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Frank Newport / Gallup:
GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot — Republicans also maintain wide gap in enthusiasm about voting — PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences.
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Beau Friedlander / The Huffington Post:
$100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tape — What's Your Reaction: — Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are happy to throw money at the rising tide of right wing lunacy. Breitbart offered $100,000 for JournoList, the email listserve that brought down WaPo blogger Dave Weigel this June.
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Adam Serwer / The Plum Line:
Was the Glenn Beck rally turnout really that impressive? — Adam Serwer of the American Prospect is guest blogging on The Plum Line this week, while Greg Sargent takes a short vacation. — While the official Tea Party estimates of Saturday's rally attendance may range between a gajillion …
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Fox News, Indecision Forever, Runnin' Scared, News Hounds and Washington Post
Ross douthat / New York Times:
Mr. Beck Goes to Washington — Entering this weekend, I was convinced that Glenn Beck's star was about to go into eclipse. — Just as Michael Moore, amid Democratic disarray, became the unlikely face of liberal opposition to George W. Bush, the mercurial, weepy, demagogic Beck has spent …
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Ross Douthat, Pajamas Media, NewsReal Blog, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, TBogg, Firedoglake, First Draft, No More Mister Nice Blog and Slate
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Just How Large Was the Attendance At Beck's ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally? — In an era when satellite imagery allows one to count cars from space, and in a country fascinated with numbers (weekly box office take, home runs, calorie counting, etc) the MSM is having a difficult time with the math …
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Cubachi, NewsReal Blog, The Daily Caller, The Powers That Be, Right Wing News and CBS News
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Obama Builds a Big Tent . . . for Conservatives
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Chicago Boyz
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BREAKING!! Alaska Libertarian Party votes to deny Lisa Murkowski ballot line — From Eric Dondero: — The Executive Committee of the Alaska Libertarian Party held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the contested primary results in the Republican Senate primary.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Tea Party Express ready to spend on Rep. Castle challenger — The Tea Party Express, which spent some $600,000 on Alaska Republican Joe Miller's primary challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R), says it's preparing to do the same on behalf of Christine O'Donnell (R) in Delaware.
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More than 25,000 ballots uncounted in Alaska GOP Senate race — (CNN) - One day before vote counting resumes in Alaska's Republican Senate primary, election officials say more than 25,000 ballots remain uncounted. — According to unofficial results from last Tuesday's primary …
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Alaska Libertarians: No ballot switch
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bombshell: Alaska Libertarian Party says no to nominating Murkowski
Bombshell: Alaska Libertarian Party says no to nominating Murkowski
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Swing State Project, Hotline On Call, The Hill and The Swamp
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ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Two Men on United Flight from Chicago Arrested on ‘Preparation of a Terrorist Attack’ in Amsterdam — Suspects Had Been Cleared Sunday by TSA in Chicago, Birmingham Despite Security Concerns — Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama may call Bush before Iraq speech — President Obama will likely phone his predecessor, President George W. Bush, before delivering his speech on the Iraq war Tuesday. — Obama will visit troops in Fort Bliss, Texas, which is in Bush's home state, before returning to Washington …
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Page
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House
Report: Warnings about e-mails went unheeded in Bush White House
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TPMMuckraker, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers? — Jodi Cobb / National Geographic Creative / Getty Images — One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do.
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Balloon Juice, Runnin' Scared and The Awl
Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Coburn rips the left and right alike — He pulls no punches during a town hall meeting in Wagoner. — WAGONER - U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn called out Democrats, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, the military-industrial complex, teachers unions and Medicare - to name a few - at a town hall meeting Friday.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sen. Tom Coburn: Newt Gingrich 'last person I'd vote for'
Sen. Tom Coburn: Newt Gingrich 'last person I'd vote for'
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The Page, The Political Carnival and New York Magazine
Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Angle in 2005: I would have voted “no” on Katrina relief funds — I have previously wondered how many Angle tapes are out there to compete with the jobs/Social Security/slush fund/Government is not God classics. I know the answer is: A lot. But I am starting to think there may be one a week …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
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Rosalind Helderman / Virginia Politics Blog:
Judge quashes Cuccinelli subpoena of U-Va. records — An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann.
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Boehner's spending-cut savings canceled out by tax-cut extension — Most of the budget savings from House GOP Leader John Boehner's proposed spending cuts would be canceled out by the extension of upper-income tax cuts also backed by Republicans. — Boehner, who hopes to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner to take on Obama administration over national security
Boehner to take on Obama administration over national security
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Politics Daily
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Thinner Time magazine still manages to stand out — Rick Stengel may have his shoulder in a sling, but when it comes to the newsmagazine wars, he's the last man standing. — The reason, says Time's managing editor, is that “we saw what was coming. We wanted to fix the roof when the sun was shining.”
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Bigot starts ground zero church: Where's the outrage? — A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn't drawn a peep of protest …
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The Lede and Washington Monthly
Tennessean.com:
‘Call Me’ Campaign Ad — The book also deals directly with the 2006 Senate campaign, where Ford nearly became the first African-American elected to statewide office in Tennessee. — Some of Ford's characterizations of his opponent, now U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, are less than flattering.
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The Fix and New York Magazine
The Onion:
Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims — SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.
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Little Green Footballs, The Plum Line, Indecision Forever and The New Republic
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The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment — My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn't been extended to 99 weeks. — Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers.
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The Note:
Sebelius: Time for ‘Reeducation’ on Obama Health Care Law — ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: — With a number of polls showing a sustained level of opposition to the Democrats' health care reform efforts more than five months after passage, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius …
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Weekly Standard and American Spectator
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Confirmed: Sarah Palin to Headline Iowa GOP Dinner in September — Well-placed sources tell TheIowaRepublican.com that Sarah Palin is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Republican Party of Iowa's Ronald Reagan Dinner on Friday, September 17th. The state party is slated to release more details about the event tomorrow.
Booman Tribune:
Wrong Answer — This is not good enough: Asked if the stimulus bill was too small, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs says: “I think it makes sense to step back just for a second. ... Nobody had, in January of 2009, a sufficient grasp of ... what we were facing.”
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WFMJ-TV:
Right Now — MAHONING COUNTY, Ohio - Jim Traficant now appears to have enough valid signatures to have his name placed on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress. — Longtime Traficant supporter Linda Kovachik tells 21 News that there are now 27 more valid signatures.
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Joe Miller Dodges Questions On Whether Social Security And Medicare Are Constitutional — Yesterday on CBS's Face the Nation, Alaska GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller suggested that both Medicare and Social Security are unconstitutional. When Bob Schieffer wondered whether Miller's ideas …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
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Crist walks back same-sex marriage remarks — (CNN) - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appeared to backtrack from statements he made regarding same-sex marriage during a CNN interview Sunday, saying in a statement that he does not support a Constitutional ban on the practice.
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Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process — (update below) — Three weeks ago, I wrote about a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, based on the Treasury Department's failure to grant a “license” to those groups …
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Blog of Rights and AMERICAblog News
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama to appear at Labor Day rally with AFL-CIO president — President Obama will spend Labor Day alongside AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, the union announced Monday. — Obama, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Trumka will all participate in a Labor Day “celebration and rally” …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
It's Witch-Hunt Season — The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder. And once Republicans took control of Congress …