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Video: Rubio airs first 2016 presidential campaign ad
"A generational choice." I think he’s gunning for 2016, but you never know: As we’ve learned, having basically zero federal experience is no longer a disqualifier for the world’s most important job....
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Charlie Cook upgrades midterm projection from landslide to freaky deaky...
Change. Not only are we now in 1994 territory, we’re actually a bit beyond it: The new number predicts net gains in the range of 48 to 60 seats. Not good enough? Well, Hotline’s studying the polls too,...
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Just a reminder: Primary season begins next Wednesday. House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) is considering stepping down from his post in the GOP leadership in preparation for a...
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New MoveOn ad from the future: Those wingnuts you elected in 2010 have...
The politics of fear. Via io9, which notes that MoveOn’s webpage actually lets you personalize this vid with a name and photos if you’re so inclined. Reminds me of “The Dead Zone,” except instead of...
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Gibbs on Obama’s wrecked car metaphor: That car in the ditch has an Obama...
Indeed. Alternate headline: “Confirmed: White House actually trying to lose now.” We don’t know the make or model of the car President Obama and Democrats say they’ve been trying to push out of the...
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New MSNBC talking point: This Rand Paul incident is reminiscent of 1930s Germany
Nuance. Can I quote myself here? From the Behar post published this afternoon: We are, after all, now seven short days away from Election Day, which means Refudiation Week has officially begun. And...
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Sharron Angle campaign: Reid’s trying to steal the election
Oh my. There’s no hard evidence yet that I know of, but take the hottest Senate race of the year, throw in a few voting-machine glitches, add some shadowy SEIU workers, and mmmmm that’s good blog...
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David Brooks: These Democrats are pathetically smug and self-deluding, aren’t...
If you've lost David Brooks... He had such high hopes. The sharply creased pants, the quoting of Niebuhr — he had every reason in January 2009 to dream big. And now it’s come to this: Withering sarcasm...
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Katie Couric: It’s great to be traveling America among “the great unwashed”
Oof. It’s not as bad as it sounds. She didn’t mean it in a “these ignorant peasants sure do smell when they haven’t bathed” way. She meant it in a “I love to chat with these ignorant peasants no matter...
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Quotes of the day
Union. “I think that this video makes the distinction better than I ever could. This is their leadership conference where they’re in a hotel, having this leadership conference, singing songs together...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Grow up. Barack Obama gets more desperate by the hour as voters prepare to deliver a historic rebuke to the Democrats and their radical agenda. As Obama increases the hostility of his messaging, it...
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Video: Dem Rep claims al-Qaeda no longer a threat to the US
Perfect timing. And you thought Betty McCollum couldn’t do any worse than deliberately leaving out “under God” while leading the Pledge of Allegiance in the House in April 2002. No, my friends, this...
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Minnesota Dems issue anti-Catholic mailer in final week
"Ignore the poor"? If the Minnesota DFL intended to make a splash in an otherwise-obscure state Senate race, well, they succeeded. The party, which is the Minnesota version of the Democratic Party,...
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Senate polls in PA, NC show GOP firming up wins
In California, not so much. New polling in three key states shows the GOP on track to hold one seat, pick up another, and perhaps remain within striking distance of an upset. In Pennsylvania, where...
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The Hill poll shows Democrats about to lose the South
Surf's up! In their latest look at House races around the country, The Hill sees the South slipping away from Democrats in a big way. Veterans like John Spratt in South Carolina, Allen Boyd in...
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CNN: Sink lied about debate cheating
Sinking in the polls, too. Alex Sink’s fortunes appear to be falling in Florida after getting caught cheating in a debate against Republican Rick Scott. She may have made matters worse by attempting to...
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Obama: Yeah, this midterm’s a referendum on my agenda
Fighting with GOP "day and night." Haven’t Democrats in Congress worked for the last several months against the idea that the midterms are a national referendum on Barack Obama and his agenda? The...
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Hope and change: Democrats spending more on personal attack ads
The rule, not the exception. I’m surprised, and yet I’m surprised that I’m surprised. On one hand, the party facing 77 more incumbents in the House and running against a majority might be expected to...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Guy Benson, Matt Lewis, Teresa Collett
3 pm ET! Today on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we have Townhall’s political editor, Guy Benson, and National Review’s Campaign Spot wizard, Jim Geraghty, giving us the latest from the midterm...
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WV corruption probe gaining steam?
Hmmm. This week hasn’t exactly been kind to West Virginia’s governor in his bid to upgrade his seat to the Senate. John Raese has managed to keep a small lead in place, and a federal corruption probe...
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