Real Clear Politics Wednesday

There Are No Easy Wins for Republicans - Kirsten Powers, USA Today
Cronyism Enriches Hagan's Campaign, Family - Tim Carney, DC Examiner
Millennials, Young Hispanics Bolt Obama for GOP - Ron Fournier, NatlJrnl
Neck-and-Neck Senate Races Into Close - Tarini Parti, Politico
A Scorecard for the Senate - Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
Are Republicans Wasting Time Courting Black Vote? - Josh Kraushaar, NJ
Spectacular Self-Immolation of Wendy Davis - Michelle Malkin, Townhall
Weak Evidence That Attkisson's Laptop Was Hacked - Timothy Lee, Vox
Where Is Media on Attkisson Story? - Judson Phillips, Washington Times
ISIS and Vietnam - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Last Anti-Fat Crusaders - Nina Teicholz, Wall Street Journal
Govs 2014: WI (Marquette): Walker +7 | RCP Avgs: 29 R, 20 D, 1 Ind

RCP Morning Edition

How Reid Doomed Democratic Senators - Jonah Goldberg, LA Times
Give WH More Credit for Crisis Managment - Danny Vinik, New Republic
Dem Candidates Have an Ebola Problem - John Kass, Chicago Tribune
America's Epidemic of Fear Over Ebola - Doyle McManus, LA Times
Why No Ebola Travel Ban? Politics - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
Shaheen Popular in NH, Struggles With DC Albatross - Scott Conroy, RCP
Election Continues to Move Toward GOP - Ed Rogers, Washington Post
Republicans' Momentum Mirage - Nate Silver & Harry Enten,FiveThirtyEight
A Nerve-Wracking Finish for Democrats - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
How High Will Health Premiums Go in 2015? - Hugh Hewitt, Townhall
Mississippi, Burned by Conservatives - Sarah Varney, Politico
Why's Blue Rhode Island's Gov Race Close? - David Byler, RealClearPolitics
The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Here - Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic
An Election That Fuels Disenchantment - Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
Republicans: Watch Out for Traps After Midterms - Lanny Davis, The Hill
The Truly Daffy Demonization of the Kochs - Jack Cashill, Ingram's
Offshore Wind Power's Promising Future - John Connor Cleveland, RCP
Senate 2014: Map: 10 Toss Up States | RCP Avgs: GOP +7 Seats | Polls

Editorials

Ebola Politics and Health Practices - Chicago Tribune
The Senate Referendum - Wall Street Journal
Republicans Stoke False Border Fears - Washington Post
Ex-CBS Reporter Blows the Whistle on Bias - Investor's Business Daily

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Real Clear Politics Tuesday

Morning Update
Midterm Momentum Belongs to GOP - Balz & Craighill, Washington Post
What Will the Republican Senate Be Like? - Molly Ball, The Atlantic
In Gardner, a Look at the GOP's Happy Future - Byron York, Examiner
What Franken's Race Can Teach Other Dems - Ana Marie Cox, Daily Beast
A Common-Sense Stand Against Ebola, Obama - Ed Rogers, Wash Post
Governors Are Playing Politics on Ebola - Errol Louis, CNN
Here Comes the 2014 Voter Fraud - Hans von Spakovsky, Wall Street Journal
A Catastrophe of Disenfranchisement - Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Desperate Dems Turn to Racial Attacks - Ellen Carmichael, National Review
Putting Emerging Democratic Majority Theory to Test - Sean Trende, RCP
How Pro-Choicers Can Take Back High Ground - Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Shiny, Empty Uteruses - Mollie Hemingway, National Review
Minimum Wage Working as Issue for Dems - Timothy Noah, Politico
Avoiding the Global Slowdown Blues - Michael Boskin, Wall Street Journal
Fracking Has Changed the Energy Policy Debate - Adam O'Neal, RCP
GOP Giddiness Over Hillary's "Gaffe" Will Backfire - Brian Beutler, TNR
Higher Education and Inequality - Piereson & Riley, Washington Post

Afternoon Update
There's No Meat in the Iowa Senate Race - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Republicans Begin to Pull Away - Joseph Curl, Washington Times
Dems Desperately Seeking the Gender Gap - Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
Why America Is Over Obama - Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
House Democrats Fret Debilitating Losses - Alex Isenstadt, Politico
GOP's Big Senate Plans Are All Talk - Danny Vinik, The New Republic
Wendy Davis Is the Todd Akin of 2014 - Michael Dougherty, The Week
Is Journalism Better or Worse Today? - Clarence Page, RCP Changing Lanes
The Hacking of Sharyl Attkisson's Computers - Howard Kurtz, FOX News
We're All Flies in the IRS's Widening Web - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
The Most Prolific Counterfeiter in American History - Wells Tower, GQ

