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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
It Has Come To This: O'Donnell Family Straightens Out Father's Bozo The Clown Career — Christine O'Donnell's campaign is facing yet another set of questions about her background, and this time it's on a really weird line of discussion — whether her father was Philadelphia's local Bozo the Clown.
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
What Did I Tell You About Her? — Christine O'Donnell's first TV ad of the general election campaign: — The American Spectator, July 27: … With a smile like that, she's awfully hard to hate. The Castle campaign tried to demonize her and it backfired. Maybe Baldy the Tax-Hiking Wanker will have better luck.
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Hot Air, minx.cc, Da Techguy's Blog, Weigel, Left Coast Rebel, Gateway Pundit and No More Mister Nice Blog
The Note:
Christine O'Donnell Ad: 'I'm Not A Witch'
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The Other McCain, CNN, The Politico, TBogg, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, Right Pundits, AmSpecBlog, Outside the Beltway and George's Bottom Line
Sean Alfano / NY Daily News:
Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell in first ad: 'I'm not a witch'
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Brad Phillips / Mr. Media Training:
I Am Not a Witch: Christine O'Donnell's New Ad
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Taegan Goddard's …
Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
O'Donnell Ad Confronts Reports on Her Past
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Levi Johnston / Washington Post:
Democrats gain in poll but GOP still leads as midterm elections near — Less than a month before the midterm elections, the political landscape remains strongly tilted toward Republicans, although Democrats have made modest improvements with voters since their late-summer low point, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Gallup:
GOP Well Positioned Among Likely Midterm Voters — Voting preferences remain close among registered voters — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's generic ballot for Congress among registered voters currently shows Republicans with 46% of the vote and Democrats with 43%, similar to the 46% to 46% tie reported a week ago.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh my: GOP's generic ballot lead down to three in Rasmussen …
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Weekly Standard, Politics Daily, Erick's blog, Liberty Pundits Blog, Washington Monthly and The Politico
msnbc.com:
The first place for key political news and analysis from the NBC News Political Unit — First thoughts: Mind the (money) gap — GOP-leaning outside groups are blowing away their Democratic counterparts... Why did Dem groups disarm?... A potential downside to GOP outside groups essentially replacing …
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Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico, AMERICAblog News, Politics Daily and New York Times
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Associated Press:
Sen. Murkowski Asks Alaska Stations Not to Air Tea Party Ads — JUNEAU, Alaska — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign is warning Alaska broadcasters not to air ads by a national tea party group that the campaign says are “littered with lies and intentional mischaracterizations” about her and her write-in campaign.
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National Review, The Confluence, Conservatives4Palin.com, Weasel Zippers, HotAirPundit and Sister Toldjah
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls: GOP Poised to Gain or Hold Senate Seats in Key States — Democrats have a mountain to climb in West Virginia. — The latest Fox News battleground state surveys of five key states shows Republicans in good position to gain two seats and hold two seats left open by GOP retirements.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
With Tagline, MSNBC Embraces a Political Identity — MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2 cable news channel, has a new tagline that embraces its progressive political identity. — The tagline, “Lean Forward,” will be publicly announced Tuesday, opening a planned …
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
On the right, hateful words are fired like bullets — I still ride a bike. I do 12 miles, several days a week, and as I do so I listen to music — the Pandora service on my iPhone. I have created a station that plays folk rock. Lately, it has repeatedly played the Neil Young song “Ohio” …
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Althouse, protein wisdom and NewsBusters.org
Jillian Rayfield / TPMMuckraker:
Missouri Tea Partiers, Joe The Plumber Join Movement Against ‘Radical’ Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation — Dog bites man or man bites dog? — A conservative group in Missouri is picking up the backing of the Tea Party and Joe The Plumber in its quest to stop the Humane Society …
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Oliver Willis and Balloon Juice
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Who's Got West Wing Juice? Look to Flickr — Pete Rouse has a lot of work to do if he wants to match the influence that Rahm Emanuel had as President Obama's chief of staff. — That's the conclusion from a highly unscientific survey of the White House Flicker feed …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Soft Side — By now everyone has an image of Rahm Emanuel.
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The Atlantic Wire and Hit & Run
Scott / Power Line:
The wreck of the Jim Oberstar? — In “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Gordon Lightfoot refers to “the gales of November” on Lake Superior. In Minnesota the shores of Lake Superior lie within the Eighth Congressional District. According to a poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Stunner: Minnesota's 8th CD in play; Update: “Great news, not surprising”
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Let Freedom Ring, The Other McCain, Shot in the Dark and Weekly Standard
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels — With insurgents increasingly attacking the American fuel supply convoys that lumber across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, the military is pushing aggressively to develop, test and deploy renewable energy to decrease its need to transport fossil fuels.
