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Monday, November 3, 2014  

Good morning! In the news today: Republicans are pulling away, with key Senate races trending their way and signs they could rack up a big majority in the House; Dems may replace Reid if they lose; support for gun control is declining; and Obama's Syrian allies are getting the arses kicked.

Have a great day.

Keith

Polls show Republicans pulling away . . . Republican Senate candidates are pulling away in the final days of key races, according to polls released this weekend. Republicans are either leading in Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana or will likely win runoff elections, according to a NBC/Marist poll released Sunday. In addition, the Republican nominee in Iowa, Joni Ernst, now has a 7-point lead over Democratic challenger Rep. Bruce Braley, according to a Des Moines Register poll released Saturday. Most polls have shown until now that the four races have essentially been deadlocked in the closing weeks. Fox News  I'm not convinced the Democratic ground game isn't going to claw some of this back. Republicans may indeed have much to celebrate on Election night, but they're celebrating too soon.

How Obama's legalization edict could elect Hillary . . . President Obama’s upcoming unilateral legalization of millions of illegal immigrants is not just about amnesty, changing the culture, encouraging future illegal immigration, and so forth. It’s about who will be president in 2016. It’s about creating a massive new population of potential Democratic voters - yes, voters - for shady operators on the left to target. White House Dossier Can Obama Reboot? Does he even want to? . . . “He appears tired,” says Sen. Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican and one of the few in his party who sees himself as a potential dealmaker in a GOP-controlled Senate. “It is almost as if he is wishing for a six-year term instead of an eight-year term,” added Corker. Still, Corker said the president has a “golden opportunity” because some Republicans, like himself, are eager to prove that GOP control of both houses would create a more productive environment than the past four years of divided rule. Politico Magazine  This would require a personality change. Will Obama pull a Jimmy Carter . . . and improve? . . . Both Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama advocated restraint amid numerous foreign crises, but Carter eventually changed course. Will Obama? Free Beacon This would also require a personality change. Cruz to push for Obama probes . . . Cruz made it clear he would push hard for a Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confron­tational as the Republican-led House. Piggybacking on what House leaders have done, Cruz said the first order of business should be a series of hearings on President Obama, “looking at the abuse of power, the executive abuse, the regulatory abuse, the lawlessness that sadly has pervaded this administration.” Washington Post Official who called Netanyahu "chickenshit" in hiding . . . Another aide to President Obama, who refused to speak on the record, said the official was cowering behind a semicircular hole at the base of a wall in the West Wing and being fed cheese. “He thinks if he comes forward he will lose his job and possibly have his Twitter account suspended,” the aide said. White House Dossier

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels routed . . . The Obama administration’s Syria strategy suffered a major setback Sunday after fighters linked to al-Qaeda routed U.S.-backed rebels from their main northern strongholds, capturing significant quantities of weaponry, triggering widespread defections and ending hopes that Washington will readily find Syrian partners in its war against the Islamic State. Washington Post

GOP could gain largest majority in 65 years . . . Republican gains in the House, once predicted to be modest, could end up large enough to give the party its largest majority in more than 65 years. Pollsters and race analysts blame President Obama’s low approval rating for a House Democratic outlook on Election Day that is suddenly much more dire.Examiner Reid may be out if Democrats lose . . . Reid may not even remain minority leader after Tuesday. Even Dems are tired of his strong-arm tactics. National Review Dingy Harry, consigned to gather dust in the attic. Hundreds of Democratic staffers could lose jobs . . . With projections of a GOP win growing daily, nervousness in Senate committee offices has turned to panic as an army of Democratic staffers braces to be fired, replaced by a Republican majority and their aides. Examiner Nunn fadeout dashes Democrats' hopes . . . For a brief time in mid-October, some Democrats believed Michelle Nunn, the party's Senate candidate in Georgia, could be the firewall that prevents a Republican takeover of the Senate. If Nunn could win the seat opened by retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, then Republicans would need to pick up seven, not six, seats to take control. Examiner Romney wants to be the face of GOP success . . . He's making the case for Republican candidates this Election Day. But he also reminded voters of his eligibility, too. National Journal  Mitt also views this as a big vindication for his 2012 loss. DWS: Everything's fine! . . . Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) predicted Sunday that her party will hold the Senate in Tuesday's midterms thanks to its "superior" ground games in key states. The Hill Paul courts the black vote . . . The GOP field office on Livernois Avenue is a squat, brick building with a grillwork of bars on its windows. The outpost in the predominantly Democratic, African-American neighborhood is a place where prominent Republicans don’t often venture. Rand Paul seems right at home. The Hill Paul: People don't want Christie's "bully" demeanor . . . "I think this sort of bully demeanor may go over well in certain places, but I can't imagine that — I grew up in the South, and we're ... a little bit more polite," Paul, a Kentucky Republican, said on CBS's "Face The Nation.Examiner

UN: Climate change "irreversible" . . . The Earth is locked on an “irreversible” course of climatic disruption from the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the impacts will only worsen unless nations agree to dramatic cuts in pollution, an international panel of climate scientists warned Sunday. Washington Post Dunham confirms sexually abusing sister . . . Dunham took to Twitter Saturday to verify the truthfulness of those stories, attempt to justify them, and blast her critics. She blames her admitted sexual abuse on “being a weird 7 year old.” Daily Calller Conservative Catholics irritated with Francis . . . American Cardinal Raymond Burke, the feisty former archbishop of St. Louis who has emerged as the face of the opposition to Pope Francis’ reformist agenda, likened the Roman Catholic Church to “a ship without a rudder” in a fresh attack on the pope’s leadership. Religion News Service Support for gun control declines . . . According to Gallup, 62 percent of Americans supported more gun control in 2000. That figures has fallen to 47 percent on the eve of the 2014 midterm elections. Over the same time period, support for repealing gun control has risen from five percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2014. Breitbart Even amidst the increase in school shootings, Americans want to defend themselves and aren't buying the shrill gun control rhetoric. Republicans question Obama's Tahmooressi effort  . . . Republicans on Saturday welcomed the news of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi being released from a Mexico prison and the efforts by GOP congressmen to help broker a deal but questioned whether the Obama administration did enough. Fox News Feds paid nearly $300,000 for drugs for dead people . . . The Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that drugs purchased through Medicare Part D are vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse since CMS allows for a 32-day window for purchases of prescription drugs after a person’s death. Free Beacon Drugs shouldn't be used past their expiration date. And they shouldn't be used on patients who are past their expiration date. Foreign diplomats get benefits under Obamacare . . . Foreign diplomats stationed in the United States are eligible to receive subsidized healthcare benefits as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), prompting concern on Capitol Hill over the Obama administration’s inability to explain the loophole. Free Beacon

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