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10:45 AM ET, October 28, 2014

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New York Times:
Ebola Policies Made in Panic Cause More Damage  —  With good reason, Americans are deeply confused about the risks of Ebola.  It is a frightening disease, made more so by dueling theories about how best to deal with people arriving from West Africa and by wildly different messages …
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New York Times:
Two Governors' Shifts on Ebola Are Criticized as Politics, Not Science  —  Shifting stances and a lack of clear standards from the governors of New York and New Jersey over their Ebola quarantine policy left critics and even some allies questioning on Monday whether the two men had fully worked through …
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Poll: Midterm momentum belongs to GOP  —  Republicans enter the final week of the midterm campaign holding higher ground than the Democrats, aided by public dissatisfaction with President Obama's leadership, with the overall direction of the country and with the federal government's ability …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:   Economic, Political Discontent Make for a Midterm Double Punch
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The GOP's Giddiness Over Hillary Clinton's Jobs “Gaffe” Will Backfire  —  High on the long list of things Republicans decided not to change after the 2012 election—below opposition to immigration reform, but above the belief that Democrats only win elections by showering the poor …
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
Warren vs. Clinton: Dems say ‘Why not?’
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton clarifies jobs comment
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Priebus: Clinton ‘not really good at politics’
Discussion: Politico
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
What Will the GOP Senate Be Like?  —  Republicans promise that if they seize the majority, they'll stop Obama—and stop the Washington gridlock.  Can they really do both?  —  In Kansas recently, Republican Senator Pat Roberts, who's in a tough race for reelection, made a statement that left me puzzled.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
House Dems fret debilitating losses  —  The political environment continues to deteriorate for House Democrats ahead of a midterm election that's certain to diminish their ranks.  —  With President Barack Obama's unpopularity hindering their candidates and Republican cash flooding …
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Timothy Noah / Politico:
Why Dems are winning on minimum wage
Discussion: The Federalist
Heyun Jeong / The Daily Californian:
Students spring into opposition after Bill Maher announced as keynote speaker  —  In response to an announcement last week that comedian Bill Maher would speak at UC Berkeley's fall commencement, an online petition started circulating Thursday that demanded that the campus rescind its invitation.
Jason Sickles / Yahoo! News:
Ebola-free nurse Amber Vinson to leave Atlanta hospital  —  Yahoo News 1 hr ago  —  DALLAS - Amber Vinson, one of two Texas nurses to contract Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, will be released Tuesday from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, officials said.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Ann Romney blasts Democrat for sexist slur  —  Washington (CNN) — Ann Romney, the wife of former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, condemned South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's Democratic challenger after he mistakenly called her a “whore” — and then chuckled.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell tries humor and an old hit in new ad  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), fighting for re-elction in a tight contest, is up with a new humorous ad in the Louisville television market that echoes the famous “Bloodhounds” ad that helped first elect him to the Senate.
Discussion: CNN
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Latest Alaska Polls Show Surprising Shift Toward Mark Begich  —  Kansas, Georgia, South Dakota.  We have cycled through a lot of wild-card red states over the last month in surveying the landscape of competitive Senate races.  But the most likely wild card might be the one we always expected: Alaska.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit …
Discussion: The Hill
The Huffington Post:
The Old Man And The CIA: Inside A Hemingway-Themed Spy Prom  —  WASHINGTON — Relations between the intelligence community and the media are at such a low ebb it might be hard to believe that there's a reporter who spies deeply admire.  —  But for journalists who might want to follow …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Freedom Summer, 2015  —  The Supreme Court's year usually follows a predictable pattern.  The term, as the Justices call it, begins on the first Monday in October, and through the fall they usually hear a series of low-profile cases.  The more controversial cases tend to come up in the first days …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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The Nation:
Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ Interview
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CNN media reporter: Costello deserves all the criticism she's getting
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Myroslava Gongadze / Committee to Protect Journalists:
The Road to Justice  —  Breaking the Cycle of Impunity in the Killing of Journalists
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Trulia Trends:
Blue Markets Face Bigger Housing Challenges Than Red Markets
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
John Boehner Still Hasn't Sued Obama Over Obamacare. Why Not?
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Media's ‘Panic Panic’ Is Reaching New Annoying Levels With Quarantines
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Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Politics:
The Persuadables  —  How strategists see the 2014 Senate battlefield …
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Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid
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