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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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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
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
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Midterms Are a Test for Obama's Ground Game — There's a reason that President Obama decided to broadcast on the Internet his meeting with college students on Tuesday night, taking sympathetic questions by way of Facebook and Skype and Twitter. (About the only hip thing the president …
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Prairie Weather
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, The Politico, Pat Dollard, The Atlantic Online, The Note, The Page and The Hill
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Education of a President — On a busy afternoon in the West Wing late last month, President Barack Obama seemed relaxed and unhurried as he sat down in a newly reupholstered brown leather chair in the Oval Office. He had just returned from the East Room, where he signed the Small Business Jobs Act …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
President Obama Looks Forward — and Back — President Obama said that he expected Republicans to offer him more cooperation after November's elections, no matter the outcome. — In an hour-long interview with the Times's White House correspondent, Peter Baker, Mr. Obama predicted …
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Gateway Pundit and Political Punch
Mike Allen / The Politico:
20 DAYS OUT - Obama to Peter Baker: 'There's no such thing …
20 DAYS OUT - Obama to Peter Baker: 'There's no such thing …
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Politics Daily and Outside the Beltway
NY Daily News:
GOP governor hopeful Carl Paladino cashed in on Buffalo gay clubs Cobalt, Buddies II — Carl Paladino says kids shouldn't be “brainwashed” into thinking it's okay to be gay or be taken to a “disgusting” gay pride parade. — But he had no problem when his son, William, ran Cobalt …
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New York Post:
Uncle slam! Gay nephew blasts Carl — By REBECCA ROSENBERG in Buffalo and JENNIFER FERMINO in New York — Tweet — Carl Paladino's openly gay nephew — whom the candidate points to as proof he's no homophobe — said yesterday he was “very offended” by his uncle's anti-gay rants.
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NY Daily News, New York Times, New York Magazine, Advocate and The Daily Politics
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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The Atlantic Online, Outside the Beltway, Wonkroom, National Review and Flypaper
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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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
The Note:
Attacks Get Personal in California Gubernatorial Debate — ABC News' David Wright reports: — The two candidates for California governor sparred over taxes, illegal immigration, and whether it's fair game to describe one another as “whores” in their final campaign debate at Dominican College in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Whitman and Brown's final debate a contentious one
Whitman and Brown's final debate a contentious one
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The Awl and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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, Patterico's Pontifications, iOwnTheWorld.com, Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
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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, Weasel Zippers, POWIP, Politics Daily, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and Liberty Pundits 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 Politico, The Hill, The Spot, The Caucus and The 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, AmSpecBlog and Weasel Zippers
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Vice President Tries to Energize Democrats — PITTSBURGH — Joseph R. Biden Jr., unyielding optimist, Democratic cheerleader and vice president of the United States, wants Americans to know that the midterm elections will not be a Republican rout. And after Democrats win in 2010 …
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Indecision Forever, Commentary, Hot Air, The Caucus and National Review
The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: A district-by-district analysis of results and interactive map — D: Roy Herron, 37% R: Stephen Fincher, 47% — Washington 3 — D: Denny Heck, 40% R: Jaime Herrera, 42% — Arkansas 1 — D: Chad Causey, 34% R: Rick Crawford, 46% — Wisconsin 7 — Illinois 10
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WisPolitics DC Wrap
Eric Dondero / Libertarian Republican:
MAINE: Nazi symbols spray-painted on Jewish Republican candidate's signs — Media Blackout! — From Eric Dondero: — Symbols of the National Socialist Party (NAZIs) were recently spray-painted on signs of a Jewish Republican candidate for Maine State Senate. Blogger Al Diamon DownEast.com explains:
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.
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 …
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 »
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
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
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, Open Left, ArchPundit, Talking Points Memo, Rumproast, Hullabaloo and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's outsized ego — Obama's arrogance problem isn't a matter of psychology but of strategy. — “That's all right, all of you know who I am,” President Obama joked last week when the presidential seal fell off his podium during a speech in Pittsburgh.
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The Agonist
Michelle Conlin / Associated Press:
Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary — Banks hired hair stylists, teens to process foreclosure documents, workers' testimony shows — Related Quotes — NEW YORK (AP) — In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007, financial institutions …
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Zandar Versus The Stupid, The Market Ticker and Emptywheel
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
Quinnipiac University:
Rubio Shows Crist His Heels In Florida Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Democrat Meek A Distant Third — In the Florida U.S. Senate race, Republican Marco Rubio is running away with a commanding 44 - 30 percent likely voter lead over Gov. Charlie Crist, running as an independent …
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Hotline On Call, Orlando Sentinel, Post on Politics and The Buzz