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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Wisconsin recall elections: Results live blog — Protesters yell from a balcony near the the Wisconsin State Assembly Chambers as the assembly meets in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin March 10, 2011. … 10:13 P.M. The AP, along with local networks, has called …
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Walker signs legislation to redraw district boundaries — By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - As elections took place Tuesday in six state Senate districts, Gov. Scott Walker signed legislation to redraw their boundaries along with the rest of legislative districts.
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The Raw Story and The Political Carnival
JSOnline:
Republicans take 4 of 6 in recall elections, hold Senate — Both sides see victories in hard-fought contests — By Tom Tolan and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Democrats won two state Senate seats in Tuesday's historic recall elections, but failed to capture a third seat …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Reading the Wisconsin Recall Vote — Wisconsin residents on Tuesday voted on whether to recall six Republican state senators, whose backing of Gov. Scott Walker in the dispute over collective bargaining rights this year made them targets for Democratic-aligned groups.
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David Catanese / The Politico:
Strong voter turnout in Wisconsin
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Tom Curry / msnbc.com:
Democrats fall short in Wisconsin recall elections
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The Politico:
Harry Reid super committee picks in place — In the first of what will be a closely watched selection process for a powerful new deficit panel, Democratic sources say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and John Kerry …
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A.Killough / CNN:
CNN Poll: Time to clean house in Congress? — Washington (CNN) - Need more evidence that Americans are extremely angry at Congress? — Well, here you go: According to a new national survey, for the first time ever most Americans don't believe their own member of Congress deserves re-election.
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A.Killough / CNN:
New CNN Poll: Majority want tax increase for wealthy and deep spending cuts — Washington (CNN) - Most Americans want a special congressional committee tasked with drafting a long-term solution to the nation's mounting federal deficits to include tax hikes for the wealthy and businesses …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Poll: GOP more unpopular than during Clinton impeachment — Voters are more unhappy with the Republican Party now than they were when the Republican-led House voted to impeach then-President Clinton, according to a new CNN poll released Tuesday. — Fifty-nine percent of voters polled …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Poll: Dems up, GOP down
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The Note:
On the Defense Over the Debt Deal, McConnell Says He's ‘Very Close’ to Super Committee Picks
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Kyle Leighton / TPMDC:
CNN Poll: Grand Old Party Downgrade
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
About that plane over S&P — Who sent an aerial message to Wall Street? — Courtesy of NY Observer — Earlier today, a plane flew over S&P headquarters trailing a banner that read: … Fortune has learned that the person who paid to fly the banner is a Midwestern broker …
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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
Single Mother from St. Louis Flying Banner Over Lower Manhattan: 'Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired.' (UPDATED) — YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED." Pictures and more sightings are beginning to emerge. Full image below: — The S&P offices are in the McGraw Hill building at 96 Water Street …
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that economic growth so far this year has been considerably slower than the Committee had expected. Indicators suggest a deterioration in overall labor market conditions in recent months, and the unemployment rate has moved up.
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Jeb Bush Jr / H2012:
Jon Huntsman for President — In 2008, Florida and the presidency went to Barack Obama because he offered hope. To defeat the President in 2012, we need a candidate who will offer solutions. That man is Jon Huntsman. — Today at 11:15 a.m. at Scotty's Landing in Miami …
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Yahoo! News:
Police calm London, but riots flare across UK — LONDON (AP) — Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London Wednesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation. An eerie calm prevailed in the capital, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence driven …
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Brendan O'Neill / Spiked:
London's burning: a mob made by the welfare state
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JSOnline:
Dem spokesman accuses GOP of dirty tricks in Waukesha vote count — By Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel — A state Democratic Party spokesman accused a Republican official Tuesday night of tampering with votes in the tight 8th Senate District recall race.
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The Raw Story
Parker Leavitt / Arizona Republic:
McCain faces angry crowd at Gilbert town-hall meeting — U.S. Sen. John McCain's town-hall meeting Monday in Gilbert broke down into a shouting match at times as “tea-party” activists directed their anger and frustration toward the senator over issues ranging from his characterization of them as …
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
National Review: Obama Secretly Supports Violent London Rioters — Violent riots have swept London all week. The Washington Post reports that last night, “Rampant looting and raging fires engulfed swaths of London on Monday as the wave of civil unrest that has gripped this sprawling capital escalated sharply.”
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The Politico:
For Tim Pawlenty, it's Ames or bust — He's spent a seven-figure sum and the bulk of his time on the campaign trail courting the Iowa grassroots. Operatives call his expansive Iowa organization the best in the state. — As the only mainstream Republican candidate actively competing …
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GOP 12, The Other McCain and Iowa Caucuses
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Honor Fallen SEALs by Questioning Their Mission — Joshua Foust tweets that his PBS piece “Lessons from this weekend's Afghan helicopter crash” has been called “enemy propaganda” by some critics. That charge fundamentally misunderstands patriotism. He's not divulging troop locations or battle plans …
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The Moderate Voice, The Daily Dish and Need to Know
NPR:
U.S. Credit Downgrade Leaves ‘Horrible Impact’ … Steve Inskeep talks to former Republican Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming about the S&P downgrade of U.S. credit. Simpson has been saying that he hopes the S&P downgrade will cause lawmakers to take deficit deliberations more seriously.
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Outside the Beltway and The Political Carnival
Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Iowa tea party founder endorses Michele Bachmann for president — The founder and chairman of the Iowa tea party, Ryan Rhodes, has endorsed tea party sympathizer Michele Bachmann for president. — Although the tea party is an amorphous movement without a national leader …
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Washington Post, GOP 12 and The Politico
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Looking Like Dems Come Up Short — As of just after 12:30 on the east coast it's looking like Sen. Alberta Darling (R) is pulling out a win in Wisconsin's 8th senate district. If so, that means that state Democrats picked up two recall victories but fell short of the three needed to take control of the senate.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The Rick Perry that Texans know — The biggest guessing game in Republican politics today is what kind of presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry will be. Is he a heavyweight ready to contend seriously for the nomination, or someone who stumbles when he steps onto the big stage?
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The Caucus, Prairie Weather and Politics K-12
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Meet Your Catfood Commission, Senate Dem Edition: Murray, Kerry, Baucus — Via everywhere, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has chosen Sens. Patty Murray (D-WA), John Kerry (D-MA) and Max Baucus (D-MT) for the Super Congress, the bipartisan committee charged with finding at least $1.5 trillion …
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