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Frank Newport / Gallup:
GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot — Republicans also maintain wide gap in enthusiasm about voting — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences.
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Matthew Yglesias, Outside the Beltway, Power Line, The Atlantic Online, Hot Air, Freedom's Lighthouse, Balloon Juice, The Swamp, Washington Wire, TalkLeft, Weekly Standard, Top of the Ticket, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, RedState, TPMDC, Questions and Observations, Doug Ross, Politics Daily, The Agonist, USA Today and National Review
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ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Two Men on United Flight from Chicago Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam — Suspects Had Been Cleared Sunday by TSA in Chicago, Birmingham Despite Security Concerns — Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands …
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BREAKING!! Alaska Libertarian Party votes to deny Lisa Murkowski ballot line — From Eric Dondero: — The Executive Committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the contested primary results in the Republican Senate primary.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle challenger — The Tea Party Express, which spent some $600,000 on Alaska Republican Joe Miller's primary challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), says it's preparing to do the same on behalf of Christine O'Donnell (R) in Delaware.
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CNN, TPMDC, Public Policy Polling, The Atlantic Online, Salon, Daily Kos, Swing State Project, Weigel and The Politico
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More than 25,000 ballots uncounted in Alaska GOP Senate race
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Firedoglake, Sister Toldjah, Red Dog Report, HotAirPundit and CBS News
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Alaska Libertarians: No ballot switch
Alaska Libertarians: No ballot switch
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Ballot Box, CNN, Red Dog Report, The Hill, Swing State Project and The Other McCain
Alaska_Politics / Anchorage Daily News:
Libertarians to Murkowski: No dice
Libertarians to Murkowski: No dice
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The Fix, The Nation and The Swamp
Ross douthat / New York Times:
Mr. Beck Goes to Washington — Entering this weekend, I was convinced that Glenn Beck's star was about to go into eclipse. — Just as Michael Moore, amid Democratic disarray, became the unlikely face of liberal opposition to George W. Bush, the mercurial, weepy, demagogic Beck has spent …
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Glenn Beck, Ross Douthat, NewsReal Blog, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Firedoglake, TBogg, Pajamas Media, First Draft and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Adam Serwer / The Plum Line:
Was the Glenn Beck rally turnout really that impressive? — Adam Serwer of the American Prospect is guest blogging on The Plum Line this week, while Greg Sargent takes a short vacation. — While the official Tea Party estimates of Saturday's rally attendance may range between a gajillion …
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Fox News, Indecision Forever, News Hounds, Runnin' Scared, Washington Post and Pajamas Media
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Just How Large Was the Attendance At Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally? — In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math …
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Cubachi, Glenn Beck, NewsReal Blog, The Powers That Be, The Daily Caller, Theo Spark, Right Wing News and CBS News
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Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama may call Bush before Iraq speech — President Obama will likely phone his predecessor, President George W. Bush, before delivering his speech on the Iraq war Tuesday. — Obama will visit troops in Fort Bliss, Texas, which is in Bush's home state, before returning to Washington …
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The Politico, The Democratic Daily, Weasel Zippers and The Page
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House
Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House
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TPMMuckraker, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers? — Jodi Cobb / National Geographic Creative / Getty Images — One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do.
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Runnin' Scared, Balloon Juice and The Awl
Beau Friedlander / The Huffington Post:
$100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tape — What's Your Reaction: — Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy. Breitbart offered $100,000 for JournoList, the email listserve that brought down WaPo blogger Dave Weigel this June.
