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12:30 PM ET, November 3, 2009

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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, there are three contests taking place Tuesday that are filling the void.  Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will elect a governor, while voters in upstate New York are filling …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
TAKING THE MODEL ON THE ROAD.... In New York's 23rd, it was the Republican Party vs. the Republican Party's base.  The party wanted a moderate candidate with a history of serving the community; the base wanted a right-wing newbie who didn't actually live in the district.
Elizabeth Benjamin / NY Daily News:
Limbaugh, Palin urge right wing to step up efforts to purge moderates …
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 (I-Conn.) announced that he intended to join a Republican filibuster of health care reform, Senate Democrats and the White House were oddly serene.  Just a day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) unveiled the reform bill …
Discussion: TPMDC
The Politico:
Health bill could slip into next year
Discussion: Hot Air and Wake up America
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?
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.
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.
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
NSFT—Not Safe For Twitter!  —  That Mid-term CW in Full: … 2:21 P.M.  —  Uncensored Twitter Vitriol Unleashed!  Someone calls Stephen Fry “a bit ... boring.”  Can't have that. ...  More evidence that many celebrities have skins of pre-Internet thinness.
Discussion: New York Times
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Matt Friedman / Politicker NJ:
Democrats admit paying for pro-Daggett call; Obama records robocall for Corzine
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Election Day 2009: The Fix's cheat sheet
Erik Wemple / City Desk:
Allen v. Roig-Franzia: From the Beginning  —  When one man hauls off and punches another in the face, the conflict often has a long-tailed provenance.  Such appears to be the case with Washington Post Style section staffers Manuel Roig-Franzia and Henry Allen.
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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 …
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 …
Peggy O'Hare / Houston Chronicle:
Houston Tea Party rally draws more than 10,000  —  More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.
Wall Street Journal:
Waiting for Obama  —  Hamid Karzai isn't the biggest problem in Afghanistan.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Afghanistan's messy election ended yesterday with President Hamid Karzai securing another five-year term after his challenger withdrew and a run-off was called off.
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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.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
In Iowa, Second Thoughts on Obama  —  WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa — Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama.  From the moment she first saw him two years ago, she was smitten by his speeches and sold on his promise of change.  She switched parties to support him in the Iowa caucuses …
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog Gay:
DNC's “Organizing for America” is asking Maine voters to help NJ race, not Maine's own anti-gay ballot measure  —  Correction: The nation, minus the Democratic Party.  —  Joe wrote last night about how the DNC's “Organizing for America” organization (formerly known as “Obama for America") …
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 …
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 …
Anita MonCrief / The Greenroom:
Breaking: ACORN expected to Protest Election Results Tomorrow in Clinton County  —  Multiple sources on the ground in New York's 23rd Congressional district confirm that ACORN is expected to be actively protesting the election results in Clinton County, New York tomorrow.
Michael Yon / Online Magazine:
Great Britain Loses one of its Finest  —  British soldiers at war are an incredible group.  Courageous, competent, and committed in very difficult conditions.  An email came today from London, from a BBC correspondent who has been to Afghanistan saying that Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid had been killed.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and BBC
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.
 
 
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John Berman / ABCNEWS:
Biden, Palin Enter Election Day Fray in N.J., N.Y. and Virginia
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Blacks Far More Satisfied With U.S. Under Obama
Discussion: Politics Daily and The Hill
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Perry leads KBH by 12
Edmund Phelps / Financial Times:
A fruitless clash of economic opposites
Discussion: Paul Krugman
John Carney / Clusterstock:
It's Okay That You're Not Voting Today
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