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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.
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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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Plot still thickening in Alaska, cont'd — Having left a message for Joe Miller's campaign spokesman, an assignment editor from the CBS affiliate in Alaska had one of those equipment malfunctions that has contributed so much to the entertainment value of this election season.

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 …


Brian Beutler takes a cheap shot at Sarah Palin: “Sarah Palin Calls Joe Miller A Lost Cause, Quotes Scopes Monkey Trial Attorney.” — Beutler is either shameless or ignorant: … Is there any evidence, anywhere, that Sarah Palin would like to criminalize the teaching of evolution?
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KTVA: Yeah, that was us, but it's not what you think
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KTVA-CBS 11 Compounds Scandal After Caught Targeting Miller's Senate Campaign

Caught on Tape: Reporters Overheard Plotting Smear Against Joe Miller
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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.

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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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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Thin Crowd for Cleveland Campaign Rally
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Obama implores base to get to polls, defeat ‘cocky’ Republicans
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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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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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Ted Sorensen, speechwriter for JFK, dead at age 82
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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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Poll at Stewart rally finds overwhelming Dem majority, but not 2008 enthusiasm
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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.
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The Justice Department Goes to Alaska — EDITORS' NOTE: See update below. — For a good preview of how politics, rather than law, may drive decisions in the Obama Justice Department next year when redistricting gets underway, go north, young man, and cast your eye on the Senate race in Alaska.


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 …
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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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