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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The Jolly-Sink showdown: What to watch — After almost $9 million in outside spending, a storm of attacks and counterattacks and endless speculation about its implications for the midterms, voters will cast their ballots in the Florida special congressional election on Tuesday.
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Drama-filled Florida race is 2014 bellwether — Lackluster candidates, millions spent, a third-party candidate: Every detail of Tuesday's special election in Florida's 13th District makes it unusual, but the bellwether district is still the first indication of the 2014 electoral mood.
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Ben Jacobs / The Daily Beast:
Florida's Midterm Warm Up — special election in the Sunshine State's District 13, otherwise known as Swingtown USA, is an important—and close-one for both parties. — Less than 18 months after the 2012 election, the fulcrum of American politics rests once again in Central Florida.
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Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Advantage Sink? Women Win US House Specials at More Than 2x Rate of General Elections
Advantage Sink? Women Win US House Specials at More Than 2x Rate of General Elections
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News — CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday.
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New York Times:
The Democrats Stand Up to the Kochs — Democrats have for too long been passive in the face of the vast amounts of corporate money, most of it secret, that are being spent to evict them from office and dismantle their policies. By far the largest voice in many of this year's political races …
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Marisa Schultz / detroitnews.com:
Dexter cancer patient who called health care ‘unaffordable’ will save more than $1K — Washington— A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group's TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as “unaffordable” will save more than $1,000 this year.
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Ukraine may have to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker — KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine may have to arm itself with nuclear weapons if the United States and other world powers refuse to enforce a security pact that obligates them to reverse the Moscow-backed takeover of Crimea, a member of the Ukraine parliament told USA TODAY.
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Robert Shrum / The Daily Beast:
Obama's All Eisenhower On Russia
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's New Approach Takes a Humorous Turn — WASHINGTON — In “Between Two Ferns,” an off-color online parody of celebrity interview shows, the comedian Zach Galifianakis has spanked Justin Bieber with his belt, discussed Charlize Theron's thighs and asked Natalie Portman for her phone number.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Support for Obamacare slightly edges up — Washington (CNN) - Support for the country's new health care law appears to be rebounding slightly, according to a new national poll. — A CNN/ORC International survey released Tuesday indicates that nearly all of the increased support comes …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Old-school leftists are unhappy with Obama's America. — At Salon.com two old-school leftists, Thomas Frank and Adolph Reed Jr., offer a surprisingly interesting critique of the contemporary left and President Obama. Notwithstanding the unwieldy headline, “We Are All Right-Wingers Now …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Dems can't run on Obamacare and can't hide from it either — BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE 2014 ELECTIONS — Some Democrats hope to minimize the importance of Obamacare as a political issue by focusing on other topics in this November's midterm elections. Some hope to win by promising to fix …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
26 Democrats Plan a Senate All-Nighter on Climate Change — WASHINGTON — The Senate was headed into another all-nighter Monday evening as 26 Democrats who call themselves the “climate caucus” planned to speak nonstop about climate change from about 6:30 p.m. until 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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ThinkProgress:
Neil DeGrasse Tyson To Science Deniers: ‘Science Is Not There For You To Cherry Pick’ — CREDIT: Frank Micelotta/Invision for FOX/AP Images — Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and host of National Geographic and Fox's new show Cosmos, said Sunday that he thinks the media needs …
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The PJ Tatler and The Huffington Post
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Use of Stolen Passports on Missing Jet Highlights Security Flaw — WASHINGTON — As an armada of ships, planes and helicopters combed the waters south of Vietnam on Monday for any sign of a missing Malaysian airliner, aviation safety experts said the discovery that two passengers aboard …
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What we know and don't know
Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: What we know and don't know
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Harry Reid plots to block potential 2016 foe — Harry Reid isn't on Nevada's ballot this year, but he may as well be. — The shrewd Senate majority leader is putting the strength of his formidable political machine behind a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor whose fate …
NorthJersey.com:
Feds withdraw subpoena of Port Authority chairman in conflict of interest investigation — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan took steps late last week to open an inquiry into Port Authority Chairman David Samson, only to withdraw their subpoena for documents Monday afternoon and cede control …
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Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Seek Records on Port Authority Chairman
Federal Prosecutors Seek Records on Port Authority Chairman
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Snowden Inc. — First, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden popped up in Hong Kong. Then, Russia. By Monday, the fugitive from justice, a man regularly accused of treason, was in Austin, Texas, hitting the nation's hottest tech festival — via the Web, of course.
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