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1:15 PM ET, October 28, 2016

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The Cook Political Report:
New Electoral College Ratings: Texas and North Carolina Shift in Clinton's Favor  —  Less than two weeks before the election, Trump continues to struggle to lock down traditionally Republican states — even Texas and Utah — and lags behind Clinton in key battleground states he would need to win.
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton lead shrinks, even as nearly 6 in 10 expect her to win, Post-ABC tracking poll finds  —  Donald Trump has gained on Hillary Clinton during the past week, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, solidifying support among core Republican groups as well as political independents.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Americans are tuning out Trump's ugly lies.  This new poll proves it.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Donald Trump actually said this on the campaign trail late yesterday: … Whether or not Trump was joking, his supporters greeted that remark with lusty cheers.
Discussion: alan.com and Associated Press
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Clinton's Lead Narrows to 4 Points, Wider Majority Expects Her to Win (POLL)
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Oregon standoff defendants found not guilty in ‘unbelievable, truly astonishing’ verdict  —  A jury Thursday delivered a stunning across-the-board acquittal to the leaders and participants in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation and a remarkable blow to the federal government …
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Bundy Brothers Acquitted in Takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their followers, charged in the armed takeover of a federally owned Oregon wildlife sanctuary in January, were acquitted Thursday of federal conspiracy and weapons charges.
Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Jury finds all Oregon standoff defendants not guilty of federal conspiracy, gun charges
Paul Joseph Watson / Infowars:
Wikileaks Email: Hillary Campaign Struggles to Reach “F**king Dumb” Young People  —  “That's the crap that young people pay attention to”  —  A new email released by Wikileaks as part of the Podesta dump features Hillary ally Wendy Bronfein advising Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta on how to reach “f**king dumb” young people.
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New York Post:
Bill and Hillary's sleazy road to riches  —  If there were still any doubt, the latest WikiLeaks disclosure makes it undeniable: Everything we've heard about Bill and Hillary Clinton's sleazy drive to enrich themselves is true.  —  In a way, we have daughter Chelsea to thank for the revelation.
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
The Man at the Center of ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Clinton eyes Biden for secretary of state  —  Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton's transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO.  —  This would be the first major Cabinet candidate …
Mother Jones:
Nobody Puts Tammy Duckworth in a Corner  —  Her opponent in her race for Congress, Rep. Joe Walsh, calls Obama a “tyrant” and belittles her military service.  Bring it on.  —  ADAM WEINSTEIN SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE  —  WHEN I FIRST MEET TAMMY DUCKWORTH in her suburban Chicago campaign office …
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NBC News:
Illinois Senator Draws Fire for Racially Charged Attack on Opponent's Family
Rebecca Sinderbrand / Washington Post:
Yes, it was the most cringe-worthy debate moment of the week
Discussion: Daily Kos and WBEZ
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Trump will win the election and is more popular than Obama in 2008, AI system finds  —  Trump on course to win the election, AI system finds  —  The polls that put Hillary Clinton ahead Donald Trump are wrong... that's according to an AI system that's managed to predict the last three presidential elections correctly.
Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
Professor who's predicted 30 years of presidential elections correctly is doubling down on a Trump win  —  Last month, the man who's tried to turn vote prediction into a science predicted a Trump win.  —  Allan J. Lichtman, distinguished professor of history at American University …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
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Rasmussen Reports:   White House Watch: All Tied Up At Week's End
Julia Ioffe / Politico:
‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’  —  As the country geared up for the third and final presidential debate last week, the fellows of the storied conservative Hoover Institution gathered in Palo Alto to present their research to the think tank's wealthy patrons.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Hullabaloo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Obamacare Hits a Pothole  —  For advocates of health reform, the story of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, has been a wild roller-coaster ride.  —  First there was the legislative drama, with reform seemingly on the edge of collapse right up to the moment of passage.
