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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
O'Donnell Calls Coons a Marxist During Debate — Democratic candidate Chris Coons, left, and Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell wait for the start of a televised Delaware Senate debate at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. — Christine O'Donnell, the Republican Delaware Senate candidate …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Delaware Senate Hopefuls Debate — NEWARK, Del. — Swallowing nervously, Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party favorite who is running for the Senate in Delaware, plunged into her first public debate Wednesday night with a jab at Chris Coons, her Democratic opponent, a former lawyer who is a county executive here.
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Prairie Weather, Ballot Box, Gawker and CNN
Paul / Power Line:
The wrong bogeyman — Here's a sidebar to the debate tonight between Chris Coons and Christine ODonnell (see the post below for a discussion of that debate). One of the first things Coons said was that he has a proven record as a job creator by virtue, in part, of his ability as a County Executive …
Rebecca Dana / The Daily Beast:
Christine at the ‘Frat House’ — Voters get their best look yet at Tea Party star Christine O'Donnell in tonight's Senate debate. Rebecca Dana talks to her neighbors about her burning ambition, feuds, and the Christian rocker she lives with. — Before Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell came …
Igor Volsky / Wonkroom:
In Debate, O'Donnell Likens Repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell To Adultery
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Towleroad News #gay and Pam's House Blend
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Survey USA: Coons 54, O'Donnell 33
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CNN, The Other McCain, The Politico and Z on TV
Aharding / CNN:
CNN/Time Poll: O'Donnell down 19 points in Delaware Senate battle
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Hotline On Call, CBS News, TPMDC, The Politico, The Moderate Voice, Guardian, Hot Air, The Hill and The Note
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Christine O'Donnell fascination, examined
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Power Line and CNN
New York Times:
For Reid, No Shaking Tea Party Challenger — LAS VEGAS — Senator Harry Reid of Nevada first thought he could scrape his way to re-election by invoking his power as majority leader and reminding voters what that means for his home state. When that didn't seem to work …
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Jon Ralston / Las Vegas Sun:
The blind hate that is financing Sharron Angle's run
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Maddow Blog
Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
POLL: Majority of voters say they want a viable third party in American politics
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CNN, Ballot Box and Prairie Weather
Michael / Petrelis Files:
WH's Jarrett: Dead Gay Bully Victim — Made ‘Lifestyle Choice’ — The last time I heard anyone use the obnoxious phrase “lifestyle choice” to describe a gay person's sexual orientation was during the Bill Clinton presidency when the gays were accused of wanting “special rights.”
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Winds of Change.NET, PostPartisan, Firedoglake, AMERICAblog Gay, The Daily Dish and Towleroad News #gay
New York Times:
Dithering on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' — The Obama administration professes to oppose the odious and misguided policy of banning gay soldiers from serving openly in the military. So it was distressing to hear that the Justice Department plans to appeal a federal court order …
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ACS Blog, Towleroad News #gay, Brilliant at Breakfast and The Hill
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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Gates Warns of Abruptly Ending 'Don't Ask'
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The Politico
Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Exclusive: Chamber Receives At Least $885,000 From Over 80 Foreign Companies In Disclosed Donations Alone — Last week, ThinkProgress published an exclusive story about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's foreign fundraising operation. We noted the Chamber raises money from foreign-owned businesses for its 501 …
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Adam Zielinski / WLS-AM 890:
Military ballots may not count in Illinois — CHICAGO (WLS) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the state of Illinois missed the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to members of the military and other overseas American voters as part of a new federal overseas voting law.
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Right Wing News
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Rabbi Breaks With Paladino Over Apology — Well, that didn't last long. — The alliance between the Republican Carl P. Paladino and an Orthodox rabbi from Brooklyn has fallen apart, with the rabbi denouncing Mr. Paladino on Wednesday for his apology over remarks he had made about homosexuality on Sunday.
