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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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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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Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
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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 — 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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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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Adam B. Ellick / New York Times:
Petraeus Warns Against Planned Koran-Burning
Petraeus Warns Against Planned Koran-Burning
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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.
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
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The Politico
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Reid: Don't blame me for Nevada's high unemployment rate — “It would take a real stretch to think I caused the problems with the economy,” Reid said Tuesday. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday expressed confidence in his prospects for reelection and said that voters …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Desert Firestorm: The Nevada Senate Race Heats Up
Desert Firestorm: The Nevada Senate Race Heats Up
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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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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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Outside the Beltway and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
John Podesta predicts White House ‘soul-searching’ — John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and leader of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, expects to see some “soul-searching” and “changes” in the White House after November's elections.
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Commentary
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 …
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.)
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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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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Economist's View and Newshoggers.com
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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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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Sign of the Court's Polarization: Choice of 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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