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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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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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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.

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.


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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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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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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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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Exclusive- Karl Rove Tried To Cut Deal For Castle With Tea Party- Teaparty News
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NRSC: No Plans to Fund O'Donnell
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Delaware Senate race moved to Lean Democrat
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Don't Repeat the Mistakes of the Past
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Report: National Republican Senatorial Committee Won't Fund …
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Leader of the pack — Most of the reasonably well-informed Repubicans …
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Hill Hallways: Cornyn doesn't sugercoat O'Donnell
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Ex-aide: Christine O'Donnell a ‘complete fraud’
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The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity
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McCormack & Frum — John McCormack at the Weekly Standard …
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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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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 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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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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Karl Rove bets big against Harry Reid — In the early days of the George W. Bush administration, Karl Rove and Harry Reid “tried to be cordial” and even had dinner together a couple of times. — Those days are long gone, and the personal animosity that built up over the years between …
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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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Some paradegoers vexed by political parade float
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