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Adam C. Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
David Jolly's victory spells trouble for Democrats nationwide — If I'm a Democratic House member in any competitive district in America or a Democratic incumbent senator up for re-election this year in a moderate-to-conservative state like North Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado, Alaska or Louisiana …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Plum Line and Yahoo! News
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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Why a Republican Wave in 2014 is Looking More Likely Now — David Jolly wasn't expected to win Tuesday's special election. But he capitalized on an increasingly favorable political environment for the GOP. — Tuesday night's special election in Florida should be a serious scare for Democrats …
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Talking Points Memo, The Plum Line, Power Line, Hot Air, Mediaite and NBC News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Florida race shows Democrats' Obamacare dilemma — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE 2014 ELECTIONS — The widely respected Florida political analyst Adam Smith sees big problems for Democrats in the loss of Alex Sink to Republican David Jolly in the special election to fill the House seat from Florida's 13th Congressional District.
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The Daily Beast, Fox News, Power Line, Betsy's Page and Washington Monthly
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
David Jolly defeats Alex Sink in Florida 13th
David Jolly defeats Alex Sink in Florida 13th
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Washington Monthly, CNN, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, Fox News, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, The Raw Story, The Moderate Voice, American Spectator and The Hill
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ/NBC News Poll: Obama's approval rating hits new low. — President Obama notched the lowest approval ratings of his presidency in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, amd wide pessimism about the economy and deep frustration with Washington.
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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Poll: Voters Stay Negative on Christie — Positive feelings about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are eroding across the board — even among his once-loyal base of Republicans and Northeasterners - in the wake of allegations that top deputies engineered a massive traffic jam …
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PoliticusUSA and The Week
NBC News:
GOP May Reap Rewards of Obama's Unpopularity in Midterms, Poll Finds - NBC News
GOP May Reap Rewards of Obama's Unpopularity in Midterms, Poll Finds - NBC News
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CNN, Mediaite, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
WSJ Poll: Candy Is Dandy But Pot Is Less Harmful
WSJ Poll: Candy Is Dandy But Pot Is Less Harmful
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The Week
The Hill:
Feinstein drops CIA bombshell — The CIA conducted an unconstitutional search of a Senate Intelligence Committee computer network that amounted to illegal spying, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) charged Tuesday in a dramatic speech on the Senate floor. — Feinstein said the CIA's actions …
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Firedoglake, Politico and Associated Press
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Did the CIA Chief Just Dare Obama to Fire Him? — Under a sudden avalanche of criticism, CIA director John Brennan said President Obama can ‘ask me to go.’ Will he? — The normally cool and calm director of the CIA, John Brennan, may have flinched Tuesday.
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Close Read, ThinkProgress, TalkLeft, Washington Post and Foreign Policy
David Corn / Mother Jones:
The Senate-CIA Blowup Threatens a Constitutional Crisis
The Senate-CIA Blowup Threatens a Constitutional Crisis
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Firedoglake, emptywheel, The Intercept, Balloon Juice, Washington Post, The Dish, Post Politics and The World's Greatest …
New York Times:
Obama Will Seek Broad Expansion of Overtime Pay — WASHINGTON — President Obama this week will seek to force American businesses to pay more overtime to millions of workers, the latest move by his administration to confront corporations that have had soaring profits even as wages have stagnated.
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare's Secret Mandate Exemption — HHS quietly repeals the individual purchase rule for two more years. — ObamaCare's implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate.
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Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications and The Federalist
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
At Least One Person Killed in East Harlem Building Collapse — At least one person was killed when two buildings collapsed in East Harlem on Wednesday morning, according to authorities, and a senior city official suggested that there would most likely be more fatalities.
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Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and Runnin' Scared
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Freedom After 30 Years on Death Row — UPDATE: Glenn Ford was indeed released from prison late Tuesday afternoon local time. The same judge who denied him relief in 2009 was the one who signed the order authorizing his release. — ORIGINAL STORY: Glenn Ford, a black man wrongfully convicted …
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Booman Tribune
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
The Limits of the Wonkosphere — Are we entering a golden age of policy journalism? Consider the evidence. Ezra Klein, founder of the Washington Post's phenomenally successful online policy news site Wonkblog, recently left to form what he says will be an even more revolutionary digital venture in explanatory policy journalism.
Bloomberg:
Wall Street Plays 2016 Dating Game as Christie Stumbles — Billionaire Wilbur Ross invited Paul Ryan over for lunch. Goldman Sachs (GS) Group Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) bankers met with Rand Paul at a fundraiser in Atlanta. Investor Rob Arnott dropped in on Ted Cruz.
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Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
Bill Clinton to headline Phila. fundraiser for Margolies — The Big Dog did not forget his debt to Marjorie Margolies. — Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to be the special guest at an April fundraiser for Margolies' effort to reclaim the U.S. House seat she lost two decades ago …
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Politico and OnPolitics
Rebecca Riffkin / Gallup:
Climate Change Not a Top Worry in U.S. — U.S. concerns with the quality of the environment dropped in 2014 … WASHINGTON, D.C. — Twenty-eight U.S. senators held an all-night “talkathon” Monday to call attention to climate change, an issue that only 24% of Americans say they worry about a great deal.
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TruthRevolt.org and Washington Free Beacon
The Intercept:
How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware — Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process.
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The Verge
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
How Democrats Can Compete for the White Working Class — On the surface, the Democratic Party's bid to win back the votes of the white working class looks like an impossible task. — Between 2008 and 2012, President Obama's already weak support among these voters dropped from 40 percent to just 36 percent.
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Public Religion Research …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Between Two Ferns: The Selling of the President, 2014 — President Obama stormed the internet Tuesday with his appearance on Zach Galifianakis's beloved series Between Two Ferns: — There are (in my opinion) some solidly entertaining moments here, but of course Obama's reason for appearing …
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Washington Free Beacon, PoliticusUSA, National Review, NewsBusters, Althouse and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
‘The Daily Show’ Fact Checks Andrew Napolitano's Civil War Revisionism With A Game Show — Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” on Tuesday took his mockery of Fox News' Andrew Napolitano to the next level, hosting a mini-game show to debunk the commentator's revisionist views on the Civil War and American slavery.
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The Huffington Post