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2:45 PM ET, August 25, 2010

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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Miller holds slim lead in early Senate vote  —  Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was battling for her political life against Republican challenger Joe Miller in early primary election returns on Tuesday night.  —  Miller was leading Murkowski with nearly 52 percent of the vote to her 48 percent …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
How Lisa Murkowski (might have) lost  —  1. The stunning news that developed over night in Alaska — with 98 percent of precincts reporting, attorney Joe Miller (R) leads Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) 51 percent to 49 percent — reveals the depth of anti-incumbent sentiment in the country …
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
‘Embarrassing defeat for Sarah Palin will happen at any moment (fingers crossed)’ … From a no-doubt-bewildered Becky Bohrer at the Associated Press, just minutes ago: … Note to self: No matter what you think you know about an upcoming election and how much you want one candidate or the other to lose …
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Anger trumps accomplishments  —  Stunning development: Murkowski trails Miller by 1,960 votes in AK GOP Senate primary... We might not know the final result for days... How to explain why McCain easily won in AZ but Murkowski is in trouble: Anger is trumping accomplishments …
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Lisa Murkowski faces possible upset  —  In what could become one of the biggest political upsets of the year, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her tea-party-backed opponent by a small margin Wednesday in Alaska's GOP primary with thousands of votes yet to be counted.
CNN:
Palin also a big winner Tuesday
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
NY1:
A city cab driver is in the hospital after being stabbed by a passenger who allegedly asked if he was Muslim, police tell NY1.  —  Investigators with the New York City Police Department say it all began Monday night when a 21-year-old man hailed a cab at 24th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan.
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Karen Zraick / City Room:
Man Is Held in Anti-Muslim Stabbing of Cabdriver  —  A cabdriver was attacked by a knife-wielding passenger who made anti-Muslim remarks on Tuesday evening, the police said.  —  The passenger, Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., hailed the cab at Second Avenue and East 24th Street around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the police said.
New York Post:
Driver claims his throat was slashed after telling passenger he was Muslim
Discussion: Raw Story
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
‘Are You Muslim?’: Passenger Stabs NYC Muslim Cab Driver
Discussion: The Reaction
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Scott upset ripples beyond Florida  —  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Millionaire businessman Rick Scott's surprise win in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday left both parties scrambling over how to cope with a candidate who possesses both glaring flaws and considerable assets.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Sink starts out ahead
The Huffington Post:
Alan Simpson: Social Security Is ‘A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits’  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is “like a milk cow with 310 million tits,” according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women's League Tuesday morning.
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The Huffington Post:
Enough with the Pink Panthers Bit  —  What's Your Reaction: … Today is the first meeting of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  Some of us have been paying very close attention to the discourse leading up to this momentous occasion.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
ObamaCare Threatens College Health Plans  —  Kaiser Health News reports that those cheap, stripped down college health plans offered to students may be imperiled by Obamacare: … (H/T Jonathan Adler)  —  I imagine that the administration has been blindsided by this one.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Key Senate Democrat suggests that he didn't read entire healthcare reform bill
Nat Hentoff / Jewish World Review:
Am I also a bigot?  Pols clueless on Ground Zero mosque  —  If one of her sleuths knocks on my door, this opponent will readily state that I need no outside funding as a reporter who is deeply investigating the motivation of Imam Rauf's choice of this site of mass murder for the mosque.
