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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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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Murkowski Is Locked in a Tight Senate Race in Alaska — Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, whose family has held a decades-long grip on one of the state's two Senate seats, was in a surprisingly tight race Wednesday morning against an insurgent candidate, a Tea Party favorite who received the backing of Sarah Palin.
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CNN, The Swamp and Freedom's Lighthouse
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.
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ABCNEWS, Power Line, Hot Air, Hotline On Call and CNN
David Catanese / The Politico:
McCain wins by wide margin — PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain routed former Rep. J.D. Hayworth in the Arizona Republican primary Tuesday night after a contentious campaign marked by stinging attacks and McCain's attempts to burnish his own conservative credentials.
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msnbc.com, The Page and National Review
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 …
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The Moderate Voice and Taegan Goddard's …
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Murkowski trails Tea Party-backed challenger as Alaska votes tallied
Murkowski trails Tea Party-backed challenger as Alaska votes tallied
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The Daily Caller, Taegan Goddard's …, Weigel and The Page
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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MiamiHerald.com, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, The Awl, No More Mister Nice Blog, CNN, Colorlines and Weigel
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Scott shocks McCollum in Fla. governor's race — Multimillionaire health care executive Rick Scott narrowly captured the GOP's nomination for governor of Florida Tuesday night, shocking both Republican and Democratic insiders who believed the free-spending newcomer's fortunes had taken …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Primaries test establishment vs. outsiders in Florida, Arizona and Alaska
Primaries test establishment vs. outsiders in Florida, Arizona and Alaska
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msnbc.com, New York Times and Daily Kos
Courtney Schlisserman / Bloomberg:
Sales of U.S. New Homes Dropped to Record Low in July — Sales of U.S. new homes unexpectedly dropped in July to the lowest level on record, signaling that even with cheaper prices and reduced borrowing costs the housing market is retreating. — Purchases fell 12 percent from June …
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The Page and Sweetness & Light
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Alan Zibel / Associated Press:
Sales of new homes hit slowest pace on record — Unexpected 12.4 percent drop in July latest sign recovery is fading — WASHINGTON — Sales of new homes dropped sharply last month to the slowest pace on record, the latest sign that the economic recovery is fading.
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
Andrea Mitchell Lectures U.S. on Ground Zero Mosque: America Needs to Be ‘More Sensitive to Minority Communities’ — Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday fretted that the “angry voices” protesting against the Ground Zero mosque will hurt Barack Obama's attempts to reach out to the Muslim world.
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Fox News, NO QUARTER, Riehl World View and Freedom's Lighthouse
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
State Department compares Park 51 Imam to Shirley Sherrod
State Department compares Park 51 Imam to Shirley Sherrod
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NewsReal Blog, Commentary, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, TUNDRA TABLOIDS, The Moderate Voice, Forbes, The Political Carnival and Weekly Standard
Cristian Salazar / Associated Press:
NY archbishop worries about tone of mosque debate
NY archbishop worries about tone of mosque debate
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Commentary, Associated Press, Ben Smith's Blog and Riehl World View
William Neuman / New York Times:
U.S. Rejected Hen Vaccine Despite British Success — Faced with a crisis more than a decade ago in which thousands of people were sickened from salmonella in infected eggs, farmers in Britain began vaccinating their hens against the bacteria. That simple but decisive step virtually wiped out the health threat.
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Washington Monthly, The New Republic and Brilliant at Breakfast
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CNN:
Schoolgirls and teachers sick from poison gas in Afghanistan — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said. — The latest incident, this one at a high school …
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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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Brilliant at Breakfast, Taylor Marsh, Firedoglake, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, TPMCafe, Raw Story and AMERICAblog News
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.
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Left Coast Rebel, Pajamas Media, Theo Spark, Mercury Rising and Riehl World View
The Huffington Post:
Bloomberg Launches Another Impassioned Defense Of Cordoba House — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — In a rousing address before a predominantly Muslim audience Tuesday night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed his commitment to the controversial Islamic cultural center near the former site of the World Trade Center.
Los Angeles Times:
Islamophobia? Not really — The supposed anti-Muslim backlash among Americans is mostly a myth. — ByJonah Goldberg — Here's a thought: The 70% of Americans who oppose what amounts to an Islamic Niketown two blocks from ground zero are the real victims of a climate of hate, and anti-Muslim backlash is mostly a myth.
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The Mahablog and National Review
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Jonah Goldberg: Caring about Muslims is a hate crime against Real Americans
Jonah Goldberg: Caring about Muslims is a hate crime against Real Americans
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The Moderate Voice and The Huffington Post
BBC:
US general: Afghan deadline ‘giving enemy sustenance’ — General James Conway said troops in southern Afghanistan were likely to have to remain for a few years — A senior US general has warned President Barack Obama's deadline to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban.
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Questions and Observations, AMERICAblog News and Biased BBC
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Nathan Hodge / Washington Wire:
Conway: U.S. Withdrawal Deadline Boosts Taliban in Afghan War
Conway: U.S. Withdrawal Deadline Boosts Taliban in Afghan War
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The Foundry, Firedoglake, Sweetness & Light, Hot Air, Peter Daou, YID With LID and The Agonist
Associated Press:
Alvin Greene Kicked out of S.C. Restaurant — Democratic Senate Candidate Showed up at Party Meeting Uninvited, Cops Say, Prompting Officials to Call Police — (AP) Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was kicked out of a South Carolina restaurant after police say a woman accompanying …
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Freedom's Lighthouse and Gateway Pundit
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CNN:
Greene escorted from campaign event
Greene escorted from campaign event
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Associated Press, Sister Toldjah and Weasel Zippers
Seema Mehta / PolitiCal:
Obama assist crashes Jerry Brown's website [Updated] — An appeal by President Obama to his supporters seeking help for Jerry Brown's candidacy would seem like a godsend for the Democratic gubernatorial nominee. — But within minutes of Obama's e-mail, so many people clicked the link that Brown's website crashed.
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The Page and The Political Carnival
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 …
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Firedoglake, Green and Prairie Weather
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
McCain defeats conservative primary challenger — PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain routed conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth on Tuesday in the Republican primary in what could be the final campaign for the former GOP presidential nominee. — McCain spent more than $20 million to beat …
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Mediaite and Philly.com
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Mike Shepard / Political Economy:
CBO says stimulus may have added 3.3 million jobs — President Obama's much-maligned economic stimulus package added as many as 3.3 million jobs to the economy during the second quarter of this year, and may have prevented the nation from lapsing back into recession, according …
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