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New Podesta Email Exposes Dem Playbook For Rigging Polls Through “Oversamples” — Earlier this morning we wrote about the obvious sampling bias in the latest ABC / Washington Post poll that showed a 12-point national advantage for Hillary. Like many of the recent polls from Reuters …
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Very bad analysis of a 2008 email is Donald Trump's new excuse for why he's losing — Earlier Monday morning, Matt Drudge's Drudge Report (which has become a centralized resource of Donald Trump-friendly stories) highlighted a story at the blog ZeroHedge. A new email released by WikiLeaks …
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The Atlantic, Pew Research Center, Daily Wire, Daily Kos, Liberty Unyielding and Israpundit
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Sampling — For most of our national surveys of the general public …
Sampling — For most of our national surveys of the general public …
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Hot Air
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Trump on porn actress who accused him of misconduct: 'Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before' — (CNN)Donald Trump on Monday addressed the latest accusations of inappropriate sexual contact made against him, saying of the accuser, an adult film performer, “Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before.”
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The New Civil Rights Movement, Political Wire, Business Insider, The Week and twitchy.com
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders: If his staff's email were hacked, there would surely be some unkind things about Clinton — BURLINGTON, Vt. — The trove of hacked Democratic emails that have spilled into public view over recent months have included some unkind things about Bernie Sanders.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Crapo ditches Trump un-endorsement — For Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the third time's the charm for his presidential endorsement. — He backed Donald Trump once he became the presumptive Republican nominee in May. But Crapo then revoked his endorsement earlier this month …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump's window is closing
Trump's window is closing
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama calls GOP Rep. Issa ‘shameless’ for trying to portray himself as ally — President Obama launched a scathing attack on Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) at a fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday night, calling his recent move to portray himself as an administration ally “shameless” and “the definition of chutzpah.”
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Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats and The Daily Caller
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Obama calls Issa ‘the definition of chutzpah’
Obama calls Issa ‘the definition of chutzpah’
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The CBS4 Interview: Trump On Rigged System & The Press — MIAMI — CBS4's Jim DeFede interviewed Republican nominee Donald Trump Sunday afternoon at Trump's resort in Doral, Florida. — Part of the interview included a discussion about Trump's claim the system is rigged and changes …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump explains why the First Amendment has ‘too much protection’ for free speech
Trump explains why the First Amendment has ‘too much protection’ for free speech
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Democrats are dominating early voting in Nevada — THE BIG IDEA: — LAS VEGAS—Katy Perry's glamor, Tom Steyer's money, Univision's megaphone and organized labor's muscle, along with a late assist from Barack Obama, each helped lubricate Harry Reid's well-oiled political machine over the past 48 hours.
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
For Republicans Abandoning Donald Trump, Obama Has a Message: ‘Too Late’
For Republicans Abandoning Donald Trump, Obama Has a Message: ‘Too Late’
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Daily Kos and New York Magazine
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Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official's Wife — Group linked to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe donated nearly half a million dollars to 2015 state Senate candidate — The political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill …
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Donald Trump's chances of winning are approaching zero — The election is in 15 days. And the electoral map just keeps looking grimmer and grimmer for Donald Trump. — We are making three changes to The Fix map this week, all favoring Hillary Clinton. — First, we are moving Nevada …
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Monmouth University Polling Institute — North Carolina — Prez, Gov Races Close; GOP Edge for Senate — West Long Branch, NJ - The presidential race in North Carolina remains extremely tight with Hillary Clinton holding a negligible one point lead over Donald Trump - virtually unchanged from two months ago.
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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The Alt-Right Has Adopted An Old Nazi Term For Reporters — It's become a familiar routine by now: Trump supporters haranguing the press at rallies, booing them and screaming at them. — “Tell the truth!” and “CNN sucks!” have become staples at nearly every Trump rally.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: ‘Too much is being made’ about what I said in the debate — President Barack Obama said it's not a joke, Hillary Clinton said it's a threat to democracy, and first lady Michelle Obama said you don't keep American democracy in suspense. But Donald Trump on Monday said it's being overblown.
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The GOP must do something about the conservative media industrial complex if it wants to survive — Standing before a Miami audience, sleeves rolled up, President Barack Obama was hard at work campaigning for Hillary Clinton. — But, as he sometimes does when he's riffing on the stump, the president took a detour in his speech.
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RedState and Washington Examiner
Michael R. Strain / Washington Post:
It will take conservatives a lot of work to clean up after Trump. We should start now. — 2016 was a massive failure. — Conservatives need to be clear-eyed about the enormity of the Failure of 2016. The Republican Party — the imperfect political vehicle for conservative policy …
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Hillary's Mr. Fix It Unmasked! Clinton Operative Gives TV Tell-All — ENQUIRER exposé was only the beginning! — Hillary Clinton's shady Mr. Fix It will tell all on TV tonight, just days after his explosive confession in The National ENQUIRER hit the stands.
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Media Matters for America, Independent Journal Review and Mediaite
Project Veritas Action:
Rigging the Election - Video III: Creamer Confirms Hillary Clinton Involvement — Project Veritas Action has released the third video in a multi-part series that is sending shockwaves through the DNC and the Clinton campaign. The first video explained the dark secrets and the hidden connections …
David Mack / BuzzFeed:
These Latina Sisters Trolled Eric Trump With A Simple T-Shirt — Meet sisters Annie and Ceci Cardelle, who live in Salisbury, North Carolina. — On Friday, Eric Trump and his wife Lara visited North Carolina to help drum up support for his dad. — When the sisters found out the Trumps …
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Wishes He Were Running for President This Year — If he had his druthers, Arnold Schwarzenegger would continue his 30-year-plus streak of voting Republican in the upcoming presidential election. — In his perfect world, he'd be casting a ballot for himself.
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Struggling to Serve at the Nation's Richest University — Cambridge, Mass. — I've been at Harvard University for 17 years, but I've never been in a classroom here. I'm a cook in the dining halls. I work in the cafeteria at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where every …
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I Was a Terrorist...Seriously! — Ex-jihadist Kamal Saleem tells tales of palling around with Arafat, Qaddafi, and Saddam. But his story has some big holes in it. — TIM MURPHY MARCH/APRIL 2012 ISSUE — As Michigan state legislators considered a plan to curb illegal immigration last fall …
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Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS — Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he is confident that he has laid the groundwork for Democrats to nuke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if they win back the Senate in November.
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Trump in 2012 on deporting many undocumented immigrants: 'I don't believe in that' — Trump on mass deportation in 2012: 'I don't believe in that' — (CNN)Just four years ago, Donald Trump took a drastically different position on what is now his central issue: deporting undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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In N.H., Maggie Hassan for US Senate — FATE DEALT KELLY AYOTTE a tough hand this year: The emergence of Donald J. Trump as the Republican presidential nominee surely would have posed a challenge for any politician in Ayotte's shoes. But the New Hampshire GOP senator flunked the Trump test …
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover — REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — The party that could be on the cusp of winning Iceland's national elections on Saturday didn't exist four years ago. — Its members are a collection of anarchists, hackers, libertarians and Web geeks.
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Sputnik International and Hot Air