Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by the Center for Audit Quality: COURT STRIKES DOWN VIRGINIA REDISTRICTING MAP – NO LOVE FOR REID OR MCCONNELL IN VA DEBATE - ROBERTS’ TURN FROM AGRICULTURE COULD COST HIM
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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:23:58 -0600

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COURT STRIKES DOWN VIRGINIA REDISTRICTING MAP. Via Tarini Parti, "A panel of federal judges in Virginia struck down the state's congressional map on Tuesday, arguing that the GOP-controlled state legislature's decision to pack African-Americans into the 3rd Congressional District, which is represented by Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott, was motivated purely by race - a violation of the 14th Amendment... Redrawing the map in Virginia has the potential to upend the composition of the state's delegation in Congress. Despite the state's purple tint, Democrats control just three of the state's 11 districts, and just one seat is truly competitive - only as a result of the retirement of GOP Rep. Frank
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NO LOVE FOR REID OR MCCONNELL IN VA DEBATE. Well this could prove to be awkward. When Chuck Todd asked Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner if they would respectively support Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid for Senate majority leader if their party was in the majority both candidates demurred. Warner said "I think we could perhaps do better in, in both parties moving forward" while Gillespie said he "like[s]" the Kentucky Republican but did not come out with a swinging endorsement.

ROBERTS' TURN FROM AGRICULTURE COULD COST HIM. Paul Kane has the story in The Washington Post, "Pat Roberts has been a Kansas Republican in good standing going back generations. His abolitionist great-grandfather arrived in the state with a six-gun and a Bible, founding the state's second oldest newspaper. His father was chairman of the Republican National Committee during the Eisenhower years....But after 16 years in the House and 18 years in the Senate, that Pat Roberts has disappeared in his bid for a fourth Senate term. Now he is battling the idea that he is more Washington than Kansas. He has been ridiculed in campaign ads for not owning a home in Kansas and, perhaps more importantly,
 he shifted his focus away from Kansas's bread-and-butter issue to intelligence matters following the 2001 terrorist attacks." 
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VOTERS DON'T LIKE ANYBODY. "The GOP's advantage springs more from intense anti- Obama feelings than from a wave of voters who believe Republicans will transform Washington. Indeed, disillusionment with politics may help explain why Republicans' edge isn't wider at a time when job approval ratings of the Democratic president have slid into the 40% range. The backdrop of this fall's voting is a mood of voter anger over the status quo, polls suggest. Just one month before the Nov. 4 election, it isn't even clear what exactly the midterm contests are about. No single issue dominates, except unhappiness with the established order.... Interviews and a review of polls reveal an electorate with
 less faith than ever in the political system. Two-thirds of registered voters believe the country is on the wrong track, while just a quarter say the U.S. is moving in the right direction-the widest gap before a midterm election in more than 20 years." 
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HAPPY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 and welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play preview of all the action on Capitol Hill. Did you get up early to see the blood moon? If you snapped a photo of the eclipse over the Capitol building, let me know. Send tips, scoops, complements and complaints to 
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WOOZHA. "CIA didn&#39;t know it had Senate &#39;torture&#39; report" by Josh Gerstein. "A Justice Department lawyer said the government was wrong when it told a federal judge that the Central Intelligence Agency did not have a copy of the unabridged version of a Senate committee report on treatment of detainees. In fact, the CIA does have a copy of the 6,300-page report, DOJ attorney Vesper Mei said. Speaking during a court hearing on several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits related to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA&#39;s rendition, detention and interrogation program, Mei said the confusion may have been due to the full report being on a compact disc, rather than
 thousands of pieces of paper." 
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WHO LEADS US? WHITE MEN. The New York Times' a.m. tipsheet linked to this fascinating website that maps out who is leading the nation. To no one's shock, it's mostly white men. The study, funded by the Women Donors Network, looks at the representation breakdown both in Congress and state government among men and women and elected officials of color. Maybe this is why the D.C. press corps wasn't all that shocked over the Womack/McCarthy mix-up. 
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ACROSS THE CONGRESSIONAL MAP, OBAMA IS PERSONA NON GRATA. Jonathan Martin writes for the New York Times, "When he soared to victory by almost 10 million votes in 2008, President Obama won in states like Virginia that Democratic candidates had not captured since 1964. But for now he has been reduced to something else: an isolated political figure who is viewed as a liability to Democrats in the very states where voters by the thousands had once stood to cheer him.... Democratic senators in Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia - states that were pivotal to his success and whose demographics reflect his winning coalition of young, minority and female voters - do not want him. Nor does his
 party's Senate nominee in Iowa, where Mr. Obama won twice and whose youth-filled 2008 Democratic caucuses vaulted him toward the nomination." 
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MONDAY & TUESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Nobody. Didn't mean to make the question on Sen. John Warner's lunchtime request from the Senate chefs so difficult to answer. The answer was chicken noodle soup - though a legion of former Warner staffers emailed in to say the Virginia Republican was also found of crabs, fried chicken and BLTs.

TODAY'S QUESTION. Keeping with the food theme: What essential ingredient was re-added to the Senate's famous bean soup after a (questionable) chef removed it during the mid-20th century? The first person to email 
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