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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 …
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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 …
Think Progress:
Rumsfeld Agrees Bush Is 'Not Backing Away From Stay The Course' — Faced with widespread disappoval of its Iraq policy, the Bush administration launched a coordinated effort this week to convince Americans it has never had a stay-the-course strategy in Iraq. On Sunday, President Bush said, "We've never been stay the course."
Washington Post:
U.S. Officials: Iraqi Security Could be Ready in 12-18 Months — Ambassador Says Iraqi Political Leaders 'Must Step Up' — Top U.S. officials in Iraq today predicted that Iraqi security forces could be largely self-sufficient within 12 to 18 months and said the Iraqi government is building …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
General May Increase U.S. Troop Levels in Baghdad — America's top general in Iraq said he was considering sending more troops to help quell the violence in Baghdad, as he and the United States ambassador laid out a timetable for progress that they said has been agreed to by the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Matthew Yglesias, TAPPED, The Real Ugly American.com, Whiskey Bar, Taylor Marsh and The Heretik
New York Times:
Trying to Contain the Iraq Disaster — No matter what President Bush says, the question is not whether America can win in Iraq. The only question is whether the United States can extricate itself without leaving behind an unending civil war that will spread more chaos and suffering throughout …
vote.com:
'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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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.
MSNBC:Polls: Democrats closer to taking Senate control
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Redstate, TIME, Taegan Goddard's …, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Volunteer Voters, MyDD and AMERICAblog
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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Tom Morton / jacksonholestartrib.com:
Cubin tells challenger, 'I'd slap you' — The Libertarian challenger for Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat says Rep. Barbara Cubin offended him by uttering a slur related to his physical disability. — Thomas Rankin said Cubin approached him after a campaign debate on Sunday and said …
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Whiskey Bar, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog, Democratic National Committee, Democrats.com, WTF Is It Now?? and Swing State Project
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 …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush's new tack steers clear of 'stay the course' — Phrase became liability for GOP in election year … Today show — President Bush and his aides are annoyed that people keep misinterpreting his Iraq policy as "stay the course." A complete distortion, they say.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Rising Radical Center — HANCOCK, Mich. — President Bush's six-year effort to create an enduring Republican majority based on a right-leaning coalition is on the verge of collapse. The way he tried to create it could have the unintended consequence of opening the way for an alternative majority.
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The Moderate Voice, NewDonkey.com, The Heretik, Thought Theater, Kiko's House, Donklephant and Liberal Values
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Seats in Danger, Democrats Proclaim Their Conservatism — Listening to Congressional candidates in middle Georgia, it is easy for someone to think that he is in a different year and, possibly, a different country. — Democrats defend themselves against accusations that they are rubber stamps for their party's leadership.
UPI:
YOUR THOUGHTS — The report that sex is always on the mind of men has one glaring flaw, when men are married, then sex becomes a distant memory. — You guy's are just now figuring this out ? Jeeze,.....thank god we are not dependent on your group for the rest of lifes answers.
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 …
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 …
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.
Arutz Sheva:
Photographer Worked With - and Kidnapped by - Arab Terrorists — Emilio Morenatti, a Spanish photographer working for the Associated Press, was kidnapped Tuesday morning in Gaza. His photos show he was trusted by Palestinian terrorists. — No terror organization has yet taken responsibility …
Holly Yeager / Financial Times:
Elections could be most costly in US history — Next month's midterm elections will be the most costly congressional races in US history, with business interests contributing three-quarters of the estimated $2.6bn that will be spent, says a non-partisan research group.
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