Real Clear Policy

Why Has Violent Crime Declined? - Heather Mac Donald, Daily Signal
Are Economists Ready for Redistribution? - Mark Thoma, Fiscal Times
A Voter ID Myth Crashes - Mona Charen, Creators
Ed Gillespie's Credible Obamacare Alternative - James Capretta, RCM
Seven Democrats' Plan to Make Obamacare Cheaper - Ezra Klein, Vox

Real Clear Markets

Is It Time to Moderate the Homeownership Dream? - Eduardo Porter, NYT
Feds Eerily Double Down On Housing - Stephen Moore, Washington Times
The Timeless Allure of Stock-Market Timers - John Kimelman, Barron's
How to 'Game' This Very Clueless Stock Market - Jim Cramer, MSN Money
World Series Predictor No Worse Than Rest - Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch

Real Clear World

Interview with an ISIS Recruiter - Hasnain Kazim, Der Spiegel
Obama Caused the US-Israel Strain - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Can the US-Israel Relationship Be Repaired? - Jacob Heilbrunn, NI
A Look at the Roots of HK's Protests - Keri Phillips, ABC Australia
Echoes of Patty Hearst in Kobani - Robert Mackey, New York Times

Real Clear Defense

Wishful Thinking in U.S. Plans Against ISIS - David Ignatius, Wash Post
Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here - Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic
Baltic States Study How to Beat Russian Tanks - Robert Beckhusen, WIB
Lessons from Sweden's Sub Hunt - Magnus Nordenman, USNI News
The Last Time China & America Went to War - Robert Farley, Natl Interest

Real Clear Science

Organic Foodies Propose 'Natural' Ebola Cures - Jon Entine, GLP
Biological 'Litmus Test' Detects Ebola - Andy Coghlan, NewScientist
Anti-Vaxxers Have Forgotten Polio - Jennie Gritz, The Atlantic
Google's Futuristic Health Monitors - L. Kelion & J. Gallagher, BBC
A Glowing World Under the Sea - Susan Daugherty, NatGeo

Real Clear Technology

FTC Sues AT&T for Limiting Data Speeds - Roger Cheng, CNET
Google Working on Pill That Searches for Illnesses - AP
Lowe's Hires Customer Service Robots - Mae Anderson, USA Today
YouTube Considers Paid, Ad-Free Subscriptions - A. Oreskovic, Reuters
How Facebook Hurts Twitter's Stock - David Weidner , MarketWatch

Real Clear Energy

OPEC Plots U.S. Shale Oil Takedown - Nigel Wilson, Int'l Business Times
Could Shale Help US Unseat Saudi Arabia as Top Oil Producer? - CNBC
When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking - DeSmog
Fracking: In the Path of the 'Shale Gale' - Barney Jopson, Financial Times
Why Lower Crude Prices Are Good for the Oil Biz - Houston Chronicle

Real Clear History

The Dawn of a New World Order After Suez - The Economist
Suez Crisis and End of British Empire - Derek Brown, The Guardian
Pax Britannica Was Good for Civilization - Samuel Chi, Historiat
Il Duce's Mythical 'March on Rome' - David Willey, BBC
Mussolini's Trains Really Ran On Time? - Brian Cathcart, Independent

Real Clear Religion

The Rise of Islam - Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture
More Education, Less Religion? - Charles Kenny, BusinessWeek
Pope Francis and the Devil - Elizabeth Tenety, America Magazine
Have You Embraced a Convert Today? - Rabbi Ari Sytner, Aish.com
Mormons vs. Sex-Traffickers - Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Trib

Real Clear Education

Teachers on 'Core': Familiarity Breeds Approval - S. Sawchuk, Teacher Beat
Union Power on the Ballot - Stephanie Simon, Politico
College Shift on Scholarships: Players' Growing Power - B. Strauss, NYT
Many Schools Lack Internet Capacity for Tests - Laurie Udesky, EdSource
Ed Startups Get Money, Advice From Fed Program - S. Cavanaugh, EW

Real Clear Sports

Lakers Go From Bad to Worse - Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Chill Out About College Football Playoff - Adam Kramer, Bleacher Report
SEC Rules, But Will Thin Its Own Herd - Pat Forde, Yahoo Sports
And Now, The Bliss of a Game 7 - Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle
Royals' Homegrown Crop Ready to Reign - Gabe Lacques, USA Today

Real Clear Books

Ebola Facts Are Scary Enough - Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
How the Media Protects Obama - Kyle Smith, New York Post
Boris on Winston - Peter Clarke, Financial Times
How Do We Get Good Government? - Gerard de Groot, Washington Post
Schocking Indictment on Afghanistan - Rory Stewart, New York Review of Books