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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Bill Weld says he will focus his fire on Donald Trump  —  The Libertarian vice presidential candidate, William F. Weld, said Tuesday that he plans to focus exclusively on blasting Donald Trump over the next five weeks, a strategic pivot aimed at denying Trump the White House and giving himself a key role in helping to rebuild the GOP.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:
How the Clinton campaign is making #ThatMexicanThing a thing, explained  —  Sen. Tim Kaine made a point during the vice presidential debate of reminding the American public of that time Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers.  —  “He started his campaign with a speech …
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
‘That Mexican Thing’ Takes On Life After the Debate  —  In the grand digital tradition of American political debates, the audience tends to seize upon singular phrases or gestures that, at least for a few hours, seem to define the evening's discussion.  —  After Tuesday evening's vice …
Fairleigh Dickinson University:
VP Picks Favored More than Trump and Clinton in Fairleigh Dickinson University National Poll;  —  Results Put Clinton Over Trump by Double Digits  —  In the race for the White House, the most recent national survey of likely voters from Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind finds …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Kaine lost the night but won the morning  —  It wasn't pretty, but he got the job done.  —  Tim Kaine's performance in last night's vice presidential debate was not always easy to watch.  He interrupted the moderator and his opponent, Mike Pence, too often.  His points were repetitive and occasionally came off as overly scripted.
CNN:
Pence edges Kaine in VP debate instant poll
Washington Post:
Mike Pence struggles to defend the indefensible
LeftOfCenter / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
He-Men Of Fox News: Emasculated Because Kaine Said ‘Person’
Discussion: The Nation
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Can Mike Pence's Denial of Reality Work for Him?
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and USA Today
David Frum / The Atlantic:   Mike Pence Pretends That Trump Never Happened
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Mike Pence vs. Tim Kaine vice-presidential debate transcript, annotated
Luke O'Neil / Esquire:
This Racist Fox News Video Is, Uh, Pretty Racist  —  Are we still perpetuating Asian stereotypes in 2016?  —  Last night, CBS' Elaine Quijano became the first Asian-American journalist to moderate a national debate.  The journalist's ethnicity might not be newsworthy …
Discussion: The Federalist and Daily Kos
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Asian American groups slam Fox News ‘Watters World’ segment on Chinatown
New York Times:
N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. secretly arrested a National Security Agency contractor in recent weeks and is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer codes developed to hack into the networks of foreign governments …
Mike Freeman / Bleacher Report Media Lab:
Donald Trump Is Tearing the NFL Apart … Six months ago, Rex Ryan stood before a roaring crowd in Buffalo and gave a pep talk.  This was not an unfamiliar scene for the Bills head coach, except for maybe the suit and tie.  Well, that and the subject of his four-minute speech: Donald J. Trump.
CNN:
Trump took Polaroids, interviewed models in 1994 Playboy video  — One video depicts Trump photographing fully clothed models with a Polaroid camera and conducting an interview with a potential Playmate  — One of the models Trump interviewed told CNN: “I thought he was thoughtful.
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Campaign Helped Script Steve Harvey Interview  —  Talk show host Steve Harvey provided Hillary Clinton's campaign with the exact questions he would ask of Clinton during a February interview, according to an internal campaign memo sent a week before the interview and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Leaked memo shows Clinton was provided questions ahead of interview
Discussion: RedState
The Atlantic:
Against Donald Trump … In october of 1860, James Russell Lowell, the founding editor of The Atlantic, warned in these pages about the perishability of the great American democratic experiment if citizens (at the time, white, male citizens) were to cease taking seriously their franchise:
New York Daily News:
Pennsylvania couple found dead from suspected drug overdoses after 7-year-old daughter alerts school  —  A Pennsylvania couple was found dead in their home from suspected drug overdoses after their 7-year-old daughter told school officials she couldn't wake them up.
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Ohio  —  Tight Race for Prez; Portman Widens Senate Lead  —  Kasich's anti-Trump stand still popular  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Hillary Clinton holds a slim 2 point lead over Donald Trump in the perennial battleground state of Ohio, compared to a 4 point lead in mid-August.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Here's the best theory we've seen of how Trump paid so little tax  —  At a rally Tuesday in Arizona, Donald Trump sought to blame Hillary Clinton for his own low tax bills.  He asked:  —  “After years of failure, she complains about how I've used tax laws of this country to my benefit.
Indianapolis Star:
State Police raid Indy office in growing voter fraud case  —  Indiana State Police investigators on Tuesday searched a voter registration agency on Indianapolis' north side as they look into a voter fraud case that spans nine counties.  —  The investigation began in late August when police learned …
CNN:
Next debate prep: Clinton's light schedule, Trump stays on trail  —  The contentious vice presidential debate in 90 seconds  —  (CNN)Just hours after their running mates finished their debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are charting distinct paths to the upcoming presidential debate Sunday in St. Louis.
Discussion: Infowars
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Megyn Kelly Reminds Conway Why Trump Polls Poorly With Women
Discussion: The Week
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. County sheriff's sergeant gravely wounded in Lancaster shooting; suspected gunman in custody  —  A man is taken into custody after a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant was shot and critically injured Wednesday after responding to call of a residential burglary in Lancaster.  (KTLA-TV)
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump's Doing Worse Than Romney Did Among White Voters  —  Donald Trump's strategy in this campaign has been fairly clear from the beginning: Drive up Republican support among white voters in order to compensate for the GOP's shrinking share among the growing nonwhite portion of the electorate.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Michelle Fields / The Huffington Post:
Conservative News Darling Is Falling Apart, Staff Says  —  Glenn Beck's The Blaze was once the envy of other right-leaning sites.  Not anymore.  —  WASHINGTON Glenn Beck's website The Blaze is coming apart, suffering from a lack of editorial direction, staff attrition and internal discord, according to sources inside the news outlet.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Momentum shifts in battle for Senate  —  Democrats are seizing on Sen. Kelly Ayotte  —  's (R-N.H.) remarks at a debate that Donald Trump  —  is “absolutely” a role model for children as a pivotal moment in the race for the Senate majority.  —  The Democrats see Ayotte's comments …
 
 
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
A 90-Year-Old Woman Who's Voted Since 1948 Was Disenfranchised by Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law
Sally Mamdooh / TheDenverChannel.com:
7-year-old girl with disabilities escorted from Trump rally
Jennifer Rankin / Guardian:
Brussels stabbing: two police officers targeted in suspected terror attack
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Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Federal Judge Overturns Ban on Openly Carrying Guns in Public
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Democratic Congressman: Trump Will “Gut You,” “Walk Over Your Cold Dead Body”
Discussion: Washington Times
Nick Hallett / Breitbart:
The world's biggest beer festival has recorded its lowest turnout for 15 years amid heightened …
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Financial Times:
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