DOWNBALLOT: Control for the Senate on the Razor’s Edge.

GET OUT THE VOTE: Subways running in Philadelphia after agreement.

SEPTA reached a tentative-five year deal with the union representing about 4,700 workers earlier Monday morning. Workers have been on strike since Tuesday.

However, service will be gradually phased in throughout the day Monday.

Heavy traffic still clogged streets during the morning rush and commuters faced regional rail delays despite the settlement.

SEPTA expects to have service on subways, buses, and trolleys fully restored in time for Tuesday’s election.

IF CEVICHE IS WRONG, I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT: “Well done, nanny state, well done.“

IT’S A LONG LIST: Hillary Clinton’s big ideas for tanking the US economy.

Looks like we’ve got some fundamental transformation yet to go.

BUT OF COURSE: Clinton adviser admits that some donors giving money to the foundation ‘had bad intentions’ in latest Wikileaks dump.

In a freshly Wikileaked exchange, Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri admits that some Clinton Foundation donors probably did expect some favors for their money.

Writing to aides, including John Podesta, whose emails were hacked, Palmieri discourages having Clinton answer too many questions about foundation donations because ‘[t]here aren’t great answers and in many cases not her place to answer them.’

‘I think it does make sense for her to publicly state that she never did anything at state to help a donor,’ Palmieri said. ‘At least this way she will have taken off the table any notion that there was a quid pro quo even if some donors may have had bad intentions,’ the top aide argued.

The fact that there “aren’t great answers” is exactly why Clinton should be asked for them, repeatedly.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Virginia Gov. Pardons 60,000 Felons, Enough To Swing Election.

STRONG HORSE: Pro-Russian candidate wins first round of Bulgarian election.

Rumen Radev wants to EU to drop its sanctions against Moscow.

COMMUNIST RULE RETURNS TO COMMUNIST CHINA: China Ousts Finance Minister Lou Jiwei in Surprise Reshuffle.

Shortly before Lou Jiwei was appointed China’s finance minister in the spring of 2013, the outspoken Communist Party veteran expressed a wish to Premier Li Keqiang: to let him serve his full five-year term.

Mr. Lou’s pitch, according to people with knowledge of the matter, was that he had a plan to overhaul the country’s creaky fiscal system and tax code and needed time to carry it out. The chat with Mr. Li helped launch him as the highest-profile finance minister China has had in years and a voice for market-oriented changes in China.

On Monday, with nearly two more years to go before his term ends, the 65-year-old Mr. Lou was unexpectedly removed from his position and replaced by a relatively low-profile bureaucrat.

President Xi Jinping is apparently trying to make himself into China’s most powerful leader since Mao.

RIP: Janet Reno, first female U.S. attorney general, dies at 78.

She’ll also be remembered for taking “full responsibility” for the Waco massacre, but then keeping her job anyway.

OBAMA’S “WAR OF NECESSITY.” Afghan Governor pleads for Australian help as soldiers defect to Taliban.

POLITICO: How the Harry Reid Machine May Have Killed Trump’s Chances.

Harry Reid built this. After two years of boosting voter registration among key Democratic demographics, the retiring Senate minority leader has brought turnout among Hispanics in the state to record levels. In doing so, he’s almost surely delivered the state for Hillary Clinton—and possibly with it the presidential race (Trump has only the narrowest path to 270 electoral votes without Nevada). The reality of this election is that if Clinton wins, especially if she ends up needing Nevada, it’s not a stretch to declare that Reid was the single most important person in her victory.
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A microcosm of the country, with its melting pot population and growing Latino voting bloc, Nevada signaled with its early voting turnout and record Hispanic participation that Trump has proven a better turnout driver of that demographic than anyone could have imagined—and for all the wrong reasons. It is ironic now to recall the GOP strategists behind that Republican National Committee autopsy in 2012, whose main exhortation was to reach out to minority voters lest another election be lost. As if in answer to that, GOP primary voters nominated the antithesis of its prescription.

Reid would be up for reelection this year, but opted to retire instead. It doesn’t take much imagination to picture him with a comfy post-Senate lifestyle, far beyond anything he’s actually produced — other than votes.

BRINGING A GUN TO A KNIFE ATTACK: Cedar Falls stabbing suspect was stopped by citizen with gun permit.

SAFE SPACE 2000: Ford’s Next-Gen Driver Assist Will Deny You the Right of Running People Over.

(Classical reference in the headline.)

2016, MAN: To solve ‘poo-dunnits,’ town in Spain creating doggie DNA database.

