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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’ — This evening, in the state of Delaware somebody will win the GOP primary, and declare something like, “And now, I ask for all Republicans to unite behind my candidacy.” At that moment, across the state …
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Ex-aide: Christine O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’ — WILMINGTON, Del. — Christine O'Donnell's former campaign manager has recorded an Election Day robocall for the Delaware Republican Party meant to shred the tea-party-backed candidate's conservative credentials as voters head to the polls.
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New York Times, Hit & Run, CNN, Guardian, Balloon Juice, Wonkette, FoxNews.com, Gateway Pundit, The Eye, Weekly Standard and Daily Kos
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McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard is picked up by David Frum's website here: — I'm not surprised. The Bob Woodward of his time (that would be McCormack) has spent the past week or so repeating talking points provided to him or lifted from other sites or going through …
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Weigel, Ben Smith's Blog, Riehl World View, Ruby Slippers and Weekly Standard
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Bill Kristol on Christine O'Donnell: No Sarah Palin
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New York Times, Weekly Standard, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Impolitic, Real Clear Politics, Howard Kurtz, TBogg and Politics Daily
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Is Castle Really a RINO?
Is Castle Really a RINO?
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The Atlantic Online, Club for Growth, Commentary and Hot Air
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Tea Party Float Depicts Obama Whipping A White ‘Future Tax Payer’ Pulling A Wagon — At the annual Sportsman's Day parade last weekend in Naches, WA (a small town southeast of Seattle), a tea party group called “Remember Us We The People” — which is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots …
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KXLY-TV, Yakima Herald-Republic, Weasel Zippers, Balloon Juice and The Political Carnival
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How Republicans Could Lose the Tea Party — If the GOP retakes Congress and doesn't immediately take on the Tea Partiers' top issue, the national debt, they face a backlash that could cost them the support of the movement—whose expectations are sky high. — For Tea Partiers …
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Matthew Yglesias, The Atlantic Online, The Washington Independent and The New Republic
Paul / Power Line:
Leader of the pack — Most of the reasonably well-informed Repubicans I know think the race for the Republican presidential nomination is wide-open. They see a field of high-profile candidates consisting potentially of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich …
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Bill O'Reilly on Tax Cut Debate: Boehner ‘Was Caught In A Tanning Bed’
Bill O'Reilly on Tax Cut Debate: Boehner ‘Was Caught In A Tanning Bed’
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The Monkey Cage, ABCNEWS and AMERICAblog News
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls Track Midterm Election Races in 5 Key States — Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio has jumped to a 16-point lead over independent Charlie Crist, according to the latest Fox News poll, as Republicans make gains across the country on dissatisfaction with President Obama's agenda.
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The Note:
Senate Democrats Overcome GOP Filibuster of Small Business Bill — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: — Senate Democrats today overcame a summer-long Republican filibuster of a bill to jumpstart job growth by providing small businesses with a $30 billion lending fund and around $12 billion in tax relief.
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Reid adds controversial immigration measure to defense bill — Harry Reid said he will add the DREAM Act to a defese policy bill next week. — Washington (CNN) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he will add the DREAM Act, a controversial immigration measure, to a defense policy bill the Senate will take up next week.
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The Confluence, JOSHUAPUNDIT, The Political Carnival and The Politico
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Nevada eyes big political gamble — (Reuters) - Like many Nevadans, hairdresser Helen Elgas is trying to decide between the devil she knows and the devil she doesn't, and the future of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, hangs in the balance. — Sitting in the shade of a strip mall …
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Henry Payne / The Watercooler:
Harry Reid arrives at clean energy summit. . . in a fleet of giant SUVs
Harry Reid arrives at clean energy summit. . . in a fleet of giant SUVs
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theblogprof, The Politico, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
The Note:
Speaker Pelosi ‘Absolutely’ Confident Dems Will Retain House Majority — ABC News' Dean Norland & John R. Parkinson report: — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer spoke with reporters late Tuesday evening as they headed into the Democrat caucus to discuss the party's plan to move America forward.
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The Huffington Post:
Dodd: Congress Could Defund Consumer Bureau Over Warren Interim Appointment — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Outgoing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) warned Tuesday that an interim appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “jeopardizes the existence” of the nascent agency.
