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Video: Rocking Chair, redux
Remorse. In 2008, the DSCC ran a successful ad on behalf of Kay Hagan in her campaign to unseat Senator Elizabeth Dole. The ad, “Rocking Chair,” featured two older gentlemen in rocking chairs on a gas...
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Fed: Economy shows “widespread signs of deceleration”
Endless Bummer. Call it the fitting end to Recovery Summer. Joe Biden promised us 500,000 new jobs a month, but instead we have the Fed warning that even the meager growth seen in the past few months...
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Democrats oddly unenthused by Porkulus II
Go figure. After taking a pounding from constituents over the failed economic policies of the last two years, Democrats on the campaign trail pushed the White House to deliver some kind of new...
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Raese within five points in WV Senate race
Vincible. At one point, the challenge in West Virginia was supposed to be finding a Republican that would agree to serve as sacrificial lamb to the eventual anointing of Governor Joe Manchin as Robert...
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Carville shop poll shows GOP up 7 on generic Congressional ballot
Gallup wants a word with you, James. Democracy Corps released the results of its latest survey last night and found much the same as almost all other pollsters — with the exception of Gallup in...
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Time: Hey, what happened to Obama’s organization?
Sucking up midterm money for 2012 defense? No matter what anyone thought of Barack Obama as a candidate, his campaign organization impressed everyone with both its fundraising and GOTV power. After...
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Senate Republican establishment not exactly looking forward to Tea Party...
Shaking it up. In this election cycle, voters have had to ask themselves on several occasions whether they want a Senate with 30 Jim DeMints or 51 Republicans of varied approaches that can get things...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Val Prieto, Chris Cox, John Randall
3 pm ET! Today on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Val Prieto of Babalublog returns to TEMS to discuss a couple of interesting stories today. First, we’ll discuss Fidel Castro’s admission to Jeffrey...
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Poll puts Rubio up 14 points over Crist, 20 over Meek
Likely. On the heels of an odd CNN poll using a registered-voter sample showing the race all but tied in Florida, a new media poll in the state using a likely voter sample shows a much different race...
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Jobless claims drop on estimated numbers
Holiday blues. Earlier today, the Department of Labor announced that the number of initial jobless claims dropped 27,000 from last week’s figures, which the AP reported as a “two-month low” in the...
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More House Dems bailing on WH refusal to extend all Bush-era tax cuts
Extreme. If Democrats plan to paint the GOP as extreme this year on a national level by tying them to the Bush tax cuts for higher-income earners, they have a problem. Their own House members have...
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ObamaCare bends the cost curve … upward
Chart of the day. Remember when Barack Obama promised that his health-care overhaul would “bend the cost curve downward” and arrest rapid increases in costs? The Wall Street Journal has an advance...
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Dems picking their favorite Republican in New Hampshire?
Desperate? It’s not terribly unusual for both parties to play in their opponent’s primary races, attempting to soften the ground for the general election. It probably happens more in the later...
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Obama to Koran-burning pastor: Think of the troops
"This stunt that he is pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform." A partial list of people who’ve weighed in thus far on Terry Jones’s publicity stunt turned mega-clusterfark:...
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Oh my: Palin endorses O’Donnell over Castle
Crossing the Delaware. I didn’t hear it happen, but evidently she did it this afternoon on Hannity’s radio show. No audio (yet), alas, but here’s Hannity’s tweet: Thanks @SarahPalinUSA for the last...
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Beyond belief: Koran-burning called off — in exchange for moving Ground Zero...
Meme-tastic! This otherwise slow news day sure turned interesting in a hurry, huh? The pastor planning to burn Qurans on the Sept. 11 anniversary said Thursday that he plans to call off the event if...
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Video: The greatest stump speech ever
"I will not apologize for my tone tonight!" A desperately needed reprieve from the news via Political Wire. On any other day, this guy would be too high-strung to qualify as a palate cleanser. But look...
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John Bolton: Oh, you’d better believe I’m thinking of running for president
"I am thinking about it." Via RCP, this isn’t the first time he’s hint-hint-hinted that he’s thinking about this, but since the last post about it was received rapturously by commenters, I figured you...
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Time for another “Chris Christie destroys teachers’ union shill” clip
"You know, I'm very direct. I'm going to say exactly what I think." It’s a bit long and not quite as magical as the last time he destroyed a teachers’ union shill, but in case you haven’t enjoyed any...
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Joe Biden to Bush: “I’ve never known a time when you didn’t care”
"You deserve a lot of credit, Mr. President." A sweet moment at the tail end of last night’s all-military episode of Colbert. I can’t tell if Colby’s being sarcastic or not in asking him to give Bush...
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