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Gregg Levine / Firedoglake:
BREAKING: NY-20: Tedisco Preps for Loss, Files Motion to Overturn Election Results Before Polls Even Close — Republican Jim Tedisco may be running for the House in a district where Republicans outnumber Democratic voters by some 70,000, but with the polls closing in a matter of hours, Tedisco's campaign is prepping for a loss.
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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
N.Y. special election too close to call — With all precincts reporting in the special election to fill Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's (D-N.Y.) former House seat, the race could be headed for a drawn-out ballot-counting process. — Democratic businessman Scott Murphy led Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco …
Gregg Levine / Firedoglake:
NY-20 Update: Tedisco Motion Included Request to Prevent Murphy from Being Certified, No Matter the Margin — As reported earlier, Republican Jim Tedisco took the extraordinary measure of filing a motion with the Dutchess County Clerk that was designed to contest and stall certification of the results …
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Tedisco's unconventional GOTV — CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — Jim Tedisco's campaign is employing an unconventional way of getting out the vote on the final day of the election. — Dozens of the volunteers working to canvass and make phone calls for the Republican Assemblyman this afternoon …
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
N.Y. 20: Murphy ahead by 65 votes — Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen just put out a statement acknowledging that Murphy has won a “majority of the vote tonight”: … post comment | … Tedisco optimistic of victory
James M. Odato / Capitol Confidential:
Tedisco may be out as leader no matter what — Republicans are split on whether Assemblyman James Tedisco should remain minority leader if he returns to the 41-member conference. Some of the conference members say they are squarely behind Tedisco, who was voted to a two year term as minority leader at the start of the year.
Lauren Stanforth / Local politics:Text message to wrong district
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Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Court to count up to 400 ballots in Senate recount trial — The absentee ballots are far fewer than Norm Coleman sought and appear to include many that Al Franken had identified as wrongly rejected. — In a potentially decisive ruling, a panel of three judges today ordered up to 400 …
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The Hill:
Momentum grows among Dems for using rules to avoid filibuster — Momentum among Democrats is growing to use special budget rules to push major healthcare reform this year through the Senate with a simple majority. — Two possible members of a House-Senate conference committee …
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:Sebelius: Budget reconciliation on the table
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:Another Obama Nominee Has Tax Issues
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Republicans Disinvite Palin to Major Fundraiser — Congressional Republicans Tuesday decided to ditch Sarah Palin in favor of Newt Gingrich for the critical House-Senate fundraising dinner in Washington June 8. — FOXNews.com — Sarah Palin is out and Newt Gingrich is in.
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Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:GOP dinner gets Newt, not Palin
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Yossi Verter / Haaretz:
Haaretz poll: 54% of public dissatisfied with new government — The Knesset approved Benjamin Netanyahu's return as prime minister last night amid allegations that his new government is bloated, convoluted and unprepared to deal with Israel's many problems.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran—Or I Will
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Guardian:
Twitter switch for Guardian — • Newspaper to be available only on messaging service — • Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters — Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become …
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines — MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. — Boat owners are abandoning ship. — They often sandpaper over the names and file off the registry numbers, doing their best to render the boats, and themselves, untraceable. Then they casually ditch the vessels …
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Exclusive: Biden Daughter Cocaine Video Was a Setup — It was a setup. — The video purporting to show Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley snorting cocaine was preplanned by a man trying to get rich selling the tape, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
At What Point Do People Revolt? — Moe wrote about the Washington State lunacy the other day. To recap: … As the Associated Press notes, there's just one problem: … Washington State has turned its residents into a group of drug runners — crossing state lines to buy dish washer detergent with phosphate.
Toby Harnden / Toby Harnden's blog listings:
“Slightly smaller than Oregon”: a White House briefing on Britain — So here's what the White House is telling American reporters - and by extension the American people - about Britain. It's laid out in an inch-thick “press kit”, with the Seal of the President of the United States emblazoned on the cover …
Danny / The Note:
McCain to Obama: Don't Be Like LBJ — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been largely supportive of President Obama's plans to bolster U.S. forces in Afghanistan but he said Tuesday that his former rival should go a step further and commit now to boosting US forces …
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Hersh: Cheney ‘Left A Stay Behind’ In Obama's Government, Can ‘Still Control Policy Up To A Point’ — In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday, host Terry Gross asked investigative journalist Seymour Hersh if, as he continues to investigate the Bush administration, “more people” were …
New York Times:
U.S. Plan Sees Easing of G.M. to Bankruptcy — By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and JONATHAN D. GLATER — The government is seeking to ease General Motors into what it calls a “controlled” bankruptcy, somewhere between a prepackaged bankruptcy and court chaos, by persuading at least some creditors …
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Harry Reid: Taxes are voluntary! — This sure takes a load off my mind: — From White Lily, a Nevada resident who says, “We're going to pull a Daschle here in Nevada in 2010, and send Reid back to civilian life.” (Hat-tip: Carin at Is This Blog On?)
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
GM's Problems are 50 Years in the Making — Let's take something of a 30,000-foot view on the condition of General Motors. The chart below details GM's operating margin — its profits divided into its revenues — over the past 50 years: — I haven't provided the dates on the chart because they aren't important.
Pascal Fletcher / Reuters:
Miss Universe says had “lot of fun” in Guantanamo — MIAMI (Reuters) - A “relaxing, calm, beautiful place” may not be everyone's description of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds about 240 prisoners in a detention center that has drawn condemnation from around the world.
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