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11:15 AM ET, October 17, 2010

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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Be Afraid, Be Very... Never Mind, You Already Are  —  Bitterly clinging to his pop psychology, First Sociologist Barack Obama regales a Democratic fundraising event with his latest insight into the minds of the Great Unwashed:  —  WEST NEWTON, Mass. - President Barack Obama said Americans' …
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
President Obama: ‘Fear and frustration’ drive voters  —  BOSTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday blamed Americans' “fear and frustration” for the fierce, negative, anything-goes midterm election cycle that threatens to upend his agenda.  —  “Part of the reason that our politics seems …
Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Fired up?  Not so much  —  If President Barack Obama needed …
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama stumps in Massachusetts
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Playing All the Angles  —  As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling sun, I was getting jittery.  —  There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River.  —  As the politicians droned …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
2 Top Candidates Skip G.O.P. Rally  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. — What if you held a voter turnout rally and the top candidates on the ballot didn't show up?  —  Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee chairman, and Sarah Palin, arguably the biggest draw in the Republican Party …
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Maeve Reston / PolitiCal:
At Fiorina event, McCain doesn't hide disdain for Boxer — she's ‘bitterly partisan’ and ‘anti-defense’  —  Former Republican presidential contender John McCain reunited with his onetime advisor Carly Fiorina on the campaign trail Saturday in San Diego, offering a blistering indictment …
Amy Taxin / Associated Press:
Palin tells supporters 'soon we'll all be dancing'  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday urged a roaring crowd of Republicans to exhaust themselves over the next two weeks to take back California and the country for the “little guy.”
BBC:
Merkel says German multicultural society has failed  —  Angela Merkel said Germany had “kidded itself” multiculturalism was working  —  Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.  —  In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
GOP cash threatens to swamp Dems  —  It doesn't pay to be a Democratic incumbent in 2010.  —  House and Senate Democrats — all the way up to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — are being outraised by GOP rivals as the cash follows the momentum.
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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senate Hopefuls in Tight Races Get Money Boost
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
GOP challengers outraise 40-plus House Democrats
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama: End tax breaks to stop overseas hiring
Discussion: Power Line and The Hill
Peter Diamond / New York Times:
Health Care for Everyone  —  A cancer victim loses her medical insurance when her professional association drops the coverage.  A worker recovering from heart surgery keeps a dead-end job, fearing no other employer would offer coverage.  A small-businessman with a sick child drops insurance in the wake of skyrocketing premiums.
Discussion: EconLog
CNN:
Barbara Billingsley of ‘Leave it to Beaver’ fame dies  —  (CNN) — Barbara Billingsley, who wore a classy pearl necklace and dispensed pearls of wisdom as America's quintessential mom on “Leave it to Beaver,” has died at age 94, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.
John Gizzi / Human Events:
Rasmussen Predicts GOP Gain of 55 in House  —  Newport Beach, Calif.—Nationally-recognized pollster Scott Rasmussen last night predicted that Republicans would gain 55 seats in races for the U.S. House of Representatives November 2—much more than the 39 needed for a Republican majority in the House for the first time since 2006.
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Liberals Don't Get the Tea Party Movement  —  Our universities haven't taught much political history for decades.  No wonder so many progressives have disdain for the principles that animated the Federalist debates.  —  Highly educated people say the darndest things, these days particularly about the tea party movement.
Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Rage Won't End on Election Day  —  CARL Paladino began his New York gubernatorial campaign by bragging he'd “clean out Albany with a baseball bat.”  When an ally likened his main Albany target, the (Jewish) leader of the State Assembly, to “an antichrist or Hitler,” he enthusiastically endorsed the slur.
 
 
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