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The Politico:
Twin defeats spark Democratic fears — HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. — The Democratic Party's rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
For Democrats, It's 2010 All Over Again — The outcome of any individual election to the United States House, even in a highly partisan era where Congressional elections have a relatively strong correlation with presidential voting and national trends, is going to be determined based on a combination of local and national factors.
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Swampland, Taylor Marsh, Guardian, The Moderate Voice, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, AmSpecBlog and Balloon Juice
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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Ridiculous NY-09 spin: “It's a very difficult district for Democrats” — Republicans won two House seats in a special election last night. One, in Nevada, had been a relatively safe district, and Republican Mark Amodei cruised to victory over Democrat Kate Marshall as expected.
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Weasel Zippers and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Yahoo! News:
GOP wins in NY House race, seen as Obama rebuke — NEW YORK (AP) — Republicans have scored an upset victory in a House race that started as a contest to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner after he resigned in a sexting scandal but became a referendum on President Barack Obama's economic policies.
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NOM Blog, The Atlantic Online, The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times, Israpundit and Corrente
New York Times:
Bob Turner Wins Anthony Weiner's House Seat — A little-known Republican businessman from Queens, channeling voter discontent with President Obama into an upset, won election to Congress on Tuesday from the heavily Democratic district in New York City last represented by Anthony D. Weiner.
Washington Post:
Republican wins Democratic New York House seat — With the outcome of his own reelection effort 14 difficult months away, President Obama suffered a sharp rebuke Tuesday when voters in New York elected a conservative Republican to represent a Democratic district that has not been in GOP hands since the 1920s.
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Weasel Zippers, NO QUARTER, TalkLeft, Patterico's Pontifications and Gawker
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.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Revenge of the Jews? — I've never been to a Republican victory party (or any event in Howard Beach!) where black velvet yarmulkes were as plentiful as they were at Bob Turner's event last night, and there are few elections in which the Jewish politics I've always covered with interest are going to get spun quite this hard.
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The Atlantic Online, Pajamas Media and Gawker
Ashley Killough / CNN:
GOP's Turner wins House seat vacated by Weiner
GOP's Turner wins House seat vacated by Weiner
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Pajamas Media, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Ballot Box and The Hill
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
After Turner Earthquake in Weiner District, Democrats' Civil War Against Obama Begins
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
GOP coasts to victory in Nevada race
GOP coasts to victory in Nevada race
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Power Line and The Politico
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Wins in Race to Replace Weiner
GOP Wins in Race to Replace Weiner
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Erick's blog, americanthinker.com, Taylor Marsh, Campaign 2012, The Sundries Shack, iOwnTheWorld.com and Pajamas Media
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Amodei defeats Marshall for Nevada congressional seat
Amodei defeats Marshall for Nevada congressional seat
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Washington Monthly
Dan Senor / Wall Street Journal:
Why Obama Is Losing the Jewish Vote
Why Obama Is Losing the Jewish Vote
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Betsy's Page and Shot in the Dark
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Republicans win Weiner's seat
Republicans win Weiner's seat
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Pajamas Media and National Review
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
NY-09 Results (AP Calls Race for Republican)(Victory Song and Tweet of Night added)
NY-09 Results (AP Calls Race for Republican)(Victory Song and Tweet of Night added)
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Julianna Goldman / Bloomberg:
Obama Approval Plummets on Jobs Plan: Poll — A majority of Americans don't believe President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan will help lower the unemployment rate, skepticism he must overcome as he presses Congress for action and positions himself for re- election.
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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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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)
Mr. Jeffrey Zients / House Energy …:
Committee Launched an Investigation into Obama's Hallmark Stimulus Jobs Program in February …
Committee Launched an Investigation into Obama's Hallmark Stimulus Jobs Program in February …
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Washington Post and Green
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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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, GOP 12, Leon_H_Wolf's blog and The Politico
Seth Abramovitch / Gawker:
Ron Paul's Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured — At CNN's Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in dire need of intensive health care.
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The Moderate Voice
Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Why did Sandoval endorse Rick Perry? Because relationships matter — When he entered the race for governor, Republican Brian Sandoval was going against a fellow Republican incumbent, Jim Gibbons. At that time, the chairman (Correction: incoming chairman) of the Republican Governor's Association …
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Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Amid rivals' criticism, Perry to speak to students
Amid rivals' criticism, Perry to speak to students
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Tim Mak / The Politico:
Taliban and NATO in tweet battle — It's a Twitter war! — As the Taliban's attack on key buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan, was crushed after 20 hours of fighting, NATO-led forces engaged in a tweet battle with a user that the UK's Guardian has identified as a spokesperson for the insurgent group.
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Wall Street Journal:
The 2013 Tax Cliff — Business had better enjoy the next 16 months. — President Obama unveiled part two of his American Jobs Act on Monday, and it turns out to be another permanent increase in taxes to pay for more spending and another temporary tax cut. No surprise there.
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Betsy's Page
Glen Johnson / Boston Globe:
A Brown-Warren US Senate matchup could rival Weld-Kerry battle royale — Should Elizabeth Warren be fortunate enough to win the Massachusetts Democratic Party's US Senate nomination next year, state voters could see an election contest that rivals the concurrent presidential campaign.
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2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Above the Law, Politics, Law Blog and Wall Street Journal
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
‘Supercommittee’? More than stupor committee. — So what's so super about the “supercommittee”? — The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, as the supercommittee is known formally, held a first meeting last week that consisted entirely of speech-making by the panel members.
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Karin Tanabe / The Politico:
Al Gore calls out Colbert's ‘character’ — He talked about global warming, his television projects and the days when Rick Perry was a Democrat, but the highlight of Al Gore's appearance on Tuesday night's “Colbert Report” was his giggle fit. — After the former VP talked about his new Current TV show …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
Hill Dems pick apart Obama jobs plan — President Barack Obama's new jobs plan is hitting some unexpected turbulence in the halls of Congress: lawmakers from his own party. — As he demands Congress quickly approve his ambitious proposal aimed at reviving the sagging economy …
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Court backs district on teacher's religious banners — Saying a high school teacher has no right to “use his public position as a pulpit,” a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a San Diego County school district was on solid legal ground when it ordered a math instructor …
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