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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Lisa's Gall vs. Miller's Honor — I have never seen a candidate stoop as low as was seen last night in Alaska's senatorial debate. — Alaska's Joe Miller is facing a tough three-way race for U.S. Senate. Though Joe decisively defeated the incumbent Senator in the primary …
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Ben Stein / Alaska Dispatch:
Good Old Tail-Gunner Joe Miller — When we think of a dangerous politician in these United States, if we are of a certain age, we think of Broderick Crawford playing “Willy Stark,” the doppelganger for Huey Long, the colorful, swaggering demagogue of Louisiana in the Depression era …
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
AK senate hopeful admits earlier policy violation
AK senate hopeful admits earlier policy violation
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Politics Daily and National Review
Bill Haberman / 630wpro.com:
Caprio tells WPRO President can “shove” his endorsement — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio is livid after the Providence Journal reported Monday morning President Obama would not endorse Caprio during his visit to the state today. — “He can take his endorsement and really shove it” …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Gets a Caustic Welcome in Rhode Island — WOONSOCKET, R.I. - Welcome to Rhode Island, where Democratic politics are so quirky that the party's nominee for governor welcomed President Obama on Monday by declaring, on live radio, that the president could “take his endorsement and really shove it.”
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The Politico
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: How to spot a GOP wave
First Thoughts: How to spot a GOP wave
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Next Media Animation:
Jon Stewart rallies the troops in Washington — Guest starring Nicholas J Longtin as ‘Sane Demonstrator’. — Comedian Jon Stewart plans to hold a rally for viewers and fans in Washington on October 30. Dubbed the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” the event is seen as a response to a similar rally held by Glenn Beck over the summer.
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Just who does Jon Stewart think he is?
Just who does Jon Stewart think he is?
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Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Government Doesn't Suck' march planned
'Government Doesn't Suck' march planned
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Anjeanette Damon / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Sharron Angle dodges press at Reno event — In recent days, the Nevada Democratic Party has set up a website tracking Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle's expected appearances. Angle has refused press interviews and hasn't held any public events since the debate.
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The Note, The Political Carnival, Salon and HarryReid.com
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Robert Reich / The Huffington Post:
After the Midterms: Why Democrats Move to the Center, and Republicans Don't — What's Your Reaction: — If Republicans succeed in taking over the House and come even close to gaining a majority in the Senate, expect calls for the president to “move to the center.”
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David Segal / New York Times:
Restaurants' Best Press: ‘Bill Clinton Ate Here’
Restaurants' Best Press: ‘Bill Clinton Ate Here’
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Mother Jones
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Bill Clinton ‘disturbed and ticked off’
Bill Clinton ‘disturbed and ticked off’
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Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell: I Want To Be Senate Majority Leader In Order To Make Obama A One-Term President — From the moment Obama entered office, right-wing conservatives embraced the posture of hell-bent opposition. Recall, in Jan. 2009, hate radio host Rush Limbaugh expressed his hope that Obama fails.
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The Note:
Sarah Palin Gets Gift of Pink Underwear from Sheriff Arpaio — ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: — Add this to list of bizarre and unusual campaign trail antics: at last week's Tea Party Express rally in Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio welcomed Sarah Palin with a pair of pink underwear.
