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DE Senate race has a double-digit gap …
... both ways. How badly do Republicans want to win the Senate seat from Delaware? That’s the question that the latest Rasmussen poll poses as the candidates get ready for a primary to the special...
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Consensus: Obama, Democrats missed their window
Pivots are ... hard. Today is more or less the official opening of the midterm general election, even though a handful of states still have primaries in the next two weeks. The consensus appears to be...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm, Thomas Pyle
Returns to 3 pm ET! Today, the Ed Morrissey Show returns to its normal time of 3 pm ET, and to our regular guest, Los Angeles Times reporter, blogger, and Prince of Twitter Andrew Malcolm! We’ll talk...
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Cash for Clunkers buyers remorse?
Lease leash. We’ve written numerous times about the Cash for Clunkers program and how it stole demand from future sales, how it artificially increased used-car prices, and how it wasted taxpayer...
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Orszag: Extend all Bush tax cuts two years
The not-so-hidden hidden fallacy. Peter Orszag kicks off his post-White House career as a New York Times columnist by opposing his former boss on tax policy. Barack Obama has spoken in favor of making...
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Video: NRSC hits Dems over “Recovery Summer”
The expectations game. Anyone with enough business experience knows that the key to keeping customers is to set expectations properly and realistically — and the same holds true for politics. Don’t...
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Boxer bought endorsement from Waters in 2004, 2010
Ethics. What does the chair of the Senate Ethics Committee have in common with one of two House Democrats expected to go on trial for ethics violations? Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate panel,...
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Chicago machine politician quits, paving way for Chicago machine politician;...
Daley out, Emanuel in? Rahm said he wanted the job months ago and now suddenly Daley doesn’t want the job anymore, and, oh, everything’s working out perfectly! “The truth is I have been thinking about...
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Video: CNN reveals promo for Parker/Spitzer show. What could go wrong?
Parker. And Spitzer! In fairness, the principals here are so widely disliked in the blogosphere that the promo would have been panned no matter what. But there were ways available to mitigate the...
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Alaska Libertarian candidate meets with Murkowski at “undisclosed location”;...
Shhhhhh. The Libertarian Party chairman says their minds are made up and they’re dead set against putting her on the ballot. But if that’s true, what’s there to talk about? Alaska Libertarian Party...
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Too good to check: Obama’s “dog” line actually a quote from … Jimi Hendrix?
Stone free. I refuse to believe it. If it’s true, then I’m forced to move yesterday’s outburst from the “thin-skinned jackassery” column into the “kind of awesome” column. Can’t be right. Can’t be. Has...
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Chris Matthews: I don’t care what the polls say, I still get a thrill up my...
"All over me." Via Mediaite, no matter how bad things get, there’ll always be one guy out there for whom empty rhetoric about “hope” is enough. Or maybe more than one? I wonder if we’ll see more of...
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Video: Careerist politician who’ll say anything to win really cares about you...
Or something. Via RCP, a clever (and usefully low-budget) spot. The pure, crystalline phoniness makes me quaver with rage, but even so — clever. Maybe too clever under the circumstances? Crist’s...
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Petraeus: Church that’s burning Korans on 9/11 is putting U.S. troops at...
Obligatory. I wish they wouldn’t do it either — burning books is an almost singularly offensive form of protest, needless to say — and I appreciate Petraeus’s concern for his men. But it’s hard for me...
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Debate over: Obama rules out extending Bush tax cuts for richest taxpayers
Promises. Message from The One to Peter Orszag: I won. President Obama will rule out on Wednesday any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials...
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Quotes of the day
Upset? “Some of the things [tea partiers] seem to advocate go beyond the norm,” says Castle. “I have trouble distinguishing sometimes between the factions out there that are in this ultra-conservative...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Dog days of Recovery Summer. Says the man who has spent the last nineteen months howling about his predecessor: “I wanted to be stronger than it was before. And over the past two years, that’s meant...
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Gallup shows tie in generic Congressional ballot
"We specifically advise our colleagues to be leery of Gallup." Yesterday, while discussing the avalanche of bad poll numbers for Democrats with Andrew Malcolm, he warned that the Democrats and the...
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AK Libertarians: It’s probably not happening
"It would be a serious flip-flop." Lisa Murkowski maintained her desperate pursuit of the Libertarian Party nomination to salvage her Senate career, but just as in dating, desperation is not a...
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Finding out what’s in ObamaCare: premium hikes
What front-loading benefits produces. After the polls showed that the newly-passed ObamaCare bill remained deeply unpopular with voters, the Obama administration reshuffled the rollout in order to...
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