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4:45 PM ET, November 3, 2009

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The Politico:
Uncivil War: Conservatives to challenge a dozen GOP candidates  —  In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.
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Michelle Breidenbach / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Dede Scozzafava says ‘hate, lies’ wore her down  —  When Dede Scozzafava votes today, she will see her name on the Republican line for the 23rd Congressional District.  —  She plans to pull the lever for her Democratic opponent, then take the rest of the day off to do laundry and take care …
Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
NY-23: How Sarah Palin Stands to Win (and Charlie Crist Stands to Lose)  —  Much has been made over the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District.  For some, the attention might seem a bit much, given that it is merely one of 435 House seats.  —  In reality, this race is about much more than one House seat.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
3 Contests on Election Day Could Signal Political Winds  —  WASHINGTON — In this supposedly quiet off-year election, three contests taking place Tuesday are filling the void.  Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors, while voters in upstate New York are filling a vacant House seat in a race with national implications.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
TAKING THE MODEL ON THE ROAD.... In New York's 23rd …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Elizabeth Benjamin / NY Daily News:
Limbaugh, Palin urge right wing to step up efforts to purge moderates …
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Shadegg: NY-23 race ‘emblematic of fight’ within GOP
Discussion: The Politico
Elizabeth Benjamin / The Daily Politics:
Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites (Updated)  —  It's getting ugly out there.  —  I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O'Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Police called in to NY-23 polling stations because of voter intimidation by teabaggers!  —  The teabaggers are turning to threats and intimidation out there in NY-23 land.  —  Elizabeth Benjamin writes in the NY Daily News: … The Glenn Beck crowd are out there yelling anti-choice crap.
Election Journal:
VIDEO** Terrified Voter says NJ Dems Using Gangbangers for GOTV  —  How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop?
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid reassures left Lieberman on board  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthcare reform, according to two sources briefed on the matter.  —  The unpredictable Democrat-turned-Independent …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A VANITY EXERCISE?.... A week ago, when Sen. Joe Lieberman …
Discussion: TPMDC
CNN:
CNN Poll: 54 percent approve of Obama  —  Washington (CNN) — One year after he won a historical presidential election, a slight majority of Americans approve of the job Barack Obama's doing in the White House.  —  Fifty-four percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN Poll: Majority Of Southerners Says Obama Has Done Better Job Than Bush
Washington Wire:
Public Opinion on Key Obama Policies Sinks
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Turnout high in Maine  —  Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap told me just now that turnout there is far exceeding his projections — news that would be good news for backers of same-sex marriage.  —  “We're seeing heavy and very steady turnout,” he said, attributing the surprise to the contested vote on a …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Palin sowed confusion on Election Night, new book claims  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Tensions within John McCain's presidential campaign boiled over on Election Night last November when Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, repeatedly ignored directions from senior staffers who told her she would not be delivering her own concession speech.
Media Matters for America:
The myth of Fox News' ratings spike  —  Fact: The breathless claim that Fox News' ratings recently spiked thanks to the White House's public critique is bogus hype — hype that Fox News and the Beltway press have relentlessly pushed.  —  It's just not true.
Altaf Hussain / BBC:
Bear kills militants in Kashmir cave  —  A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.  —  Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
Stage Right / Big Hollywood:
‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News  —  Add one more soldier to the Left's war on Fox News: Oscar the Grouch.  —  Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own news network, GNN (Grouchy News Network).  An irate viewer calls in to berate him that the news is not grouchy enough:
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Gore's Dual Role: Advocate and Investor  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
To Some, Winner Is Not American Enough  —  As soon as Mebrahtom Keflezighi, better known as Meb, won the New York City Marathon on Sunday, an uncommon sports dispute erupted online, fraught with racial and nationalistic components: Should Keflezighi's triumph count as an American victory?
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
Some Democrats concerned over abortion provision in health bill  —  Bloc could withhold support over fears of a governmental role  —  While House leaders are moving toward a vote on health-care legislation by the end of the week, enough Democrats are threatening to oppose the measure …
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Kevin Coval / The Huffington Post:
Why I Am Not a Zionist  —  Last week I was disinvited from my second Jewish conference in two months for poems I'd written in solidarity with Palestinians, poems that make an unapologetic call for justice.  Subsequently I, and the poet I was to read with at the conference, wrote a response to being censored.
Discussion: Mondoweiss
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
Hussein Ibish on the Fantasy World of One-Staters
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Los Angeles Times:
Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments  —  A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine.  Critics say it violates the separation of church and state.  —  Reporting from Washington - Backed …
Rasmussen Reports:
45% for Obama, 49% Against - If Election Were Held Right Now  —  Americans are a little less enthusiastic about the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama this time around.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% of adults say they would be at least somewhat likely …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IT PROBABLY WON'T BE A SWEEP.... Someone remind me, why does the special election in New York's 23rd matter infinitely more than the special election in California's 10th, which is also hosting an election today? … Garamendi is running on a progressive platform, vowing to be a close congressional ally of the Obama administration.
Discussion: Associated Press
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
In New Jersey, Turnout Higher In GOP and Swing Districts Than In Democrats — By: Jim Geraghty  —  I want to preface this by noting that all of this is based only on the early voting, and is based on about a half-dozen polling places in every county in New Jersey; some known …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Obama One Year Later: The Audacity of Winning vs. The Timidity of Governing  —  I had arranged to meet David Plouffe on Saturday afternoon at a Starbucks on Wisconsin Avenue in Washington.  The night before, a copy of his new book, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons …
 
 
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Tmittelstaed / CBS News:
Should Signers of Anti-Gay Rights Petition Be Exposed?
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just Wondering  —  Hmmm.  Close race, state with big African …
Discussion: RedState
Joel Jankowsky / Wall Street Journal:
Obama and ‘Special Interests’
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Reconstruction for the USA  —  Ryan Avent asks what would happen …
Discussion: The Bellows and The Moderate Voice
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
The winner of the 2009 elections is: Ron Paul!
 

 
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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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