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Ben Evans / Associated Press:
O'Donnell questions separation of church, state — WILMINGTON, Del. — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, appearing to disagree or not know that the First Amendment bars the government from establishing religion.
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Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Christine O'Donnell: “Where in the Constitution is the Separation …
Christine O'Donnell: “Where in the Constitution is the Separation …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Christine O'Donnell questions separation of church, state
Christine O'Donnell questions separation of church, state
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Christine O'Donnell unsure on separation of church and state
Christine O'Donnell unsure on separation of church and state
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Amy Cherry / WDEL 1150AM, Wilmington, DE:
O'Donnell and Coons face off in WDEL debate
O'Donnell and Coons face off in WDEL debate
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
99 Dem House seats in danger — With two weeks remaining until Election Day, the political map has expanded to put Democrats on the run across the country - with 99 Democratic-held House seats now in play, according to a POLITICO analysis, and Republicans well in reach of retaking the House.
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats' Grip on the South Continues to Slip — JONESBORO, Ark. — The Southern white Democrat, long on the endangered list, is at risk of being pushed one step closer to extinction. — From Virginia to Florida and South Carolina to Texas, nearly two dozen Democratic seats are susceptible …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Don't Follow the Money — Over the past few months …
Don't Follow the Money — Over the past few months …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Half-Dozen N.Y. Races May Help G.O.P. Win House
Half-Dozen N.Y. Races May Help G.O.P. Win House
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
From Obama, the Tax Cut Nobody Heard Of — HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — What if a president cut Americans' income taxes by $116 billion and nobody noticed? — It is not a rhetorical question. At Pig Pickin' and Politickin', a barbecue-fed rally organized here last week by a Republican women's club …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Pennsylvania Senate tied — You can put Pennsylvania Senate back in the toss up category. Joe Sestak leads Pat Toomey 46-45 in our newest poll of the race, erasing the 9 point deficit he had in an August PPP survey. — Toomey's support has remained stagnant over the last 2 months …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Bill Clinton's Impact More Positive for Democrats Than Obama's
Bill Clinton's Impact More Positive for Democrats Than Obama's
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Oh, the pain! Voters of all stripes — even Republicans …
Oh, the pain! Voters of all stripes — even Republicans …
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Charleston Daily Mail:
U.S. Senate endorsement: John Raese — The nation is on the wrong track, and changing the Senate is essential — WEST Virginians must soon choose who will represent them in the U.S. Senate for the next two years. The issue in the race is how Democrats have used their 59-41 majority …
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls Track Close Races in Key States
Fox News Polls Track Close Races in Key States
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Remain Favored to Retain Senate
Democrats Remain Favored to Retain Senate
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Bob Herbert / New York Times:
That Sinking Feeling — Barack Obama seems to think he's done a pretty terrific job as president, but maybe he hasn't trumpeted his accomplishments effectively enough. — He told The Times's Peter Baker, in an interview for the Sunday magazine, “Given how much stuff was coming at us …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Aqua Buddha prank victim: Jack Conway ad is “over the top,” but accurate, raises legit questions — Dem Jack Conway's new ad hammering Rand Paul over his college excesses is accurate on the facts, and it's legit to raise questions about his past views as a way of probing whether his current posture …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Just Coming Right Out & Saying It — There are a lot of subterranean efforts afoot around the country right now to suppress the vote of various racial minorities. But a group styling itself Latinos for Reform is taking a more straightforward approach: they're running ads in Nevada asking Latino voters simply not to vote.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Anti-Reid group to Hispanic voters: 'Don't Vote'
Anti-Reid group to Hispanic voters: 'Don't Vote'
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Albany Governor Debate Verges on Farce — The moderators' questions were frequently ignored. The candidates barely looked at one another. One wore black gloves and spoke of himself repeatedly in the third person. And Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic candidate and the race's front-runner, at times struggled to suppress laughter.
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Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
Rich professors doth protest too much — President Barack Obama plans to raise taxes on “the rich,” and he defines rich as those making more than $250,000 a year. Two professors at prestigious universities have started brush fires on the Web during the past couple of weeks by taking issue and offering themselves as examples.
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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
National Debt Up $3 Trillion on Obama's Watch — New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office. — The National Debt stood at $10.626 trillion the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
Helpless Liberals Watch as Obama Switches from Messiah to Demon — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: I don't care where you look today, folks. Everywhere in the State-Controlled Media, this election is being reported as a Democrat disaster. Anywhere from 55 to 70, maybe 80 seats in the House …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Obama the snob — After a series of ineffective public messages — leaving the political landscape dotted with dry rhetorical wells — President Obama has hit upon a closing argument. — “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now,” he recently told a group of Democratic donors …
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Citing health care law, Boeing pares employee plan — WASHINGTON - Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers. — In a letter mailed to employees late last week, the company cited the overhaul …
Gawker.TV:
Crazy “Rent Is Too Damn High” Candidate Steals the Show at NY Gov. Debate — We told you that tonight's New York gubernatorial debate—with seven participants!—would be crazy, but we could have never anticipated this level of it: watch as Jimmy McMillan, of the “Rent Is Too Damn High” party, uh... introduces himself.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gregg: Repeal not best tactic on healthcare law — A top Senate Republican suggested Monday night that the party's prevailing strategies to curtail the new healthcare law might not be good ideas. — Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee …
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
GOP targets Harry Reid for living at the Ritz — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) Washington address has emerged as an issue in his race against Republican Sharron Angle. — The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) went up with its first TV ad in Nevada on Tuesday …
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Kimball Perry / Cincinnati.com:
Lawsuit: CPS pushing Democrats — Three van loads of Hughes High students were taken last week - during school hours - to vote and given sample ballots only for Democratic candidates and then taken for ice cream, a Monday lawsuit alleges. — The complaint was made by Thomas Brinkman Jr. …
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Washington Post:
Shots fired at Pentagon building; officials search for clues — Authorities searched Tuesday for a gunman who fired shots at the Pentagon in the early morning, possibly using a high-powered rifle. No one was injured. — The shots were fired shortly before 5 a.m., shattering …
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Victorino Matus / Weekly Standard:
Ick-arus Syndrome — Do poor ratings for ‘Parker Spitzer’ mean viewers have yet to forgive the former governor? — “Struggling cable news net CNN has fallen to another 10-year low in terms of ratings,” MediaBuyerPlanner reported last week. … This isn't the way it was supposed to happen.
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
How the Media Blew the Midterms — Even top journalists were blindsided by Christine O'Donnell, don't get the Tea Party, and feel Obama's getting short shrift. Howard Kurtz on what the mainstream press got wrong. — The media narrative by now is set in concrete: The voters are teed off …
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Ezra Klein:
Why does Obama keep telling reporters there are ‘no shovel-ready projects’? — Perhaps I should've written this post before interviewing Jared Bernstein, the vice president's chief economist, on the same subject. But if you read that interview closely, you'll see a White House that doesn't exactly …
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