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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
On the Daily Show, Obama is the last laugh — On Comedy Central, the joke was on President Obama Wednesday night. — The president had come, on the eve of what will almost certainly be the loss of his governing majority, to plead his case before Jon Stewart, gatekeeper of the disillusioned left.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama pleads for patience from Stewart on ‘Daily Show’ — President Obama took to The Daily Show on Wednesday as part of his effort to motivate the young voters who propelled him into the Oval Office in 2008. — The president, who faces a possible GOP takeover of the House in less than a week …
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The Politico:
Jon Stewart gets serious — Jon Stewart's “Rally to Restore Sanity” on the Mall Saturday has occasioned handwringing from some devoted fans who worry that he's losing his outsider credibility, and celebration from some Democrats who hope to channel his energy to advance their electoral prospects.
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Don Surber, TBD All News and Ben Smith's Blog
Alessandra Stanley / ArtsBeat:
The TV Watch: Access and the Plight of the Political Comedian
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Hank Stuever / Washington Post:
Obama is a guest as Jon Stewart brings his ‘Daily Show’ gags to town
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Obama, Jon Stewart and Change
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The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, Bloomberg and Outside the Beltway
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama says he's evolving on gay marriage — President Barack Obama told a group of liberal bloggers Wednesday that his views on same-sex marriage, which he has previously opposed, are evolving and that society is moving in the direction of granting marriage rights to same-sex couples.
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Washington Monthly, JustOneMinute, Towleroad News #gay, GayPatriot, Power Line and Pam's House Blend
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Oliver Willis:
Full Transcript Of President Obama's Meeting With Progressive Bloggers — THE PRESIDENT: Well, listen, I know we've got limited time, so I'm not going to give a long speech on the front end. — I thank you guys for coming in. Obviously a huge part of my base reads you guys, cares about what you do.
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The Hill, Booman Tribune, TPMMuckraker and Barefoot and Progressive
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama tells bloggers he has a lame-duck strategy to end DADT — President Obama told a small group of liberal bloggers Wednesday that he has a strategy for ending “Don't ask, don't tell” during the lame-duck session. — Obama declined to divulge his plans for ending the controversial law through Congress …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog Gay:
Transcript of Q and A with the President about DADT and Same-sex marriage — UPDATE: The entire transcript (including non-gay questions) is over on the main site. — This doesn't happen every day, so I'm posting on both sites. — As John reported, I attended a question-and-answer session …
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Firedoglake, Fox News, Raw Story, AMERICAblog News, Pam's House Blend and Wonk Room
Atrios / Eschaton:
My Day — Have not had chance to read. — THE WHITE HOUSE
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ThinkProgress, The Agonist and Corrente
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Tea party antics could end up burning Republicans — The tea party's volatile influence on this election year appears to be doing more harm than good for Republicans' chances in some of the closest races in the nation, in which little-known candidates who upset the establishment with primary wins …
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Firedoglake, Reuters, Swampland, American Power, Guardian and Left Coast Rebel
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AKMuckraker / The Mudflats:
Breaking: New Alaska Senate Poll Shows McAdams Surging Past Embattled Joe Miller — A new poll conducted by Hays Research confirms what we already intuitively know. Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's candidacy is in big trouble. — The percentage of those who feel either …
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The Huffington Post, National Review, Booman Tribune, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hill
Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: Paul leads Kentucky Senate race
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The Politico, The Note, Page One, Daily Kos and Bluegrass Politics
Bloomberg:
Republicans Win House, Get No Mandate in Poll Favoring Clinton — Republicans are poised to retake the U.S. House next week without a mandate from voters to carry out their policies, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. — The minority party, whose supporters are more motivated and enthusiastic …
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The Politico, The Washington Independent and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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New York Times:
Obama Coalition Is Fraying, Poll Finds — Critical parts of the coalition that delivered President Obama to the White House in 2008 and gave Democrats control of Congress in 2006 are switching their allegiance to the Republicans in the final phase of the midterm Congressional elections …
Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's suitability for president — Karl Rove, the former senior adviser to George W Bush, has cast doubt on Sarah Palin's viability as a White House candidate, questioning if the American people thought she had the “gravitas” for the “most demanding job in the world”.
Laura Sullivan / NPR:
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law … Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. — Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. — “The gentleman that's the main thrust of this thing …
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The Washington Independent and Prairie Weather
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHAT SHARRON ANGLE CONSIDERS ‘WICKED’.... In some uses of slang, I suppose “wicked” could be flattering. If Chuckie Sullivan says, “My friend Will Hunting is wicked smart,” it's intended as praise. — When extremist Senate candidate Sharron Angle characterizes Social Security as “wicked …
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Blazing Cat Fur:
Richard Warman Sues Blazingcatfur For Linking To “Far Right” Mark Steyn — About 18 months ago everybody's favourite Ex-Canadian Human Rights Commission employee Richard Warman launched one of his many, as in very many, SLAPP suits against yours truly for, among other dastardly deeds …
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Gates of Vienna, Patterico's Pontifications, five feet of fury. and Jay Currie
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Angle Turns Corner in Nevada, but G.O.P. Senate Odds Drop — Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate in Nevada, has been improving her position in our forecast in recent days, and for the first time since the spring has better than a three-in-four chance to win her race against Harry Reid, according to the FiveThirtyEight model.
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Alex Altman / Time:
Poll: Independents Keep GOP Ahead in Four Key Senate Races
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Boehner To Appear with Nazi Reenactor — I'd thought Richard Iott had been put out to pasture after news broke that his main hobby was Nazi reenacting. After that Rep. Eric Cantor (R) denounced him. And then everything pretty much went down hill from there when he started saying …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Atlantic Online, Guardian, The Moderate Voice and Firedoglake
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Simone Baribeau / Bloomberg:
Florida Democrat Leads Quinnipiac University Governor Poll for First Time — Florida Democrat Alex Sink leads Republican Rick Scott in the race for governor of the fourth- most-populous U.S. state for the first time in a Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters.
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Arkansas School Board Member Wants ‘Fags’ To ‘Commit Suicide’ And To ‘Give Each Other AIDS And Die’ — Last week, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) asked people to “Go Purple” to call attention to the suicides of six teenagers who were victims of homophobic bullying.
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Daily Kos, Politics Daily, Feministing and Balloon Juice
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Independents Drive GOP Midterm Advantage — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — With the midterm elections less than a week away, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that Republicans continue …
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Scared Monkeys, Libertarian Leanings and AMERICAblog News
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
2010 Electorate Still Looking More Republican Than in the Past — GOP Election Day advantage aided by surge in independents who lean Republican — PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's latest figures on the composition of the 2010 electorate suggest that, consistent with an earlier Gallup report …
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Hot Air and Questions and Observations
Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews: How Long Before We See Tea Partiers Start Showing Up in Uniform, 1930s Style? — Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, not so cryptically compared the actions of Republican volunteers to that of Nazi-style tactics from the 1930s as he claimed the restraining of a MoveOn.org activist …
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The Other McCain, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, Doug Ross and Media Research Center
Wall Street Journal:
Channeling Milton Friedman — Enough about John Maynard Keynes. We can be sure the 20th century British economic giant would advise more government spending to spur U.S. economic growth with consumers and businesses so hesitant and short-term interest rates at zero.
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