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Washington Post:
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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Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
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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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.
Dylan Loewe / The Huffington Post:
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
Democrats Still Winning the Long Game
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The Impolitic and Ben Smith's Blog
The Huffington Post:
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be ‘More Extreme’ Than Bush (EXCLUSIVE)
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The Plum Line and The Fix
The Note:
The Firewall: Democrats Eye Must-Win Seats
The Firewall: Democrats Eye Must-Win Seats
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Ballot Box, Daily Kos and No Left Turns
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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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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The Politico, The Blaze and FrumForum
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On?
Democrats Aren't Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On?
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Democrats say health care can help in two or three races
Democrats say health care can help in two or three races
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Jonathan Chait, Delusional Regarding ObamaCare
Jonathan Chait, Delusional Regarding ObamaCare
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Weekly Standard, Hit & Run, Flopping Aces and Wake up America
Chicago Breaking News:
Daley won't run for re-election: ‘I have done my best’ — Mayor Richard Daley says he will not run for re-election in 2011, saying it's “time for me, it's time for Chicago to move on.” — “The truth is I have been thinking about this for the past several months,” Daley said at a City Hall news conference that stunned the city.
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and AMERICAblog News
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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.
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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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Associated Press:
Church Snubs Military Concerns on Quran Burning
Church Snubs Military Concerns on Quran Burning
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Associated Press, This ain't Hell … and AMERICAblog News
Washington Post:
Petraeus condemns Fla. church's plan to burn Korans
Petraeus condemns Fla. church's plan to burn Korans
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Oliver Willis, Think Progress, No Left Turns, Mediaite, THEROOT.COM, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, TalkLeft, PostPartisan, Associated Press and CNN
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
On Koran Burning and Petraeus
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The Daily Dish and democracyarsenal.org
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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Political Byline and Pajamas Media
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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Balloon Juice and Eschaton
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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Blue Gal, Pam's House Blend and GOP 12
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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Oliver Willis, The Other McCain and Taegan Goddard's …
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Christine O'Donnell's Views On Sex And Porn Take Social Conservatism To The Extreme
Christine O'Donnell's Views On Sex And Porn Take Social Conservatism To The Extreme
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TBogg, Talking Points Memo and Zandar Versus The Stupid
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
Reid: Don't blame me for Nevada's high unemployment rate
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Think Progress, The Note and Weasel Zippers
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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Matthew Yglesias, Questions and Observations, Commentary, Free exchange, Betsy's Page and New York Times
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 …
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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Salon, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Oliver Willis, Gawker, Unqualified Offerings, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Daily Kos
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 »
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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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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New York Times, Wonk Room, Wall Street Journal, The Confluence, Firedoglake and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama Approval/2010 Vote Correlation — We'll start rolling our Maine poll out tomorrow and even there a majority of likely voters for this fall disapprove of Barack Obama. — How big of a problem is Obama's unpopularity for Democratic candidates? We're finding that almost no one who disapproves …
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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.