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Bombshell: PPP puts Raese ahead of Manchin
Really vincible. These days, it’s hard to get shocked by polling results that show Republicans surging in once-safe Democratic constituencies, but the latest survey from PPP in West Virginia manages to...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Chip Cravaack, Erick Erickson
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Andrew Malcolm is on assignment, so we’ll talk instead with Chip Cravaack, running for Congress in Minnesota’s 8th CD. The retired Navy officer will...
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Video: Matthews loses tingle down the leg
It's not the Teleprompter, Chris. When Chris Matthews complains that Barack Obama’s public events are too scripted and sycophantish, that’s either one of the signs of the Apocalypse or a signal that...
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NYT: Just a reminder that the Obama recovery has lost more jobs than it created
Something stinks. The New York Times throws a healthy dash of cold water on an attempt by Democrats and their allies to claim that Barack Obama has created more jobs in the US than George Bush, or even...
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Senator Ma’am, International Woman of Mystery
Groovy! Barbara Boxer says she wants California voters to send her back to the Senate, but she might have an easier time making that argument if she had spent more time there in the first place. Jim...
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Democrats flirting with — and nervous about — Murkowski
Degree of delusion. Time’s Jay Newton-Small noticed something interesting at a Lisa Murkowski rally in Alaska last Friday evening. The Republican Senator had some prominent Democrats joining her on...
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Crash and burn: Senate filibusters Reid’s DADT/DREAM Act defense package, 56/43
Smart power. What on earth was he thinking? Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins had been seen as the crucial 60th vote because she supports overturning the military ban. But Collins sided with her GOP...
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Senate GOP to strip Murkowski of seniority on Energy committee
Banished. It’d be nice to see her booted from the committee entirely — and while we’re at it, from Appropriations too — but the key is to make sure Alaska voters know she’ll no longer be in a position...
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Unbelievable: Russ Feingold now trails Republican challenger … by double digits
No seat is safe. I’m not going to lie to you: This poll is so insanely sweet, I actually considered posting the Humpbot video here. But no, no Humpy. He must rest and save his strength. For there shall...
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Cleaning house: Summers out as top economic advisor to Obama
Gone. They’re spinning this as if it was his decision, but the timing here is awwwwfully convenient. Why, it seems like just yesterday that The One was hinting it might be time soon for Summers and...
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Fundraiser: Jesse Jackson Jr offered Blagojevich millions for Obama’s Senate...
Nuance. This would be the same Jesse Jackson Jr who was first identified almost two years ago in connection with pay for play vis-a-vis the appointment. A direct quote from the time: “It is impossible...
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Journalist orgs on threatened “Everybody Draw Mohammed” cartoonist: No comment
Speech and silence. It’s not that their opinion of her ordeal is in doubt. It’s that they’re evidently unwilling to state it. When The Examiner asked the American Society of News Editors for a...
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Video: Yep, looks like Palin’s running for president
Campaign. She’s pushing this as a call to arms to elect tea-party candidates in the midterms but by the end of the clip it’s an out-and-out campaign ad, replete with beatific slow-motion shots staring...
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Video: The obligatory “dad goes nuts on kids who are bullying his daughter” clip
"At that time, I was a bully." I’m tempted to poll reader reaction to this but I’m not sure we’d get more than five votes critical of the guy. His daughter’s 13, she has cerebral palsy, and according...
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Hopelessness and stasis
Vision. President Obama kicked off his town hall meeting in Washington D.C. on Monday with the usual dreary whining that has made him such a bore to listen to. “I think we have to go back to what was...
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Reid postpones vote on campaign finance reform bill — so Dems can hold giant...
"You can’t make this up." Are we absolutely sure we want this guy out of the Senate? We want the smart Democrats out, definitely. But shouldn’t there be a place for liberals who are nothing but...
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Quotes of the day
The race begins. “I’m trying to be fair to Christine O’Donnell. She’s been on the program a couple of times, and we have some kind of crazy stuff that she said. We’re not going to play it yet. I don’t...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Calisthenics. This is kind of a double OOTD with a twist. In order to get the entire picture, one has to see Barack Obama’s initial reaction to the woman who challenged him in a town hall meeting this...
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Paladino within 6 of Cuomo in NY gubernatorial race
Swinging for the fences. Could the Tea Party wave crash as far into Democratic strongholds as the governor’s mansion in New York? Until now, businessman Carl Paladino has been more of a human-interest...
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Obama’s Afghanistan strategy: Don’t listen to the generals
Armchair generals. During the Iraq War, Democrats ripped George W. Bush for supposedly not listening to his generals about sufficient troop commitments and strategic and tactical decisions in the...
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