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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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The Plum Line, cn|2 Politics, Taylor Marsh, The Reality-Based Community and Hullabaloo
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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.
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The Political Carnival, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Other McCain
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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Right Wing News, WTVQ-TV, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
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, Oliver Willis and 2 Political Junkies
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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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 and CNN
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 …
Dave Poff / RedState:
And Even STILL I Am Not Allowed To Make A Racial Slur About Our President? After THIS? AYFKM!?!?!? — I almost don't have words...almost: … In the new post-racial America, brought to us by Barack “don't call me black or white, just call me American” Obama, we have been told our differences …
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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 …
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Can ‘Take His Endorsement And...Shove It’
Obama Can ‘Take His Endorsement And...Shove It’
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Gawker, CBS News, 630wpro.com, The Moderate Voice and Blue Gal
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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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
Good Old Tail-Gunner Joe Miller
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Fhardingj / CNN:
TRENDING: 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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RedState, The Atlantic Online, 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-protected securities sold at negative yields for the first time ever on Monday as traders anticipate that the Federal Reserve will start a new round of asset purchases. — Analysts said that asset purchases by the Fed …
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Marginal Revolution, Modeled Behavior and The Distributed Republic
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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TalkLeft, Mother Jones and AMERICAblog News
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 Political Carnival, The Note, Salon and HarryReid.com
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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, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Washington Independent
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 …
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Creative Minority Report
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Ashley Southall / The Caucus:
Obama Vows to Push Immigration Changes
Obama Vows to Push Immigration Changes
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Henry / Crooked Timber:
Rhetorical violence … Megan McArdle 2003 vintage … I'm afraid I'm not quite bright enough to understand why kerb-stomping-as-a-metaphor for-argumentative-victory is creepy and unfunny, while actually beating up war-protesters with bits of lumber is hee-LAIRIUS.
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The Atlantic Online
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Paragraphs to Ponder — From Scientific American, on “taboo trade-offs”:
Paragraphs to Ponder — From Scientific American, on “taboo trade-offs”:
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The New Republic, Outside the Beltway and Mother Jones
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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Talking Points Memo, The Page and The Daily Caller
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
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
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.
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 …
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 Hullabaloo
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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Power Line, Taylor Marsh, protein wisdom, The Washington Note and The Politico
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Donation to Rove-tied group sparks Gold's Gym revolt — (UPDATED)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 …
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