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9:40 AM ET, October 27, 2016

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Bloomberg:
Inside the Trump Bunker, With 12 Days to Go  —  Win or lose, the Republican candidate and his inner circle have built a direct marketing operation that could power a TV network—or finish off the GOP.  —  Subscribe Reprints  —  On Oct. 19, as the third and final presidential debate gets …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Cruz says there's precedent for keeping ninth Supreme Court seat empty  —  LOVELAND, Colo. — Speaking to reporters after a campaign rally for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate here, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said that there was “precedent” for a Supreme Court with fewer than nine justices …
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Justice Thomas Laments a Washington That's ‘Broken in Some Ways’  —  Conservative Supreme Court member quips about Obamacare  —  He reminisces about Scalia, draws laughs on Civil War  —  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Americans are understandably losing confidence in their government …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Cruz: GOP may block Supreme Court nominees indefinitely  —  In a vintage return to his confrontational style, Sen. Ted Cruz indicated that Republicans could seek to block a Democratic president from filling the vacant Supreme Court seat indefinitely.  —  After staking his endorsement of Donald …
Discussion: ABC News
Associated Press:
Cruz Suggests Leaving Vacancy on Supreme Court
Discussion: Politico and alan.com
New York Times:
Beneath Cheers at Donald Trump's Rallies, Dark Fears Take Hold  —  COLORADO SPRINGS — Big crowds still mob Donald J. Trump when he comes to town, with fans waiting in long lines to attend his rallies, where they eagerly jeer his Democratic rival and holler happily at his message.
Discussion: Althouse
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton leads by 6 points, Post-ABC tracking poll finds  —  With 12 days to go, Hillary Clinton holds a six-point edge over Donald Trump among an electorate fixated on the campaign and nervous about their candidate losing, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll.
Discussion: Hot Air and AOL
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Stacey Readout / WJXT-TV:
UNF poll: Clinton leads Trump in 4-way race
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Clinton leads Trump by three points
Washington Post:
Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income  —  When top Bill Clinton aide Douglas Band wrote the memo, he was a central player at the Clinton Foundation and president of his own corporate consulting firm.  He made a case that his work had served …
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Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Foundation's Fundraisers Pressed Donors to Steer Business to Former President
Discussion: New York Times and Instapundit
Yashar Ali / The Daily Beast:
Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another  —  Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein has largely based her campaign on her uncompromising positions on the environment, opposition to big banks and Wall Street, defense contractors, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Discussion: Raw Story
CNBC:
Clinton nearly doubles lead over Trump in latest CNBC survey  —  With only a dozen days to go before the election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has ratcheted up her lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump to 9 points, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey, nearly doubling her advantage from the last poll.
Matthew Artz / Mercury News:
California poll: Trump's numbers dropping into ‘uncharted territory’  —  Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have commanding leads and propositions to legalize marijuana and levy a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes appear heading for approval.
Discussion: Informed Comment
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Megyn Kelly Seeks Salary North of $20 Million in Contract Talks With Fox News  —  ‘The Kelly File’ host is in active negotiations; keeping her at the network is a priority for management, including Rupert Murdoch.  'It's up to her' and others ‘would give their right arm for her spot,’ he says.
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: In Texas, Trump holding narrow lead over Clinton  —  Donald Trump and Mike Pence held a 45-42 lead over Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a three-percentage-point lead …
Discussion: The Week
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Gallup: Support for ban on assault weapons hits all-time low  —  “All-time” means “in the 20 years they've been measuring this,” but still.  In 1996, amid soaring public concern about crime, support for a ban stood at 57/42.  Twenty years later, after a long period of stupendous decline …
Discussion: Instapundit
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Art Swift / Gallup:
In U.S., Support for Assault Weapons Ban at Record Low
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
State Dept. months late on explaining Clinton aide's missing emails  —  The State Department is months behind on a request that it explain how a former IT aide's emails appeared to have disappeared, and Republicans are crying foul.  —  Documents obtained by the Republican National Committee …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin Tells Trump What He Wants to Hear in Embarrassing Interview  —  How do you get Donald Trump to talk to you with less than two weeks to go before Election Day?  Tell him exactly what he wants to hear.  That's been the approach by Fox News' Sean Hannity and radio host Rush Limbaugh.
