Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein We now resume the regularly scheduled campaign. But nothing looks quite like it did a few weeks ago. Brett Kavanaugh’s long, strange confirmation battle lasted long enough and took enough surprising turns for perceived political advantages to flip, and flip again. They land now as a true unknown – Republicans having now delivered for voters who might now remember why they’re Republicans, and Democrats frustrated, and just maybe more motivated, by having fallen short. It’s dizzying enough for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to have offered an unusual bit of thanks. “I want to thank the mob,” he told The Washington Post, “because they’ve done the one thing we were having trouble doing, which was energizing our base.” McConnell called it “a great political gift for us.” It didn’t always look that way – and it’s an open question whether it can keep giving for another month. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks Monday is Columbus Day, often instead celebrated as Indigenous Peoples' Day around the country and the world. Native Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders make up slightly more than two percent of the country's population, but their potential political power may be much greater in key states and crucial races this year. Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was lobbied hard by native people from her state before ultimately breaking with her party and voting against the confirmation of Justic... Link to the full article to read more