Jimmy Barrett and John Labus in for Shara Fryer take you through the stories that matter on the morning of 10/30/2018, including: For the second time in a week, those were the crass calculations running through the minds of the political class. First it was the pipe bombs and now it is the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. In both cases, the instant assumption was that the allegiance of the perpetrator would determine which side would be punished in the midterms and which side would reap the benefits of sympathy. If this sounds heartless and ghoulish, welcome to America; A recent poll finds 76 percent of the registered voters in Texas say they're "absolutely certain to vote." Midterm general elections in the state have usually had a turnout of no more than 38 percent of the registered voters in recent years. Pollsters at UT Austin say they're finding no evident enthusiasm gap between the parties. White voters are more enthusiastic than nonwhites, and men are more enthusiastic than women. Overall, only 12 percent of registered Texas voters say they're not enthusiastic about voting this year; The migrant caravan has shrunk after 500 people voluntarily accepted bus trips back to their home countries. Mexican authorities said many of those who decided to abandon the caravan and accept bus trips back home. The buses were provided by the Mexican National Migration Institute, a government agency that controls and supervises migration in the country. Hundreds of others have since dropped out of the caravan or accepted asylum in Mexico, according to the New York Post.