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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Republican Bob Turner wins New York special election — Businessman Bob Turner (R) defeated state Assemblyman David Weprin (D) in the special election for the House seat held by former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner (D). — Turner's victory is regarded as an upset given the Democratic history …
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Republicans win Weiner's seat — Republican Bob Turner won former Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-N.Y.) House seat on Tuesday, a bad sign for President Obama and down-ticket Democrats heading into next year's election. — Turner was leading Democrat David Weprin by 53 percent to 47 percent …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
GOP wins in NY House race, seen as Obama rebuke — NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic policies. — Retired media executive and political novice Bob Turner defeated Democratic state Assemblyman David Weprin …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
In NY-9 special election, Dems race to stave off an upset — NEW YORK - Democrats here spent Tuesday in the final throes of a frantic, last-ditch effort to stave off a loss in the special election race to replace Anthony Weiner. — Democrat David Weprin, trailing Republican Bob Turner in multiple polls …
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The Gateway Pundit and Politics
Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
White House Already Spinning Feared New York Loss — The White House is girding for a political loss in the heart of New York on Tuesday. They're also spinning up an explanation that won't entirely result in the blame landing on the low popularity of the president.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Other McCain, FiveThirtyEight, Scared Monkeys and New York Post
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
NY-09 Results (AP Calls Race for Republican)(Victory Song and Tweet of Night added) — I know you wanted the Official Legal Insurrection Victory Dance, or at least a little celebratory dance. But as mentioned earlier in the night, this district was heavily Jewish and Asian, so we will go to song:
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Taylor Marsh, Pajamas Media and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Republican wins Democratic New York House seat
Republican wins Democratic New York House seat
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TalkLeft, Associated Press, NY Daily News, The Daily Caller and National Review
The Atlantic Online:
Bob Turner Wins New York 09 Special Election
Bob Turner Wins New York 09 Special Election
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PolitickerNY, Israpundit and Ballot Box
First Read / msnbc.com:
Perry ‘taken aback’ by debate crowd reaction — TAMPA, FL — The morning after a sometimes-rocky appearance in front of a Tea Party debate audience, Gov. Rick Perry said he was “taken aback” by cheers from some crowd members on a hypothetical question of whether a young man who decides …
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Henry I. Miller / National Review:
Gardasil and the GOP — More than an hour into last night's debate, Rep. Michele Bachmann attacked Gov. Rick Perry on the HPV vaccination controversy — or more accurately pseudo-controversy. It stems from an executive order issued by Perry in 2007 that required all Texas girls to receive Gardasil …
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Pajamas Media, Riehl World View, The Politico and The Volokh Conspiracy
Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Bachmann: I'm A-Goin' to Go Ahead and Push This Lunatic Vaccines=Autism Lie
Bachmann: I'm A-Goin' to Go Ahead and Push This Lunatic Vaccines=Autism Lie
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RedState and Outside the Beltway
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Sarah Palin's Alaska Took Federal Funds to Increase Access to Gardasil
Sarah Palin's Alaska Took Federal Funds to Increase Access to Gardasil
Ben Howe / RedState:
Bachmann Stayed Quiet on Mandatory Vaccinations While Serving Minnesota
Bachmann Stayed Quiet on Mandatory Vaccinations While Serving Minnesota
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Guardian, Erick's blog and Washington Monthly
The Right Scoop:
Rush: Bachmann jumped the shark over Gardasil causing mental retardation
Rush: Bachmann jumped the shark over Gardasil causing mental retardation
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The Other McCain, Hot Air, Mediaite, ThinkProgress and Campaign 2012
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Bachmann claims HPV vaccine might cause ‘mental retardation’
Bachmann claims HPV vaccine might cause ‘mental retardation’
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Los Angeles Times, Media Matters for America, Mother Jones, GOP 12, Mediaite, Wonkette, National Review, alicublog, AmSpecBlog, ThinkProgress and Gawker
ABCNEWS:
Emails: Obama White House Monitored Huge Loan to ‘Connected’ Firm — Chris Gronet, right, talks about solar technology with President Barack Obama on a tour of the Solyndra solar panel company, in this May 26, 2010 file photo, in Fremont, Calif. (Paul Chinn/Pool/Getty Images)
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Washington Post:
White House pressed on $500 million loan to solar company now under investigation — The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval …
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Hot Air, Hit & Run, Slate and National Review
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
WH Pressured OMB on Solyndra Decision
WH Pressured OMB on Solyndra Decision
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Washington Post, Pajamas Media and Flopping Aces
Bill Schneider / Reuters:
It's Perry vs. New Deal — Texas Gov. Rick Perry made his views pretty clear at the CNN-Tea Party Express debate Monday when he told Mitt Romney, “If what you're trying to say is that back in the '30s and '40s that the federal government made all the right decisions, I disagree with you.”
