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9:50 PM ET, October 25, 2010

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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Lisa's Gall vs. Miller's Honor  —  I have never seen a candidate stoop as low as was seen last night in Alaska's senatorial debate.  —  Alaska's Joe Miller is facing a tough three-way race for U.S. Senate.  Though Joe decisively defeated the incumbent Senator in the primary …
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Ben Stein / Alaska Dispatch:
Good Old Tail-Gunner Joe Miller  —  When we think of a dangerous politician in these United States, if we are of a certain age, we think of Broderick Crawford playing “Willy Stark,” the doppelganger for Huey Long, the colorful, swaggering demagogue of Louisiana in the Depression era …
Discussion: CNN, The Note and Ben Smith's Blog
Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
AK senate hopeful admits earlier policy violation
Discussion: Politics Daily and National Review
Bill Haberman / 630wpro.com:
Caprio tells WPRO President can “shove” his endorsement  —  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio is livid after the Providence Journal reported Monday morning President Obama would not endorse Caprio during his visit to the state today.  —  “He can take his endorsement and really shove it” …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Gets a Caustic Welcome in Rhode Island
Discussion: The Politico
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: How to spot a GOP wave
Discussion: Chicago Tribune, NRSC and Pajamas Media
Next Media Animation:
Jon Stewart rallies the troops in Washington  —  Guest starring Nicholas J Longtin as ‘Sane Demonstrator’.  —  Comedian Jon Stewart plans to hold a rally for viewers and fans in Washington on October 30.  Dubbed the “Rally to Restore Sanity,” the event is seen as a response to a similar rally held by Glenn Beck over the summer.
Discussion: Althouse, Mediaite and The Awl
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Just who does Jon Stewart think he is?
Ed O'Keefe / Federal Eye:
'Government Doesn't Suck' march planned
Anjeanette Damon / Las Vegas Sun Blogs:
Sharron Angle dodges press at Reno event  —  In recent days, the Nevada Democratic Party has set up a website tracking Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle's expected appearances.  Angle has refused press interviews and hasn't held any public events since the debate.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Sharron Angle ad shows Mexican border …
Discussion: NDN blogs and TPMDC
Fhardingj / CNN:
Reid ad: Angle would be a disaster
Discussion: The Politico and The Page
David Segal / New York Times:
Restaurants' Best Press: ‘Bill Clinton Ate Here’  —  BILL CLINTON has dined at Bukhara, an upscale restaurant in New Delhi, on just two occasions, but the afterglow of those visits has never worn off.  The clientele, it seems, won't let it.  —  Since that first meal, in 2000 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Robert Reich / The Huffington Post:
After the Midterms: Why Democrats Move to the Center, and Republicans Don't
Discussion: National Review
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   THE VALUE OF MCCONNELL'S OCCASIONAL CANDOR.... For all of Senate …
The Note:
Sarah Palin Gets Gift of Pink Underwear from Sheriff Arpaio  —  ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports:  —  Add this to list of bizarre and unusual campaign trail antics: at last week's Tea Party Express rally in Phoenix, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio welcomed Sarah Palin with a pair of pink underwear.
David Brody / The Brody File:
Christine O'Donnell Interview With The Brody File  —  In an exclusive sit-down interview with The Brody File, Christine O'Donnell says first time voters in Delaware will propel her to victory on November 2nd despite the media's “double standard” against conservative women.
