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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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Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic, The Right Scoop, Pew Research Center, Daily Kos, Daily Wire, Liberty Unyielding and Israpundit
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
We're in the Universal Derp Implosion — Donald Trump is giving a raging, rambling speech with accusations against everyone and everything. But there's one thing he flagged that everyone needs to understand the details about. — Here's what he said ...
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The Week
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
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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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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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Business Insider, Political Wire and The New Civil Rights Movement
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, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Week
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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Occupy Democrats, Talking Points Memo 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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CNN, Vox, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, The Week, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
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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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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Mother Jones, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
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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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Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, RedState, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo 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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Washington Monthly, Rewire and Boing Boing
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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
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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The New Civil Rights Movement
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
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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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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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, The French Revolution, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and NBC
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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
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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Daily Kos and Associated Press
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
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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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 …
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Bayh lunched with bank lobbyists on day of '08 bailout vote — Former Indiana senator and longtime Banking Committee member Evan Bayh held a series of private meetings with financial services industry executives and lobbyists throughout 2008 — just as Wall Street was collapsing and big banks …
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America Rising
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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Ceremony honoring police before HS game sends ‘frightening message,’ ACLU says — MIDDLETOWN — A ceremony honoring law enforcement, military and first responders before a high school football game Friday night drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey because of an underlying “frightening message.”
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ThinkProgress, BizPac Review, Independent Journal Review and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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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
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Trolls for Trump — Meet Mike Cernovich, the meme mastermind of the alt-right. — In late August, Hillary Clinton announced that she would soon give a speech, in Reno, Nevada, linking Donald J. Trump to what has become known as the alt-right—a loose online affiliation of white nationalists …
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Mike Cernovich Presents … and Vox Popoli
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump concedes he's ‘somewhat behind’ in the polls — Despite his consistent claims that he's winning, Donald Trump on Monday conceded during a radio interview broadcast to a Charlotte audience that he's trailing in the polls. — “I think we're gonna have — whether it's Brexit or beyond Brexit …
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Washington Post, New York Magazine, RedState and ABC News
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Clinton, Warren Join Forces in Campaign's Final Stretch — Joining forces in the presidential campaign's final stretch, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren pounded Donald Trump on Monday for disrespecting women and denigrating U.S. troops assisting Iraqis in their push to retake the city of Mosul.
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Politico
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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
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 …