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J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
“Rally to Resore Sanity” pledges to “strictly prohibit filming” at National Mall — Irony reaches new heights as Comedy Central is going to “strictly prohibit filming” of the Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive. PJTV's Washington Bureau chief Richard Pollock inquired …
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
Jon Stewart walks fine line with rally — Two months after Fox News' Glenn Beck led a massive crowd of conservatives for the purpose of “restoring honor,” Comedy Central's Jon Stewart appeared to be drawing at least as large an audience Saturday “to restore sanity.”
Dave Itzkoff / The Caucus:
Live Blog: ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’ — Andy Geremiah and Scott Petersen, both from Southington, Conn., walk through the crowds with Stewart and Colbert's faces carved into their pumpkins prior to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington.
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The Nation
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Why our elections are a joke — the mainstream news is now hiring professional clowns to do its election night coverage — Send In The Clowns — ABC has hired Andrew Breitbart and his lying little helper Dana Loesch to do election night coverage. Seriously.
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The Huffington Post:
ABC Taps Andrew Breitbart For Election Night Analysis
ABC Taps Andrew Breitbart For Election Night Analysis
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SpeakEasy, Media Matters for America, JammieWearingFool, The Jawa Report and Big Journalism
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
Failing Upward: Breitbart To Be Featured in ABC's 2010 Election Coverage
Failing Upward: Breitbart To Be Featured in ABC's 2010 Election Coverage
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The Plum Line, Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Reid Report, alicublog and AMERICAblog News
Coordinator / ABC News' Press Room:
ABC NEWS ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE AVAILABLE TO CONSUMERS EVERYWHERE
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
ABC Election Night Coverage to Feature Loesch, Breitbart
ABC Election Night Coverage to Feature Loesch, Breitbart
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Mediaite, Pajamas Media and TPMDC
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Lisa, are you going to shut down my Facebook page for writing this? — Yesterday, Lisa Murkowski's hired guns threatened radio host Dan Fagan, and more importantly, the station that airs Fagan's show, with legal action for allegedly illegal “electioneering.”
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Obama urges cooperation after election, calls GOP remarks ‘troubling’ — President Obama urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to solve the nation's economic issues regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's midterm elections. — In his weekly address Saturday …
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The White House:
Weekly Address: President Obama Calls on GOP Leadership to Put Aside Partisan Politics and Focus on Strengthening the Economy — WASHINGTON - In his weekly address, President Obama called the recent comments by the GOP leadership, which put scoring political points over solving the problems facing …
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The Plum Line
Jesse Lee / White House.gov Blog Feed:
Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy
Weekly Address: Working Together on the Economy
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Politics Daily and Washington Monthly
8newsnow.com:
Sharron Angle Asked Tough Policy Questions — LAS VEGAS — It is going to be a busy final weekend for Sharron Angle and Harry Reid. The Republican candidate has declined all of 8 News NOW's requests for interviews about her positions on the issues. — She is in Las Vegas …
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Angle bans TV crews from election eve — Sharron Angle has banned two Las Vegas television stations from attending her election night party as retribution for reporters who tracked her down Friday and asked her questions without prior campaign approval. — Reporters from local NBC …
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Connecting.the.Dots, CNN and Outside the Beltway
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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Damien Cave / New York Times:
Bill Clinton's Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes
Bill Clinton's Role in Florida Senate Race Seems to Cost Democrat Some Black Votes
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Wall Street Journal:
The Education Manifesto — Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty on what they learned while pushing to reform D.C.'s failing public schools. — Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty tour an elementary school in June 2007. — Our time in office and in charge of the school system of Washington, D.C., is quickly drawing to an end.
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protein wisdom and Joanne Jacobs
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Private School Civility Gap — Education reform is all the rage these days. — It's no longer just the weighty obsession of parents with few options scrambling to get a child into a better school. It has also become the “it” topic of the cocktail crowd, including many parents with children …
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JustOneMinute and LewRockwell.com Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Swing Voters Are Flocking to GOP — The Democrats' final push to woo undecided voters appears to have fizzled, potentially putting dozens of competitive House races beyond reach and undermining the party's chances in at least four toss-up Senate seats, according to party strategists and officials.
David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Voter pessimism helps GOP in 4 states Obama won — WASHINGTON — Republican candidates vying to win Democratic-held Senate seats have inched ahead in two once-deadlocked states and are in virtual ties in two others, four new McClatchy-Marist state polls found Friday.
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PoliPundit.com and Taegan Goddard's …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Most Dissatisfied With Washington
Fox News Poll: Most Dissatisfied With Washington
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Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Explosives Could Have Downed Plane, British Say — A package shipped from Yemen and bound for the United States on a cargo jet that was intercepted in Britain on Friday contained an explosive device powerful enough to bring down the plane, British authorities said on Saturday. — Multimedia
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
House Dems who pushed health bill to passage face grim Election Day — Many of the House Democrats who cast the deciding votes on health reform are expected to lose on Election Day. — President Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) needed every vote they could muster to push the bill through the House in March.
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Wake up America
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Virginians share lesson learned: GOP in power not so bad — President Obama and other Democrats are going around the country making the same argument as party leaders made in Virginia last year: If you elect Republicans, they'll drive the car right back into the ditch.
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National Review
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
MoveOn supporter remorseful after roughing up conservative in Arizona — MoveOn and Republicorps member Fred Highton says he regrets initiating a physical altercation with a conservative Tea Partier at a political event at the University of Arizona earlier this month.
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Right Wing News, Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
Hit & Run:
go here — For those interested, here are some of our sources for the statements made in Attack Ads, Circa 1800. — John Adams is a blind, bald crippled toothless man — who secretly wants — to start a war with France. — While he's not busy importing mistresses from europe
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Attack Ads, Circa 1800
Attack Ads, Circa 1800
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