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Christie's tea-party problem — The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses …
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NBC poll: Christie faces divided GOP, trails Clinton in hypothetical '16 race — If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie runs for president in 2016, he would likely face the dual challenges of uniting a fractured Republican Party and besting a formidable Hillary Clinton in a general election, according to a new NBC News poll.

Left wants challenger for Hillary — Liberal leaders want Hillary Clinton to face a primary challenge in 2016 if she decides to run for president. — The goal of such a challenge wouldn't necessarily be to defeat Clinton. It would be to prevent her from moving to the middle during the Democratic primary.
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Racist Op-Ed Columns Are a Strange Business Strategy
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Wall Street's nightmare: President Elizabeth Warren
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Richard Cohen Has Written Something Insane About Interracial Marriage
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‘Super PAC’ Gets Early Start on Pushing for a 2016 Clinton Campaign
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Assessing the Healthcare Rollout … When OZY sat down with President Clinton, one of the things we were most interested to hear were his impressions of the recent national health care rollout. Here's what he had to tell us. — 1. The country is better off with the Affordable Care Act than without it.
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Bill Clinton: ‘President Should Honor the Commitment’ and Let People Keep Their Insurance Plans — Former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama should keep his pledge to allow people to keep their current health care plans, if they like them, under Obamacare:
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About 40,000 Americans are said to have signed up for plans on HealthCare.gov — Roughly 40,000 Americans have signed up for private insurance through the flawed federal online insurance marketplace since it opened six weeks ago, according to two people with access to the figures.
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GOP about to hurt itself again!: New ploy to kill Obamacare will blow up — The new “Keep Your Health Plan Act” sounds great — but its timing reveals Republicans' dubious ulterior motives — Starting on Jan. 1, votes to repeal Obamacare will become votes to take health insurance away from a lot of people.
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Time to Start Considering Obamacare's Worst Case Scenarios
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The Obamacare Exchange Scorecard: Around 100,000 Enrollees And Five Million Cancellations

Who counts as an Obamacare enrollee? The Obama administration settles on a definition.
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Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station — A cyber-security expert says several ostensibly secure facilities became victims of the virus that struck Iran's nuclear program — A Russian nuclear power plant was reportedly “badly infected” by the rogue Stuxnet virus …
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Iran Nuclear Talks: Unfinished, but Alive
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Netanyahu: Eased sanctions a ‘jackpot’ for Iran nuclear prospects
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The Truth about Navigators — James O'Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR's president fired, is back. — This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare's …
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'There's a new sheriff in town': James O'Keefe exposes Obamacare navigator fraud [video]
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I've Got Whooping Cough. Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy. — At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days. Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months. And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched …
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“Don't Get Screwed By Obamacare, Find A Sugar Daddy!” Says Dating Website — Don't get screwed, by the government. — Seekingarrangement.com is a site that connects young females and older males for a “sugar daddy arrangement.” — seekingarrangement.com
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Dem. Rep.: ‘I Think the President Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public’ — Rep. Kurt Schrader, a Democrat from Oregon, said that President Obama was “grossly misleading” on Obamacare: — “Very misleading,” the Democratic congressman says of Obama's promise that you can keep your health care plan, if you like it.
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Opinion: Voter ID critics proved wrong — Editor's note: Bryan Preston is editor at large of the conservative blog PJ Media. He was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the “Laura Ingraham Show” and was communications director of the Republican Party of Texas.

Confessions of a Quantitative Easer — We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street. Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street. — I can only say: I'm sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program …
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Virginia attorney general race: Herring takes lead, with a recount appearing likely — Democratic state Sen. Mark R. Herring took the lead in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race Monday evening, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond.
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Memo warned of “limitless” security risks for HealthCare.gov — (CBS News) WASHINGTON — CBS News has learned that the project manager in charge of building the federal health care website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website's security.
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Public University's Plaque Labels President Lincoln A Democrat — CHICAGO - A public university in President Abraham Lincoln's home state of Illinois is adorned with a plaque that states Lincoln - arguably the most famous and influential president in American history - was a Democrat.
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Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story — WASHINGTON (AP) — The underdog of government health care programs is emerging as the rare early success story of President Barack Obama's technologically challenged health overhaul. — Often dismissed, Medicaid has signed up 444,000 people …
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Why Obamacare's Troubled Rollout Might Force the Cooperation Health Reform Needs
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Dem poll: Kay Hagan lead vanishes — Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans' target list for 2014 — and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated. — Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points …
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CNN hires Brian Stelter as Reliable Sources host, media reporter — CNN has hired Brian Stelter, the New York Times media reporter, to serve as the new host of “Reliable Sources” its Sunday media program, and as a full-time media reporter on its digital side, POLITICO has learned.
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