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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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Thomas Ferdousi / Pundit Press:
Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots — As if the situation in Wisconsin wasn't tense enough, it appears that one county in particular is going to a new extreme. This comes after word that there may have been voter fraud in the nonpartisan State Supreme Court election yesterday between …
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Andy Szal / WisPolitics Election Blog:
Walker: Spring election results show disparity between Madison, rest of state — Gov. Scott Walker said this afternoon that the spring election results show there are “two very different worlds in this state.” — “You've got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else …
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Kevin Brennan / Hotline On Call:
Wisconsin Results Stem The GOP Tide
Wisconsin Results Stem The GOP Tide
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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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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Exclusive - Speaker Boehner on Budget Negotiations: ‘No Daylight Between Tea Party and Me’
Exclusive - Speaker Boehner on Budget Negotiations: ‘No Daylight Between Tea Party and Me’
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Boehner falling out of favor
Boehner falling out of favor
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Meeting Fails to End Stalemate Over Federal Budget
Obama Meeting Fails to End Stalemate Over Federal Budget
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Dems fundraising off threat of government shutdown
Dems fundraising off threat of government shutdown
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
White House meeting set; GOP readies $12B in spending cuts
White House meeting set; GOP readies $12B in spending cuts
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: A Donald Trump Surprise — By Jonathan Weisman and Scott Greenberg — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be the early front-runner in the largely unformed race for the Republican nomination for president, but real estate magnate Donald Trump may be a surprise contender …
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Dan Fastenberg / The Page:
Trump's Hawaii Investigation — Magnate tells “Today” he has people in the Aloha State conducting on-the-ground research into the president's birthplace.
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Trump tied for 2nd in 2012 GOP field
NBC/WSJ poll: Trump tied for 2nd in 2012 GOP field
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Democrats want compromise, Republicans prefer resolve
Poll: Democrats want compromise, Republicans prefer resolve
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Government shutdown blame game
NBC/WSJ poll: Government shutdown blame game
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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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George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Why Beck Is Out At Fox: Poor Ratings And Paranoid Rants — After weeks of rumors about poor ratings and increasing concern at Fox News headquarters over Beck's apocalyptic ranting, it's finally official — Glenn Beck is ending his daily show on Fox. An announcement posted on his website today …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program
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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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David Weigel / Weigel:
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama: “I Remember What It Was Like Pumping Gas” — President Obama, speaking to Al Sharpton's organization, says he is not “out of touch.” “I remember that,” Obama added. “I'm just going to be honest with you. There's not much we can do next week or two weeks from now,” Obama said earlier today about gas prices....
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
OBAMA: Get Used To High Gas Prices. “Obama needled one questioner …
OBAMA: Get Used To High Gas Prices. “Obama needled one questioner …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama says more work to do to create opportunity
Obama says more work to do to create opportunity
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
West Wing briefing: Obama headed out of D.C. as shutdown looms
West Wing briefing: Obama headed out of D.C. as shutdown looms
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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.
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Paul Ryan's Multiple Unicorns
Paul Ryan's Multiple Unicorns
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CEPR:
Representative Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care
Representative Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care
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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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Susan Jones / CNSNews:
NBC's Brokaw: Saudis ‘So Unhappy’ With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties — (CNSNews.com) - Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC's Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak …
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Daily Mail:
'I'd kill myself first!' John Edwards ‘suicidal’ over facing jail, claim pals — Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed - to the point of being suicidal - over the prospect of a criminal trial that could end with him being jailed if found guilty.
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Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Will Get Major Revamp — Google Inc.'s YouTube video website is working on a major site overhaul to organize its content around “channels” as it positions itself for the rise of Internet-connected televisions that allow people to watch online video in their living rooms, according to people familiar with the matter.
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David Barboza / New York Times:
U.S. Diplomat Sharply Criticizes China on Rights — SHANGHAI — The departing American ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., criticized this country's human rights record on Wednesday in some of the sharpest public comments here yet by an United States official since the Chinese government began …
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Law will not concede before maverick
Law will not concede before maverick
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John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
Judge gives ‘Juror No. 799’ indefinite jury duty after she makes racist remarks on questionnaire — An incensed federal judge sentenced a racist Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty on Tuesday after she trashed the NYPD and minorities. — “This is an outrage, and so are you!”
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / Salon:
I can't believe my best friend is a Republican — I love everything about Janet — except how she stands for all the things I find bad and wrong in the world — Janet and I would likely have never met, save for the thing that unites so many women across divides of income and age: fat.
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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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