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CNN:
Suspicious packages ‘contain explosive material,’ Obama says — For more coverage visit CNN affiliates WPVI and WABC. Are you there? Send pictures and video. — (CNN) — Suspicious packages found in at least two locations abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Obama Says Explosives Were U.S.-Bound — WASHINGTON — Two packages containing explosives, shipped from Yemen and addressed to synagogues in Chicago, were intercepted in Britain and Dubai, setting off a broad terrorism scare on Friday that included the scrambling of fighter jets to accompany …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Bomb found on Yemen-to-US cargo flight; Update …
Breaking: Bomb found on Yemen-to-US cargo flight; Update …
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msnbc.com, CBS News, CNN, NY Daily News, Telegraph, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, Political Byline and Patterico's Pontifications
Fox News:
Authorities Investigating Several Suspicious Packages That Originated From Yemen
Authorities Investigating Several Suspicious Packages That Originated From Yemen
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Chicago Breaking News and The Awl
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Divided We Fail — Barring a huge upset, Republicans will take control of at least one house of Congress next week. How worried should we be by that prospect? — Not very, say some pundits. After all, the last time Republicans controlled Congress while a Democrat lived in the White House …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Next Two Years — President Obama is likely to suffer a pummeling defeat on Tuesday. But the road map for his recovery is pretty straightforward. — First, the president is going to have to win back independents. Liberals are now criticizing him for being too timid.
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CEPR, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones, Swampland, The Washington Independent and TalkLeft
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The great campaign of 2010 — In a radio interview that aired Monday …
The great campaign of 2010 — In a radio interview that aired Monday …
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Wonkette, James Pethokoukis, GayPatriot, Betsy's Page and Wall Street Journal
Chicago Tribune:
Why is Assange still alive? — I'd like to ask a simple question: Why isn't Julian Assange dead? — In case you didn't know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive — and massively successful — effort to disclose secret or classified information.
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Salon, Winds of Change.NET and TalkLeft
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DougJ / Balloon Juice:
Murder he wrote — Jonah Goldberg calls for Julian Assange's murder.
Murder he wrote — Jonah Goldberg calls for Julian Assange's murder.
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National Review and First Draft
John Cook / Gawker:
Why Hasn't Jonah Goldberg Been Punched in the Face Yet Today?
Why Hasn't Jonah Goldberg Been Punched in the Face Yet Today?
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The Moderate Voice, National Review, Salon and alicublog
Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Boykin Exposes Obama's Health Care Conspiracy to Build His Brownshirt Army — This is Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, who was the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under Donald Rumsfeld until video emerged of him explaining that we were engaged in a spiritual war against Islam …
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Salon and Hullabaloo
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Was Health Reform a Mistake? Analysis from a Parallel Universe
Was Health Reform a Mistake? Analysis from a Parallel Universe
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AmSpecBlog, Wonk Room, Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and The Politico
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Swamping Murkowski — The latest from Alaska's procedural wars: — Just hours before the final deadline, more than 100 Alaskans came out Thursday to file as write-in candidates in an effort to thwart Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bid to retain her Senate seat. — At the urging of a local talk radio host …
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Steven Shepard / Hotline On Call:
Poll: Murkowski Leads Miller, McAdams
Poll: Murkowski Leads Miller, McAdams
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Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and Alaska Dispatch
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
DSCC going on air in Alaska
DSCC going on air in Alaska
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Big Government, Riehl World View and National Review
Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire:
Meek: I Turned Down Crist Cross — Florida independent Senate candidate Charlie Crist personally lobbied Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek to exit the race this week, offering him a cross that had been a gift from his sister, Mr. Meek said Friday. — The gesture occurred Monday as Mr. Crist …
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National Review and Orlando Sentinel
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire:
Crist Would Caucus With Democrats, Advisor Says — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist would caucus with Senate Democrats if he wins Florida's three-way U.S. Senate contest on Tuesday, a close advisor told Washington Wire Friday. — That's a big “if.” Mr. Crist is trailing Republican candidate Marco Rubio in most polls.