WHAT HATH MERKEL WROUGHT? German terror police ‘foil second ISIS airport attack plot’ in under a month as Syrian refugee, 27, is arrested in Berlin.

The jayvee seems to be playing everywhere these days.

2016, MAN: Two-headed sharks are not only real, they’re becoming more and more common.

SAMSUNG, MAN: Samsung, CPSC Recalling 2.8 Million Top-Loading Washing Machines Due to Risk of Explosion.

QUESTIONS FROM 2008: Can Teleprompter Trump stay disciplined?

It’s hard, man, it’s really hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuItt6iuMc

Bonus question: Could Clinton have stayed disciplined at the debates without cheating?

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG: ISIS seizing boys as young as 9 to fight in Mosul, UN warns.

STEALTH RATIONING: These Patients Are Covered by Obamacare But Can’t Afford Treatment.

Michelle Harris, a 61-year-old retired waitress in northwest Montana, has arthritis in both shoulders. She gets a tax subsidy to help buy coverage under Obamacare, though she still pays $338 a month for the BlueCross BlueShield plan. Yet with its $4,500 deductible, she says she’s doing everything she can to avoid seeing a doctor. Instead, she uses ibuprofen and cold-packs.

“It hurts, but we don’t have that kind of money,” Harris said in an interview. “So I deal with it.”

Harris is one of many people with Obamacare plans that feature high out-of-pocket costs that can put health services out of reach. That’s because the insurance coverage Harris and others like her have purchased is designed not to kick in until patients have spent thousands of dollars.

She’s not alone. While the Affordable Care Act has pushed the uninsured rate in the U.S. near a record low, a Commonwealth Fund study this year found that about four in 10 adults in ACA plans aren’t confident they could afford care if they got sick.

Imagine treating poor and middle-class Americans to Lamborghini subsidies but sticking them with the full price for tuneups.

ABOUT THAT LAST JOBS REPORT… Multiple Jobholders Hit All-Time High, As Full-Time Jobs Tumble.

STRONG HORSE: Hard-Line Strain of Islam Gains Ground in Indonesia, World’s Largest Muslim Country.

Police said an estimated 100,000 people turned out for a rally called by hard-line Muslim groups against the capital’s Christian governor, whom they accuse of having committed blasphemy.

Turnout was lower than some organizers had predicted, after the nation’s largest Muslim organizations this week discouraged their members from attending.

President Joko Widodo had met with other political leaders amid calls for calm, but critics say he has been too slow since taking office in 2014 to respond to worsening tension for fear of being labeled anti-Muslim.

In a recent interview, Mr. Widodo said religious and political leaders had a responsibility to “cool temperatures down,” and he vowed to protect minorities.

“We are one of the most tolerant countries in the world,’’ Mr. Widodo told The Wall Street Journal. “My government won’t tolerate any discrimination.”

Indonesia has made a lot of progress in the last 25 years, largely dismissed by both the Obama and Bush administrations. We may be beginning to pay a price for focusing on the country’s longstanding problems instead of encouraging more successes.

BRIDGEGATE: Former officials guilty on all counts.

FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE DAY: This Badass Kurd Plunged His Bulletproof BMW Into ISIS Snipers to Save 70 Lives.

JOHN SCHINDLER: Media Bites on Trump’s Kremlin Ties, But Clinton’s Are Long-Standing and Deep.

The involvement of the Clinton Foundation in a shady lucrative deal to sell the Kremlin 20 percent of America’s uranium—the most militarily useful of all chemical elements, given its nuclear applications—was so outrageous even the mainstream media took notice. I’ve previously exposed how the Podesta Group, a Democratic lobbying firm which is closely tied to Team Clinton, has worked for the biggest bank in Russia, which is owned by the Kremlin—and linked to Russian intelligence. I’ve also brought to light how Hillary, as secretary of state, helped the Clinton Foundation and her close friends make millions of dollars off sweetheart deals with Russia’s “Silicon Valley”—which, yet again, is mostly owned by the Kremlin and has documented links to its spy agencies.

Yet the real “smoking gun” which may conclusively link Clinton, Inc. to Moscow and its intelligence services goes back to the Cold War and constitutes a remarkable case of mainstream media unwillingness to pursue juicy stories when they reflect badly on Democrats.

It involves Armand Hammer, who died back in 1990, but in his decades in the limelight was a famous industrialist who lived lavishly.

Read the whole thing, which includes the media’s apparent lack of interest in pursuing the Moscow-Gore-Clinton connection.

But then the mainstream media has never been much interested in uncovering connections between Moscow and prominent Democrats.