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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
Reid lost the debate to Angle — Let's get the easy part out of the way first: — Sharron Angle won The Big Debate. — Angle won because she looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West (Christine O'Donnell is the good witch of the Tea Party) and scoring many more rhetorical points.
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The New Republic:
Reid My Lips: Last Night Was a Disaster — The Senate majority leader should've stayed home. — Why Harry Reid agreed to have a debate with Sharron Angle is a bit of a mystery to me. If your campaign is based on portraying your opponent as loony, then why give that opponent a chance to look reasonable?
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American Power, Guardian, Comments from Left Field and Swampland
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The New Normal — I didn't see last night's debate between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, but the consensus seems to be that both speakers were terrible. However, Angle may have benefited from galactically low expectations. “Angle repeatedly found herself in verbal cul-de-sacs …
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Outside the Beltway
Tunku Varadarajan / The Daily Beast:
Why I'm Rooting for Sharron Angle — It's easy for a libertarian to wish for all-around Republican victories in the midterms. What's more delicate is supporting political aberrations like Angle, Paladino, and O'Donnell. By Tunku Varadarajan. — As the midterm elections approach …
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The Agitator, alicublog, Hit & Run and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Nevada Fight Night fizzles
Nevada Fight Night fizzles
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The Daily Caller, CNN, The Huffington Post, New York Times, Washington Post, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, Washington Wire and The Page
Las Vegas Sun:
Transcript of the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle debate, Oct. 14, 2010
Transcript of the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle debate, Oct. 14, 2010
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Washington Post, PostPartisan and NewsBusters.org blogs
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Analyzing the Angle-Reid debate
Analyzing the Angle-Reid debate
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Club for Growth, The Daily Caller, The Page and National Review
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Candidates play man-upsmanship
Candidates play man-upsmanship
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Washington Wire and Indecision Forever
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mortgage Morass — American officials used to lecture other countries about their economic failings and tell them that they needed to emulate the U.S. model. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, in particular, led to a lot of self-satisfied moralizing.
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Firedoglake, Benzinga.com, The Moderate Voice, Hullabaloo, JustOneMinute, Obsidian Wings, Washington Post, Opinionator, Outside the Beltway, Yglesias, naked capitalism, Shakesville, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, AMERICAblog News, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Connecting.the.Dots, Prairie Weather, Scripting News and Corrente
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Mortgage Mess May Cost Big Banks Billions
Mortgage Mess May Cost Big Banks Billions
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Mother Jones and Felix Salmon
Mara Liasson / NPR:
NPR Poll Offers Sliver Of Hope For Democrats — With only 18 days left until Election Day, an NPR survey of likely voters in battleground districts found that while the overall field still tilts to the GOP, Democrats are closing the gap in some places. — The good news for Democrats …
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The Note
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Glen Bolger / Public Opinion Strategies:
An In-Depth Look At Key Congressional Races — NPR Survey
An In-Depth Look At Key Congressional Races — NPR Survey
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National Review
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Monetary Policy Objectives and Tools in a Low-Inflation Environment — The topic of this conference—the formulation and conduct of monetary policy in a low-inflation environment—is timely indeed. From the late 1960s until a decade or so ago, bringing inflation under control was viewed …
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Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Bernanke Signals Intent to Further Spur Economy
Bernanke Signals Intent to Further Spur Economy
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Pajamas Media, The Atlantic Online, New York Magazine, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Calculated Risk
Ezra Klein:
Do the polls back up the attacks on the Chamber of Commerce? — From one “Beltway inside-game commentator” to another: No, the attacks on the Chamber of Commerce aren't helping Democrats in the election. A MoveOn.org poll showing that voters respond negatively when asked …
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The Washington Independent, Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Barack Obama and the Chamber of Secrets
Barack Obama and the Chamber of Secrets
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Swampland and The Plum Line
Jessica Taylor / The Politico:
Poll: Joe Manchin ahead by 10 points — Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin has opened up a double-digit lead over Republican John Raese in the West Virginia Senate special election, according to a new independent poll set for release Friday morning. — The Marshall University poll shows Manchin taking 48 percent …
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RedState, Don Surber, TPMDC, Daily Kos and National Review
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Tom Odula / Associated Press:
Obama's half brother in Kenya says he married teen — NAIROBI, Kenya - President Barack Obama's polygamist half brother in Kenya has married a woman who is more than 30 years younger than him. — The 19-year-old's mother told The Associated Press on Friday she is furious …
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HillBuzz, iOwnTheWorld.com, Gawker, Gateway Pundit and Atlas Shrugs
DutchNews.nl:
Wilders not guilty on all counts - Update — The public prosecution department on Friday afternoon stated that Geert Wilders is not guilty of discriminating against Muslims. Earlier on Friday it announced he should also be found not guilty of inciting hatred.
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Jihad Watch, Pajamas Media, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
From a Maine House, a National Foreclosure Freeze — DENMARK, Me. — The house that set off the national furor over faulty foreclosures is blue-gray and weathered. The porch is piled with furniture and knickknacks awaiting the next yard sale. In the driveway is a busted pickup truck.
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Developments, Emptywheel and The Big Picture
William P. Barrett / Informer:
Hey, Secret Big Political Donor, Don't Forget The 35% Gift Tax — In the run-up to next month's elections, a big and controversial development has been the ability of tycoons to make unlimited political donations without any public disclosure whatsoever. This is done by giving the money to certain 501 …
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Ben Smith's Blog, msk.com, The Washington Independent and TaxProf Blog
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Tea Party Set to Win Enough Races for Wide Influence — Enough Tea Party-supported candidates are running strongly in competitive and Republican-leaning Congressional races that the movement stands a good chance of establishing a sizable caucus to push its agenda in the House and the Senate, according to a New York Times analysis.
Fhardingj / CNN:
What the numbers say about progress in Afghanistan — Washington (CNN) - American support for the war in Afghanistan has never been lower, according to the latest CNN polling. The low numbers just the latest figure in the complex math being calculated to determine how the US should proceed in the ten year war.
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Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Feds oppose Calif. Prop 19 to legalize marijuana — SAN FRANCISCO — Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if voters next month make the state the first in the nation to legalize the drug.
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The Hill, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
How Romney made a bestseller — Mitt Romney boosted sales of his book this spring by asking institutions to buy thousands of copies in exchange for his speeches, according to a document obtained by POLITICO. — Romney's book tour ran from early March to late May of this year …
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The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, Conservatives4Palin.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
D.S.C.C. Has Record-Breaking Month — Democrats may be struggling against a political headwind and a new cadre of conservative groups, but the national party organizations appear to be having no trouble raising money. — The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will report later …
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Daily Kos, Ben Smith's Blog and Hotline On Call
John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Pamela Geller Interview — It has been great to see my friend Pamela Geller from Atlas Shrugs starting to gain more national prominence. She's a got a new book out, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, she's been the point person on the Ground Zero Mosque right …
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Dem State Senator: My Redneck Constituents Don't Want Free Health Care for Illegals — This website uses IntenseDebate comments, but they are not currently loaded because either your browser doesn't support JavaScript, or they didn't load fast enough.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama, Biden heap praise on Coons and each other at Del. rally — President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Friday appeared at their first joint campaign rally this year on behalf Delaware nominee Chris Coons (D), lauding him and one another after two years in office.
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