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1:35 AM ET, October 4, 2010

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Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle: “I'm not sure I can win” if Ashjian's in, nat'l GOPers “have lost their principles,” need to “leave me alone”  — Team Angle on tape: Shows she is ‘blunt, plain spoken’ leader: Team Reid: ‘supreme hypocrisy’ by trying to make deal  —  That's just some of what GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Brown: Tea Partiers ‘do not seem to much like America the way we are’  —  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) argued in an op-ed that the Tea Party is divisive, driven by anger and doesn't like America “the way we are.”  —  Writing in Monday's USA Today, Brown said that liberals should be proud …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tell us what you really think, Ms. Angle  —  Jon Ralston today posted a remarkable audio recording of Nevada Republican Sharron Angle meeting privately with a conservative rival, Scott Ashjian, and his allies.  —  The recording is worth listening to in full despite its poor quality.
Discussion: Las Vegas Sun Blogs
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
Democrats playing on opponents' words
Discussion: Politics Daily
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
HUMAN EVENTS Reporter Assaulted at Leftist Rally  —  A liberal protester at the “One Nation Working Together” march physically assaulted a HUMAN EVENTS reporter who was videotaping Rep. Charlie Rangel (D.-N.Y) at the event at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Washington Post:   Tens of thousands attend progressive 'One Nation Working Together …
Jeff Poor / NewsBusters.org:
‘This Week’ Wages ‘Holy War’ Month Before Midterms: ‘We Believe that One Day the Flag of Islam will Fly Over the White House’  —  You have to wonder what on earth ABC's “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour is thinking by holding a so-called town hall meeting this close to a pivotal midterm election.
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John / Verum Serum:
Restoring Honor vs. One Nation: The Animated Gif  —  I have tweaked the photos a bit to make them more similar (exposure, sharpening, etc.) but I have not done anything to the crowds or any cloning.  Quite a difference:  —  Remember, the organizers were claiming they definitely had more people.
NY Daily News:
Tea Party-backed Carl Paladino gets millions in tax breaks, but creates just a handful of jobs  —  For the last decade, anti-big government candidate Carl Paladino has pocketed millions of dollars in tax breaks by promising to jump-start economic revival in and around his native Buffalo.
thepage.time.com:
TRUMP CARD  —  PAGE EXCLUSIVE: New Hampshire voters polled by phone on their feelings about The Donald and 2012.  —  Read the startling details after the jump.  —  According to sources familiar with the calls, New Hampshire residents received a telephone poll in September testing multiple …
Discussion: CNN and Taegan Goddard's …
Michael Patrick Leahy / Big Journalism:
News the Old Media Won't Tell You: More Trash at One Sparsely Attended Left Wing Rally Than at All the Tea Parties Around the Country in a Year and a Half  —  The pictures and videos of all the trash left behind at Saturday's left wing “One Nation” rally on the Mall in Washington …
Discussion: Wolf Files and The Other McCain
Neil Steinberg / Washington Post:
Chicago, get ready for Rahm Emanuel's charm offensive  —  CHICAGO — So Rahm Emanuel, the ultimate sharp-elbowed Washington power broker, thinks he can just quit his job as White House chief of staff, catch a plane to O'Hare, slip on a Bears jacket midflight, land smiling and convince a majority …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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The Politico:
Rahm Emanuel hires Scott Fairchild, launches bid
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Daley: Obama's endorsement may not tip mayor's race
Discussion: CNN
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
FRIEDMAN'S THIRD-PARTY MESS.... Thomas Friedman joins a long list of centrist media figures to call for a third party to offer a sensible alternative to Democrats and Republicans.  To put it charitably, the column is wildly unpersuasive.  —  The general pitch is common, but lazy …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Jack Kelly / Real Clear Politics:
The Rise of Black Republicans  —  I bet you haven't heard of Tim Scott, Allen West or Ryan Frazier.  If they were Democrats, I might lose that bet.  —  But they're not.  Mr. Scott, Mr. West and Mr. Frazier are three of the 14 black candidates running for Congress as Republicans this November.
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Conyers lost driver's license after renewal check bounced  —  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) lost his driver's license temporarily this summer because he bounced the check used to pay the renewal fee, according to an Associated Press report.  —  Conyers, who chairs the Judiciary Committee …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Verizon Wireless to Pay Millions in Refunds  —  WASHINGTON — Verizon Wireless said on Sunday that it would pay up to $90 million in refunds to 15 million cellphone customers who were wrongly charged for data sessions or Internet use, one of the largest customer refunds by a telecommunications company.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Tea Party dominance was inevitable — and I told you so  —  I told you so.  —  On April 15, 2009, as the first nationwide wave of Tea Party protests broke out, I wrote: “What's most striking about the tea-party movement is that most of the organizers haven't ever organized, or even participated, in a protest rally before.
Travel.State.Gov:
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE  —  Europe  —  The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to the potential for terrorist attacks in Europe.  Current information suggests that al-Qa'ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks.  European governments have taken action to guard …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Sanders: GOPs ‘do not want Americans to succeed’; Obama should steer left  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday that Republicans “do not want Americans to succeed” in laying out his case for energizing the liberal base to go to the polls in November.  —  Sanders, a self-proclaimed …
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David S Morgan / CBS News:   Sanders: GOP Doesn't Want America to Succeed
 
 
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