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5:00 PM ET, October 19, 2014

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Black Vote Seen as Last Hope for Democrats to Hold Senate  —  WASHINGTON — The confidential memo from a former pollster for President Obama contained a blunt warning for Democrats.  Written this month with an eye toward Election Day, it predicted “crushing Democratic losses across the country” …
Discussion: Power Line and JustOneMinute
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Obama's standing with women hurts Senate Dems  —  Female voters powered President Barack Obama's victory over Mitt Romney in 2012, as Democrats leaned heavily on social issues to rally single women and suburban moms to the polls.  —  But with two weeks until Election Day …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Virus of Cynicism  —  WE have no clue at this point how far Ebola could spread in the United States — and no reason for panic.  —  But one dimension of the disease's toll is clear.  It's ravaging Americans' already tenuous faith in the competence of our government and its bureaucracies.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Vox Popoli
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
Where's the empathy for Ebola's African victims?  —  The Ebola epidemic … (CNN) — The world's response to Ebola is its own sort of tragedy.  —  Two facts make the point clear:  — The United Nations has asked for $1 billion to fight the spread of the virus.
Discussion: Hot Air
The White House:
Weekly Address: What You Need To Know About Ebola
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CNN Host Grills Cruz About Ebola And GOP Opposition To Surgeon General (VIDEO)  —  CNN host Candy Crowley on Sunday challenged Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) while asking him how Republican decisions may have negatively impacted the United States' ability to address Ebola.
Discussion: Liberaland and Hullabaloo
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Govt tells Christian ministers: Perform same-sex weddings or face jail, fines  —  Officials threaten to punish senior citizen couple - both ordained pastors - if they decline to officiate same-sex ceremonies  —  COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit …
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Mental Health Issues Put 34,500 on New York's No-Guns List  —  A newly created database of New Yorkers deemed too mentally unstable to carry firearms has grown to roughly 34,500 names, a previously undisclosed figure that has raised concerns among some mental health advocates that too many people have been categorized as dangerous.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Warren in Minnesota: ‘The game is rigged’  —  NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) brought her populist message Saturday to this small college town to rev up the final weeks of Sen. Al Franken's reelection campaign, but also to claim the mantle of the modern liberal movement's political godfather.
Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Romney Leads Scattered 2016 GOP Field, Clinton Still Dominates the Democratic Race  —  Hillary Clinton continues to hold a commanding lead in the potential Democratic field for president in 2016, while the GOP frontrunner in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is a familiar figure …
Chris Brummitt / Associated Press:
Serena Williams hits back at Russian official  —  SINGAPORE (AP) — Serena Williams says comments by the head of the Russian Tennis Federation referring to her and older sister Venus as “brothers” were bullying, sexist and racist, and that she supported the one-year suspension imposed by the WTA against the official.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Poll: Likely Voters Favor GOP-Led Congress  —  Voters likely to cast ballots in the midterm elections favor a Republican-led Congress over a Democratic one, 49% to 44%, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg survey finds.  —  Registered voters, a larger group than likely voters …
Discussion: Hot Air
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
The Court won't interrupt Texas voter ID law  —  In a stinging defeat for the Obama administration and a number of civil rights groups in a major test case on voters' rights, a divided Supreme Court told the state of Texas early Saturday morning that it may enforce its strict voter ID law …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows Texas to use controversial voter-ID law
Abby Haglage / The Daily Beast:
They May Sound Like a Good Idea, But Travel Bans for Ebola Won't Work  —  Instead of protecting public health, banning travel to and from Ebola-stricken countries will just increase illegal travel and make it harder to fight the disease.  —  America's Ebola outbreak, now contained to two people, began with a flight from Liberia.
 
 
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Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
There's Only One Way to Beat ISIS: Work with Assad and Iran
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The nasty politicization of Ebola
Discussion: Daily Kos and National Review
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rick Perry's Ebola test
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