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Shocking Harvard poll: Millennial voters want GOP in charge, abandon Obama — WASHINGTON SECRETS BARACK OBAMA POLLS 2014 ELECTIONS VIDEO MILLENNIALS HISPANICS HARVARD INSTITUTE OF POLITICS HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2014 MIDTERMS — Harvard University on Wednesday provided new proof that the Democrats …
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Governor LePage Issues Statement About Healthcare Worker in Fort Kent Who Worked in West Africa — Contact: Adrienne Bennett, Press Secretary (207) 287-2531 — AUGUSTA - Governor Paul R. LePage issued a statement Wednesday morning about a healthcare worker who had been quarantined …
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Pentagon Orders 21-Day Ebola Quarantine for Troops
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Nurse Kaci Hickox ‘Will Go to Court’ Over Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule
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New York Times, Hot Air, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway and The Gateway Pundit

Obama Could Replace Aides Bruised by a Cascade of Crises — WASHINGTON — One day this month, as the nation shuddered with fears of an Ebola outbreak and American warplanes pounded Sunni militants in Syria, President Obama's national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, invited a group …
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Southern Democrats, Courting Black Voters, Focus Senate Campaigns on Racial Scars — In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin's death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. …
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The Big Role of Black Churches in Two Senate Races
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Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Talking Points Memo


Trek sources: Mary Burke's family fired her for incompetence — FIRED: Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke didn't get “burned out” from her overseas job at her family-owned Trek Bicycle Corp She was fired by her family, several former Trek executives and employees tell Wisconsin Reporter.
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Why Middle-Class Americans Can't Afford to Live in Liberal Cities — On April 2, 2014, a protester in Oakland, California, mounted a Yahoo bus, climbed to the front of the roof, and vomited onto the top of the windshield. — If not the year's most persuasive act of dissent …
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National Review, The Dish and LA Weekly


It's time for an “American jihad” — Among the many definitions of jihad are a “war or struggle against unbelievers” and “a crusade for a principle or belief.” Given those definitions, I believe it's time for an American jihad. — An American jihad would reawaken in American citizens …
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Fox's Keith Ablow: 'It's Time For An American Jihad' (VIDEO)
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Ebola doctor lied about his NYC travels — New York City police officers enter the building where Dr. Craig Spencer (inset with fiancée Morgan Dixon) lives in New York on Oct. 24. — The city's first Ebola patient initially lied to authorities about his travels around the city following …
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Final pre-election Marquette Law School Poll finds Walker leading Burke in Wisconsin governor's race — MILWAUKEE - A new Marquette Law School Poll finds Republican Gov. Scott Walker leading Democratic challenger Mary Burke 50 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in the Wisconsin governor's race.
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MU poll has Walker leading Burke, with turnout still key
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Latino Support for Democrats Falls, but Democratic Advantage Remains — After more than a year of inaction by Congress and President Obama on immigration reform, Democrats maintain a wide, but diminished, advantage among Hispanic registered voters, according to a new nationwide survey …
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New York Times, OnPolitics, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Real Clear Politics and Pew Research Center …

The Affordable Care Act: Who Was Helped Most — A new data set provides a clearer picture of which people gained health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. — Change in insured Americans, 2013-14 — +4 — +6 — +8 — +10 pct. pts. more insured
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Mississippi, Burned — How the poorest, sickest state got left behind by Obamacare.
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Washington Monthly, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Unfogged and NPR

For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September suggests that economic activity is expanding at a moderate pace. Labor market conditions improved somewhat further, with solid job gains and a lower unemployment rate.
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Lindsey Graham unfiltered: jokes about white men, Baptists — Washington (CNN) — South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who is toying with the idea of a presidential bid, joked in a private gathering this month that “white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency …


Jeb Bush Slams Obama On Ebola Response — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's initial handling of the Ebola crisis as “incompetent,” saying it gave rise to unneeded fears among the American public about the virus.
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Jeb Bush talks presidential run, Common Core in Nashville
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Thom Tillis internal poll shows tied North Carolina race — North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis' internal poll shows him tied with Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, consistent with more recent public polling of the race that shows Tillis closing the gap as the campaigns comes to an end.
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Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo


Republican Senator: Full Obamacare Repeal Not “Realistic,” Better To Put Stuff On Obama's Desk He'll Sign — “I want to put things on his desk that he would actually give true consideration to signing.” — View Video › — A Republican senator says an Obamacare repeal isn't going to happen anytime in the next two years.
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Hot Air and Talking Points Memo


Miami Beach police investigating cop after confrontation during traffic stop — Deadline Miami — As a video showing a Miami Beach police officer cursing out a young man during an apparent traffic stop makes the rounds on social media, the police department is saying it has opened an internal affairs investigation.
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Raw Story and Talking Points Memo


Iowa Republican Copied And Pasted Passages In Newspaper Dispatches — Passages of local paper pieces under Ernst's name appear to have been copied word for word from templates sent as guidelines to Republican members of the Iowa Senate. — Red Oak Express
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Bleeding Heartland and Bloomberg View