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Fox News:
GOP Rep. Cao ‘Hurt’ After Obama Endorses Dem, Warns of Opponent's Ethics History — Republican Rep. Joseph Cao — in an act of either selfless concern or political expediency — says he “must” warn President Obama that the Democratic candidate he's endorsed in the race has a history of ethical problems.
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Michelle Malkin, Top of the Ticket and FoxNews.com
Wall Street Journal:
Frank's Own Battle Erodes Help for Fellow Democrats — It's the kind of political year in which even Rep. Barney Frank is being forced to break a sweat. — The Massachusetts Democrat, one of Congress's most well-known members, usually wins re-election by steamrolling his opponents.
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Politics Daily, The Caucus and Weekly Standard
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Centrist Democrats may reign in House — If Democrats retain a slim hold on the House next year, a handful of the party's most conservative members could find themselves in the catbird seat, wielding wide influence over the Democratic agenda. — In that scenario, the finicky Blue Dog Coalition …
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CQ Politics, DownWithTyranny! and Mock, Paper, Scissors
Glenn Beck:
Glenn Beck: Can abortion be a kindness? — Audio Available: — GLENN: The first thing I want to play for you, though, however, is an interview from an environmentalist who is on the BBC yesterday and she's talking about the compassionate thing today. She believes the compassionate that abortion is compassionate.
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Scott Baker / The Blaze:
UK Pundit to Shocked TV Host: Suffering Children Should Be Smothered
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Exclusive: Foreign-Funded ‘U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads — The largest attack campaign against Democrats this fall is being waged by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a trade association organized as a 501(c)(6) that can raise and spend unlimited funds without ever disclosing any of its donors.
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Ben Smith's Blog and Oliver Willis
Liam Stack / Christian Science Monitor:
Fifth NATO tanker attacked in six days since Pakistan sealed border post — A small bomb damaged an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan as it waited at Pakistan's closed Torkham border crossing Tuesday. No casualties were reported. — The attack underscored …
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The Huffington Post, Outside the Beltway and Weasel Zippers
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Health Insurers Funding Secretive Attack Group Run By A Prominent GOP Lobbyist — Health insurance companies, after funding tens of millions of dollars in attack ads aimed to kill health reform, are now funding Republican candidates promising to repeal or water-down the bill.
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Crooks and Liars, Wonk Room, Daily Kos and The Politico
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National Journal Online:
Inside The Shadow GOP
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Mondale to Obama: Ditch the ‘idiot boards’ — Former Vice President Walter Mondale suggested in an interview today President Obama stop relying on “idiot boards” — teleprompters, that is — to deliver his message to the American people. — “He uses these idiot boards to read speeches in television …
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Scared Monkeys, Raw Story, The Confluence, Hot Air, CNN, Balloon Juice, Pajamas Media, MyFox DC, Sister Toldjah and Federal Eye
Mike DeBonis / Mike DeBonis on Local Politics:
Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial — Last week, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics opened a new Internet-based voting system for a weeklong test period, inviting computer experts from all corners to prod its vulnerabilities in the spirit of “give it your best shot.”
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The BRAD BLOG, Threat Level and Corrente
Arthur Laffer / Wall Street Journal:
The Bill Gates Income Tax — If Washington's most famous billionaires are really worried about their state's finances, they'd write personal checks to the government and leave everyone else alone. — Framed on a wall in my office is a personal letter to me from Bill Gates the elder.
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Betsy's Page
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
National Review Writers Defend County Whose Subscription-Only Firefighters Watched Home Burn Down — As ThinkProgress reported earlier this morning, South Fulton firefighters from Obion, Tennessee, last week stood by and watched as a family's home burned down because their services …
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The Impolitic, Hot Air, The Confluence, Mediaite, Blogcritics, Discourse.net, Paul Krugman, A Spork in the Drawer, National Review and Climate Progress
The Hill:
How to Keep Your Seat 101: Don't mention that you're a Democrat — With voters in an anti-incumbent mood and a national headwind against their party, some freshman Democrats are touting themselves as unaffiliated outsiders — and it may help them win reelection.
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National Review, Da Techguy's Blog, Talking Points Memo and Commentary
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