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Boehner's spending-cut savings canceled out by tax-cut extension — Most of the budget savings from House GOP Leader John Boehner's proposed spending cuts would be canceled out by the extension of upper-income tax cuts also backed by Republicans. — Boehner, who hopes to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi …
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama returns from vacation to blast Republicans on small-business bill
Obama returns from vacation to blast Republicans on small-business bill
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner to take on Obama administration over national security
Boehner to take on Obama administration over national security
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Pundits Blog and Politics Daily
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Sen. Tom Coburn: Newt Gingrich 'last person I'd vote for' — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pouring cold water on the idea of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich running for president. — “He's the last person I'd vote for for president of the United States,” Coburn said during a town hall event in Wagoner …
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Hot Air, The Page, The Political Carnival and New York Magazine
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Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Coburn rips the left and right alike
Coburn rips the left and right alike
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle in 2005: I would have voted “no” on Katrina relief funds — I have previously wondered how many Angle tapes are out there to compete with the jobs/Social Security/slush fund/Government is not God classics. I know the answer is: A lot. But I am starting to think there may be one a week …
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Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
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Confirmed: Sarah Palin to Headline Iowa GOP Dinner in September — Well-placed sources tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Republican Party of Iowa's Ronald Reagan Dinner on Friday, September 17th. The state party is slated to release more details about the event tomorrow.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Hot Air
Rosalind Helderman / Virginia Politics Blog:
Judge quashes Cuccinelli subpoena of U-Va. records — An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann.
The Note:
Sebelius: Time for ‘Reeducation’ on Obama Health Care Law — ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: — With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius …
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Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool and American Spectator
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Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out — Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing. — The reason, says Time's managing editor, is that “we saw what was coming. We wanted to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”
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Gawker, Salon, Wonkette, Hullabaloo, The Wire, Pajamas Media, New York Magazine and Romenesko, more at Mediagazer »
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Bigot starts ground zero church: Where's the outrage? — A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn't drawn a peep of protest …
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The Lede and Washington Monthly
The Onion:
Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims — SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.
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Indecision Forever, The New Republic and The Plum Line
Booman Tribune:
Wrong Answer — This is not good enough: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: “I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. ... Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing.”
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The Confluence, Paul Krugman and Grasping Reality …
Matthew Balan / NewsBusters.org:
Rick Sanchez Apologizes After Labeling Obama the ‘Cotton-Picking President’ — CNN's Rick Sanchez quickly apologized on his Rick's List program on Monday after inadvertently labeling Barack Obama the “cotton-picking president of the United States.” Sanchez used the racially-tinged term …
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Inside Cable News, Pajamas Media and msnbc.com
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Folly of Needless Alcohol Laws — In Orange County, California, as in many American communities, the approach planners take to bars is as follows: they're generally located in close proximity to one another, so that on a weekend night, bar goers congregate around Main Street in Huntington Beach …
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Matthew Yglesias
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Joe Miller Dodges Questions On Whether Social Security And Medicare Are Constitutional — Yesterday on CBS's Face the Nation, Alaska GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller suggested that both Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional. When Bob Schieffer wondered whether Miller's ideas …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Swing State Project, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
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Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process — (update below - Update II) — Three weeks ago, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, based on the Treasury Department's failure to grant a “license” …
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Blog of Rights and AMERICAblog News
Juliette Jowit / Guardian:
Lomborg: $100bn a year to fight global warming — Exclusive ‘Skeptical Environmentalist’ and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world — The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is …
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Firedoglake and Washington Post
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
NRSC Survey Shows Miller Over 50 — AK attorney Joe Miller may not be thrilled with the NRSC, but the party committee is spending money to prove Miller's candidacy isn't doomed if he prevails over Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R). — A new survey conducted for the NRSC shows Miller leading Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams (D) by a 52%-36% margin.
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Hot Air
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Are you ready for President John Bolton? — 'Stache 2012? … He's not saying he'd run to win, as I read him, rather that he'd run to make sure that foreign policy features prominently at the debates and to drag the big cheeses like Romney and Palin to the right.
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The Daily Caller, Ben Smith's Blog, ThreatsWatch and Wonkette
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The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment — My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks. — Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers.
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Newshoggers.com, Modeled Behavior, Marginal Revolution, EconLog, msnbc.com and The Future of Capitalism
Tennessean.com:
‘Call Me’ Campaign Ad — The book also deals directly with the 2006 Senate campaign, where Ford nearly became the first African-American elected to statewide office in Tennessee. — Some of Ford's characterizations of his opponent, now U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, are less than flattering.
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