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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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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.
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 tonight. AP Photo/Rob Carr — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the O'Donnell, who is making her third run …
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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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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
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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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.
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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RushLimbaugh.com:
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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Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: The Tea Party takes over; the GOP's $3.9 trillion tax plan; small business bill moves — Voter rage! Anti-incumbent fever! A shocking upset! Ovide LaMontagne has an awesome name! But this is Wonkbook, so let's talk about the implications for policy. Sorry, sorry.
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
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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Fox News:
Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Upsets GOP With Senate Primary Win in Delaware
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
NRSC: No Plans to Fund O'Donnell
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Collier Brothers / The Freedomist:
Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Christine O'Donnell gives GOP establishment a thumpin'
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E.J. Dionne / PostPartisan:
The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity
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Ben Domenech / RedState:
Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
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Stuart Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
Delaware Senate race moved to Lean Democrat
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Republicans Reap The Whirlwind
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Paul / Power Line:
Leader of the pack — Most of the reasonably well-informed Repubicans …
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Aharding / CNN:
Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Christine O'Donnell beats Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware Republican Senate primary
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Report: National Republican Senatorial Committee Won't Fund …
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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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE CRAZINESS SPREADS TO NEW YORK'S GOP.... No matter who Republicans nominated for governor this year, the odds of success are poor — state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D) is quite popular and enjoys large leads in all the polls. Still, there was a GOP primary that fits nicely into a larger pattern.
Washington Post:
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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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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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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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.
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 …
Norma Love / Associated Press:
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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