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Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary tonight. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. AP Photo/Rob Carr — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset …
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Rove bashes O'Donnell; O'Donnell supporter at victory party strikes back; NRSC cuts and runs; Update: Soros Republican Castle won't back O'Donnell — Scroll for updates... I just finished watching Karl Rove trashing GOP Senate primary winner Christine O'Donnell. It was on Sean Hannity's FNC show.


GOP nightmare: O'Donnell topples Castle in Delaware primary — The path to a Republican Senate takeover narrowed to the point of vanishing Tuesday night, as marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware's Senate primary and likely dashed the GOP's hopes of capturing the seat in the process.


G.O.P. Insurgents Win in Del. and N.Y. — The Tea Party movement scored another victory on Tuesday, helping to propel a dissident Republican, Christine O'Donnell, to an upset win over Representative Michael N. Castle in the race for the United States Senate nomination in Delaware.
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Castle will not back O'Donnell — A Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) campaign source confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday that the longtime congressman will not be endorsing Christine O'Donnell. — The Tea Party-backed O'Donnell defeated Castle for Delaware's Republican Senate nomination.


Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Upsets GOP With Senate Primary Win in Delaware — Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell smiles while addressing supporters during her victory speech Sept. 14 in Dover, Del. (AP Photo) — Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate …
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Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's ‘Sex In The 90s’ (VIDEO) — Christine O'Donnell won the Republican nomination for senator in Delaware tonight, and Rachel Maddow wasted no time showing the footage she obtained of O'Donnell's 1996 appearance on MTV's “Sex In The 90s” TV show.
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Soul-searching time: a GOP torn — Christine O'Donnell's surprise victory in the Delaware Senate GOP primary Tuesday left Republicans in conflict, senior party officials openly fretting that the Senate is now out of reach and Democrats overjoyed that the opposition has handed them a late …
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The Limbaugh Rule: Vote for Most Conservative Candidate in Primary — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — Well, the big election in Delaware today is bringing out people on both sides, on the Republican side, on both sides of this. It is most unfortunate what is going on because in my mind, you know …
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NRSC: No Plans to Fund O'Donnell — The National Republican Senatorial Committee does not plan to spend money on its Delaware Senate nominee, Christine O'Donnell, an NRSC official said tonight. — O'Donnell, who defeated Republican stalwart Rep. Mike Castle in the state's GOP Senate primary …
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Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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Report: National Republican Senatorial Committee Won't Fund …
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Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
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Delaware Senate race moved to Lean Democrat
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Shock as O'Donnell wins in Delaware
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Ex-aide: Christine O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’
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DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle
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Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
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McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard …
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The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity
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Paladino Stuns N.Y. G.O.P. With Victory — Carl P. Paladino, a Buffalo multimillionaire who jolted the Republican Party with his bluster and belligerence, rode a wave of disgust with Albany to the nomination for governor of New York on Tuesday, toppling Rick A. Lazio, a former congressman …
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Paladino wins GOP nomination for NY governor — NEW YORK — Political novice and tea party ally Carl Paladino has beaten the Republican designee in the race for the party's nomination for New York governor. — Paladino rode a wave of voter anger on his way to defeating former Congressman Rick Lazio.
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Vincent Gray wins D.C. mayor's race over Adrian Fenty — Vincent C. Gray has won the D.C. mayoral race, besting incumbent Adrian M. Fenty, according to unofficial results. — The vote tally just after 1:30 a.m. was Gray by 59,285; Fenty, 50,850. — Earlier, anxious supporters …
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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.


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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Lamontagne, Ayotte in too-close-to-call Sen race — CONCORD, N.H.—The seven-way Republican U.S. Senate primary came down to conservative attorney Ovide Lamontagne and former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, with the race too close to call early Wednesday. — Lamontagne spokesman Jim Merrill …
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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 …


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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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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