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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.
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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.


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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Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the tonight. Reuters — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the O'Donnell, who is making her third run for the Senate …
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Christine O'Donnell on Rove's ‘Un-factual’ Remarks and ‘Republican Cannibalism’ — The Republican nominee for the Delaware Senate seat fired back at Karl Rove today for what she called “un-factual” accusations about her record. — “Everything that he is saying is un-factual.
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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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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.

Why Mike Castle Lost — Mike Castle might have been a wonderful general election candidate in the Delaware Senate race. But he ran a terrible campaign in the Republican primary, which is why he lost to Christine O'Donnell, a Tea Party favorite. — Castle, Delaware's lone congressman, came up short in four separate ways.
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GOP's Delaware Senate Nominee Christine O'Donnell Not a Big Fan of Evolution — Christine O'Donnell won't have to lie about this Senate race. She won the Republican nomination for the Senate in Delaware fair and square, against a much more experienced, much more moderate, much more respected opponent …
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G.O.P. Leaders Say Delaware Upset Damages Senate Hopes — 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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Five Reasons O'Donnell Could Win
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NRSC: No Plans to Fund O'Donnell
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Christine O'Donnell gives GOP establishment a thumpin'
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Wonkbook: The Tea Party takes over; the GOP's $3.9 trillion tax plan …
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Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
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Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Upsets GOP With Senate Primary Win in Delaware
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Republicans Reap The Whirlwind
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Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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Quotes of the day — I just finished watching Karl Rove …
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DeMint's operation fires back
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The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity
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Delaware Senate race moved to Lean Democrat
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Paladino Rout of Lazio Jolts New York Republicans — 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 …
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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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How Adrian Fenty lost his reelection bid for D.C. mayor — One afternoon in late June, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's political advisers invited their boss to a downtown conference room to report an unsettling development: Focus groups commissioned by the campaign were saying that Fenty's leadership style …
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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.


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 …

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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