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CNN:
U.S. alert focuses on planes, trucks — 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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New York Times:
Obama Says Explosives Were U.S.-Bound — President Obama said on Friday that the United States had been the target of a “credible terrorist threat” by someone in Yemen who mailed packages containing explosive devices that were shipped via cargo planes and addressed to two synagogues in Chicago …
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Washington Post:
Obama: Suspicious packages are a ‘credible terrorist threat’ — President Obama said Friday that packages mailed from Yemen and intercepted in the last 24 hours contained explosive material and represented a “credible terrorist threat.” — The packages, mailed via UPS and FedEx …
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The Fix and Outside the Beltway
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, Mother Jones, The Atlantic Online, No More Mister Nice Blog, 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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James Pethokoukis, Wonkette, GayPatriot, Betsy's Page and Wall Street Journal
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.
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Ohio McDonald's Tells Employees To Vote Republican If They Want …
Ohio McDonald's Tells Employees To Vote Republican If They Want …
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Political Byline, Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker
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, National Review, Winds of Change.NET and TalkLeft
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DougJ / Balloon Juice:
Murder he wrote — Jonah Goldberg calls for Julian Assange's murder. … Of course, this is nowhere near as bad as using the word curb-stomping in a post. — When hundreds of thousands of Iraqis die as a result of “collateral damage”, that just proves freedom is messy.
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Gawker, National Review, alicublog and First Draft
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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Washington Wire, The Politico, Mother Jones, TPMDC, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Liberty Pundits Blog, Riehl World View, Swing State Project, POLISING and Weigel
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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
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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Hullabaloo and Salon
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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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Washington Monthly, AmSpecBlog, The Plum Line, Wonk Room and The Politico
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
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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Gawker, The Atlantic Online, Left Coast Rebel, Don Surber, Mediaite and The Sundries Shack
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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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The Fix, TPMDC, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Naked Politics
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Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
Rubio uses Meek controversy even as his lead looks insurmountable
Rubio uses Meek controversy even as his lead looks insurmountable
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CNN
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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Gawker
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Compares DADT Judge To Al-Qaeda — Justice Tom Parker (center) poses with the leaders of two hate groups — Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker, a disciple of disgraced former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, released a campaign ad comparing the judge …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and SpeakEasy
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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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Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly, Donklephant, The Atlantic Online, Taegan Goddard's … and NPR Topics
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Coal Industry Increases Spending to Sway Next Congress — WASHINGTON — The coal industry, facing a host of new health and safety regulations, is spending millions of dollars in lobbying and campaign donations this year to influence the makeup of the next Congress in hopes of derailing …
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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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JammieWearingFool, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, NewsBusters.org blogs, Swampland and Don Surber
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
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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Outside the Beltway
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
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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City Room, The League of Ordinary …, The Volokh Conspiracy, Law Blog and Gawker
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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New York Times, The Atlantic Online, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Weigel, GOP 12 and Ben Smith's Blog
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IDIOCY WATCH.... In 2009, three Americans were detained and imprisoned by the Iranian government while hiking near the Iran/Iraq border. Two of the three — Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer — remain behind bars, accused of espionage. — The United States, of course, wants Iran to set them free …
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Right Wing Watch and Alan Colmes' Liberaland