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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
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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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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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Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, The Right Scoop, Pew Research Center, Daily Kos, Daily Wire, Liberty Unyielding and Israpundit
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
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
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
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.”
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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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama calls Issa ‘the definition of chutzpah’
Obama calls Issa ‘the definition of chutzpah’
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CNN, Vox, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, The Week, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama to endorse 30 more House candidates
Obama to endorse 30 more House candidates
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Daily Kos, Independent Journal Review, Associated Press and Los Angeles Times
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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Talking Points Memo and alan.com
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Burr Squeezes Trump Tight: 'There's Not A Separation' Between Me And Him
Burr Squeezes Trump Tight: 'There's Not A Separation' Between Me And Him
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump's window is closing
Trump's window is closing
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Fox News, The Hill, NBC News and Associated Press
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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RT, Politicus USA, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and The Week
CNN:
Clinton leads by 5 heading in to final two weeks — (CNN)Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 5 points as the presidential campaign heads into its final two weeks, with the Democratic nominee's support just shy of the 50% mark, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
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Political Wire and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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Daily Kos
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The New Civil Rights Movement
Business Insider:
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
CBS Miami:
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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Mediaite, Politico, Business Insider, Washington Post, RedState, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and alan.com
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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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Boing Boing and Rewire
Monmouth University:
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
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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Associated Press
Philly.com:
Despite plea for leniency, Kane gets 10 to 23 months in prison — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced Monday to 10 to 23 months in prison for perjury, obstruction and other crimes. — KATHLEEN KANE — Jury convicts AG Kane, sentencing set for Oct. 24
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The First Street Journal and Political Wire
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
National Enquirer:
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
T.L. Stanley / Advertising & Branding:
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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Washington Examiner, RedState, Mediaite, AOL, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
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 …
BostonGlobe.com:
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 …
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 …
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Forget Trump and Clinton. ‘Black Jeopardy’ is SNL's best political sketch this year. — Just before midnight Saturday, Tom Hanks put on a denim shirt, a goatee and a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat, and in six minutes pulled off the best political sketch of the year …
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Business Insider, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and NBC
Associated Press:
NAACP: White Students Put Noose Around Neck Of Black Student In Mississippi — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — White students at a south Mississippi high school put a noose around the neck of a black student and “yanked backward,” the state NAACP said Monday. — Ayana Kinnel, spokeswoman …
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The Root
Nature:
The brain adapts to dishonesty … Abstract — Dishonesty is an integral part of our social world, influencing domains ranging from finance and politics to personal relationships. Anecdotally, digressions from a moral code are often described as a series of small breaches that grow over time.
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Vox, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Verge and Motherboard