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4:50 PM ET, October 11, 2015

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CBS News:
Poll: Donald Trump still leads, Ben Carson in second  —  The race for the GOP nomination  —  Donald Trump continues to lead the field nationally in the race to become the Republican nominee for president.  Twenty-seven percent of Republican primary voters support Trump …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Romney's path to GOP nomination eludes Jeb  —  On paper, Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign mirrors Mitt Romney's 2012 efforts, but Bush faces a far steeper climb to the nomination, political watchers say.  —  With three popular outsider candidates leading the race, rising establishment contenders …
Discussion: Progress Pond
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Republicans' Ugly Revolt  —  OVER the last two decades, through Bob Dole and George W. Bush and John McCain and Mitt Romney, it has become an article of faith that the Republican presidential nominee is a person blessed by, or acceptable to, the party's establishment, meaning the elders …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Back in the pack, this is not the campaign Chris Christie envisioned
Discussion: Bwog
Ryan Martin / Indianapolis Star:
Indy woman uses medieval combat training, sword to stop intruder  —  Rule No. 1: Don't break into the home of a woman with medieval combat training.  —  CONNECT  —  When a man broke into Karen Dolley's home on Thursday night, her training in medieval combat came in handy.  So did her sword.
Edward Klein / New York Post:
Clinton's camp says she ‘could have a serious meltdown’  —  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton  —  Hillary is furious — and while Clinton advisers think that may save her, it's making the lives of those who work for her hell.  —  “Hillary's been having screaming …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Althouse
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Asian Advantage  —  THIS is an awkward question, but here goes: Why are Asian-Americans so successful in America?  —  It's no secret that Asian-Americans are disproportionately stars in American schools, and even in American society as a whole.  Census data show that Americans …
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
DNC Chair: Republicans Are Saying 'Yeah, Let's Kick Women ... Out Of This Country' [VIDEO]  —  Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday that all of the remaining Republican presidential candidates are trying to “out-Trump Donald Trump” and are saying, “yeah, let's kick women.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Wanted: a Tea Party Speaker  —  IN an earlier, cozier Washington, D.C., John Boehner could have been the kind of House speaker whose memory is held dear by high-minded chin strokers on Sunday morning television programs: An icon of sadly bygone bipartisanship, a cutter of the grandest bargains, a man who, by God, made legislation move.
Discussion: National Review and Daily Kos
David Edwards / Raw Story:
ABC host destroys Bobby Jindal's ‘no-fly zone’ plan with four simple words: 'ISIS doesn't have aircraft'  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal said over the weekend that he had a plan to defeat ISIS using “no-fly zones” …
Patrick Temple-West / Politico:
Trump calls German chancellor's immigration moves ‘insane’  —  <p>Donald Trump says German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to accept thousands of Syrian refugees is 'insane."</p><p> “They're going to have riots in Germany,” the Republican presidential hopeful said in an interview aired Sunday …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
CNN:
Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing ‘partisan investigation’ targeting Hillary Clinton  —  Major Bradley Podliska's exclusive TV interview with CNN will air Sunday at 9 a.m. on CNN's “State of the Union.”  —  Washington (CNN)A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi …
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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Ben Carson Insists Holocaust Comments ‘Not Hyperbole at All’  —  The media has blown the comments out of proportion, Carson said.  —  alielkin  —  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is sticking to his guns.  —  Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, Carson defended …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
GOP hard-liners seek more power by changing rules.  That could mean more chaos.  —  When the 40 or so Republican lawmakers responsible for the recent upheaval in the House talk about what it would take to quell their rebellion, they do not necessarily talk about the debt ceiling …
 
 
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