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The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Republicans are up in 8 of 10 open House districts — Republicans are winning eight out of 10 competitive open House seats surveyed in a groundbreaking new poll by The Hill. — Taken on top of 11 GOP leads out of 12 freshman Democratic districts polled last week …
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Right Wing News, Prairie Weather and Zandar Versus The Stupid
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Four Causes that Will Lead to a Democratic Election Nightmare — Locked in place. — The four causes of what's likely to be a landslide defeat for Democrats in the midterm election are now locked in place. All that's left for Democrats in the final three weeks of the campaign is to trash Republicans …
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Liberty Pundits Blog
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Obama administration appeals gay marriage ruling — (Reuters) - The Obama administration decided on Tuesday to appeal a judge's rulings that prevented the U.S. government from banning same-sex marriages, a move that could undermine support among President Barack Obama's traditional liberal base ahead of a key election.
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Firedoglake, New York Magazine, Associated Press, The League of Ordinary … and Unqualified Offerings
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Orders U.S. Military to Stop 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Judge Orders U.S. Military to Stop 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
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The Hill, AMERICAblog Gay and The Hill
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING, PART 2: DOJ TO APPEAL DOMA DECISIONS
BREAKING, PART 2: DOJ TO APPEAL DOMA DECISIONS
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Wonk Room, Open Left, Firedoglake, GayPatriot and Towleroad News #gay
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dem candidate: DCCC canceled ads because I won't support Pelosi — A Democratic candidate for Congress accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of pulling its support for his campaign because he said he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Speaker.
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Weasel Zippers, The Politico, Ballot Box, Wake up America and PolitiCal
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Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
DCCC Cuts Ad Buys In 6 Districts
DCCC Cuts Ad Buys In 6 Districts
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Pat Dollard, The Politico, The Atlantic Online, The Note, The Page and The Hill
Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
‘Spirit of Political Disclosure’? White House Press Sec once part of group that refused to disclose donors — The White House plans to continue attacking groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative organizations for not disclosing the names of donors behind political ads.
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Washington Wire, POWIP, Politics Daily, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and Liberty Pundits Blog
Washington Post:
Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday — D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee will announce Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of this month, bringing an abrupt end to a tenure that drew national acclaim but that also became a central issue …
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Outside the Beltway, Wonkroom, National Review and Flypaper
Lynn Brezosky / Houston Chronicle:
Mexican investigator in Falcon Lake probe beheaded — The severed head of a Mexican police commander investigating the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen David Michael Hartley on Falcon Lake was delivered Tuesday to Mexican military in a suitcase, authorities said.
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Scared Monkeys, iOwnTheWorld.com, Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
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New York Times:
Chile Rejoices as Miners Taste Freedom — President Sebastián Piñera of Chile embraced Florencio Ávalos, the first of the miners trapped in the San José Mine to come to the surface. Mr. Piñera has staked his presidency on the rescue. More Photos »
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
20 DAYS OUT - Obama to Peter Baker: 'There's no such thing as shovel-ready projects' ... Maps Obama 2.0 with Rouse, Messina — GOP groups launch $50 million ‘House surge’ — PLAYBOOK ODDS FIXING: If midterms were held today, Republicans would pick up 45 House seats (40 needed for majority …
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Politics Daily, The Page and Outside the Beltway
Pam Key / The Blaze:
CLINTON HECKLED IN BLUE NEW YORK, SAYS HALF OF REPUBLICANS NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP — MICKGOBLIN — He didnt do crap to balance the budget. It was supply side economics kicking in back from Reagan and the computer industry. Fine one thing he did to balance the budget? He didnt do crap!
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Weasel Zippers
Dr. Marc Siegel / NY Daily News:
Is there a doctor in the house? Obamacare will worsen the physician shortage Congress helped create — There is a new disease spreading like a cancer in doctors' offices and hospitals throughout the U.S. I have named it Doctor Unavailability Syndrome (DUS).
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Betsy's Page
Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:
Truth Lies Here — How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts? — THIS PAST AUGUST, the left-leaning San Francisco-based Web site AlterNet posted a remarkable scoop: members of a group calling itself …
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The Moderate Voice
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO WAY TO RUN A GOVERNMENT, CONT'D.... When President Obama nominated Michael McCrum to be a U.S. Attorney in Western Texas, there was no reason to think there'd be much of a delay. McCrum, a former assistant U.S. attorney, enjoyed the support of Texas' Democratic congressional delegation …
ABCNEWS:
In South Dakota: Another Sarah Palin? — A New Republican Star Takes on a Tough Democratic Incumbent — If money is any indication, the hottest Republican House candidate in the country is Kristi Noem. The 38-year-old rancher has raised more campaign cash than any Republican house challenger in the country.
