Top Items:
Watertown Daily Times:
SCOZZAFAVA THROWS SUPPORT TO OWENS — Scozzafava released the following statement at 2 :06 p.m.: — I want to thank you for your support and friendship. Over the past 24 hours, I have had encouraging words sent to my family and me. Many of you have asked me whom you should support on Tuesday.
Discussion:
FiveThirtyEight, Left Coast Rebel, Firedoglake, Stop The ACLU, Washington Monthly, The Other McCain, Weekly Standard, NewsBusters.org, Taegan Goddard's …, Gates of Vienna, TPM LiveWire, Politics Daily, Daily Pundit, Gateway Pundit, National Review, Conservatives4Palin.com, Washington Times, Power Line, Raw Story, Below The Beltway, The Washington Independent, Hotline On Call, Dump Dede, Weasel Zippers and Minnesota Independent
RELATED:
Watertown Daily Times:
A changed race — Owens is best-equipped to represent NNY — Dierdre K. Scozzafava's decision to suspend her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District seat is a shocking development in what had already been an extraordinary race. — In her statement Saturday morning …
Discussion:
And So it Goes in Shreveport, Daily Kos, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, protein wisdom, Wizbang, The Moderate Voice, Winds of Change.NET, The Daley Gator, The Daily Dish, Campaign Trail, The Other McCain, Texas for Sarah Palin, TPM LiveWire, Riehl World View, Macsmind, The Mahablog, National Review, DaTechguy's Blog, Little Green Footballs, Gateway Pundit and TPMDC
Tony Romm / The Hill:
GOP nominee endorses Democrat after stepping aside under pressure from right — The Republican in a New York House race that has become a symbol of the divisions within the GOP endorsed her former Democratic rival Sunday, a sharp snub to the third-party conservative who forced her out of the race.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
NY-23: Scozzafava Endorses Owens — State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R), who dropped from the special election in Upstate New York yesterday, has now thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens. — “It's not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill …
Little Green Footballs:
Doug Hoffman: The Glenn Beck Candidate — What exactly does Doug Hoffman stand for? And who is he standing with? Would you believe ... Glenn Beck? — At the endorsements page of Doug Hoffman For Congress, we find a link to the “Gold List” at 912candidates.org, consisting of politicians who have …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
More NY-23 mess — Man NY-23 is really a mess. — Here are some interesting facts from our unweighted numbers so far: —In a three way contest Doug Hoffman leads Bill Owens by 19 points. In a two way contest Hoffman leads Owens by 15 points. So the Dede Scozzafava withdrawal …
Michelle Malkin:
How Scozzafava repays NRCC and RNC — Hey, how did that six-figure RNC donation to the NRCC plus $85,000 to the New York GOP plus nearly half-million-dollar investment in advertising and other independent expenditures on behalf of radical leftis Dede Scozzafava work out?
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Scozzafava endorses Democrat Owens — In a statement released a little while ago, Dede Scozzafava endorsed Democrat Bill Owens, effectively uniting local Republican and Democratic leaders against a grassroots and national conservative insurgency. — Scozzafava — liberal even by the standards …
Mike Allen / The Politico:Jarrett: GOP ‘more and more extreme’
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Associated Press, The Swamp, George's Bottom Line, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin and National Review
Washington Post:Republican Scozzafava pulls out of House race in New York
Discussion:
Paul Mulshine, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Moderate Voice, Cato @ Liberty, PostPartisan and Erick's blog
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:It's the follow-through that matters in New York's special race
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
White Men Are Not Very Progressive — A nice map from dreaminonempty at Open Left illustrates the vote share won among white men in the 2008 presidential election: … I would say that another message is that progressive politics is badly disadvantaged by a situation in which the overwhelming majorities …
Discussion:
Open Left
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Sir Charlie — Are they high? Jamaica dubs Rangel knight — You must be kidding, mon. — Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel can't fill out a tax form, but he's now a knight — at least in Jamaica. — The Democratic Prince of Pork — who owns valuable tracts of land …
Discussion:
Glenn Thrush's Blog
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
The Wire: Left and Right — By: Jonah Goldberg — Stephen — I agree entirely that Simon doesn't see The Wire the way I do. I'm just not sure I care. (Ross Douthat brought up this point a while back. To which I responded, “The Wire is Chomskyite! Jimmy Crack Corn and I Don't Care!").
The Huffington Post:
Fox Gives Rush Limbaugh 30 Minutes To Tee Off On Obama (VIDEO) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — The Obama White House has, for the past few weeks, waged an informal war on Fox News, lashing out against the network for its conservative bias and blacklisting it from interviews with high-ranking administration officials.
Greg Gordon / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash — WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices …
New York Times:
Transparent Election Is Not Possible, Says Rival to Karzai — KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdullah Abdullah, the chief rival to President Hamid Karzai, announced on Sunday that he would withdraw from the Nov. 7 Afghan runoff election, effectively handing a new term to Mr. Karzai but potentially damaging the government's credibility.
RELATED:
Accounting Specialist Editor, Remote US — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Asia Credit Reporter, Seoul — 
Senior Editor, DC — 
Senior Social Media Specialist, NC — 
Associate Editor - Aviation, TN — 
Assistant Editor - Digital, NC — 
Video Producer - YouTube, NY — 
Senior Managing Ed. - Daily Desk — 
Content Managing Editor — 
Editor, MA — 
Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — 
Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — 
Associate Editor, Remote — 
Retail Reporter, MN — 
Senior Data Editor, DC — 
Managing Ed. - Berks County, PA — 
News Editor - UK, Remote — 
Staff Writer, TX — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Service Journalism Editor, CA — 
Content Director, Remote — 
Sports Reporter, ME — 
Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
Reporter - Middle East — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Lexington County Reporter, SC — 
Reporter - Offshore Wind — 
General Assignment Reporter, FL — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
