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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Trump will sink Pence in VP debate — ‘Is it just me or are the two VP candidates infinitely more appealing than their running mates?’ said a Pennsylvania Republican. — Tim Kaine isn't Mike Pence's only opponent Tuesday night in the only debate between the vice-presidential hopefuls …
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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
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Trump to live-tweet VP debate
Trump to live-tweet VP debate
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Vox, RedState, Washington Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Fox News Insider, Mediaite and WRIC-TV
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Vice-Presidential Debate: Before the Face-Off, Clinton Extends Lead in Pennsylvania
Vice-Presidential Debate: Before the Face-Off, Clinton Extends Lead in Pennsylvania
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RedState, Vox, Towleroad, Houston Public Media, BuzzFeed, TheStreet.com, USA Today, Guardian, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Week and 89.3 KPCC
NBC News:
Mike Pence Has the Toughest Job in Politics Tonight
Mike Pence Has the Toughest Job in Politics Tonight
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, 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
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
GUCCIFER 2.0:
Guccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation — Many of you have been waiting for this, some even asked me to do it. — So, this is the moment. I hacked the Clinton Foundation server and downloaded hundreds of thousands of docs and donors' databases. — Hillary Clinton and her staff don't even bother about the information security.
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Politico, The Gateway Pundit, TheStreet.com, Mediaite, Engadget, The American Mirror, Joe.My.God. and RT
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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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
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
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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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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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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Mother Jones, Raw Story, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, The Week and Right Wing Watch
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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The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, Gothamist, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and The Week
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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Washington Post, Raw Story, Infowars, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, WNEP-TV, WISH-TV and Mediaite
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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Latino USA, Washington Post 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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Charlie Sykes / RTWI:
Time For A New Chapter — No, this is not good bye. I intend to continue to be an active and independent voice. But I just won't be setting the alarm at 4:15 a.m. every morning. — This morning, I announced that I am stepping down from my daily radio show on WTMJ at the end of this year:
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Business Insider, Politico and WBAY-TV
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP struggles to find women to lead House committees — (N.C.) is the only Republican woman in the House officially in the running to chair a committee, underlining how the GOP has made little progress in diversifying its slate of committee leaders. — The only woman currently atop a House panel …
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Shakesville
Ed Klein / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Obama was so worried about Hillary's health he set up a secret medical check-up for her at Walter Reed - but she refused, fearing her LEAKING HEART VALVE and arrhythmia would be exposed — Ed Klein - one of Hillary Clinton's fiercest critics - revealed new details …
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The Point, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and BizPac Review
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Michelle Obama hammers Trump over taxes, Twitter, PTSD — Michelle Obama didn't mention Donald Trump by name during her speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday, but the first lady warned voters that not supporting Hillary Clinton would aid the election of a temperamentally unfit bully …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Ex-Ally of Christie Links Cuomo to Cover-Up of Lane Closings — NEWARK — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York agreed to falsely explain the mysterious lane closings at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 as a traffic study to try to “put an end to” …
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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, Politico, Hullabaloo and The Nation