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11:00 AM ET, October 13, 2010

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The Hill:
THE HILL POLL: Republicans are up in 8 of 10 open House districts  —  Republicans are winning eight out of 10 competitive open House seats surveyed in a groundbreaking new poll by The Hill.  —  Taken on top of 11 GOP leads out of 12 freshman Democratic districts polled last week …
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Four Causes that Will Lead to a Democratic Election Nightmare  —  Locked in place.  —  The four causes of what's likely to be a landslide defeat for Democrats in the midterm election are now locked in place.  All that's left for Democrats in the final three weeks of the campaign is to trash Republicans …
Discussion: Liberty Pundits Blog
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dem candidate: DCCC canceled ads because I won't support Pelosi  —  A Democratic candidate for Congress accused the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) of pulling its support for his campaign because he said he wouldn't support Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as House Speaker.
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Midterms Are a Test for Obama's Ground Game  —  There's a reason that President Obama decided to broadcast on the Internet his meeting with college students on Tuesday night, taking sympathetic questions by way of Facebook and Skype and Twitter.  (About the only hip thing the president …
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
President Obama ads: Not just for the GOP
Discussion: CNN
NY Daily News:
GOP governor hopeful Carl Paladino cashed in on Buffalo gay clubs Cobalt, Buddies II  —  Carl Paladino says kids shouldn't be “brainwashed” into thinking it's okay to be gay or be taken to a “disgusting” gay pride parade.  —  But he had no problem when his son, William, ran Cobalt …
Discussion: Raw Story and Runnin' Scared
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New York Times:
Paladino Apologizes for Remarks About Gays
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Obama administration appeals gay marriage ruling  —  (Reuters) - The Obama administration decided on Tuesday to appeal a judge's rulings that prevented the U.S. government from banning same-sex marriages, a move that could undermine support among President Barack Obama's traditional liberal base ahead of a key election.
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Judge Orders U.S. Military to Stop 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Discussion: The Hill, AMERICAblog Gay and The Hill
Associated Press:
Judge Orders Injunction on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Washington Post:
Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday  —  D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee will announce Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of this month, bringing an abrupt end to a tenure that drew national acclaim but that also became a central issue …
Michael Hirschorn / The Atlantic Online:
Truth Lies Here  —  How can Americans talk to one another—let alone engage in political debate—when the Web allows every side to invent its own facts?  —  THIS PAST AUGUST, the left-leaning San Francisco-based Web site AlterNet posted a remarkable scoop: members of a group calling itself …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Mike Allen / The Politico:
20 DAYS OUT - Obama to Peter Baker: 'There's no such thing as shovel-ready projects' ... Maps Obama 2.0 with Rouse, Messina — GOP groups launch $50 million ‘House surge’  —  PLAYBOOK ODDS FIXING: If midterms were held today, Republicans would pick up 45 House seats (40 needed for majority …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
President Obama Looks Forward — and Back
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and New York Times
The Note:
Attacks Get Personal in California Gubernatorial Debate  —  ABC News' David Wright reports:  —  The two candidates for California governor sparred over taxes, illegal immigration, and whether it's fair game to describe one another as “whores” in their final campaign debate at Dominican College in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Discussion: CNN
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Cathleen Decker / Los Angeles Times:
Whitman and Brown's final debate a contentious one
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Lynn Brezosky / Houston Chronicle:
Mexican investigator in Falcon Lake probe beheaded  —  The severed head of a Mexican police commander investigating the fatal shooting of U.S. citizen David Michael Hartley on Falcon Lake was delivered Tuesday to Mexican military in a suitcase, authorities said.
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
‘Spirit of Political Disclosure’?  White House Press Sec once part of group that refused to disclose donors  —  The White House plans to continue attacking groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative organizations for not disclosing the names of donors behind political ads.