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Gothamist, TPMDC, Balloon Juice, Wonkette, The Daily Dish, The Huffington Post, New York Post and City Room
Charles Ashby / Daily Sentinel:
Anti-Obama billboard raises eyebrows — Caricatures are racist and homophobic, local Dems say — A Grand Junction billboard depicting President Barack Obama as a terrorist, a gangster, a Mexican bandit and a gay man is getting national attention. — The billboard, erected along …
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Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Spot, Weasel Zippers and Colorado Independent
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Rove, Chamber ads widely debunked as false or misleading — Here's something important that's getting lost in the firefight over the money funding the ads by the U.S. Chamber and Karl Rove's groups: Many of the ads themselves have been debunked by independent fact checkers as false, grossly misleading, or marred with distortions.
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The Democratic Daily, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Swampland, Think Progress and Washington Wire
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Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Obama is Rove's fundraiser-in-chief
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Hot Air, Flopping Aces, Hotline On Call, Don Surber and FrumForum
Atrios / Eschaton:
“Perhaps” — I really don't get the complete lack of concern for property rights. … If Citi doesn't own the mortgage then the woman doesn't owe them any money. If Citi doesn't own the mortgage then it isn't the case that “perhaps” they shouldn't foreclose on her, it's the case that they have no legal right to foreclosure.
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John Carney / CNBC:
Let's Not Start Lionizing The Anti-Foreclosure Deadbeats
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Overlawyered and TalkLeft
Jon Cohen / Behind the Numbers:
Pew: cellphone bias may be bigger than in '08 — In a new analysis sure to add to the uncertainty about the upcoming election, the Pew Research Center reports that a large number of pre-election polls might be biased. — Polls that don't interview people on cellphones …
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Pat Sajak / National Review:
Public Employees and Elections: A Conflict of Interest? — None of my family and friends is allowed to appear on Wheel of Fortune. Same goes for my kids' teachers or the guys who rotate my tires. If there's not a real conflict of interest, there is, at least, the appearance of one.
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TPM LiveWire, Firedoglake, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Comments from Left Field, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Gawker
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner a rubber stamp for Pelosi? — It's an attack ad that writes itself: The House Republican leader, Rep. John Boehner (Ohio), votes with liberal Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a majority of the time. — The statistic seems impossible to believe, given the ferocity …
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Prairie Weather and JammieWearingFool
First Read / msnbc.com:
Raese, missile defense, and ‘lasers in the sky’ — From NBC's Shawna Thomas and Carrie Dann — INWOOD W.V.— West Virginia Republican candidate John Raese on Tuesday outlined his focus on national defense by calling for an extensive laser-based missile defense system. — A very extensive one.
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TPMDC, Washington Monthly, Truthdig and Gawker
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Raese Mangles Ethnic Names, Calls Justice Sotomayor ‘Sarah Manorgan’
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Charleston Daily Mail, New York Magazine and The Note
Chuck Norris / Townhall.com:
Chuck Norris 8 Steps To Rebuild America's Economy (Part 2) — Editors' note: this is part two of Chuck Norris' column. For Part 1, click here. — When Barack Obama was elected president, he made claims that he would “go through our federal budget — page by page, line by line — eliminating those programs we don't need.”
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Whiskey Fire and Firedoglake
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Female Candidate Finds Tough Audience: Women — HARTFORD — Every time Dolores Meehan turns on her television, there she is: Linda E. McMahon, attacking her opponent, in yet another political advertisement. — “She's bothering people,” said Ms. Meehan, a retired telephone company worker from Norwalk.
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Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Matthews: Chilean Miners Would Be Dead if They Followed Tea Party's ‘Every Man for Himself’ Philosophy — Leave it to Chris Matthews to shoe-horn in a crass political point against the Tea Party, even in the midst of a heartwarming story like the rescue of the Chilean miners.
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and The Anchoress
Mike Flynn / Big Government:
Exclusive: Court Document Details Congressman's Past Spousal Abuse — Ohio Democrat Congressman Charlie Wilson was first elected to Congress in the Democrat wave year of 2006. Prior to that, he had been a long-time member of the Ohio state legislature, first elected to the Ohio House in 1996 and the Ohio Senate in 2004.
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RedState, Pajamas Media and National Review
