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Republicans making gains against Democrats ahead of midterm elections — Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack …
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Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for an Anti-Incumbent Wave — Poll Shows Republicans Benefit From Fears About Economy; Democrats Need to Persuade Unenthusiastic Backers to Vote — This is about the time when Democrats thought—or perhaps hoped—the political clouds that have hung over them all year would begin to lift.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Revolt Against Status Quo Gives Republicans Record Lead in 2010 Midterms — ABC News-Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction with Federal Government at Highest Level in 18 Years — Swelling economic discontent has pushed dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in 18 years …
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Clear GOP advantage ahead of midterms — Republicans have a nine-point edge among those considered likely voters — A combination of sky-high GOP enthusiasm, a deep sense of pessimism about the country's direction and dissatisfaction with President Barack Obama's stewardship …
The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — With polls and prognosticators predicting a massive Republican rout — and the likely election of uncompromising, out-of-the-mainstream conservatives — in the fall …
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Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Unlikely battleground of Wisconsin reflects Democrats' vulnerability …
Unlikely battleground of Wisconsin reflects Democrats' vulnerability …
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Peter Orszag / New York Times:
One Nation, Two Deficits — The nation faces a nasty dual deficit problem: a painful jobs deficit in the near term and an unsustainable budget deficit over the medium and long term. This month, the Senate will be debating an issue with significant implications for both …
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CNN:
Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns — (CNN) — The U.S. commander in Afghanistan has criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration “could cause significant problems” for American troops overseas.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
On Burning the Koran — According to the Wall Street Journal:
On Burning the Koran — According to the Wall Street Journal:
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Wall Street Journal:
‘Rhymes With Fagin’ — Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus of those attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state. — If you're a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. — In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel's prime minister …
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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Abbas: No ‘historic compromise’ on Jerusalem, borders
Abbas: No ‘historic compromise’ on Jerusalem, borders
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
For the Jews in Israel, Money Trumps All?
For the Jews in Israel, Money Trumps All?
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Robert Reich:
Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He's Wrong — President Obama reportedly will propose two big corporate tax cuts this week. — One would expand and make permanent the research and experimentation tax credit, at a cost of about $100 billion over the next ten years.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama to Propose Tax Write-Off for Capital Investments
Obama to Propose Tax Write-Off for Capital Investments
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket — TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street.
David Weigel / Slate:
Can the Tea Party win in Delaware the way it won in Alaska? — WILMINGTON, Del.—Mike Castle is in his element. It's Saturday and Delaware's only representative in the U.S. House has positioned himself at the entrance to the Arden Fair, a 103-year-old celebration of a left-leaning artist community …
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Howard Kurtz:
Appeasing the Google Gods — I can no longer file a story in our computer system without filling out a box, a small gray square that may well determine the future of serious journalism. — The box is supposed to contain words and phrases that will help me reel you in.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Economy — How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery. — So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he's rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Peretz: Muslims Are Indifferent to Human Life and Therefore Unworthy of First Amendment Protection — New Republic Editor in Chief Martin Peretz: … I for one am thrilled that the First Amendment gives Peretz the right to offer his racist views up for public consumption …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Polarization of Supreme Court Is Reflected in Justices' Clerks — WASHINGTON — Each year, 36 young lawyers obtain the most coveted credential in American law: a Supreme Court clerkship. Clerking for a justice is a glittering capstone on a résumé that almost always includes outstanding grades …
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Audit finds Sharpton's nonprofit on brink — Tweet — An accounting firm hired by Al Sharpton's National Action Network found the civil-rights group in such financial disarray that it flunked its record-keeping — and may not even survive, The Post has learned.
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Paul Krugman:
Infrastructure — Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending: — 1. It's a good idea — 2. It's much too small — 3. It won't pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn't propose a bigger plan …
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Ezra Klein:
What we lost when we lost our factories — Daniel Gros — not to be confused with Daniel Gross — has a sobering essay arguing that, in the long-term, America does have a skills problem: We need to eventually refocus our economy around exports rather than credit-fueled housing-and-tech bubbles, but that's easier said than done.
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Suburban Guerrilla
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Scrubbing Santorum — Why Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum can't beat his Google problem. — Post Comment — Rick Santorum would very much like to be president. For the past few years, he has been diligently appearing at the sorts of conservative events—the Values Voters Summit …
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GOP 12
Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rome is Burning — There is a critical point that I fear the commentariat is just not getting. In my darker moments I fear that some of my fellow economists aren't getting it either but we aren't going to go there. — Look at these two graphs because they tell you the fundamental problem in America today:
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Ezra Klein:
Don't cut Social Security, cont'd — One point I didn't get into my column as clearly as I would've liked is the degree to which “raising the retirement age” is a way of saying “cutting Social Security benefits.” So let's do it here. — There are two retirement ages in Social Security …
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Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Soros to Donate $100 Million to Rights Group — George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, plans to announce on Tuesday that he is giving $100 million to Human Rights Watch to expand the organization's work globally. — It is the largest gift he has made …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On? — It's clear that Republican candidates for Congress expect to gain traction from the health care bill that Democrats passed this year, and that most polls show at least a plurality of the country remains opposed to.
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