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iOwnTheWorld.com, The Fix, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Naked Politics, Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Woman Receives Death Threats Days After Beck Targets Her On His Show — The League of Women Voters has filed complaints with police in Evanston, IL and the FBI saying that one of their officials has been targeted by death threats relating to a candidatess debate she moderated last week.
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Daily Herald and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Angle poll data improve — Reid countering with huge effort to get out his voters — Positioned to pull off the biggest upset in the nation, GOP challenger Sharron Angle heads into Election Day leading Democratic incumbent Sen. Harry Reid by 4 percentage points, says a new poll for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid: Sharron Angle is “pathological”
Harry Reid: Sharron Angle is “pathological”
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air and Ben Smith's Blog
Michael P. McDonald / The Huffington Post:
A Late Democratic Early Voting Surge in Nevada
A Late Democratic Early Voting Surge in Nevada
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Las Vegas Sun Blogs, CNN, POLISING, Capitol Hill Blue and America's Voice Blog
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Ohio McDonald's employees get voting instructions with their paychecks — If you work for this Canton, Ohio McDonald's franchise, you'd better be voting Republican if you know what's good for you. — Via ThinkProgress: … The “right people” are John Kasich, Rob Portman, and Jim Renacci for this franchisee.
Hit & Run:
Attack Ads, Circa 1800 — Have this year's negative political ads really “taken dirty to a whole new level, as CNN's Anderson Cooper frets? Is a “return to civility...a relic of a bygone era,” as President Barack Obama laments? — Er, not exactly. — If anonymous political speech …
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Joe Strupp / Media Matters for America:
Sources: Fox Management Slanting D.C. Bureau's News Coverage — Pressure on some Fox News reporters in the Washington, D.C., bureau to “slant news” and “distort” coverage has sparked some discontent in the newsroom there, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
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John Nolte / Big Hollywood:
NYT: Jon Stewart's ‘Restore Sanity’ Will ‘Parody’ Glenn Beck's ‘Religious-Themed Rally’ — Didn't Jon Stewart tell the media “Restore Sanity” was not a response to Glenn Beck? Yes, he did. — According to what the New York Times has dug up, Jon Stewart's “Restore Sanity” …
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Pelosi, Among Others, Could Exit if Dems Lose House — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives for a press conference on Capitol Hill to discuss Democratic accomplishments during the past congressional session — As Nancy Pelosi goes, so might a generation of her colleagues.
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Scared Monkeys, JammieWearingFool, Hot Air, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Moderate Voice and Swampland
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Failing Upward: Breitbart To Be Featured in ABC's 2010 Election Coverage — Media Matters has confirmed that noted propagandist Andrew Breitbart will provide analysis for ABC News during their election night coverage. — After Breitbart's BigJournalism.com website reported that Breitbart would …
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TPMDC, alicublog and AMERICAblog News
Bloomberg:
Poll Shows Americans Don't Know GDP Grew With Tax Cuts and Bailout Profits — The Obama administration cut taxes for middle-class Americans, expects to make a profit on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to rescue Wall Street banks and has overseen an economy that has grown for the past four quarters.
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Jennifer E. Duffy / Hotline On Call:
Farewell to ‘Precinct Reporting’ — For as long as anyone can remember, television networks and the Associated Press have reported votes on election night by saying, “With x percent of precincts reporting ...” But, this method of reporting election results is about to go the way of the VCR.
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Wall Street Journal:
And the FAIR Tax Trap — Democrats turn a conservative fad against GOP candidates. — Public anxiety over rising taxes is helping Republicans in this midterm election—with one exception. Democrats are trying to turn the tables on the GOP over the so-called FAIR Tax …
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Cato @ Liberty and National Review
Gary Langer / The Numbers:
Tea Party or No, Palin's Popularity Still Lags — Sarah Palin's interest in the presidency is not being reciprocated by most Americans: Two-thirds of registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll say she's unqualified for the job, and more than half continue to rate her unfavorably overall.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case — Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk two years ago can be sued for negligence.
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Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin robo-calling to social conservatives — Ralph Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition is sending a Sarah Palin GOTV robo call to 8.5 million social conservative households this weekend across 56 congressional districts and in 14 states with competitive Senate and gubernatorial races, POLITICO has learned.
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