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The Atlantic Online:
MoveOn Supporter Brutally Attacked by Rand Paul Supporter — The Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate may have been staid, but things were not so outside the debate. A Kentucky reader sends word that according to the local Fox affiliate, a young woman affiliated with MoveOn.org was brutally attacked …
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Lauren Valle / WDRB-TV:
Woman stomped outside Conway-Paul debate — Watch Video — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) — Outside the Conway-Paul debate, a Rand Paul supporter pulled the woman's blonde wig off and stomped on her head. She was representing the liberal organization MoveOn.org and claimed to be presenting Paul with an award from RepubliCorp.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Rand Paul Supporter Stomps Head Of Female MoveOn Member Outside KY Debate (VIDEO) — Josh Green flagged an incident that occurred outside of the Rand Paul-Jack Conway debate in Lexington, Kentucky Monday night that's already dominating the news in Kentucky and could easily make headlines nationally.
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Gateway Pundit, WTVQ-TV, The Mahablog, Right Wing News, The Hill and Balloon Juice
The Huffington Post:
Apparent Rand Paul Supporter Stomps On MoveOn Member's Head (VIDEO) (UPDATED) — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … An ugly scene took place outside the Kentucky Senatorial debate Monday night as what appeared to be a supporter of Republican candidate Rand Paul was captured by a local news affiliate …
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Kentucky Post, 2 Political Junkies and Oliver Willis
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, Scared Monkeys and CNN
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Obama assails GOP on clouded final campaign push — WOONSOCKET, R.I. - President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midterm election campaigning, but his party's prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
‘Fighting’ Obama tells House Dem candidate to ‘run scared’ — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — President Obama, working overtime to blunt his party's losses on election day next week, told a Democratic candidate here to “run scared.” — Obama also attracted criticism during the trip for not endorsing …
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The Politico
Dave Poff / RedState:
And Even STILL I Am Not Allowed To Make A Racial Slur About Our President?
And Even STILL I Am Not Allowed To Make A Racial Slur About Our President?
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Riehl World View
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Remain in Control of Race for House
Republicans Remain in Control of Race for House
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FiveThirtyEight, Wake up America and Taegan Goddard's …
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 …
Fhardingj / CNN:
Aide fired over Florida debate foul — Tampa (CNN) - Alex Sink's campaign violated rules Monday evening at the CNN/St. Petersburg Times Florida gubernatorial debate when her make-up artist delivered a message during a television break. — Sink, the Democratic nominee …
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St. Petersburg Times, Politics Daily, Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's …, RedState, Breitbart.tv and Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Treasury Draws Negative Yield for First Time During TIPS Sale — The Treasury sold $10 billion of five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities at a negative yield for the first time at a U.S. debt auction as investors bet the Federal Reserve will be successful in sparking inflation.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Inflation Bonds Are Sold With Negative Yield for First Time
Inflation Bonds Are Sold With Negative Yield for First Time
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Marginal Revolution, Modeled Behavior and The Distributed Republic
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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William Yardley / New York Times:
In Alaska Senate Race, Front-Runner Isn't on Ballot
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says — The United States Treasury concealed $40 billion in likely taxpayer losses on the bailout of the American International Group earlier this month, when it abandoned its usual method for valuing investments, according to a report by the special inspector general …
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The Big Picture and Vox Popoli
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J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
Treasury hiring FOIA officers ‘to withhold information from release to public’
Treasury hiring FOIA officers ‘to withhold information from release to public’
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The Sundries Shack and Bloomberg
Tyler Durden / zero hedge:
SIGTARP Calls Out Tim Geithner On Various Violations Including Data Manipulation, Lack Of Transparency, “Cruel” Cynicism, And Gross Incompetence — SigTarp Neil Barofsky has just released the most scathing critique of all the idiots in the administration, with a particular soft spot for Tim Geithner.
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AmSpecBlog and The Other McCain
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
How Obama Lost the Narrative
How Obama Lost the Narrative
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Politics Daily, TalkLeft, Mother Jones and AMERICAblog News
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, The Washington Independent and iOwnTheWorld.com
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Jon Stewart's march is no laughing matter — I don't know about you, but my heart sank when I read about Jon Stewart's Million Moderate March, planned for the Mall next weekend. My heart sank further when I learned that liberal groups, lacking any better ideas, have decided to take this endeavor seriously.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
No Second Thoughts — When times get tough, it's really important to believe in yourself. This is something the Democrats have done splendidly this year. The polls have been terrible, and the party may be heading for a historic defeat, but Democrats have done a magnificent job of maintaining their own self-esteem.
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Hendrik Hertzberg / New Yorker:
RECESSION ELECTION — Franklin Roosevelt was a lucky man and, in 1932, a lucky candidate. Start with the name—or, as today's political marketers would say, the brand. F.D.R.'s name paired that of the twinkly, kindly philosopher of the American Revolution—the Uncle of His Country …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Senate Odds Slip on Colorado, West Virginia Polls — While Republicans' position is holding steady in the House — where they are 4:1 favorites to win control of the chamber according to our analysis — their chances of also taking over the Senate declined in today's forecast.
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Prairie Weather, Talking Points Memo, The Page and The Daily Caller
George Soros / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Support Legal Marijuana — We should invest in effective education rather than ineffective arrest and incarceration. — Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance …
John H. Cochrane / Wall Street Journal:
Geithner's Global Central Planning — The Chinese government's accumulation of U.S. debt represents a tragic investment decision, not a currency-manipulation effort. — Economists are full of bad ideas. Terrible ideas seem to emerge when the gurus get together to talk about coordinating their bad ideas.
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Grasping Reality …
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 Politico, The Political Carnival, The Note, HarryReid.com and Salon
Ian Cobain / Guardian:
UK interrogation manuals discovered — Exclusive: Methods devised in secret in recent years may breach international law — The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered.
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Telegraph, Firedoglake and LewRockwell.com Blog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Obama's turnout pitch to Latinos: Get out there and punish your “enemies” — I wonder how this rhetoric squares with his standard condescending line about Republican-leaning voters not thinking clearly because their minds are clouded by economic anxiety. Does economic anxiety also explain …
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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DownWithTyranny!, Whiskey Fire and National Review
Eric Lach / TPMDC:
Tea Party Nation: Retire Rep. Ellison For Being A Muslim — This weekend, Tea Party Nation (TPN) sent an email in support of Lynne Torgerson, who is running against Rep. Keith Ellison in Minnesota. In the email, TPN lists the reasons Ellison should be “retired.” Among them: “He is the only Muslim member of congress.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and The Maddow Blog
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Assessing Prop 19 — Tomorrow we'll have new polls out in California and Kentucky. One of the big questions in California this year has been how big of an impact Proposition 19, the ballot proposal to legalize marijuana, will have on turnout in the state.
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Just Say Now