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11:05 AM ET, October 25, 2016

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Jennifer Duffy / The Cook Political Report:
Senate Democrats Poised to Pick Up 5-7 Seats  —  Senate Republicans had been doing a pretty solid job of maintaining their distance from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump by running their own campaign that focused largely on more local issues or those issues that motivate their base.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: ‘I have set the Senate’ for nuclear option  —  (D-Nev.) is predicting a Democratic-majority Senate next year could break out the “nuclear option” to change the rules on Supreme Court nominations.  —  The outgoing Democratic leader told Talking Points Memo that he's paved …
Stuart Rothenberg / Washington Post:   House wave still looking more like a ripple for Democrats
NBC News:
Poll: Republican Party Fractured As Hillary Clinton Maintains Solid Lead  —  Hillary Clinton's 5-point lead over Donald Trump remains virtually unchanged since last week—but after prolonged in-fighting among GOP party leaders, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters (57 percent) …
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ABC News:
Stressed About the Election? If So, You've Got Company
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Top Hispanic Republican in Texas says he will vote for Clinton
Discussion: Politicus USA
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Breitbart coordinated with liberal activist and organizer who disrupted GOP primary campaign events  —  A liberal activist and organizer coordinated with reporters from the conservative news site Breitbart during the primaries to cover his disruptions of events for candidates such as Sen. Marco Rubio.
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Warren Henry / The Federalist:
Liberals Adored Trump When He Was Winning The GOP Primary
Discussion: Salon and Washington Post
Michael Gross / The Daily Beast:
Inside Donald Trump's One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models  —  The morals of Donald J. Trump, as a longtime model lover and then a modeling agency owner, were forged in another era, one in which young girls were used as a sort of currency between men doing business with one another.
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Fact-free conservative media is a symptom of GOP troubles, not a cause  —  My colleagues Oliver Darcy and Pamela Engel have written a good account of the Republican Party's captivity to its own disinformation complex of talk radio and conservative websites that push both extremism and false information.
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:   Obama Was Right About Republican Extremism All Along
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
The Most Astute Analysis of American Politics in 2016?  SNL's “Black Jeopardy!”  Sketch.  —  It had more to say about class and race than a thousand tenderly crafted portraits of the white working class.  —  For the past year, political journalists across the ideological spectrum have worked …
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Issie Lapowsky / Wired:
Trump's Campaign Is Launching a Nightly News Show on Facebook  —  Welcome to the Donald Trump show!  —  Tonight, the Trump campaign is kicking off a show that will air on the candidate's Facebook page every night at 6:30 pm ET via Facebook Live from the campaign war room at Trump Tower.
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump campaign launches nightly ‘newscast’ on Facebook
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida spirals away from Trump  —  From polling to early voting trends to TV ad spending to ground game, Donald Trump's Florida fortunes are beginning to look so bleak that some Republicans are steeling themselves for what could be the equivalent of a “landslide” loss in the nation's biggest battleground state.
Tami Luhby / CNNMoney:
Obamacare premiums to soar 22%  —  Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket an average of 22% for the benchmark silver plan in 2017, according to a government report released Monday.  —  The price hike is the latest blow to Obamacare.  Insurers are raising prices and downsizing their presence …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
James O'Keefe quietly employs convicted felon who tried to blackmail David Letterman  —  Former TV producer Robert “Joe” Halderman now helping Project Veritas with guerrilla filmmaking  —  With $10,000 in funding from Donald Trump's “charitable” foundation, guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe …
Alexandra Jaffe / NBC News:
Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey Still Won't Answer Trump Question  —  Democrats push hard for a win in Pennsylvania 6:33  —  Sen. Pat Toomey again refused to say whether he would vote for Donald Trump, making him the only vulnerable Republican senator to keep his constituents in the dark on where he stands on the issue.
Discussion: NBC News, alan.com and Political Wire
Kent Justice / WJXT-TV:
Trump quieter, but makes similar points in one-on-one interview  —  GOP presidential nominee gives interview, meets with first responders  —  ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Speaking with Donald Trump before he took the stage at the St. Augustine Amphitheater Monday afternoon, the Republican nominee …
Discussion: CNBC and Business Insider
Betta Stothart / Washington Post:
How angry does Donald Trump make me?  Angry enough to steal 40 Trump signs.  —  How a middle-aged mom became a political vandal. … Donald Trump campaigns in Bangor, Maine, on Oct. 15.  (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)  —  FALMOUTH, Maine — I committed a crime this month, along with two of my friends.
