will be the most normal thing in this crazy election
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neo-neocon and TIME
Graydon Carter / Vanity Fair:
Donald Trump: The Ugly American* — Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter has spent more than 30 years observing Donald Trump's orange-tinted antics. With a month left to go before the election, he reports on some memorable lessons learned along the way. — In 1987, Michael Kelly …
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Talking Points Memo, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Gothamist and The Week
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
What Just Happened in Colombia? — By a razor-thin margin of less than half a percentage point, Colombian voters narrowly rejected a proposed peace plan that would have formally ended the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere. — Almost everyone thought the referendum would pass …
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Washington Post, Latino USA and neo-neocon
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Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times:
Poll Finds Deep Split on Climate Change. Party Allegiance Is a Big Factor. — Americans are deeply divided on the causes, cures and urgency of climate change, and party identification is one of the strongest predictors of individual views, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.
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Pew Research Center and Political Wire
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Tom McKee / WCPO:
Parade float-maker apologizes (sort of) for depicting Trump executing Clinton in electric chair — Frank Linkmeyer says he's spoofed people for years — AURORA, Ind. - The creator of a controversial float in the Aurora Farmer's Fair parade depicting Donald Trump killing Hillary Clinton is apologizing.
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Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, WNEP-TV, Infowars, WISH-TV and Mediaite
Circa:
How many people does this cover? — By the RAND Corp.'s estimate in a June 2016 study, there are between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender troops on active duty. Of those, between 30 and 140 would prefer hormone treatment, and 25 to 130 would seek surgery. — The surgery will either be conducted …
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RedState, Daily Mail, Moonbattery, New Urban Legends and USA TODAY College
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan, So Handsome, So Sad — It was late Monday night, and the first presidential debate had just come to a close. Donald Trump was on TV congratulating himself for not bringing up Bill Clinton's infidelities. Trump's advisers were in the spin room bickering with reporters about his sundry gaffes, lies, and onstage outbursts.
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The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, New York Times and Balloon Juice
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Kelly Ayotte's Donald Trump agony continues — When you're walking a virtually non-existent line between supporting a presidential candidate but not endorsing said presidential candidate, it can be tricky to know when to show your support and when to turn it off.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hot Air
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
RNC's Sean Spicer Shocked Anybody Compares Tim Kaine Ad To Willie Horton, Except He Did It — The RNC's chief strategist Sean Spicer lied (yeah) to CNN's Chris Cuomo this morning, refuting that the new RNC attack ad against Gov. Tim Kaine resembled the infamous Willie Horton ad — “because there were white people in it,.”
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Vox, Hullabaloo, Politico and The Nation
Paul Blake / ABC News:
Former Host Andrea Tantaros Hopes to Bring ‘Accountability’ to Fox News — Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros hopes to bring “accountability” to the network that is at the center of allegations of sexual misconduct, she said today on ABC News' “Good Morning America.”
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Mediaite and Joe.My.God.