MARY BURKE’S LAST RESORT: The Nazi Card.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why This Election Matters.

DOCTORS MAKE MISTAKES, but they don’t like to talk about them.

ILLEGAL GIFTS FOR VOTING: Does Cosmo Mag’s Swag Bus Violate Federal Election Law?

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 543.

IT’S POTEMKIN VILLAGES ALL THE WAY DOWN: A lot of the celebrities who appeared in the midterm Rock The Vote PSA didn’t actually vote in the last midterm.

CATHY YOUNG: The MIT Rape Study and Other Sloppy Surveys.

The latest alarming numbers on campus sexual assault come from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey which supposedly shows that 17 percent of female undergraduates have been sexually assaulted during their time at the school. Writing in The Washington Post, columnist Catherine Rampell has invoked these findings as a rebuke to those who have criticized earlier studies for inflating campus sexual assault statistics. But, in fact, the MIT survey starkly illustrates the very problems those critics have pointed out.

For one, there is the issue of response bias, acknowledged at the end of survey itself: only 35 percent of the MIT students who received the survey answered it, and it’s entirely possible that people who have had unwanted sexual experiences were more likely to respond. But, more importantly, there is also a question of how sexual assault is defined.

It’s as if the studies are designed to produce the results they want or something.

WASHINGTON POST: Exposed: After an accidental needle stab, a doctor’s Ebola watch begins.

ROSS DOUTHAT: How Obama Lost America. He would have lost it in 2012 if the press — see, e.g., Candy Crowley — hadn’t covered for him.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UNC students blame capitalism, white supremacy for academic scandal. This is what you get for your money, even at a top-ranked college. Oh, who am I kidding? Especially at a top-ranked college.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Democrats’ Dilemmas. “Here is the problem with the old-style Obama strategy of slicing and dicing the electorate into aggrieved minorities and then gluing them back together to achieve a 51% majority. On almost every issue in this election that they should be running on, they simply cannot. And on those that they are running on, they probably should not be. Let me explain.”

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2014: AN ELECTION ABOUT NOTHING? No, it’s an election about everything.

Not only is this election not about nothing, it is being fought over exactly the kinds of things that ought to determine our elections.

It’s about the size and scope of government. It’s about the rule of law. It’s about the security of the citizenry. It’s about competence. It’s about integrity. It’s about honor.

It’s about a government that makes promises to those who have defended the country and then fails those veterans, again and again and again. It’s about a president who offers soothing reassurances on his sweeping health care reforms and shrugs his shoulders when consumers learn those assurances were fraudulent. It’s about government websites that cost billions but don’t function and about “smart power” that isn’t very smart. It’s about an administration that cares more about ending wars than winning them, and that claims to have decimated an enemy one day only to find that that enemy is still prosecuting its war against us the next. It’s about shifting red lines and failed resets. It’s about a president who ignores restrictions on his power when they don’t suit him and who unilaterally rewrites laws that inconvenience him. It’s about a powerful federal agency that targets citizens because of their political beliefs and a White House that claims ignorance of what its agents are up to because government is too “vast.” In sum, this is an election about a president who promised to restore faith in government and by every measure has done the opposite.

As even Barack Obama acknowledges, the upcoming election is about his policies and those elected officials who have supported them. It’s about an electorate determined to hold someone responsible for the policy failures that have defined this administration and the scandals that have consumed it—even if many in the fourth estate will not.

And it’s about time.

Yes, pundits calling it an “election about nothing” are just covering for Obama, as they’ve done since 2007.

STEPHEN GREEN: Wargaming Tomorrow’s Election Results.

REPORT: Wave of Enterovirus 68 Cases Linked To Flood Of Illegal Immigrants.

PERSONALLY, I’M NOT SURE IT WOULDN’T BE BETTER TO JUST SHUT DOWN CONGRESS UNTIL JANUARY: Roll Call: Rogers Begins Work on Possible Lame-Duck Omnibus.

HARRY REID ON THE ROPES: He may not even be minority leader after Tuesday. Don’t get cocky, kid.

MANY STATES ARE DITCHING ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES.

States have abandoned electronic voting machines in droves, ensuring that most voters will be casting their ballots by hand on Election Day.

With many electronic voting machines more than a decade old, and states lacking the funding to repair or replace them, officials have opted to return to the pencil-and-paper voting that the new technology was supposed to replace.

Nearly 70 percent of voters will be casting ballots by hand on Tuesday, according to Pamela Smith, president of election watchdog Verified Voting.

“Paper, even though it sounds kind of old school, it actually has properties that serve the elections really well,” Smith said.

All is proceeding as I have foreseen. I was just 12 years ahead of the curve.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: IRS Targeting Conservatives Again? Sen. Ted Cruz Wants Answers For Latest Audit.

THE HILL: Rand Paul Courts The Black Vote. This has to be giving Democrats nightmares.

UM: Lena Dunham Verifies Sexually Abusing Sister, Calls Critics ‘Disgusting.’

UPDATE: The Andrea Dworkin/Lena Dunham Connection.

I THINK IT’S WORTH CONSIDERING: Should We Make The House Of Representatives Much, Much Bigger?

For that matter, why not give each state 4 Senators instead of 2? One argument against: The President, by virtue of being just one person, enjoys greater media power vis-a-vis the Congress, which is divided and multitudinous. Would this make that worse? Or would it make it better, by forcing the House and Senate to work as institutions, rather than individual members posing for cameras?

THE WAGES OF POLITICIZATION: Associated Press: Doubts chip away at nation’s most trusted agencies.

Even as Americans’ trust in government eroded in recent years, people kept faith in a handful of agencies and institutions admired for their steadiness in ensuring the country’s protection.

To safeguard the president, there was the solidity of the Secret Service. To stand vigil against distant enemies, the U.S. nuclear missile corps was assumed to be on the job. And to ward off threats to public health, the nation counted on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Now, in the space of just a few months, the reputations of all those agencies – as well as the Veterans Administration – have been tarred by scandal or tarnished by doubt. Maybe a public buffeted by partisan rhetoric and nonstop news should be used to this by now. But, with the CDC facing tough questions about its response to the Ebola outbreak, something feels different. Government is about doing collectively what citizens can’t do alone, but its effectiveness is premised on trust.

A standard Dem talking point is that Republicans aren’t good at running big government because they don’t like big government. But it seems clear that Democrats aren’t good at running big government because they don’t respect it. In their zeal to weaponize the bureaucracy, they fail to appreciate the importance of moral capital.