Discussion: Solomonia and Pajamas Media
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
New Forecast Shows Democrats Losing 6 to 7 Senate Seats  —  The Democratic majority is in increasing jeopardy in the Senate, according to the latest FiveThirtyEight forecasting model.  The Democrats now have an approximately 20 percent chance of losing 10 or more seats in the Senate …
Ted Nesi / WPRI.com Blogs:
Chris Young's surprise marriage proposal  —  Chris Young, Rhode Island's perennial gadfly candidate, was relatively well-behaved in tonight's mayoral debate.  (And as Dan McGowan points out, sometimes he makes good points.)  But he managed to steal the show toward the end when he used …
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
More Democrats targeted over health care  —  Crossroads GPS, the non-profit formed in consultation with Republican strategist Karl Rove, announced this morning that the organization is launching two additional ad campaigns in Kentucky and California attacking Democratic Senate candidates …
Discussion: D.C. Now
Jason Kuznicki / The League of Ordinary Gentlemen:
Cash for Clunkers, Indeed  —  It wasn't so long ago that everyone just loved Cash for Clunkers.  People thought I was a total crank when I scoffed.  Even some of my fellow ideologues wavered.  —  On my now-defunct blog, I wrote, … No, the appropriate course would be to generalize …
New York Times:
Job Losses Over Drilling Ban Fail to Materialize  —  WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration called a halt to virtually all deepwater drilling activity in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon blowout and fire in April, oil executives, economists and local officials complained …
New Jersey Online:
Error on ‘Race to the Top’ application costs N.J. $400M in federal funds  —  TRENTON — After making a high-profile bid for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education reform money, New Jersey fell three points short of receiving “Race to the Top” funding, in part because of an error …
Discussion: The Hill and Metropolis
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Romney: Sylvester Stallone is ‘right,’ the U.S. ‘does apologize too much’  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. and potential 2012 White House contender Mitt Romney (R) took a cue Wednesday from Sylvester Stallone when he tweeted: “Stallone is right.  US does apologize too much.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Washington Post / Ezra Klein:
Research Desk: Where would unemployment and GDP growth be without the stimulus?  —  jimjinphx asks: … I can't account for the effects of a spending freeze, but the CBO's latest estimate (PDF) of the effect of the stimulus, used in conjunction with BLS unemployment figures and BEA GDP data …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
CNN:
Pastor says armed militia to protect church during Quran-burning event  —  (CNN) — An armed Christian organization, Right Wing Extreme, will protect a church that is planning to host an “International Burn a Quran Day” on the ninth anniversary of September 11, the church's pastor said on Tuesday.
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Republican split helps Democrat in Colorado gov. race  —  (Reuters) - Democrat John Hickenlooper has a substantial lead in the Colorado governor's race thanks to a third-party candidate who is splitting the Republican vote, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
Discussion: The Page
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession: Rosenberg  —  Positive gross domestic product readings and other mildly hopeful signs are masking an ugly truth: The US economy is in a 1930s-style Depression, Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg said Tuesday.
CNN:
Daniels draws a contrast with Palin  —  (CNN) - Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a possible presidential candidate in 2012, affirmed Wednesday that Sarah Palin is an energizing force among Republicans but suggested her political reach has its limits.  —  Asked his opinion of Palin in an interview …
Discussion: The Hill
Dan Nowicki / Arizona Republic:
John McCain defeats J.D. Hayworth  —  Senator handily fends off former congressman after waging a vigorous campaign  —  Sen. John McCain, the former Republican presidential nominee who was once widely seen as potentially vulnerable in the year of the anti-establishment “tea party,” …
ProPublica:
After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters  —  This story was reported by Sabrina Shankman and Tom Jennings of Frontline, Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi of The New Orleans Times-Picayune and A.C. Thompson of ProPublica  —  In the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina …
 
 
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“The False and ‘Seedy’ Claim That Obama Is Muslim.”
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Tom Alex / Des Moines Register:
Police say it's ‘very possible’ attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
More than 3M seniors may have to switch drug plans
Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog
Sean Penn / The Huffington Post:
Third Person Once Removed
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Steal This Movie, Too  —  While Washington is consumed …
Discussion: Eduwonk and Cafe Hayek
Michael Memoli / The Swamp:
Petraeus stays out of mosque debate
Discussion: D.C. Now
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Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Ugly report on existing home sales is latest setback for Democrats
Courtney Schlisserman / Bloomberg:
Sales of U.S. New Homes Dropped to Record Low in July
CNN:
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