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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’
Poll suggests Dems will face ‘hurricane winds’
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PostPartisan, The Plum Line, Gateway Pundit, PewResearch.org and National Review
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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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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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, Raw Story and George's Bottom Line
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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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
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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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 and CNN
James Burnett / Rolling Stone:
Stewart Closes Rally With Biting Critique of Media
Stewart Closes Rally With Biting Critique of Media
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Open Left, Shakesville, The Daily Caller, The Confluence and New York Magazine
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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Daily Kos, 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
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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CBS News, Commentary, Politics Daily, YID With LID, Outside the Beltway, Beltway Confidential, Daily Kos and Althouse
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
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
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.
Beth Reinhard / St. Petersburg Times:
232 media outlets to cover Marco Rubio on Election Night — Perhaps the most sought-after press credential in the country on Nov. 2: Republican Senate frontrunner Marco Rubio's party at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. — As of yesterday, the campaign had received requests from 232 media outlets.
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Hotline On Call
BBC:
Alcohol ‘more harmful than heroin’ says Prof David Nutt — Professor David Nutt: “In terms of the cost to society, alcohol causes the biggest harm” — Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet.
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Associated Press, Runnin' Scared, Newshoggers.com and Wonkette
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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.
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Washington Monthly, Comments from Left Field, Outside the Beltway and The Impolitic
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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Pajamas Media, The Reid Report and The BLT
Byron Tau / Ben Smith's Blog:
Tacos for all — A Maryland-based restaurant is offering free food for voting customers tomorrow, but they may be running afoul of federal election laws. — According to their website, California Tortilla is offering a free taco to anyone who either says they voted or brings in a sticker.
Standpoint:
On Giving Up — Jon Stewart's Rally for Sanity yesterday featured Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens singing “Peace Train”. Islam/Stevens previously showed his commitment to peace and sanity by saying that death was the appropriate punishment for Salman Rushdie's “blasphemy”.
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Big Hollywood, Runnin' Scared, Solomonia, five feet of fury., JOSHUAPUNDIT, RealClearPolitics Video Log and Biased BBC