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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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CNN, Hotline On Call, The Note, Washington Wire, TPMDC, GayPatriot, Politics Daily, New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Daily Caller and The Caucus
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tell us what you really think, Ms. Angle
Tell us what you really think, Ms. Angle
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Wonkette and Las Vegas Sun Blogs
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Brown: Tea Partiers ‘do not seem to much like America the way we are’
Brown: Tea Partiers ‘do not seem to much like America the way we are’
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T.W. Farnamand Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Interest-group spending for midterm up fivefold from 2006; many sources secret — Interest groups are spending five times as much on the 2010 congressional elections as they did on the last midterms, and they are more secretive than ever about where that money is coming from.
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Politics Daily, Ballot Box, Pirate's Cove and Mother Jones
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
DNC boasts best fundraising month in 2010 cycle with $16M — Democrats boasted their best fundraising month of this cycle, raising over $16 million in the month of September. — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will report over $16 million in revenues from last month when its files …
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The Politico, The Political Carnival and Prairie Weather
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
New Fund-raising Record Gives Democrats Hope for Midterms
New Fund-raising Record Gives Democrats Hope for Midterms
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Washington Monthly, The Confluence, The Washington Independent and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
DNC rakes in $16 million in September
DNC rakes in $16 million in September
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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, CNN and Anchorage Daily News
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fear and Favor — A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you're starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you're actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.” — True, there have been some changes in the plot.
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Guardian, Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
AS THE WORLD BURNS — How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change. — On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, at the White House.
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Jonathan Weisman / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Likely to Scale Back Legislative Plans — In New Political Landscape, Incremental Approach Is in Works to Get Support for Some Proposals on Energy, Immigration — President Barack Obama, facing at best narrower Democratic majorities in Congress next year, is likely to break …
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Think Progress, Wonk Room and And So it Goes in Shreveport
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Chasing Fox — The loud, cartoonish blood sport that's engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious. — In the spring of 2006, a year and a half after he was hired to run CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein went to his boss Jim Walton with an idea. CNN was in trouble.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, CNN's duo of civil dispute — They are, somewhat self-consciously, an odd couple, the Northern pol and the Southern belle, the prosecutor and the journalist, the man trying to recover from disgrace and the woman graciously forgiving his sins.
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NewsBusters.org and JammieWearingFool
Steven Rattner / Financial Times:
How an unloved bail-out saved America — America's troubled asset relief programme - better known as Tarp - died on Sunday, at the age of two. The causes of death were bitter politics and financial illiteracy. Hatched in the post-Lehman bankruptcy panic, Tarp allowed Barack Obama …
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Daniel W. Drezner, The Huffington Post and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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.
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.
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The Daily Caller, Flopping Aces, NewsBusters.org, Atlas Shrugs and Moonbattery
Graham Bowley / New York Times:
Cheap Debt for Corporations Fails to Spur Economy — As many households and small businesses are being turned away by bank loan officers, large corporations are borrowing vast sums of money for next to nothing — simply because they can. — Companies like Microsoft are raising billions …
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Prairie Weather and Half Sigma
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 …
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CNN, The Washington Independent and MyDD
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Democrats seize on signs of hope — Once-despondent Democrats now believe that they may be able to avert a total midterm wipeout, as a series of important states now appears to be trending in their direction or growing more competitive. — The bad news: In a sign of how hostile …
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Washington Monthly
Slate:
How the Roberts Court disguises its conservatism. — It's dark and silent. Reporters trickle into the grand ceremonial room from a door on the left; like everyone, they've been instructed that no recording devices of any sort are allowed. A clutch of spectators, some of whom have been waiting for hours, enters at the rear.
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Althouse, SCOTUSblog, PointOfLaw Forum, Washington Post and Opinionator
Patrick O'Connor / Bloomberg:
Rendell Says He'd Like to Succeed Emanuel, Not Expecting Offer From Obama — Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says he'd love to replace Rahm Emanuel as Barack Obama's next chief of staff, while allowing that he may be the last person the president would pick for the job.
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CNN
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
British intelligence denies US terror warnings sparked by new info — US warning of commando terror attacks in Europe irritates European officials, who say no evidence plot is imminent — Fresh warnings of possible terror attacks in Europe issued by the US were not sparked any new intelligence …
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ABCNEWS and Michelle Malkin
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Ominous new Gallup findings for Democrats: Blacks still love Obama, others not so much — The good news for President Obama is his popular support among blacks is holding steady at 91%. — The bad news is no other group of potential voters likes him that much.
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HillBuzz
Ezra Klein:
Infrastructure: The best deal in the economy — People say that the government should be run more like a business. So imagine you are CEO of the government. Your bridges are crumbling. Your schools are falling apart. Your air traffic control system doesn't even use GPS.
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Flawed Paperwork Aggravates a Foreclosure Crisis — As some of the nation's largest lenders have conceded that their foreclosure procedures might have been improperly handled, lawsuits have revealed myriad missteps in crucial documents. — The flawed practices that GMAC Mortgage …
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Firedoglake, Wall Street Journal, The BLT, The Big Picture and Calculated Risk