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If we can’t build a fence high enough … we ought to go to China and see how they built a wall.
— Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), quoted by the Bangor Daily News, on illegal immigration.
I am not going to create one job, it is not my job to create jobs. It’s yours.
— Scott Brown (R), quoted by TPM, at a gubernatorial campaign stop in New Hampshire.
52%
Republicans’ chance of winning control of the U.S. Senate — down from an 86% chance in July, according to the Washington Post’s forecasting model. “It’s not that races have narrowed, but that the model has begun weighting information differently — mainly by (a) incorporating polling data (where possible) after the relevant primaries, and by (b) increasing the weight that polls have in the forecast. What this suggests is that in several states, Democrats are arguably ‘out-performing’ the fundamentals.”
It’s a punch to the gut.
— Secretary of State John Kerry, quoted by The Hill, on the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff by ISIS.
