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6:35 PM ET, November 4, 2006

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Marcus Mabry / Newsweek:
Looking for a Lifeboat  —  A new NEWSWEEK poll shows that the GOP has lost more ground.  Will rallying the base stem a Democratic tide?  —  Jason Reed / Reuters  —  President Bush speaks to supporters in Iowa on Friday  —  As President George W. Bush jets across Red State America this weekend …
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Washington Post:
Anxious GOP Focuses on Not Losing Senate
Discussion: TalkLeft
New York Times:   G.O.P. Glum as It Struggles to Hold Congress
Army Times:
Time for Rumsfeld to go  —  "So long as our government requires the backing of an aroused and informed public opinion ... it is necessary to tell the hard bruising truth."  —  That statement was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Marguerite Higgins more than a half-century ago during the Korean War.
Discussion: Free Frank Warner and Wonkette
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vanityfair.com:
Neo Culpa  —  As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence.  In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE NEOCON REHABILITATION PROJECT....David Rose's Vanity Fair interview …
Discussion: Unclaimed Territory
David Frum / The Huffington Post:
Vanity Fair's Inventions
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
The Patrician and the Grunts  —  What we can learn from John Kerry's latest flub.  —  Regrettable though it might be for the United States military to become an untouchable "third rail" in American politics, there can be little sympathy for someone who keeps on brushing against that rail just to see what will happen.
Washington Post:
U.S. Seeks Silence on CIA Prisons  —  Court Is Asked to Bar Detainees From Talking About Interrogations  —  The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk.
Charles S. Johnson / Billings Gazette:
Poll: Burns, Tester in dead heat  —  HELENA - After months of campaigning and millions of dollars of advertising, it all comes down to this: Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic challenger Jon Tester are running dead even, a new Gazette State Poll shows.
Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
I'm Bursting!!  —  My homeys at the Weekly Standard have published their election predictions, and they range from dire to calamitous.  Meanwhile, I'm merrily skipping about Soxblog Manor (in a completely manly way, mind you) whistling a happy tune.  I expect Tuesday to be an extremely successful day for the Republican Party.
John Lewandowski / SantorumBlog:
John Kerry's Fake Apology  —  *Updated - see below* … -John Kerry, October 30, 2006 … -John Kerry, October 31, 2006  —  "I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform and I personally apologize to any service member, family member or American who was offended."
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J. Kingston Pierce / The Reaction:
"Take these lies and make them true somehow"  —  If this video doesn't get you fired up and ready to vote next Tuesday, November 7, I don't know what will.  It recounts the rise and fall of George W. Bush and the disasters he's caused—and ignored—during his almost six years in the White House.
John F. Burns / New York Times:
For U.S. and Top Iraqi, Animosity Is Mutual  —  The cycle of discord and strained reconciliation that has broken into the open between Iraq's Shiite-led government and the Bush administration has revealed how wide the gulf has become between what the United States expects from the Baghdad government …
Editor and Publisher:
'NYT' Sunday Preview: Ahmad Chalabi Says, 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'  —  NEW YORK So, Ahmad Chalabi, what went wrong in Iraq in the war you helped to sell?  "The Americans sold us out," he tells longtime Baghdad reporter Dexter Filkins in a lengthy cover story in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine, reviewed by E&P.
Hotline On Call:
The Saturday Brunch  —  A special news digest from the staff of the Hotline.  —  A weekend from .... for the GOP?  Dems nervous about MT as poll shows dead heat .... Turnout hints .... Bill Clinton's only TV ad?  —  WHAT'S BREWING  —  This may be the closing weekend from hell for the White House.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Daily Kos
Michael Graham / The Natural Truth:
"Either WE Win Or YOU Cheated"  —  That's liberal Robert Kuttner's claim in today's Boston Globe-Democrat, offered without irony (Democrats are, after all, the "vote early and often" party). … Last week, Democrats were complaining that black voters weren't going to turn out because they're assuming the elections are rigged, anyway.
William Bender / Delaware County Times:
Weldon decides to scale back TV advertising  —  Two days after launching a new advertisement, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has canceled some of his TV time, fueling speculation Friday he was throwing in the towel and saving money for a legal defense fund.  The campaign denied the rumors …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
 
 
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C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Sniper Attacks Adding to Peril of U.S. Troops
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DownWithTyranny!:
A LETTER FROM TOM MATHIESON— A VOICE OF HOPE
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Some Early Indicators  —  This is the season I avidly read TKS …
White House:
Press Gaggle by Tony Fratto
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Andrew Golis / tpmcafe.com:
CT-SEN: Lieberman Touts Endorsement from Anti-Gay Religious Leaders
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Children's Crusade  —  I suppose a lot of people have already written …
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Bob Ney: Moron of the Year
Michelle Malkin:
The Dems embrace an anti-war hoaxer
Gary Heinlein / Detroit News:
DeVos continues to lag behind Granholm
poststar.com:
Endorsement withdrawn: Character questions continue to dog Sweeney
Discussion: The Stakeholder
Media Matters for America:
"Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser
Agence France Presse:
Paris airport strike planned over Muslim workers row
Discussion: The Corner
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Not Dirty  —  Disagreeing with Allah is good for traffic.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
As Vote Nears, Parties Prepare for Legal Fights
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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