Jocelyn Noveck / Associated Press:
Obama's related to Palin  —  NEW YORK — President Barack Obama has family ties to none other than Sarah Palin, according to the genealogists at Ancestry.com, a discovery the family history site made when looking for connections between political foes.  —  And that's not all …
Eric Dondero / Libertarian Republican:
MAINE: Nazi symbols spray-painted on Jewish Republican candidate's signs  —  Media Blackout!  —  From Eric Dondero:  —  Symbols of the National Socialist Party (NAZIs) were recently spray-painted on signs of a Jewish Republican candidate for Maine State Senate.  Blogger Al Diamon DownEast.com explains:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NO WAY TO RUN A GOVERNMENT, CONT'D.... When President Obama nominated Michael McCrum to be a U.S. Attorney in Western Texas, there was no reason to think there'd be much of a delay.  McCrum, a former assistant U.S. attorney, enjoyed the support of Texas' Democratic congressional delegation …
ABCNEWS:
In South Dakota: Another Sarah Palin?  —  A New Republican Star Takes on a Tough Democratic Incumbent  —  If money is any indication, the hottest Republican House candidate in the country is Kristi Noem.  The 38-year-old rancher has raised more campaign cash than any Republican house challenger in the country.
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Mark Kirk Sends Poll Monitors To ‘Vulnerable,’ Largely African-American Neighborhoods  —  In a private phone conversation that was secretly recorded, Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send “voter integrity” …
Pam Key / The Blaze:
CLINTON HECKLED IN BLUE NEW YORK, SAYS HALF OF REPUBLICANS NEED PSYCHIATRIC HELP  —  MICKGOBLIN  —  He didnt do crap to balance the budget.  It was supply side economics kicking in back from Reagan and the computer industry.  Fine one thing he did to balance the budget?  He didnt do crap!
New York Times:
Across the U.S., Long Recovery Looks Like Recession  —  This is not what a recovery is supposed to look like.  —  In Atlanta, the Bank of America Tower, the tallest in the Southeast, is nearly a fifth vacant, and bank officials just wrestled a rent cut from the developer.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Gore vs. the Supreme Court: The justices and the ‘CSI effect’  —  In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.
Dr. Marc Siegel / NY Daily News:
Is there a doctor in the house?  Obamacare will worsen the physician shortage Congress helped create  —  There is a new disease spreading like a cancer in doctors' offices and hospitals throughout the U.S. I have named it Doctor Unavailability Syndrome (DUS).
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Vice President Tries to Energize Democrats  —  PITTSBURGH — Joseph R. Biden Jr., unyielding optimist, Democratic cheerleader and vice president of the United States, wants Americans to know that the midterm elections will not be a Republican rout.  And after Democrats win in 2010 …
Josh Gerstein / Reuters:
USS Cole attack survivors angry at Obama  —  The 10th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole on Tuesday conjured up painful memories for the families of the 17 Navy sailors who died in the terrorist attack, but it also revealed simmering anger at the Obama administration over the lack …
Discussion: Pat Dollard
Michelle Conlin / Associated Press:
Robo-signers: Mortgage experience not necessary  —  Banks hired hair stylists, teens to process foreclosure documents, workers' testimony shows  —  Related Quotes  —  NEW YORK (AP) — In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007, financial institutions …
Kathryn Joyce / The Nation:
At Claremont Institute, Christine O'Donnell Was Taught ABCs of Homophobia  —  In the past few weeks, Delaware Congressional candidate Christine O'Donnell has come under ridicule for seeming embellishments to her résumé.  A CV posted on the networking site LinkedIn transformed …
 
 
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Scott / Power Line:
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Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
N.Y. Faces $200 Billion in Retiree Health Costs
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Groups Launch Massive Ad Blitz
Discussion: The Spot, The Caucus and The Page
Rich Miller / Bloomberg:
Americans See Children's Future Dim in Poll as 50% Pessimistic
National Review:
Obama the Alien
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Associated Press:
Texas County Ballots Wrongly Have Flag Of Chile
The Hill:
ARKANSAS-01  —  Republicans could end Dems' 100-year lock on this seat
Discussion: National Review
 Earlier Items: 
ajc.org:
AJC Survey Shows Jewish Disapproval of President Obama Rising
Veronique de Rugy / National Review:
Job Creation: Bush vs. Obama
The Huffington Post:
The Power Of Clinton, The Invisibility Of Obama
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Salon and WAVE-TV
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama's Lost Narrative