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
Dems' House Losses Likely Enormous, but Senate Hard to Read  —  There is no clear narrative in the Senate, just bizarre ups and downs.  —  Sen. Russell Feingold and Republican candidate Ron Johnson debate.  —  It's easy to look at what appears to be a gigantic Republican 2010 midterm election wave …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi: 'We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done'  —  Democrats haven't necessarily gotten the credit they're due for the work they've done the last two years, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.  —  Pelosi, in the middle of a tough campaign to defend Democrats' majority …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Second Pass at Early Voting Totals: Now With Extra Skepticism  —  I've gotten a lot of pushback on my column from Sunday night about early voting figures.  Michael P. McDonald of the Huffington Post, for instance — whose work I referenced at a couple of points in my article - calls it …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Republican: Expect ‘two years of good old-fashioned gridlock’ if GOP wins House  —  Voters should expect “good old-fashioned gridlock” in Washington if Republicans win control of one or both chambers of Congress, one GOP lawmaker said.  —  Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a vice chairman …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Republicans Remain in Control of Race for House  —  Democrats have gained modestly among independents  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans remain in position to win control of the House of Representatives in next week's midterm elections, although Democrats are doing slightly better now than they were early in October.
Andrew Marcus / Big Government:
Identified: Right Nation Protester Who Called Andrew Breitbart ‘Gay’ Is A Democrat Party Official  —  During last month's Right Nation gathering just outside of Chicago, Andrew Breitbart found himself confronting a group of angry protesters who had been bussed in by the Democratic Party.
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Donation to Rove-tied group sparks Gold's Gym revolt  —  Four Gold's Gyms franchises in the San Francisco Bay Area will leave the Gold's brand after 22 years following the revelation that the owner of Gold's gave $2 million to American Crossroads, the conservative outfit that is funding candidates who are unfriendly to gay rights.
Discussion: SpeakEasy
Tennessean.com:
(5 of 7)  —  “It really undermines the trust in nonprofits,” he said.  “This is really off the grid.”  —  The Frist Foundation's Bird said the discrepancy between the Investigative Project's application to the IRS and its practices is troubling.  —  “It looks like they told the government one thing and did another,” he said.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Falling Into the Chasm  —  This is what happens when you need to leap over an economic chasm — but either can't or won't jump far enough, so that you only get part of the way across.  —  If Democrats do as badly as expected in next week's elections, pundits will rush to interpret the results as a referendum on ideology.
Alexis Levinson / The Daily Caller:
Scalia takes Kagan to gun range, sources say  —  According to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week.  —  The witnesses saw Scalia at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club …
New York Times:
Taking Harder Stance Toward China, Obama Lines Up Allies  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, facing a vexed relationship with China on exchange rates, trade, and security issues, is stiffening its approach toward Beijing, seeking allies to confront a newly assertive power that officials …
Discussion: Swampland
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Manchin expands lead  —  The great challenge of Joe Manchin's Senate campaign has been this: convincing West Virginia voters who like him but don't like Barack Obama to let their affection for him outweigh their animosity toward the President in deciding how to vote this fall.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Paragraphs to Ponder  —  From Scientific American, on “taboo trade-offs”: … For me, this resonates with my growing disgust at the level of anger in the blogosphere.  I don't mean irritation, pointed jibes, or even spirited discussion; I mean an aggressive revelling in rage.
Yassin Musharbash / Spiegel Online:
A Top Terrorist Returns to Al-Qaida Fold  —  Former al-Qaida military chief Saif al-Adel spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran.  He has now returned to Waziristan in the border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan and appears to have got his old job back.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Benjamin Sarlin / The Daily Beast:
Five Signs Your Party Is Doomed  —  Democrat or Republican, party leaders and pundits all turn to the same spin when they're staring down a tidal wave.  Benjamin Sarlin offers this handy list of signs that your team is in deep trouble, from mythical last-minute surges to impotent attacks on the next Speaker.
Discussion: Hot Air and RedState
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
Top 10 districts in outside spending  —  Ground zero for the midterm election is in the middle of the Midwest, a Michigan district so milquetoast that its chief attraction is “Cereal City” in Battle Creek.  —  With a week left to go in the campaign, outside groups have spent $6 million …
Myglesias / Yglesias:
A Call for Judgment  —  Over the weekend at the behest of Reihan Salam and Steve Teles, I read Amar Bhidé's A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy.  From a progressive perspective, this is a sort of odd book.  You basically get an argument familiar to the left …
Discussion: Mother Jones and National Review
 
 
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Azi Paybarah / The Empire:
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