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Jacob S. Hacker / New York Times:
The Best Way to Save Obamacare
Discussion: Hit & Run
Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Even Trump's Kids Haven't Donated to His Campaign  —  With less than two weeks until the election, Donald Trump has amassed an impressive army of small donors, fueling his bid with individual contributions of $200 or less.  But noticeably absent from the list of contributors is basically anyone …
The Huffington Post:
Trump's Campaign Might Not be Winning, But His Hotels Sure Are  —  New campaign filings show big payments to Trump properties in New York, Las Vegas and Washington.  —  S.V. Date  —  WASHINGTON Donald Trump's campaign may not be winning the presidential race, but it did a fine job this month of providing business to his hotels.
ProPublica:
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race  —  Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers.  —  That's basically what Facebook is doing nowadays.  —  The ubiquitous social network …
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Gun store runs ad saying it won't sell to Muslims, Clinton supporters  —  “I don't feel safe arming them.”  —  Paul Chandler, the owner of Altra Firearms in rural Jackson Center, Pennsylvania, says he turns customers away at his door who are Muslim or who are supporting Hillary Clinton for president.
Discussion: alan.com
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: ‘We should just cancel the election’ and declare me the winner  —  Toledo, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump, trailing his opponent in key battleground states polls less than two weeks from Election Day, said Thursday he'd like to “cancel the election” and be declared the winner.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Conservative Intellectual Crisis  —  I feel very lucky to have entered the conservative movement when I did, back in the 1980s and 1990s.  I was working at National Review, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal's editorial page.  The role models in front of us were people like Bill Buckley …
Discussion: Vox and bradford-delong.com
Andrew McGill / The Atlantic:
We Built a Fake Web Toaster, and It Was Hacked in an Hour  —  Last week, a massive chain of hacked computers simultaneously dropped what they were doing and blasted terabytes of junk data to a set of key servers, temporarily shutting down access to popular sites in the eastern U.S. and beyond.
Discussion: Boing Boing
Gena Wolfson / SiriusXM Blog:
President Obama offers advice for the next president on ‘Sway in the Morning’  —  President Barack Obama and Shade45 host Sway Calloway reminisced Thursday about their relationship over the past eight years, with the 44th president joking that he's “a little grayer but other than that, no worse for wear.”
Discussion: Politico, Balloon Juice and Refinery29
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Economy Roars Back, Grew 2.9% in Third Quarter  —  Growth rate was the fastest recorded in two years after expanding an anemic 1.4% in the second quarter  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. economic growth accelerated last quarter, easing fears of a near-term slowdown but doing little to change the trajectory of a long but weak expansion.
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:
NYT executive editor: CNN and Fox News are ‘bad for democracy’  —  New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet took aim at CNN and Fox News for their coverage of the presidential race, calling the cable news channels' coverage of this election cycle “ridiculous” and “bad for democracy and those institutions.”
John Parkinson / ABC News:
President Obama's Golf Trip With Tiger Woods Cost Taxpayers $3.6 Million: GAO Report  —  It can certainly be expensive to hit a few rounds with PGA star Tiger Woods.  —  President Obama's 2013 golfing trip with Woods cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $3.6 million, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
 
 
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Liberals are preparing blacklists of appointees they want Clinton to avoid
Discussion: Common Dreams
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Man Arrested For Wearing ‘Basket Of Deplorables’ Shirt At Texas Polling Place
CNN:
Lithuania issues manual on what to do if Russia invades
Discussion: RedState
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump campaign wants ‘no waffling’ and no ‘week knees’ from House GOP
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
The IRS Scandal, Day 1268: Sen. Whitehouse …
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
The Strangest of Bedfellows  —  Why did social conservatives hook up with Trump?
Discussion: The Resurgent
 Earlier Items: 
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter:
Hacker Behind Hollywood Nude Photo Leak Sentenced to 18 Months
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Here's What We DON'T Know About That Sketchy Indiana ‘Voter Fraud’ Probe
Discussion: RT
New York Times:
Money Flows Down Ballot as Donald Trump Is Abandoned by Big Donors (Even Himself)
Democracy Now:
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Bob Fredericks / New York Post:
Clinton donor got State Department invite — and Bill got $17M
Discussion: RedState
Steven Shepard / Politico:
GOP insiders: Polls don't capture secret Trump vote
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Plane carrying Pence skids off runway
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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