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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. (AP Photo/Rob Carr) — Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican …
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GOP nightmare: O'Donnell topples Castle — 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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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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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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‘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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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 …


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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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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Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard …
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Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
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Delaware Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell confident of November win
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Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party Shock GOP Establishment in Delaware
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DE SEN: O'Donnell Pulls Off Stunning Upset Over Castle
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Christine O'Donnell's 1996 Anti-Masturbation Campaign On MTV's 'Sex …
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Bill O'Reilly on Tax Cut Debate: Boehner ‘Was Caught In A Tanning Bed’
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Is Castle Really a RINO?
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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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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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Senate Democrats Overcome GOP Filibuster of Small Business Bill
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Lady Gaga, Harry Reid Tweet Over Don't Ask Don't Tell
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Nevada eyes big political gamble
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Paladino Stuns N.Y. G.O.P. With Victory — Carl P. Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo businessman and first-time candidate, won a stunning and decisive victory over his establishment rival, former Representative Rick A. Lazio, in New York's Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night.
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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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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.


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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Some paradegoers vexed by political parade float
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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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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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False Alarm — Reports coming in that President Obama …
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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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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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‘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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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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