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Jaime Fuller / TAPPED:
Today in SAT Prep: Romney Is to Clinton as Perry Is to Obama
Today in SAT Prep: Romney Is to Clinton as Perry Is to Obama
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A plain blog about politics and Washington Post
Ross Douthat:
Rick Perry as Howard Dean
Rick Perry as Howard Dean
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No More Mister Nice Blog and A plain blog about politics
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: U.S. Immigration ‘Worked Very, Very Well’ Under The Asian Exclusion Act — Under Bachmann's Immigration Policy, Lt. Hikaru Sulu Would Not Be Allowed In The United States — In 1924, Congress passed a package of immigration laws — including the National Origins Act …
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
West to Bachmann: Everglades are off limits
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Obama's bill makes it illegal to discriminate against unemployed — President Obama's American Jobs Act, which he presented to Congress on Monday, would make it illegal for employers to run advertisements saying that they will not consider unemployed workers, or to refuse to consider or hire people because they are unemployed.
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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Would Sign Parts Of Jobs Bill, Push For Rest
Obama Would Sign Parts Of Jobs Bill, Push For Rest
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The Politico, Pajamas Media, The Spot, Washington Monthly, Discourse.net and Hot Air
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wisconsin unions start feeding on each other — If you want a good measure of how deeply the collective bargaining bill in Wisconsin has disrupted public sector unions, there is no better example than the Wisconsins Education Association Council (WEAC). — Last month WEAC announced that it was laying off 40% of its staff.
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Hot Air, Power Line, The Atlantic Online and JSOnline
Todd Gregory / Media Matters for America:
Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip — In the annals of mindless partisan sniping, this may place at the top. — This morning, Fox & Friends joined the New York Post in attacking President Obama for using a paper clip. Read that again: They attacked Obama for using a paper clip.
U.S. Census Bureau News:
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010 — Summary of Key Findings — The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2010, median household income declined, the poverty rate increased and the percentage without health insurance coverage was not statistically different from the previous year.
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Suzy Khimm / Washington Post:
The Great Recession in five charts
The Great Recession in five charts
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com and The Politico
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Connecting the Dots: How the Left Works — We wrote here and in several follow-up posts about the New York Times's outrageous front-page smear of Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Times reporter Eric Lichtblau falsely accused Issa of using his Congressional office to enrich himself.
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Nice Deb, JammieWearingFool and National Confidential
Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Elizabeth Warren Officially Launching Senate Campaign Against Scott Brown — Former White House financial reform adviser Elizabeth Warren will officially launch her campaign for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts on Wednesday, challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a source close to Warren told TPM on Tuesday.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Indecent — The moment from last night that keeps haunting me: — Look: in some ways the honesty is refreshing. Yes, failing to get your own health insurance creates an obvious free-rider problem, and this is at the heart of the health insurance debate.
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Liberal Values, National Review, The Lonely Conservative and Outside the Beltway
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
Time for Germany to make its fateful choice — “Perhaps future historians will consider Maastricht a decisive step towards the emergence of a stable, European-wide power. Yet there is another, darker possibility ... The effort to bind states together may lead, instead, to a huge increase in frictions among them.
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Business Insider and TheMoneyIllusion