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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
Big Democratic wins likely on Election Day — NBC/WSJ poll: Public's opinion of GOP hits record low — WASHINGTON - — Mark Murray — Just 20 days until Election Day, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds approval of the GOP-held Congress is at its lowest mark in 14 years …
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Bruce Bartlett / New York Times:
No Spoils for the Victors — EVEN before the Mark Foley scandal broke, Democrats' chances of getting control of the House of Representatives were pretty good. Now, with the incompetence of the Republican leadership's handling of that affair, the odds of Democratic control are looking very good indeed.
Wall Street Journal:
Voters' Approval of Congress Falls To 16%, Lowest Point in 12 Years — Public support for Republicans' control of the U.S. Congress has eroded to its lowest point since the party took over 12 years ago. And with just 19 days until the midterm elections, both President George W. Bush …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
U.S. Military Announces Deaths of 10 Soldiers — Ten American soldiers were killed on Tuesday, the military announced today, bringing October's death toll for United States forces to 69. — Four of the soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad, and three others died in fighting …
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TigerHawk:
George W. Bush's "admission" and the Tet analogy — The President has apparently made news by "accepting" the Iraq-Vietnam comparison. Drudge has linked, and lefty blog Think Progress is making a big deal of it. Here is what President Bush said: … Here's what Think Progress said he said:
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Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Bush Accepts Iraq-Vietnam Comparison — George Stephanopoulos Interviews President Bush on Iraq, the Midterms and His Legacy — President Bush said in a one-on-one interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that a newspaper column comparing the current fighting in Iraq to the 1968 Tet offensive …
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Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Hot From the Debate: "Time to Go, Joe!" — Hot gossip from today's debate: Alan Schlesinger pwned Loser Joe again. Hard. Drew blood. Stephen Colbert, please have him on your show. I asked you once nicely. Don't make me get nasty! — Joe kept going over his alotted time …
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cbs13.com:
Website Warns Of Attacks At NFL Games This Weekend — Government Skeptical Of Threat Against NFL Stadiums — (CBS 13 / AP) WASHINGTON A website is claiming that seven NFL football stadiums will be hit with radiological dirty bombs this weekend, but the government on Wednesday expressed doubts about the threat.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:Dirty Bomb Threat Against NFL Stadiums This Weekend: Original Threat Found?
Nico / Think Progress:
Milbank: 'There Are Rumors About A Third [Page Scandal], This One Involving A 16-Year-Old Girl' — Last night on MSNBC, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank told Keith Olbermann that "there are rumors now about a third [page scandal], this one involving a 16-year-old girl."
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CNN:
Democrat apologizes for 'slavish' remark — WASHINGTON (CNN) — A ranking Democrat in the House of Representative is apologizing for saying an African-American Senate candidate "slavishly" supported the Republican Party. — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland …
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David Burge / iowahawk:
IT'S THE HOMOS, STUPID — An Open Letter to the Conservative-American Community — by Dr. Howard Dean — Chairman, Democratic National Committee — Dear Valued Potential Customer: — As the leader of one of America's premier political parties, I know firsthand the importance …
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Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
FBI Yet to Find Evidence of Foley-Page Sexual Contact — Brian Ross Reports: — After interviewing some 40 former congressional pages, FBI agents have yet to turn up any evidence of direct sexual contact between underage pages and former Congressman Mark Foley.
Ezra Klein:
The Anti-Paranoid Style in American Politics — I adore my dog-eared Hofstadter books as much as the next self-important pundit, but I'm done worrying about the paranoid style in American politics. More pernicious, I'm starting to think, is anti-paranoid punditry in American politics …
Media Matters for America:
Why has CNN devoted 50 times as much coverage to Harry Reid's land deal as Dennis Hastert's? — From October 12-17, CNN aired 3,361 words about allegations that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (NV) improperly reported a land deal in which he made $700,000.
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O. Kay Henderson / radioiowa.com:
McCain: "I'd just commit suicide" if Democrats take control of Senate — Arizona Senator and probable 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain jokingly says he would "commit suicide" if Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate in this November's election.
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Center for American Progress:
Securing the Common Good — Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Gaston Hall — Keynote address by William Jefferson Clinton — 8:15am to 12:00pm - Registration/check in closes at 8:25am — The common good, as both a philosophical ideal and approach to governing …
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The Worst Congress Ever — How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts — in five easy steps — >> See our picks for the 10 Worst Congressmen and read what people are saying in our politics blog. — There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress …
Mary Katharine Ham / Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:
Townhall's First HamNation: Bar Napkin Politics — I am such an unbelievable dork in about 19,000 different ways. This is only one of them. — All right, people asked me about it, so I went out and got me a video blog. It's all the rage, right? It is very, very silly, and I hope you'll take it in that spirit.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Pennsylvania Senate: Santorum Trailing by 13 — Casey (D) 54% Santorum (R) 41% — With just a few weeks to go until November 7, Senator Rick Santorum's chances of securing reelection fade a bit more every day. The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll finds that challenger Bob Casey …
Charlie Cook / MSNBC:
The blue wave of the future is clear — But which specific seats will fall and how far inland will the wave go? — WASHINGTON - — Charlie Cook — Election Day is three weeks from now, and unless something happens fast, this will be one of those once- or twice-in-a-generation elections …
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