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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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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
5 Reasons Republicans Could Do Even Better Than Expected — Dawn breaks over New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Democrats catching the early train to work are thinking about adding a little whiskey to their morning coffee. Because the headlines they are reading are truly terrible.
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JustOneMinute, Balloon Juice, The Daily Dish, The Daily Caller, ABCNEWS and James Pethokoukis
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
What if it's a massacre? - Gallup: ‘Unprecedented’ GOP lead - Monday stakes: Pelosi, Obama, Barbour in hot seat - Dems bank on GOTV - Ralston predicts Reid win — THE DAY BEFORE - WHAT IF IT'S A MASSACRE? Remember over the summer, when we were debating whether House Republicans needed …
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New York Times and Taegan Goddard's …
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll suggests Dems will face ‘hurricane winds’ — ‘It is a rebuke to the last two years,’ GOP pollster says — Republicans remain on course to make substantial midterm gains across the country and to win control of at least one chamber of Congress, according to the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before Tuesday's elections.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Agreeing to Disagree: Size of Republican Wave Hard to Predict
Agreeing to Disagree: Size of Republican Wave Hard to Predict
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The Hill, Prairie Weather and Power Line
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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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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John Harwood / New York Times:
With Victory, Republicans Would Face Uncertainty — MIAMI — If voters engineer the Congressional makeover that strategists in both parties now expect, the implications for governance over the next two years, and for America's political future, remain a mystery.
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The Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and George's Bottom Line
Christina Bellantoni / Roll Call:
O'Donnell Buys 30-Minute Spots in Final Days
O'Donnell Buys 30-Minute Spots in Final Days
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The Politico:
Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Palin — POLITICO Slideshows require the Adobe Flash Player. — Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Steele to Palin critics: Shut up!
TRENDING: Steele to Palin critics: Shut up!
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The Politico, The Note and Taylor Marsh
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
What I Saw at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
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This Just In
Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Thinks Jon Stewart Jumped The Shark Yesterday
Keith Olbermann Thinks Jon Stewart Jumped The Shark Yesterday
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The Daily Dish, The Reaction, Swampland and POWIP
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 — On the bright side, at least the president didn't have another meltdown. — President and Michelle Obama greeted kids for Halloween at the White House. — They didn't expect this... One of the kids dressed as Obama Joker.
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Scared Monkeys, Fox Nation and Pajamas Media
Mike Allen / The Politico:
John Boehner to hit President Obama on ‘enemies’
John Boehner to hit President Obama on ‘enemies’
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Ballot Box and Liberty Pundits Blog
Robin Bravender / The Politico:
Harry Reid loss could reopen nuke debate — Opponents of a Nevada nuclear waste dump thought they'd finally managed to kill the Yucca Mountain project. Then came Sharron Angle. — The tea party-backed Republican stands a good chance at ousting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Right Wing News and Capitol Hill Blue
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Gregory Simmons / ABCNEWS:
Vote 2010: Reid, Optimistic and Upbeat, Pushes Hard in Final Days of Campaign
Vote 2010: Reid, Optimistic and Upbeat, Pushes Hard in Final Days of Campaign
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The Politico, The Daily Caller and Salon
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Nevada going down to the wire... The Nevada Senate race is headed …
Nevada going down to the wire... The Nevada Senate race is headed …
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GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's …, National Review and Las Vegas Sun
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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The Big Picture
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.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Rossi holds small lead — Every time PPP has polled the Washington Senate race this year it's found the race to be within 2 or 3 points and our final poll there is no exception. But there is one twist- for the first time we find Dino Rossi leading Patty Murray, by a 50-48 margin.
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
CROWD ROARS AT WORLD SERIES As Bush Zings a Strike to Start Game 4 (Video) — What a moment! — George Bush 41 and George Bush 43 entered the stadium together tonight to throw out the first ball at the World Series. — THE CROWD ROARED. — Then GW threw a strike to home plate catcher Nolan Ryan to start off game 4.
David Weigel / Weigel:
Evan Bayh, Get Off the Air — It's not usually a good idea to write off of a negative reaction to a TV show. It works for recaps of reality shows, perhaps, but not politics. But I have watched Evan Bayh, the retiring senator from Indiana, bring his Eeyore act to Morning Joe and I'm not sure …
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Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Vote Hints at Historic Political Volatility — KOKOMO, Ind.—Voters this week look set to do something not seen since the early 1950s: Oust a substantial number of sitting House lawmakers for the third election in a row. — The apparent Republican resurgence suggests the country is caught …
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