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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
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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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
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.
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Michelle Malkin:
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.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
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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Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
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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Fox News:
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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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
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.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
SO THEY'RE CALLING IT FOR CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: It's yet another win for the Tea Party crowd over G.O.P. insiders. O'Donnell polls weaker than Castle against her Democratic opponent, but just by winning the nomination she'll probably get a bump. As I mentioned before, the real question …
Ballot Box:
New Hampshire Republican Senate primary remains too close to call — New Hampshire's Republican Senate primary was too close to call early Wednesday morning. — With 85 percent of the precincts reporting, party-backed candidate Kelly Ayotte held less than a one point lead over Ovid Lamontagne, 38.2 percent to 37.4 percent.
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
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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Blogcritics and The Page
Collier Brothers / The Freedomist:
Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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David Catanese / The Politico:
Ex-aide: Christine O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’
Ex-aide: Christine O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Report: National Republican Senatorial Committee Won't Fund …
Report: National Republican Senatorial Committee Won't Fund …
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Ben Domenech / RedState:
Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
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Paul / Power Line:
Leader of the pack — Most of the reasonably well-informed Repubicans …
Leader of the pack — Most of the reasonably well-informed Repubicans …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’
‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’
Aharding / CNN:
Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
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Mark Levin / Facebook:
McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard …
McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard …
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Hotline On Call:
DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle
DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle
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New York Times:
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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Associated Press:
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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FITSNews:
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.
Washington Post:
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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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
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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David Lester / Yakima Herald-Republic:
Some paradegoers vexed by political parade float
Some paradegoers vexed by political parade float
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NY Daily News:
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 …
Aharding / CNN:
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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Aharding / CNN:
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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Benjamin Sarlin / The Daily Beast:
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 …
The Note:
Primaries 2010: Results Outside Delaware: MTV's “Real World” to Palin's MD Failure — ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports: — Christine O'Donnell's remarkable victory in the Republican Senate primary in Delaware will lead headlines after Tuesday's primaries. But there are other races worth paying attention to:
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Ballot Box and CNN
Wcbsmark / CBS New York:
Bloomberg: Poll Problems ‘A Royal Screw-Up’ — NEW YORK (CBS 2 / WCBS 880/1010 WINS) — There were major problems at the polls on primary day in New York and it's all connected to the debut of the state's new electronic voting machines. — New York City spent $160 million on new voting machines, but the roll out was embarrassing.
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Roger Simon / Reuters:
‘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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