David Weigel / Washington Post:
House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton  —  SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — Jason Chaffetz, the Utah congressman wrapping up his first term atop the powerful House Oversight Committee, un-endorsed Donald Trump weeks ago.  That freed up him to prepare for something else …
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Rep. Chaffetz says he'll vote for Trump but won't endorse him
Ben Westcott / CNN:
Sixth mass extinction?  Two-thirds of wildlife may be gone by 2020: WWF  —  (CNN)More than two thirds of the world's wildlife could be gone by the end of the decade if action isn't taken soon, a new report from the World Wildlife Fund revealed on Thursday.  —  Since 1970, there has already …
Discussion: WCMH-TV
BBC:
US liver donor marries woman whose life he saved  —  When Christopher Dempsey offered to donate half his liver to a complete stranger, he knew it would be a life-changing experience.  —  What the former marine didn't know was that he would be saving the life of the woman who would become his wife.
Discussion: myfox8.com
Menzie Chinn / Econbrowser:
The Kansas Economy: Three Pictures  —  The Philadelphia Fed released coincident indices today.  Figure 1 shows state-by-state 3 month trends.  Needless to say, the outlook for Kansas — that laboratory for supply side nostrums — is not auspicious.  —  Source: Philadelphia Fed, accessed 26 Oct 2016.
Discussion: The Big Picture
Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Patton Oswalt: 'I'll Never Be at 100 Percent Again'  —  WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Michelle McNamara, a 46-year-old true-crime writer, died chasing a serial killer.  —  The Golden State Killer, a name she coined while working on a book about him, raped and murdered dozens of victims in the 1970s and '80s and remains at large.
Discussion: AOL
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Trump-Linked Voter Intimidation Group Releases New Script For ‘Citizen Journalists’  —  Vote Protectors wants volunteers to approach voters on Election Day to ask about “election fraud.”  —  National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  Vote Protectors, an anti-voter-fraud group loyal …
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says He'll Teach Military Expert ‘a Couple of Things’ About Mosul  —  Donald Trump went on the offensive against a military expert and former dean of the Army War College, Jeff McCausland, who said the Republican nominee's comments this weekend about the battle to reclaim Mosul …
USA Today:
Poll: Clinton builds lead in divided nation worried about Election Day violence  —  WASHINGTON — As the most caustic campaign in modern American history nears its close, Hillary Clinton has built a formidable lead over Donald Trump approaching 10 percentage points, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.
Matt Miller / Esquire:
Why Are Influential Celebrities Remaining Silent This Election?  —  From Taylor Swift to Mark Wahlberg.  —  In a normal election, many people would likely discredit a celebrity's endorsement of a presidential candidate as a meaningless gesture.  But when an election involves cruel insults hurled …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans in Congress Fear Losses, and Then the Hard Part  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have come to grudgingly accept an unfolding reality: Things are not looking good.  —  Donald J. Trump is lagging in polls and pulling down the party's congressional candidates …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
Delia D'Ambra / WBBH-TV:
Racial slur in FGCU classroom stirs outrage  —  FORT MYERS -  —  A racially charged slur paired with a graphic drawing scrawled across a whiteboard on campus at Florida Gulf Coast University has upset a lot of students.  —  University administrators say the vandalism showed up two weeks ago …
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Amy Butler / USA Today:
Church pastor: The truth about my late-term abortion  —  Trump's words drove me to tears, and to write my painful story for the first time.  —  Elections are supposed to be about real people — and not the ones whose names appear on the ballot.  They are supposed to be about all of us …
Discussion: LifeNews.com
 
 
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CNN:
Early voting numbers show Clinton's strength in Arizona, other battlegrounds
Discussion: Guardian
Adam Entous / Washington Post:
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump promises ‘new deal for Black America’
Discussion: ABC News and Instapundit
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