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Steven Thomma / Real Cities:
GOP holds narrow lead in must-win Senate races — WASHINGTON — Republican Senate candidates have fought back to regain an edge in two key races, pivotal battlegrounds that could determine which party controls the Senate, according to a series of new McClatchy-MSNBC polls.
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'06 ELEX: BACK TO TOSS-UP — The latest polls show something very strange and quite encouraging is happening: The Republican base seems to be coming back home. This trend, only vaguely and dimly emerging from a variety of polls, suggests that a trend may be afoot that would deny the Democrats control of the House and the Senate.
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MSNBC:
Polls: Democrats closer to taking Senate control — But polls show no evidence of a national Democratic 'tidal wave' … Today show — NBC News Election Unit — NEW YORK - Two weeks out from the midterm elections, a second round of MSNBC/McClatchy polls, conducted by Mason-Dixon in eight states …
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New York Times:
Lieberman's Words on the War Show Some Shifts Over the Years — The widely watched campaign for United States Senate here has largely been a war of words over the war in Iraq — a war, primarily, over the words of the incumbent, Joseph I. Lieberman. — Ned Lamont, who upset Mr. Lieberman …
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John O'Neil / New York Times:General May Increase U.S. Troop Levels in Baghdad
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ANDREW SULLIVAN CRITICIZES ME for not voting for Harold Ford, Jr., saying that a libertarian would have supported him. — But Ford voted for the detainee military commissions bill, which Sullivan regards as anathema. And he took a hard-line stance on immigration.
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Ali Bubba / Alabama Liberation Front:RNC anti-Ford ad, deconstructed
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Noah Brenner / Jackson Hole Guide:
Debate gets personal — Sunday's acrimonious debate between candidates for Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives reportedly got quite personal away from the podiums as incumbent Barbara Cubin allegedly threatened to slap Libertarian challenger Thomas Rankin.
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Conyers Hones A Case Against President Bush — WASHINGTON — The Democratic leader of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is promising that her party has no plans to pursue impeachment of President Bush if it wins a majority in next month's elections. But she intends to allow the House Judiciary Committee …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
For a Top Democrat, Further Climb Seems Out — Representative Jane Harman has gained national prominence as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, but even her supporters now concede that she is unlikely to become chairman if her party wins control of the House.
Leef Smith / Washington Post:
Some Voting Machines Chop Off Candidates' Names — Computer Glitch Affects Voters in 3 Jurisdictions; Error Cannot Be Fixed by Nov. 7 — U.S. Senate candidate James Webb's last name has been cut off on part of the electronic ballot used by voters in Alexandria, Falls Church and Charlottesville …
Life Style Extra:
Peace activist jailed for attack on singer — A smirking peace activist who left a rising rock star fighting for his life after a row over his girlfriend was jailed for eight months today. — Christiaan Briggs, 30, attacked 19-year-old singer Billy Leeson and left him in a coma …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Obama Offers More Variations From the Norm — Senator Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat who said Sunday that he was considering running for president in 2008, created a little sunlight on Monday between himself and both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton. — For one thing, he said that as a youth he had inhaled.
Jerry Adler / Newsweek:
Remember Global Cooling? — Why scientists find climate change so hard to predict. — Hot and Cold: Signs of global warming at a dried-up pond in China in August 2006 (left) and a 1975 NEWSWEEK report on the threat of global cooling. — In April, 1975, in an issue mostly taken …
Richard Holbrooke / Washington Post:
Three Choices, Mr. President — The Least Bad Option on Iraq: Disengagement and Damage Control — Dear Mr. President: — As soon as the midterm elections are over — and regardless of their outcome — you will have to make the most consequential decision of your presidency …
Pete Du Pont / Opinion Journal:
Bleak House — Republicans deserve to lose, but what happens if Democrats win? — Two weeks from tonight America is going to be different—first politically and then substantively—for Democrats will likely take control of the House, and move public policy in very liberal directions.
Nora Boustany / Washington Post:
U.S. Rank on Press Freedom Slides Lower — Some poor countries, such as Mauritania and Haiti, improved their record in a global press freedom index this year, while France, the United States and Japan slipped further down the scale of 168 countries rated, the group Reporters Without Borders said yesterday.
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
This Time, It's Not the Economy — In many ways, the economy has not looked so good in a long time. — The price of gas at the pump has tumbled since midsummer. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level in more than five years. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Urge Their Flush Candidates to Share the Wealth — The balance in the campaign account of Representative Martin T. Meehan, Democrat of Massachusetts, is $4,886,325. It is a muscular sum for a member of the House, and ordinarily it would be hailed as an exhibit of fund-raising savvy.
Peter Wallsten / Los Angeles Times:
Latino and black voters reassessing ties to GOP — Clergy and other leaders say promises haven't been kept. — WASHINGTON — A major effort to draw Latinos and blacks into the Republican Party, a central element of the GOP plan to build a long-lasting majority, is in danger of collapse amid anger …
Candy Crowley / CNN:
Democrats fight historical labels — WASHINGTON (CNN) — On the cusp of an election that could overturn the Republican majority on Capitol Hill, I jokingly asked a senior Democratic aide whether he had ordered new business cards to reflect majority status. — "Don't underestimate our ability to blow it," he said.
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