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
False Alarm — Reports coming in that President Obama …
False Alarm — Reports coming in that President Obama …
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The Rachel Maddow Show, Rumproast, Wonkette, Emptywheel, Corrente, Reuters, Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
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‘2010 is gone for Democrats’ — “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.”
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Salon, Weigel, Gawker, Gateway Pundit and Riehl World View, more at Mediagazer »
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How Republicans Party — The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend - a decision the organization is likely regretting after several controversial pictures from one of the meeting's sponsored events began surfacing on the internet.
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The Political Carnival, Pam's House Blend, Gawker and pandagon.net
Kos / Daily Kos:
KY-Sen: Paul with a lead, Conway still undefined — Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 9/11-12. Likely voters. MoE 3.2% (5/2 results) — Rand Paul (R) 49 (41) — Jack Conway (D) 42 (40) — The race is still engaged, but these results show us just how tough Kentucky is.
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David Weigel / Weigel:
A Prediction About ACORN — Public Policy Polling finds …
A Prediction About ACORN — Public Policy Polling finds …
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Public Policy Polling, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog and The Washington Independent
Quinnipiac University:
Blumenthal Up Just 6 Points In Connecticut Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Much McMahon Support Is Anti-Blumenthal — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Have Tightened? Not So Fast
The Polls Have Tightened? Not So Fast
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Politics Daily, National Review, The Fix and Capitol Watch
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The Least We Can Do — Self-absorbed, self-indulged, and self-loathing, the Baby Boom generation at last has the chance to step out of the so-called Greatest Generation's historical shadow. Boomers may not have the opportunity to save the world, as their predecessors did …
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Prairie Weather
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate defeats plan to strip filing requirement from health law — The Senate on Tuesday defeated an effort to strip a controversial tax-reporting provision from the sweeping healthcare law Congress passed earlier this year. — Lawmakers voted 46 to 52 to block an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns …
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Washington Monthly and The Politico
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Journalists, Media Professionals Donating Frequently to Federal Political Candidates this Election Cycle — Last year, Christopher Hayes gave $250 to the congressional campaign of a good friend, Alabama Democrat Josh Segall. — That's hardly noteworthy, but for one factor: Hayes is the Washington …
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Beltway Confidential, NewsBusters.org, Political Insider and Romenesko
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Why is Gingrich pushing Dinesh D'Souza's crazy theory about Obama's “Kenyan anti-colonialism”? — The release of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza prompts a perennial question: Why do people keep publishing books by Dinesh D'Souza? — There's a simple answer.
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Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias and The Impolitic
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Democrats tout “major” announcement Wednesday — DNC Chairman Tim Kaine plans to make a ‘major annoucement’ on Wednesday. — Washington (CNN) - Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine plans to make what's being billed as a major announcement Wednesday about the future of the party …
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Sen. Charles Schumer fumes after new voting system fails at his local polling place in Brooklyn — Apparently even Sen. Chuck Schumer isn't immune to the pitfalls of the new voting system. — What the hElmo is going on with these voting machines? — A party insider told me Schumer showed …
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Koran burner Derek Fenton fired from his job at NJ Transit — A radical who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero was fired from his job at NJ Transit, sources and authorities confirmed. — Derek Fenton, an 11-year employee at NJ Transit, was fired Monday …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, JOSHUAPUNDIT and JammieWearingFool
Seema Mehta / PolitiCal:
Clinton endorses Brown for governor, ignores Brown's slight — Former President Bill Clinton endorsed Jerry Brown's bid to become governor on Tuesday, saying he and Brown had put the ugliness from their 1992 primary battle behind them and that Republican Meg Whitman's ad that featured him was misleading.
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Washington Wire, Politics Daily, Opinion L.A., Capitol Alert, Jerry Brown, Los Angeles Times, The Snitch, SFist and The Page
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Ohio GOP senator leans against extending Bush-era tax cuts — Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio), an outspoken budget hawk who is not afraid to buck his party, is leaning against voting for an extension of tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush. — “My gut is probably no,” Voinovich told The Hill.
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The Page, Liberty Pundits Blog and The Note