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With 100% of vote counted, Kloppenburg clings to narrow lead; recount expected — At left, Justice David Prosser speaks to supporters in Hartland. At right, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg speaks to supporters in Madison. — By Patrick Marley, Jason Stein and Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
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JSOnline:
Kloppenburg declares victory — By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel — Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory Wednesday, based on results reported by the Associated Press. — The Associated Press shows Kloppenburg received 740,090 votes and incumbent David Prosser received 739,886 votes.
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Weigel, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Political Carnival and Pajamas Media
WTMJ:
Elections: Kloppenburg Declares Victory But Race Still Too Close to Call — By The Associated Press with Jay Sorgi — MADISON, Wis. - Little-known attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg has declared victory over incumbent state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser. — According to unofficial results …
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Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, TPMDC and MyDD
Randy Radtke / lakemillsleaderonline.com:
Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)
Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Swing State Project, Daily Kos and WisPolitics Election Blog
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
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Riehl World View, CNN, HillBuzz.org, The Other McCain and Washington Post
Associated Press:
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
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Althouse and American Power
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
On Deadline: Breaking news and must-read stories
On Deadline: Breaking news and must-read stories
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Scott Baker / The Blaze:
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts Announce New Agreement; Beck to ‘Transition Off’ Daily TV Program — Editor's note: After a great deal of speculation about Glenn Beck's future on television, here is the freshly-inked news release. There will be a couple of key headlines out of this …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program — Updated | Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. — His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show …
New York Times:
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program … Fox News , Glenn Beck , Glenn Beck Fox News , Cable News , Fox News Glenn Beck , Glenn Beck Leaving Fox News Show , Glenn Beck Transition , Media News — Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will “transition off of his daily program” later this year.
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show — His daily show, which began in January 2009, will end at some point this year. Business Insider has the full release while Beck's news site, The Blaze, is offline. … Beck's ratings had been collapsing, even as he remained one of the most popular hosts on TV.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending
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Crooks and Liars, The Washington Note and Philly.com
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Why Beck Is Out At Fox: Poor Ratings And Paranoid Rants
Why Beck Is Out At Fox: Poor Ratings And Paranoid Rants
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Booman Tribune
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
GLENN BECK PULLING SHOW OFF FOX NEWS
GLENN BECK PULLING SHOW OFF FOX NEWS
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AlterNet, The Other McCain and Inside TV
Paul Krugman:
Paul Ryan's Multiple Unicorns — Gosh. For a plan that supposedly sets a new standard of seriousness, Paul Ryan's vision (pdf) depends an awful lot on unicorn sightings — belief in the impossible. Let me review the top three unicorns. — First, the plan assumes that tax cuts will set off a literally unprecedented boom.
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Republican Paul Ryan's budget proposal is brave, radical, and smart. — For the past 30 years, Republicans have been hypocrites about spending. They've raged against big government without ever proposing the kinds of cuts necessary to bring federal expenditures in line with tax revenues.
CEPR:
Representative Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care — That is what headlines would look like if the United States had an independent press. After all, this is one of the main take aways of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) …
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF A BUDGET PROPOSAL BY CHAIRMAN RYAN — ABSTRACT — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted a long-term analysis of a budget proposal by Chairman Ryan to substantially change federal payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, eliminate the subsidies …
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ThinkProgress, Director's Blog, TPMDC, The Political Carnival, Paul Krugman, Swampland and The New Republic
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Nancy Pelosi Vows To Party Like It's 2005 With Paul Ryan's Draconian Medicare-Ending Budget Proposal
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
CBO: Ryan Plan Shrinks Debt, Ups Private Share of Health Care Spending
CBO: Ryan Plan Shrinks Debt, Ups Private Share of Health Care Spending
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NationalJournal.com and The Daily Dish
Wall Street Journal:
New Proposal Hits Old Hurdles of Budget Math
New Proposal Hits Old Hurdles of Budget Math
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National Review and Firedoglake
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
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The Note:
John Boehner Cries Amid Government Shutdown Standoff — ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: — He did it again. — John Boehner was driven to tears again today. This time it happened at a closed-door meeting of House Republicans. — According to sources inside the meeting …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes — President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a brief phone call Wednesday as a government shutdown loomed, and Boehner told the president he is “hopeful” a spending deal can be reached, the Speaker's office said.
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The Note, Don Surber, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: House to move one-week stopgap with $12B in cuts
Boehner: House to move one-week stopgap with $12B in cuts
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The Page
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Govt. Shutdown: Lawmakers May Get Paid, Soldiers May Not
Govt. Shutdown: Lawmakers May Get Paid, Soldiers May Not
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KCCI-TV:
Teen Finds Campaign Worker At Back Door At 3AM — ANKENY, Iowa — A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family's back door early Wednesday morning. — Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty staffer arrested in Iowa
Pawlenty staffer arrested in Iowa
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CNN and The Political Carnival
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Bachmann: Why I'm qualified to be president — Michele Bachmann, after Bill O'Reilly asks her if she has the frame of reference to be the leader of the free world.
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Patterico's Pontifications, CNN and Booman Tribune
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
West Wing briefing: Obama headed out of D.C. as shutdown looms — A fiery President Obama insisted Tuesday that if he and congressional leaders couldn't reach a deal to avert a government shutdown, “I want a meeting again tomorrow here at the White House.” — “I will invite the same folks that we invited today,” he added.
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes — WASHINGTON - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed directly to President Barack Obama to halt what the Libyan leader called “an unjust war,” and wished Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year.
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Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Ben Smith's Blog
Paul Krugman:
Memory Hole Alert — Wow. Yesterday afternoon I downloaded the tables from that Heritage report that's the basis for the Ryan plan. The first page looked like this: — You can see the unemployment forecast, with the amazing 2.8 percent prediction, in the fourth set of figures.
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Washington Monthly and TPMDC
Myglesias / Yglesias:
What If We Focused On The Long Term Climate Gap? — No matter how hard I try, I can't quite get my head around the combination of Washington's obsession with decades-away projected fiscal shortfalls and it's total lack of interest in decades-away projected climate disaster.
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Free exchange and Mother Jones
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Shutdown: What Stays Open? — Mail Will Get Delivered, but Passports Will Not Get Processed — As Democrats and Republicans bicker over $30 billion, thousands of government employees fret over whether they can go to work on Monday. After the current continuing budget resolution expires …
Scott Wong / The Politico:
McCain touts the power of Twitter — Sen. John McCain is still thinking about Snooki. — The Arizona Republican became a Twitter icon after his famous online exchange last year with reality TV star Snooki over their shared opposition to a tanning tax. McCain now has more than 1.7 million followers …
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