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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Alaska station says Breitbart Web site audio attack is bogus  —  Is another Andrew Breitbart Web site production about to be unmasked as bogus?  —  Breitbart's Big Journalism site is making an incendiary accusation: That reporters at the Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA were caught conspiring …
The Note:
Republicans Counting on Write-In Lisa Murkowski Over Joe Miller in Alaska  —  ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: A high-level GOP source tells me that party leaders have essentially given up on Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller and are now banking on a victory by write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski …
P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:
Anchorage CBS Affiliate Caught on Voicemail Conspiring Against Alaska's GOP Senate Candidate  —  UPDATE:  —  From the Miller Campaign: … The following voice mail message was inadvertently left on the cell phone of Joe Miller campaign spokesperson Randy DeSoto.
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Media Matters ' Brock challenges Palin to release tapes  —  The following is the transcript of Sarah Palin's accusations against CBS affiliate reporters in Alaska made this morning on Fox News Sunday: … Statement by David Brock, CEO of Media Matters: … Sarah Palin has endorsed Joe Miller in the Alaska Senate race.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:   Brian Beutler takes a cheap shot at Sarah Palin: “Sarah Palin …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
KTVA: Yeah, that was us, but it's not what you think
Scott / Power Line:   Plot still thickening in Alaska, cont'd
The Daily Caller:
Palin calls Alaska media ‘corrupt bastards’ over leaked voicemail
Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sarah Palin Calls Joe Miller A Lost Cause, Quotes Scopes Monkey Trial Attorney
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Caught on Tape: Reporters Overheard Plotting Smear Against Joe Miller
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Right Scoop
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Thinks Jon Stewart Jumped The Shark Yesterday  —  While most of the mainstream media went into overdrive yesterday to cover Jon Stewart's much-anticipated Rally to Restore Sanity MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was less than impressed.  Apparently Stewart's criticism of the cablesphere …
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Aaron Worthing / Patterico's Pontifications:
Charles Johnson Shreds the Last of his Credibility Discussing the Stewart Rally (Update: Charles Responds)  —  [Guest post by Aaron Worthing; send your tips here.]  —  Update: Johnson responds.  Basically he doubles down, saying I was lying about the Bush Bow and as far as crowd size is concerned it's Science!
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Thousands of empty seats for last Dem voter rally by Obama, Biden  —  CLEVELAND — The arena where President Obama and Vice President Biden are making their final appeal to Democrats to get out and vote in Tuesday's midterm elections was far from capacity Sunday afternoon.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Thin Crowd for Cleveland Campaign Rally  —  CLEVELAND - President Obama wrapped up a weekend of last-minute campaigning here on Sunday, addressing Democrats in an indoor arena that, in a sign of the “enthusiasm gap” that the president is working so hard to close, was little more than half full.
Discussion: HazZzMat and The Daily Caller
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Obama implores base to get to polls, defeat ‘cocky’ Republicans
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Theodore C. Sorensen, 82, Kennedy Counselor, Dies  —  Theodore C. Sorensen, one of the last links to John F. Kennedy's administration, a writer and counselor who did much to shape the president's narrative, image and legacy, died Sunday in Manhattan.  He was 82.  —  Multimedia
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Jwalsh / Boston Globe:
Ted Sorensen, speechwriter for JFK, dead at age 82
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The war recovery?  —  When the midterm election cycle began, the prevailing opinion was that Barack Obama was cleverer and more inspirational than anyone else on the scene.  As it ends, nothing appears to have changed.  —  OH, YES, I know that Democrats have fallen into a peck of trouble and may lose control of Congress.
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Grim Dems await huge House losses  —  The last TV ads have been cut.  The final polls have been conducted.  The end-of-campaign expenditures are being made.  —  Now, for Democratic consultants and campaign officials who have plotted and strategized for months to preserve the embattled House majority …
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
Atmospherics are terrible for Reid, but he will hold on  —  Harry Reid or Sharron Angle is dead, last in an occasional series:  —  It just feels as if Reid is going to lose.  —  Forget the enthusiasm gap — that word is too mild.  There is a passion gap in this race that is palpable.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul headed for easy victory  —  Rand Paul has expanded his lead in the Kentucky Senate race even further over the last week and is headed for a blowout win.  His margin over Jack Conway is 55-40.  —  Kentucky is obviously a conservative state.  Conway's ability to win was always …
 
 
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