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Balloon Juice, Little Green Footballs and The Washington Independent
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
Dems' House Losses Likely Enormous, but Senate Hard to Read — There is no clear narrative in the Senate, just bizarre ups and downs. — Sen. Russell Feingold and Republican candidate Ron Johnson debate. — It's easy to look at what appears to be a gigantic Republican 2010 midterm election wave …
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The Politico, Taylor Marsh, protein wisdom, The Capitol Fax Blog and The Washington Note
David Brody / The Brody File:
Christine O'Donnell Interview With The Brody File — In an exclusive sit-down interview with The Brody File, Christine O'Donnell says first time voters in Delaware will propel her to victory on November 2nd despite the media's “double standard” against conservative women.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi: 'We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done' — Democrats haven't necessarily gotten the credit they're due for the work they've done the last two years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. — Pelosi, in the middle of a tough campaign to defend Democrats' majority …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Democratic Rep. Taylor says he voted for McCain, not Obama
Democratic Rep. Taylor says he voted for McCain, not Obama
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Sun Herald, Sister Toldjah, Washington Wire, The Fix, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers, TPMDC, Beltway Confidential, Daily Kos and National Review
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Aide to Harry Reid Lied to Feds, Submitted False Documents About Sham Marriage — An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid repeatedly lied to federal immigration and FBI agents and submitted false federal documents to the Department of Homeland Security to cover …
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Weasel Zippers
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Second Pass at Early Voting Totals: Now With Extra Skepticism — I've gotten a lot of pushback on my column from Sunday night about early voting figures. Michael P. McDonald of the Huffington Post, for instance — whose work I referenced at a couple of points in my article - calls it …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Republican: Expect ‘two years of good old-fashioned gridlock’ if GOP wins House — Voters should expect “good old-fashioned gridlock” in Washington if Republicans win control of one or both chambers of Congress, one GOP lawmaker said. — Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a vice chairman …
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Remain in Control of Race for House — Democrats have gained modestly among independents — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans remain in position to win control of the House of Representatives in next week's midterm elections, although Democrats are doing slightly better now than they were early in October.
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FiveThirtyEight, Taegan Goddard's … and Wake up America
Andrew Marcus / Big Government:
Identified: Right Nation Protester Who Called Andrew Breitbart ‘Gay’ Is A Democrat Party Official — During last month's Right Nation gathering just outside of Chicago, Andrew Breitbart found himself confronting a group of angry protesters who had been bussed in by the Democratic Party.
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Tennessean.com:
(5 of 7) — “It really undermines the trust in nonprofits,” he said. “This is really off the grid.” — The Frist Foundation's Bird said the discrepancy between the Investigative Project's application to the IRS and its practices is troubling. — “It looks like they told the government one thing and did another,” he said.
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Salon, Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs, TPMMuckraker and Little Green Footballs
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Donation to Rove-tied group sparks Gold's Gym revolt — Four Gold's Gyms franchises in the San Francisco Bay Area will leave the Gold's brand after 22 years following the revelation that the owner of Gold's gave $2 million to American Crossroads, the conservative outfit that is funding candidates who are unfriendly to gay rights.
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SpeakEasy
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
WHAT'S WRONG WITH “THE NEW ELITE?” Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the “new elite” is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent. They are credentialed, but those credentials aren't so much markers for smartness or competence …
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protein wisdom and alicublog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Falling Into the Chasm — This is what happens when you need to leap over an economic chasm — but either can't or won't jump far enough, so that you only get part of the way across. — If Democrats do as badly as expected in next week's elections, pundits will rush to interpret the results as a referendum on ideology.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Manchin expands lead — The great challenge of Joe Manchin's Senate campaign has been this: convincing West Virginia voters who like him but don't like Barack Obama to let their affection for him outweigh their animosity toward the President in deciding how to vote this fall.
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Politics Daily, National Review, The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
Alexis Levinson / The Daily Caller:
Scalia takes Kagan to gun range, sources say — According to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week. — The witnesses saw Scalia at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club …
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Yassin Musharbash / Spiegel Online:
A Top Terrorist Returns to Al-Qaida Fold — Former al-Qaida military chief Saif al-Adel spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran. He has now returned to Waziristan in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan and appears to have got his old job back.
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The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Paragraphs to Ponder — From Scientific American, on “taboo trade-offs”: … For me, this resonates with my growing disgust at the level of anger in the blogosphere. I don't mean irritation, pointed jibes, or even spirited discussion; I mean an aggressive revelling in rage.
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New York Times:
Taking Harder Stance Toward China, Obama Lines Up Allies — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, facing a vexed relationship with China on exchange rates, trade, and security issues, is stiffening its approach toward Beijing, seeking allies to confront a newly assertive power that officials …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Top 10 districts in outside spending — Ground zero for the midterm election is in the middle of the Midwest, a Michigan district so milquetoast that its chief attraction is “Cereal City” in Battle Creek. — With a week left to go in the campaign, outside groups have spent $6 million …