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CNN:
Obama: Packages had ‘explosive material’ — For more coverage visit CNN affiliates WPVI and WABC. Are you there? Send pictures and video. — (CNN) — Two suspicious packages found abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States contained a massive amount …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
U.S. Hunts for More Suspicious Packages — 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, Telegraph, CNN, NY Daily News, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, Political Byline and Patterico's Pontifications
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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John Cook / Gawker:
Why Hasn't Jonah Goldberg Been Punched in the Face Yet Today? — It's a serious question. Goldberg, the author of Liberal Fascism and in-house funny-guy at the National Review, wrote a column today wondering why the CIA hasn't assassinated Wikileaks founder Julian Assange yet. What are they, lazy?
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The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, National Review, Salon and alicublog
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
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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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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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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The Politico and CNN
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.
The Next Two Years — President Obama is likely to suffer a pummeling defeat on Tuesday.
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CEPR, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Atlantic Online, Mother Jones, Swampland, TalkLeft and The Washington Independent
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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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Harry Reid: Sharron Angle is “pathological” — Harry Reid, who seems to be running out of ways to describe Sharron Angle as mentally unbalanced, is out with a new ad that comes right out and brands her “pathological”: — The spot shows Angle running away from reporters.
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Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Angle poll data improve
Angle poll data improve
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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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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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Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Gawker and Political Byline
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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Wonk Room, AmSpecBlog, Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and The Politico
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!
Steven Shepard / Hotline On Call:
Poll: Murkowski Leads Miller, McAdams — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) remains ahead of her two rivals in her write-in Senate campaign in Alaska, according to a new poll released today by an in-state Republican pollster. — The poll, conducted by Dittman Research & Communications …
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Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and Alaska Dispatch
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Swamping Murkowski — The latest from Alaska's procedural wars:
Swamping Murkowski — The latest from Alaska's procedural wars:
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The Politico, Swing State Project, Mother Jones, Washington Wire, TPMDC, Liberty Pundits Blog, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Riehl World View, Weigel and POLISING
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
DSCC going on air in Alaska
DSCC going on air in Alaska
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Big Government, National Review and Riehl World View
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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Don Surber, Gawker, Mediaite, The Sundries Shack, The Atlantic Online and Left Coast Rebel
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Dissatisfied With Washington — With less than a week to go before Election Day, widespread dissatisfaction with the way things are going in the country combined with negative views of the economy and frustration with the government point to major trouble for the incumbent majority Democrats.
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Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
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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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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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Hullabaloo, alicublog, TPMDC and AMERICAblog News
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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JammieWearingFool, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Don Surber, NewsBusters.org blogs, The Moderate Voice and Swampland
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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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama's first House stop — (CNN) - One of the country's most vulnerable House Democrats received some help Friday night from the campaigner in chief. — Freshman Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello is fighting to hold onto his Virginia seat in a heavily conservative district …
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