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4:20 PM ET, November 17, 2014

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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare  —  Support for Obamacare continues to decline, with the law hitting a new low in approval, and a new high in disapproval, as the second enrollment period has opened for Americans, according to Gallup.  —  Just 37 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act …
Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws  —  Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Ferguson Cop Supporters Crowdfunded a “Pants Up, Don't Loot” Billboard  —  Spurred on by a Tennessee resident who is concerned about the Ferguson protesters and their catchy chants, supporters of police officer Darren Wilson have donated more than enough money to post a billboard in the heart …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Supporters Of Ferguson Cop Plan 'Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard  —  A supporter of Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson recently launched a fundraising campaign to put up a billboard in the town that would read “#PantsUPDontLOOT.”  —  The supporter, who lists himself as living in Brentwood …
Amityshedd / CBS St. Louis:
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard In Response To Potential ‘Period Of Unrest’  —  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed an executive order activating the Missouri National Guard on Monday afternoon.  —  According to a news release, the role of the National Guard is to …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Vox Popoli
Kaci Hickox / Guardian:
Stop calling me ‘the Ebola nurse’  —  I never had Ebola, and politicians who lie do nothing to protect your health  —  I never had Ebola.  I never had symptoms of Ebola.  I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie's private prison in Newark.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Law Turns Obama and Insurers Into Allies  —  WASHINGTON — With the health insurance marketplace now open for a second year, President Obama will be depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick.
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David Klein / Wall Street Journal:
Another ObamaCare Deception
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Why Hillary 2016 Thinks She Can Expand Obama's Electoral Map  —  The top minds in the proto-Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign infrastructure are already gaming out Electoral College scenarios.  What they think they have is a candidate who could compete in a handful of traditionally red states …
Discussion: Washington Post
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The Hill:
Will the Obama coalition survive?  —  The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning.  —  Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games  —  Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league.  The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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Ken Belson / New York Times:   Federal Investigation Into Painkillers Targets N.F.L. Teams' Medical Staffs
Ron Fournier / National Journal:
The Extraordinary Smallness of Washington  —  Institutional shrinkage marks the politics and governing of the Bush-Obama era.  —  President Obama is shrinking before our eyes.  Squint and you might see his rivals running Congress: itsy-bitsy John Boehner and minute Mitch McConnell.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Partisanship Breaks the Government
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home  —  SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare  —  VIDEO  —  Explosive New Gruber Video Uncovered  —  Issa Out!  Republicans To Pick New Oversight Chairman  —  POLITICS |  PATRICK HOWLEY
Discussion: Power Line and Liberaland
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO]  —  President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers  —  An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph  —  The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Before the Beheadings  —  Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them  —  In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.
Discussion: The Dish and Althouse
Eric Adlerthe / Kansas City Star:
Legally married same-sex couples won't be allowed to stay together at City Union Mission  —  For 90 years, the City Union Mission in the heart of Kansas City has given a roof, meals and warm beds to homeless individuals and families in need.  —  That fact alone, said executive director Dan Doty …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Raw Story
New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces  —  WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
Discussion: Power Line and NPR
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Cassidy Headed for a Landslide in Louisiana Runoff  —  A new Magellan Strategies poll in Louisiana finds Bill Cassidy (R) crushing Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) in their runoff race for U.S. Senate, 57% to 41%.  —  “The president has got to learn that he lost this last election round.
Discussion: Liberaland
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The man whose memory failure helped save Bill Clinton's presidency  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA  —  This weekend, dozens of former top Clinton White House officials will gather in Little Rock to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Mark Bauerlein / The New Criterion:
Humanities: doomed to lose?
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Al From / Politico:
A blueprint for Democratic victory
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Scott Kaufman / Raw Story:
13-year-old shot dead by gun that accidentally went off in nearby hotel room
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Direct new challenges to Bakke ruling
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
With focus elsewhere, GOP Congress shows little interest in blocking pot legalization in D.C.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
When Government Succeeds  —  The great American Ebola freakout of 2014 seems to be over.
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
The Progressives' War on Suburbia
Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The wacky economics of Germany's parallel universe
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Daily Mail:
‘Saudi prince paid for 9/11 pilots to learn to fly’: Incredible claims of ‘20th hijacker’ …
Kevin Baker / New York Times:
Delusions of the Democrats
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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