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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Palin pounds ‘puppy-kicking’ Politico for heavy use of anonymous sources — On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin mocked her media detractors - Politico, specifically — as “puppy-kicking, chain-smoking porn producers” for their heavy use of anonymous sources in a quote as memorable as Spiro Agnew's …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Palin: Politico report is ‘crap’ — (CNN) - Sarah Palin is making clear she's no fan of Politico - the news organization that published a story Sunday night quoting anonymous Republican sources saying GOP leaders will try to forestall a Palin White House bid.
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Michael Steele to GOP Sarah Palin critics: ‘Shut up’ — A day before the elections, the head of the Republican National Committee lashed out at anonymous GOP critics of Sarah Palin, saying they need to “shut up.” — “These Republican leaders who don't put their names in print but make comments …
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The Politico:
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney calls Palin presidential run ‘great’
Romney calls Palin presidential run ‘great’
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
O'Donnell has trouble airing 30-minute TV ad in Delaware — Christine O'Donnell is taking a page from the playbook of Barack Obama. The Republican Senate candidate has produced a 30-minute television advertisement in the form of a documentary chronicling her connection with the people of Delaware.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Delaware producer: ‘Nobody forgot’ — One of the day's minor mysteries has been why Christine O'Donnell's half-hour campaign ad didn't air, as planned, yesterday. — In fact, after discussion of airing it on a broadcast station, it began at the top of this hour on Channel 28 …
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Jsimoncnn / CNN:
War of words ensues in Delaware after TV exec hits back against O'Donnell — (CNN) - In the process of trying to motivate her base and convince last minute undecided voters to cast a ballot in her favor, Republican Christine O'Donnell has entered a war of words with a local television executive …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Oops: Cable station fails to air O'Donnell infomercial
Oops: Cable station fails to air O'Donnell infomercial
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David Carr / New York Times:
Rally to Shift the Blame — In his new role as a political leader, which is what you call somebody if he hosts a rally on the Washington Mall for over 200,000 people, Jon Stewart was a little hemmed at the Rally to Restore Sanity on Saturday. Because sanity should know no party, partisan rhetoric was not on the teleprompter.
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David Weigel / Weigel:
What I Saw at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear — As soon as the Rally to Restore Sanity was announced, Democrats who were sweating their GOTV operations took after it as yet another problem. I spent much of Saturday at the rally — a crush of humanity unlike anything I've seen liberals put together …
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Fox & Friends Mock Rally For Sanity: Stewart 'Looks Fancy In His Suit …
Fox & Friends Mock Rally For Sanity: Stewart 'Looks Fancy In His Suit …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Miller leads in Alaska — Joe Miller is favored heading into the final two days of the US Senate campaign in Alaska. 37% of voters say they'll pick him while 30% plan to vote for Scott McAdams and another 30% plan to write in Lisa Murkowski. — Miller is winning despite having …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Lisa Murkowski soft on caucusing with GOP
Lisa Murkowski soft on caucusing with GOP
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John Harwood / New York Times:
With Victory, Republicans Would Face Uncertainty
With Victory, Republicans Would Face Uncertainty
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Scott Rasmussen / Wall Street Journal:
A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP — Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves. — In the first week of January 2010, Rasmussen Reports showed Republicans with a nine-point lead on the generic congressional ballot.
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Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Don't Vote and We'll Get the Alice in Wonderland Congress From Hell!
Don't Vote and We'll Get the Alice in Wonderland Congress From Hell!
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Gallup:
Republicans Appear Poised to Win Big on Tuesday — Lead in generic ballot large enough to give Republicans solid majority control of U.S. House — PRINCETON, NJ — The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans' voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold …
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Special “Hulk Angry! Hulk Smash!” Edition
Morning Jay: Special “Hulk Angry! Hulk Smash!” Edition
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama prepared to dust off veto pen should GOP take the House — President Obama is ready to flex some muscle by using the veto pen if Republicans win back a majority in the House. — Democrats and White House aides said that Obama is prepared to wield his veto pen and effectively stare …
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
BUMMER. Kid Dresses Up as Obama Joker For White House Halloween Party
BUMMER. Kid Dresses Up as Obama Joker For White House Halloween Party
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Struggling woman has to sell Obama letter to help pay for house
Struggling woman has to sell Obama letter to help pay for house
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The Huffington Post:
President Obama To Do Interview With Ryan Seacrest — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — The administration's last-minute push to turn out the vote is spurring some unconventional media outreach efforts. But none of them have been quite as unlikely as that announced on Monday …
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Ryan Seacrest / Facebook:
What Do YOU Want To Know from President Obama?
What Do YOU Want To Know from President Obama?
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Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Morning-After Plan
Obama's Morning-After Plan
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WNYMedia.net:
Carl Paladino's Halloween Drunktacular — While Andrew Cuomo was in Monroe County rallying supporters and actually campaigning, Carl Paladino was having himself a helluva time at South Buffalo watering hole, Potter's Field. The bar, just down the block from Carl's house is one of his favorite places …
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Associated Press:
Baghdad church siege ends with 52 dead — BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces stormed a Baghdad church where militants had taken an entire congregation hostage for four hours, leaving at least 52 people dead, including a priest, Iraqi officials said Monday. — It was not immediately clear whether …
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Anthony Shadid / New York Times:
Attack on a Church in Baghdad Hits Iraq's Soul
Attack on a Church in Baghdad Hits Iraq's Soul
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
ABC News and Breitbart are now at war — It's not like we don't try to warn people. — It's not like Media Matters hasn't meticulously detailed the way Andrew Breitbart routinely wrestles with the truth and loses. We've made it plain to anyone who's interested that Breitbart is a propagandist, plain and simple.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Andrew Breitbart now accusing ABC News of lying
Andrew Breitbart now accusing ABC News of lying
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Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
‘Kill Some Crackers’: GOP Group Pays Fox Affiliates To Influence Election With Anti-Obama Propaganda — Several Fox television stations and one ABC affiliate in key battleground states are running a Republican front group's anti-Obama propaganda as paid programming in the final days leading up to the election.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THAT'S NOT AN ESPECIALLY IMPRESSIVE SKILL IN A PRESIDENT.... Before last night's World Series game, former Presidents Bush took the mound for a ceremonial pitch, thrown, not surprisingly, by the younger one. It was in Texas, and Bush 43 used to own one of the teams in the game, so the Bushes were well received.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
A Donation Clouds Fox News Report — The Fox Business Network focused on what it called “The War on Business” all last week, but on Tuesday its coverage was decidedly more focused — with a series of reports about a California ballot initiative that its parent company, the News Corporation, had spent $1.3 million to defeat.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Mugged by the Moralizers — “How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills?” That's the question CNBC's Rick Santelli famously asked in 2009, in a rant widely credited with giving birth to the Tea Party movement.
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Doing My Part to Boost Voter Apathy — Will Wilkinson says these midterms don't matter very much, via a broader argument which says that elections in general don't matter as much as people say. Ross Douthat says he doesn't agree with all of it but that “it's still a useful corrective …
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