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What Should We Read Into FL-13? Maybe Nothing. — Here are three basic thoughts on the race: — 1. My sense is that the Democratic candidate, former state chief financial officer and 2010 gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink, will probably win. — Back in mid-January …
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David Jolly elected to represent Pinellas County in Congress — CLEARWATER — Republican David Jolly on Tuesday night won the closely-watched, extremely expensive and relentlessly negative battle for Florida's 13th Congressional District, signaling trouble for Democrats as they head …


David Jolly defeats Alex Sink in Florida 13th — Republican David Jolly narrowly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in the special election for Florida's 13th District on Tuesday in an unusually expensive race watched closely by both parties as the midterm election season kicks into high gear.
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The Moderate Voice, CNN and The Raw Story

PPP poll: Alex Sink 48%, David Jolly45%, Lucas Overby 6%
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Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Power Line, Washington Monthly and Yahoo! News

The Jolly-Sink showdown: What to watch
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit, American Spectator, Hot Air, The Political Carnival, The Hill, Taylor Marsh, Smart Politics and National Review


Snowden On CIA: 'Suddenly It's A Scandal' When Congress Is Listened In On — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden released a statement Tuesday after Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the Central Intelligence Agency …
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Intrigue at the Top: CIA, Senate Feud Goes Public
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Transcript: Sen. Dianne Feinstein says CIA searched Intelligence Committee computers
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Taylor Marsh, Guardian, CNN, Yahoo! News, The Switch, Post Politics, ThinkProgress, Foreign Policy and TalkLeft

SENATOR: CIA IMPROPERLY SEARCHED COMPUTER NETWORK
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Feinstein: CIA Spied on Intelligence Committee (Updated) (Video)
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Slate, Talking Points Memo, Real Clear Politics, Hullabaloo, emptywheel and Roll Call


Will Young People Buy Health Care From Obama and Zach Galifianakis? — The health of the Affordable Care Act depends on getting “invincibles” who don't think they need plans enrolled. Enter Between Two Ferns. — Social media exploded Tuesday morning with people talking …
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BuzzFeed, The Switch, ThinkProgress, The Fix, ABC News and Re/code, more at Mediagazer »
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REVIEW: The First Cringe-Humor President
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Taylor Marsh, The Verge and Hot Air


The Game of Thrones TV-Show Creators Already Know What Happens at the End of the Book Series — Vanity Fair contributing editor Jim Windolf talks to George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the ongoing book series on which the popular HBO show Game of Thrones is based …
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Talking Points Memo, The Verge, Gawker, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, Twitchy, The Week and Guardian


Rep. Kyle Tasker: ‘50,000 battered women and I still eat mine plain’ — State House Rep. Kyle Tasker (R-Nottingham) is no stranger to controversy, but an image he posted today on a public Facebook page is exceptional even by his standards. — Tasker posted the image while commenting …
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PoliticusUSA and The Raw Story


Why casino workers hate Obamacare — Casino workers are preparing to strike against several Las Vegas establishments, but their real target is President Obama. — Culinary Workers Union Local 226 is pushing about a dozen of its employers to contribute more money to its health insurance fund to cover rising Obamacare costs.
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Erratic House Republicans Have Officially Lost It On Obamacare
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Gal dead after ‘black-market’ butt injection — A black-market New Jersey beautician botched a silicone butt injection at a seedy Meatpacking District hotel, leaving her client to die after suffering seizure-like symptoms, police said Tuesday. — Tamira Mobley, 28, has been charged …
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Gawker and Hinterland Gazette

Joe McGinniss, the journalist who harassed Sarah Palin, dead at 71. — Too bad to put in a life's work and have something creepy that you did be the #1 thing many or most people attach to your name when they see that you died. — “The Selling of the President” was a great exposé of the what it takes to run for President.
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Senate Makes America's Pathetic Public Financing System Even More Pathetic — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) successfully attained unanimous consent on Tuesday to pass H.R. 2019, a House bill to end public funding for party conventions. The bill would authorize the money …
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Eric Cantor … and Common Cause
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Russell Crowe's Noah banned in three Arab countries before worldwide premiere — Darren Aronofsky's forthcoming Biblical epic Noah has been banned in several Middle Eastern countries for depicting religious figures. — Censorship boards in Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates …
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Israel Matzav and Washington Post


Administration: 4.2 million people signed up for Obamacare plans through February — About 940,000 people selected Obamacare insurance plans in February, bringing to 4.2 million the total number of people opting for health coverage in the law's insurance exchanges since the enrollment opened in October.
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Even Before Fort Lee Lane Closings, Port Authority Was a Christie Tool — For a state that lost hundreds of lives on Sept. 11, the gifts were emotionally resonant: pieces of steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center. They were presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey …
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The Raw Story, Mediaite and Daily Kos

Clintonworld Goes After The Washington Post — A Hillary Clinton adviser is implicated in the D.C. corruption scandal but an aide fires back, calling the allegations “bizarre and brazenly false.” — The corruption scandal that has rocked local politics in D.C. now has a Hillary Clinton aide in the mix …
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Washington Post, Politico, The Daily Beast, The Fix and Washington Free Beacon


Mike Huckabee Could Be President—If Only He Wanted It — Mike Huckabee had asked me to send him my picture. He'd be sans entourage for our meeting at a Starbucks near Fox News's midtown Manhattan headquarters, and he wanted to be able to pick me out of the crowd.


McConnell: We're Going to ‘Crush’ Tea Party Candidates in GOP Primaries This Year — Provocative comments over the weekend from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell will provide grist for the ‘grassroots vs. establishment’ mill for some time. In an interview with the New York Times …
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Glenn Beck, The Hill, protein wisdom, American Spectator and RedState