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Argus Leader, Gateway Pundit, Pat Dollard and RedState
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Mark Kirk Sends Poll Monitors To ‘Vulnerable,’ Largely African-American Neighborhoods — In a private phone conversation that was secretly recorded, Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send “voter integrity” …
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo, ArchPundit, Rumproast, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Hullabaloo
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
USS Cole attack survivors angry at Obama — The 10th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole on Tuesday conjured up painful memories for the families of the 17 Navy sailors who died in the terrorist attack, but it also revealed simmering anger at the Obama administration over the lack …
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Pat Dollard
Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Americans See Children's Future Dim in Poll as 50% Pessimistic — Americans say they have weathered the worst of the longest recession in seven decades, even as they are pessimistic about prospects for their retirement years, according to a Bloomberg National Poll.
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Top of the Ticket and AMERICAblog News
National Review:
Obama the Alien — To be so completely disconnected from political reality and the investor class, the president must be from another planet. — Believe it or not, with jobs falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10 percent, President Obama …
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Betsy's Page
Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
Obama's related to Palin — NEW YORK — President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes. — And that's not all …
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Politics Daily
The Huffington Post:
The Power Of Clinton, The Invisibility Of Obama — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — LOUISVILLE — I see that Dr. Rand Paul has taken out after Bill Clinton, dredging up Monica Lewinsky. And I know why Paul did so. The former president was here in Kentucky yesterday and in this state …
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Taylor Marsh, Salon and WAVE-TV
Scott / Power Line:
Uncommon Knowledge with Victor Davis Hanson — Victor Davis Hanson is the prominent classicist and military historian who is the author of numerous brilliant books including The Western Way of War: Infantry Battles in Classical Greece, The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day …
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Parker Spitzer Is Tanking CNN's Prime Time: Worst Ratings In 10 Years — CNN's prime time ratings woes are only increasing with new program Parker Spitzer. — Monday night was the lowest weekday prime time rating average in more than 10 years, since June 28, 2000. And it wasn't just the 8pmET that was seeing low ratings.
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Hot Air, Scared Monkeys and Doug Ross
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Gore vs. the Supreme Court: The justices and the ‘CSI effect’ — In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Whitman and Brown's final debate a contentious one — The rivals for California governor continue their attacks on each other and stick to their talking points without offering details on how they would fix the troubled state. — Meg Whitman called Jerry Brown “the same old same old,” …
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The Awl and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Groups Launch Massive Ad Blitz — Alliance Spends $50 Million on Competitive House Races Where Democrats Have More Money Now — An alliance of Republican groups is launching a $50 million advertising blitz this week in a final push to help the GOP win a majority in the House …
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The Spot, The Caucus and The Page
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama's Lost Narrative — Nyhan goes after the Democrats for baseless attacks against the US Chamber of Commerce. It is very depressing to see them descend to this kind of stuff. What they need are not tactics and resentment, which is what we're seeing. What we need is a narrative of recovery and reform from Obama.
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Dennis the Peasant, Questions and Observations and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
Across the U.S., Long Recovery Looks Like Recession — This is not what a recovery is supposed to look like. — In Atlanta, the Bank of America Tower, the tallest in the Southeast, is nearly a fifth vacant, and bank officials just wrestled a rent cut from the developer.
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Commentary and The Big Picture
New York Times:
Paladino Apologizes for Remarks About Gays — BUFFALO — Carl P. Paladino, the Republican nominee for governor of New York, apologized on Tuesday for delivering comments that offended gay people, even as his campaign manager provoked a new controversy by calling the Democratic nominee, Andrew M. Cuomo, “oily.”
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New York Post, Latest Open Salon Blog and City Room
Kathryn Joyce / The Nation:
At Claremont Institute, Christine O'Donnell Was Taught ABCs of Homophobia — In the past few weeks, Delaware Congressional candidate Christine O'Donnell has come under ridicule for seeming embellishments to her résumé. A CV posted on the networking site LinkedIn transformed …
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LewRockwell.com Blog and Towleroad News #gay
ajc.org:
AJC Survey Shows Jewish Disapproval of President Obama Rising — New York - Growing Jewish concerns over President Obama's handling of U.S.-Israel relations and the Iran nuclear threat are apparent in a just-completed American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey, the second national survey …
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The Huffington Post, YID With LID and Israel Matzav