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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
A Last Word on Virginia — Dear Readers: Join us Thursday, Nov. 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our annual American Democracy Conference. The virtual event will begin with a presentation by Project Home Fire's Larry Schack and Mick McWilliams on our ongoing polling and data analytics project.
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Inside Elections, HotAir, RedState, National Review, Fox News, The Western Journal, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Townhall, The Hill, New York Post, Politico and Political Wire
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Bob Barnard / WTTG-TV:
FOX 5 EXCLUSIVE: Youngkin ahead of McAuliffe in FOX 5 exclusive Virginia gubernatorial race poll
FOX 5 EXCLUSIVE: Youngkin ahead of McAuliffe in FOX 5 exclusive Virginia gubernatorial race poll
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LifeNews.com, New York Post, Forbes, Breitbart, Townhall, HotAir and New York Times
Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
Early voting hits record high in Virginia ahead of dead-heat governor's race
Early voting hits record high in Virginia ahead of dead-heat governor's race
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The Daily Beast, HotAir, Raw Story, Vanity Fair and Fox News
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
As Youngkin Tries to Finesse Trump, McAuliffe Conjures His Comeback
As Youngkin Tries to Finesse Trump, McAuliffe Conjures His Comeback
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Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Breitbart, New York Post, Fox News, Slate, Mediaite, The Guardian, The Hill, The Western Journal, Raw Story, Washington Times, Politico and Alternet.org
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Virginia Buries an Enduring Political Myth
Virginia Buries an Enduring Political Myth
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Washington Free Beacon, Reuters, National Review, Forbes, Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Outside the Beltway
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Frustrated Democratic donors threaten to hold back midterm donations over infighting in Congress, tight Virginia race
Frustrated Democratic donors threaten to hold back midterm donations over infighting in Congress, tight Virginia race
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Washington Times, Fox News, The Federalist and Daily Kos
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Republicans Are Already Claiming the Virginia Election Has Been Rigged
Republicans Are Already Claiming the Virginia Election Has Been Rigged
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HuffPost, Raw Story, Breitbart, Digby's Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Virginia went big for Biden, but on eve of another pivotal election, many voters say Democrats have not delivered for them
Virginia went big for Biden, but on eve of another pivotal election, many voters say Democrats have not delivered for them
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Eduwonk, Breitbart, CBS News, Associated Press and Washington Monthly
Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
McAuliffe calls for Virginia to ‘diversify’ teacher base, citing percentage of White teachers
McAuliffe calls for Virginia to ‘diversify’ teacher base, citing percentage of White teachers
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Townhall, RedState, The Daily Wire, BizPac Review and Washington Examiner
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Senate candidate Sean Parnell's wife testified that he tried to choke her and hit their children — BUTLER, Pa. — The estranged wife of Sean Parnell — the candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania …
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Marist Poll:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Trust in Elections, Threat to Democracy, Biden Approval, November 2021 — Americans See a Serious Threat to Democracy; Trust Elections Largely on Partisan Basis — A majority of Americans (62%) say they will trust the results of the 2024 election …
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Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
NBC News Poll: 50 percent of Republicans doubt their vote will be counted accurately — WASHINGTON — There's been a significant decline over the past year in voters who think their vote will be counted accurately, a trend driven mainly by Republicans — most of whom still believe false claims …
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USA Today, The Hill and Political Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Poll shows Democrats want to replace Biden on the ballot in 2024. A look at why.
Poll shows Democrats want to replace Biden on the ballot in 2024. A look at why.
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Insider, National Review, The Western Journal and spectatorworld.com
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
More Democrats in new poll want someone other than Biden as party's presidential nominee
More Democrats in new poll want someone other than Biden as party's presidential nominee
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RedState
New York Post:
Here's how many NYPD cops are on unpaid leave over vax mandate — Only a few a dozen NYPD members were placed on unpaid leave Monday after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine — but thousands of unvaccinated employees remain on the job with pending exemption requests, the city's top cop said.
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The New Civil Rights Movement and Alternet.org
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Gun dealers sell parts, ammo using anti-Biden meme 'Let's go, Brandon' — It arose from a crowd chant at the NASCAR racetrack in Talladega, Ala. — Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden.
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RedState, Page Array, Fox News, Townhall, The Federalist, TheBlaze, Twitchy and Instapundit
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Scott McDonald / Newsweek:
Video of Trump Laughing During 'Let's Go Brandon' Chant at World Series Seen Over 8M Times — Former President Donald Trump attracts attention anywhere he goes, with anything he does or just about anything he says. Saturday was no different during Game 4 of the World Series between …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Appears Open to Letting Providers Challenge Texas Abortion Law — The Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the law, which bars most abortions in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy. The first was brought by abortion providers in Texas, and the second was brought by the Justice Department.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
An unusual alliance appears likely to fracture Texas's abortion ban — Most Supreme Court justices seem to understand that SB 8 is a direct attack on the Constitution. — The abortion providers suing to block SB 8, Texas's aggressive anti-abortion law, came into Monday's Supreme Court argument with four votes on their side.
