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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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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Mind of America — A new Washington Post poll is out. Selected questions are shown below. Summary: Americans trust Democrats more to handle the country's problems, they think Democrats represent their values better, they think Democrats are more concerned with the needs of people like them …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Parties Tied at 46% in Generic Ballot — Latest weekly update shows more competitive contest — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans and Democrats are tied at 46% among registered voters in Gallup's weekly tracking of congressional voting preferences, marking a shift after five consecutive weeks in which the Republicans held the advantage.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Voters Favor GOP Over Dems By Record Margin — 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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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.
The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
New polls point to tsunami
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The Note:
The Firewall: Democrats Eye Must-Win Seats
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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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Chicago Breaking News:
Daley won't run for re-election: ‘I have done my best’ — Mayor Richard Daley, with his wife and members of his family, speaks at a City Hall press conference to announce that he will not run for re-election in 2011. (Antonio Dickey / Mayor's Press Office) | MORE PHOTOS
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to retire, speculation swirls around Rahm Emanuel candidacy — Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's surprise announcement today that he would not seek a seventh term in 2011 immediately set off speculation that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel would enter the race.
Aharding / CNN:
TRENDING: Rahm: Will he or won't he? — A source close …
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P. — The midterm elections are being closely watched for the answer to a high-stakes question: Will Republicans have a majority in Congress for the next two years? But it is the outcome of a lower-profile battle over state legislatures …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Fidel to Ahmadinejad: ‘Stop Slandering the Jews’ — (This is Part I of a report on my recent visit to Havana. I hope to post Part II tomorrow. And I also hope to be publishing a more comprehensive article about this subject in a forthcoming print edition of The Atlantic.)
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CNN:
Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns — Feeling passionate about this story? Put your thoughts on video and share them with CNN iReport. — (CNN) — The pastor of a Florida church planning to burn Qurans told CNN Tuesday while the congregation plans to go through …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Desert Firestorm: The Nevada Senate Race Heats Up — A Retooled Angle Campaign Threatens to Topple the Majority Leader — After a disastrous start as the Republican Senate nominee in Nevada, Sharron Angle has begun to turn her campaign around and is once again raising Republican hopes …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Reid: Don't blame me for Nevada's high unemployment rate
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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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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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Timothy Noah / Slate:
The United States of Inequality — In 1915, a statistician at the University of Wisconsin named Willford I. King published The Wealth and Income of the People of the United States, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. The United States was displacing Great Britain …
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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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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Christine O'Donnell's Views On Sex And Porn Take Social Conservatism To The Extreme
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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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Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:
KY-Sen: Rand Paul staffer caught posing as progressive at Daily Kos — As you probably know, there's a moneybomb underway to raise money for Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's campaign challenging Rand Paul for U.S. Senate. — Well, it turns out that at least one member …
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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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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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Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game — What's Your Reaction: — I know what you're thinking. It feels like things can't get much worse for the Democrats — and that if it can, it will. We had so much momentum after 2008, so much hope and excitement, and now, as we march reluctantly toward …
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Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
A Republican takeover of the House will make Capitol Hill a much less relevant place for President Obama, and is likely to turn the administration's focus toward working through federal agencies and regulation — which it can do unilaterally — rather than trying to pass new legislation.
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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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