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2:35 PM ET, October 16, 2014

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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
WATCH: Rick Scott Spouts Gibberish While Explaining Fan Delay In Debate  —  Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) was visibly flustered Wednesday night when asked why he delayed the start of his debate with former Gov. Charlie Crist (D) over a fan.  —  The moderator originally said Scott had decided …
Discussion: Mediaite
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Charlie Crist's Fan: A Love Story  —  Charlie Crist's fan was loyal.  It stood by him through thick and thin.  —  When Crist was a young Florida Republican rising star, the fan was there.  When Crist became governor, the fan came with him.  When Crist was cast out of politics and his party …
Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Times poll: All tied up in Florida governor's race between Rick Scott, Charlie Crist
Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
Second Ebola nurse was given green light to fly back to Dallas by CDC  —  On the same day President Obama vowed an aggressive response to Ebola, it was revealed feverish nurse Amber Vinson was told by the CDC she could fly back to Dallas because her 99.5 temperature was not at threshold and there were no symptoms.
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NY Daily News:
Paging Dr. Obama  —  The American health-care system's failure …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Hot Air
Daily Mail:
'Who's the idiot with the clipboard?' …
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers call for CDC director to resign
Discussion: New York Times
Justin Sink / The Hill:
President Obama's Ebola problem  —  The Ebola crisis in the United States has become an anchor threatening to sink the Obama presidency.  —  Already under fire from critics who saw the federal response to the outbreak as disorganized and timid, things went from bad to worse on Wednesday …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Phyllis Schlafly / Townhall.com:
Stop Disease at the Border
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Witness adds new perspective to Ferguson shooting  —  • By Christine Byers cbyers@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8087  —  CLAYTON  • A stream of eyewitnesses has been testifying in secret before a grand jury considering whether to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting …
Lynn Bartels / Denver Post:
EBOLA NEW ISSUE AS UDALL, GARDNER TANGLE IN FINAL SENATE DEBATE  —  U.S. Senator Mark Udall, left, and his Republican challenger, Cory Gardner.  (Denver Post file photos)  —  Ebola emerged Wednesday night as a new issue in Colorado's U.S. Senate debate with Democrat Mark Udall and Republican Cory Gardner …
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Danny Vinik / The New Republic:
Markets Panicked On Wednesday.  Here's Why the U.S. Economy Is OK.  —  Wednesday was an ugly day for the global economy.  British and German stocks each fell around 3 percent.  Greek stocks fell 6 percent.  (That's huge.)  In the U.S., a trifecta of economic indicators—retail sales …
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
A Year of Living on the Brink
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Meghan McCain: My dad hates Rand Paul  —  Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) daughter said on Wednesday that her father and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) “hate each other.”  —  Meghan McCain appeared on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show to promote her “TakePart Live” talk show on Pivot TV.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Peter Foster / Telegraph:
John Grisham: men who watch child porn are not all paedophiles  —  As best-selling novelist John Grisham prepares to publish his new legal thriller, he argues America's prison system has run out of control  —  America is wrongly jailing far too many people for viewing child pornography …
Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project:
Latino Voters and the 2014 Midterm Elections  —  Geography, Close Races and Views of Social Issues  —  A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterm elections, making up, for the first time, 11% of all eligible voters nationwide.  But despite a growing national presence …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and OnPolitics
Michael Scherer / TIME:
The Reinventions of Rand Paul  —  Subscriber content preview. or Sign In  —  Can he fix what ails the GOP?  —  The tattooed and pierced longhairs never showed up to see Senator Rand Paul speak with students at the University of South Carolina in Columbia last month.
Las Vegas Sun News:
Doing what's best for Nevada  —  The past year has been a trying time for our family — the Laxalt family.  Sadly, we have been forced to face the loss of several cherished family members.  This challenge has made many of us stop and pause about what truly does matter in life.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Arkansas Supreme Court Strikes Down Voter ID Law, Saying It Exceeds State Constitution  —  The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's voter identification law on Wednesday, saying that it would set a new requirement for voting beyond those listed in the state's Constitution.
Guardian:
Revealed: how Whisper app tracks anonymous users  — Company shares some information with US Department of Defense  — User data collated and indefinitely stored in searchable database  —  Whisper app rewrites terms of service and privacy policy  —  How the ‘safest place on the internet’ tracks its users
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2014: A Tale of Two Elections  —  New 2014 Senate and House ratings  —  As we approach the home stretch, 2014 has turned into a tale of two elections.  On the one hand, this is a classic sixth-year itch election where the incumbent president's party is going to suffer losses in both houses of Congress.
 
 
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