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Kaiser Health News, SCOTUSblog, New York Magazine, Slate, Townhall and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Manchin calls on Democrats to slow down on $1.75 trillion spending package, putting imminent House vote in jeopardy — West Virginia Democrat raised concerns about debt and inflation and demanded that House lawmakers approve a separate infrastructure bill. — Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) …
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CBS News, The Hill, CNN, Bloomberg, HotAir, Talking Points Memo, USA Today, Reason, Wall Street Journal, WTOP, Mediaite, Raw Story, NPR, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Washington Examiner, National Review, Townhall and Balloon Juice
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Bill Scher / HotAir:
Taking the infrastructure bill hostage didn't work
Taking the infrastructure bill hostage didn't work
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National Review and Real Clear Politics
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
BREAKING: Loudoun Official Claimed He Might Not Have Seen Email Informing Him Of Sex Assault — Despite Responding To It — Internal Loudoun County School Board emails show a shifting explanation about how much school board members knew about a bathroom sex assault, with one member writing …
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Reason and Page Array
Natasha Khan / Wall Street Journal:
China Locks 30,000 Visitors Inside Shanghai Disneyland After One Guest Got Covid-19 — Guests are required to take coronavirus test to exit after a positive case shuts down the park — HONG KONG—Shanghai Disneyland was temporarily shut down from Sunday after a visitor was found to be Covid-19-positive …
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National Review, NPR, ABC7, TheBlaze and The Daily Caller
Josh Sisco / The Information:
Former Google Activist Whittaker Expected to Join FTC as AI Adviser — Meredith Whittaker, a former employee activist and artificial intelligence researcher at Google, is expected to be hired full time at the Federal Trade Commission as a policy adviser on AI, according to a person with knowledge of her pending hire.
Axios:
The Facebook attention gap — The Facebook Papers and whistleblower accounts were a public relations nightmare for Facebook, but so far, the company's core stakeholders — advertisers, users and investors — seem unfazed. — The big picture: For now, this controversy is mainly of interest to the media and lawmakers.
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Mediaite and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Matt Dathan / The Times:
Trolls will be jailed for ‘psychological harm’ — Trolls could face two years in prison for sending messages or posting content that causes psychological harm under legislation targeting online hate. — Ministers will overhaul communication laws by creating new offences …
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Protocol, Fox News, The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Greene accrues at least $48K in fines for ignoring House mask mandate — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines.
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Washington Post and Insider
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Donald Trump Is Now the Odds-On Favorite to Be President in 2025 — Be very afraid. — So Donald Trump is now the odds-on favorite to be president of the United States in 2025. — I know that lede sentence was also the headline, but I wanted you to read it one more time just to let it really settle …
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Washington Examiner, CNN, Raw Story, Alternet.org, HotAir, Morning Shots and The Atlantic
Sarah D. / Twitchy:
Axios is pleased to report that Twitter will “pre-bunk' climate misinformation,' i.e. any inconvenient truths that hurt preferred climate change narrative — Joe Biden's in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, because the international community needs to come together to fight for climate justice.
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Washington Post, Axios and The Daily Caller
Fox News:
CNN's Brian Stelter skips Lincoln Project viral hoax orchestrated to smear Youngkin on media program — CNN host has long history of ignoring stories that make Democrats look bad — CNN's ratings-challenge media pundit Brian Stelter typically decries disinformation at all costs when he feels it could hurt the liberal agenda.
Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
America Has Lost the Plot on COVID — We know how this ends: The coronavirus becomes endemic, and we live with it forever. But what we don't know—and what the U.S. seems to have no coherent plan for—is how we are supposed to get there. We've avoided the hard questions whose answers …
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Florida Politics
New York Times:
Even as Biden Pushes Clean Energy, He Seeks More Oil Production — President Biden acknowledged “it seems like an irony” that he is asking energy-rich nations to boost oil production as he implores the world to tackle climate change. — GLASGOW — President Biden told a global climate summit …
Richard Hanania / Richard Hanania's Newsletter:
Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV — Explaining why Trump emerged on the right, why only liberals debate filibuster reform, how anti-vax became a partisan issue, how David Shor is half right, “Dems are the real racists” and much else. … How are conservatives and liberals different?