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6:05 PM ET, October 31, 2010

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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.
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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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
CBS affiliate: Palin, Miller charge ‘absurd’  —  Big Government today posted a snippet of recorded conversation from the newsroom of Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA, which features staff talking and laughing about the prospect of finding a child molester at a Joe Miller rally.
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 …
Dan / Riehl World View:
KTVA-CBS 11 Compounds Scandal After Caught Targeting Miller's Senate Campaign  —  Last night news broke that Anchorage's CBS affiliate KTVA News 11 reporters were caught on tape discussing ways in which they could potentially embarass the Senate campaign of Republican Joe Miller.
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
The Daily Caller:
Palin calls Alaska media ‘corrupt bastards’ over leaked voicemail
Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
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!
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000  —  An estimated 215,000 people attended a rally organized by Comedy Central talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.  —  The company AirPhotosLive.com based …
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Poll at Stewart rally finds overwhelming Dem majority, but not 2008 enthusiasm
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Note and ABCNEWS
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
SERVING UP A HOT CUP OF SANITY.... Towards the very end of yesterday's …
Discussion: Mediaite and Examiner
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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Obama implores base to get to polls, defeat ‘cocky’ Republicans
Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog and The Hill
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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CEPR:
David Broder Calls for War With Iran to Boost the Economy
Matt Duss / ThinkProgress:
Broder: 'As We Accelerate Preparations For War [With Iran] …
Discussion: Yglesias
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Theodore C. Sorensen, 82, Kennedy Counselor, Dies  —  Theodore C. Sorensen, who was a close adviser and counselor to John F. Kennedy for 11 years, writing words and giving voice to ideas that shaped the president's image and legacy, died Sunday in New York.  He was 82 and lived in Manhattan.
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Jwalsh / Boston Globe:
Ted Sorensen, speechwriter for JFK, dead at age 82  —  Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, whose prose mingled with the thoughts and words of his close friend John F. Kennedy to create some of the most memorable presidential speeches of the 20th century, has died, a week after suffering a stroke.
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.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Can the Dude Abide?  —  Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story.  To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story.  —  At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.
 
 
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