Discussion: Althouse and Central Maine
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Fearing Trump, Bar Association Stifles Report Calling Him a ‘Libel Bully’  —  WASHINGTON — Alarmed by Donald J. Trump's record of filing lawsuits to punish and silence his critics, a committee of media lawyers at the American Bar Association commissioned a report on Mr. Trump's litigation history.
Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
Voters Fear Their Ballot Won't Count, Poll Shows  —  Fewer than half of Americans are very confident that their vote for president will be counted correctly — and most say their ballot will not matter anyway because the political process is so dominated by corporate interests.
Discussion: PRRI
CNN:
How the GOP's first female presidential campaign manager manages Donald Trump  —  Conway on Trump: ‘He delivers his own speeches’  —  (CNN)Morning at the Conway household is like mornings in most homes with children.  It's a scramble to get the kids fed, dressed and out the door on time for school …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Obama reads round two of ‘mean tweets’ on Kimmel  —  President Obama will appear on ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late Monday night, reading a second batch of “mean tweets” about himself.  —  ...bro, do you even lift?" he read. “  Well, I lifted the ban on Cuban cigars.  That's worth something.
Discussion: Vox, ABC News, Politico and Raw Story
Lukas Mikelionis / Heat Street:
Left-Wing Berkeley Protesters Demand ‘Spaces of Color’, Harass White Students Trying to Pass  —  Left-wing students at the University of California, Berkeley are protesting again.  This time, however, these students are calling for “safe spaces” for transgendered people, as well as …
Kenneth Lipp / The Daily Beast:
AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit  —  On Nov. 11, 2013, Victorville, California, sheriff's deputies and a coroner responded to a motorcyclist's report of human remains outside of town.  —  They identified the partially bleached skull of a child, and later discovered the remains …
The Brickmuppet / Brickmuppet Blog 2.0:
Steven DenBeste 1952(?)-2016  —  Steven DenBeste has passed away.  —  I just received word from Steven's brother, graciously thanking me for making the welfare call to the police and confirming that what many of us feared had indeed come to pass.  I did not inquire as to specifics …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW!  Tim Kaine Holds Rally and ONLY 30 PEOPLE Show Up!  —  THIS IS JUST EFFING INCREDIBLE!  —  Hillary's VP pick Tim Kaine Held a Rally today AND NOBODY CAME!  —  There were literally like 30 people there — in West Palm Beach, Florida.  —  And that includes journalists and operatives.
Discussion: The Week and TruthFeed
Fox News:
ACLU chapter: High school's police event sends ‘frightening message’  —  A New Jersey high school has come under fire after holding a ceremony honoring law enforcement, military and first responders before a football game Friday night.  —  According to NJ.com, an organizer with the New Jersey chapter …
J.M. Berger / Politico:
How White Nationalists Learned To Love Donald Trump  —  The embrace of Donald Trump by America's white nationalists has been one of the most surprising and unsettling threads in the 2016 campaign.  The celebrity New York developer has been endorsed by the nation's most prominent neo-Nazis, as well as both current and former Klansmen.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Pippa Norris / Washington Post:
How will Trump supporters react if he loses?
Discussion: Guardian
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The lap dogs of democracy who didn't bark at Trump
The Huffington Post:
Trump's Donors Paid For His Jetliner, His Hotels And Now, His Books
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
The Best 2016 Campaign Ad Is From A Race In Austin, Texas
Discussion: Hot Air
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State GOP skips election party, puts cash in campaigns
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Why Obama Won't Listen to Reason on Obamacare
Discussion: Instapundit
Manny Fernandez / New York Times:
Could Hillary Clinton Win Texas? Some Democrats Say Maybe
Cleve R. Wootson Jr. / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Law News and AOL
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Republicans' Worst Nightmare Isn't What They Think It Is
Discussion: New York Magazine
Lanny J. Davis / The Hill:
Time for Clinton supporters to be tolerant and believe in ‘stronger together’