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• In New Jersey, Former Phila. Eagle To Run For Congress & Former CNN Anchor To Run For Senate

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 430
       John Adler is a freshman Democrat Congressman representing New Jersey’s 3 rd Congressional District. He came to office after winning a close election down ticket from the landslide, 15% plurality that Barack Obama polled on the same line. New Jersey’s 3 rd Congressional District is not a safe ...
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• War Tax A Good Idea

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 421
  The idea itself is a basic one -- pay for the costs of war now, instead of endlessly borrowing money in order to do so. A few weeks ago, the White House leaked an interesting factoid -- it costs one million dollars to put one U.S. soldier in Afghanistan for one year. This is a nice round number, and gets people to ...
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• Don’t Vote For Kelly Ayotte: GOP Candidate Helped Illegal Aliens

  
  Debbie Schlussel — Authority: 629
  By Debbie SchlusselToday’s USA Today cover has a picture of New Hampshire U.S. Senate Seat candidate Kelly Ayotte . . . along with her Mr. Mom hubby taking care of the kiddies, which is sad in and of itself.  (Dude surrendered his man card at the door.)  The article is about at-risk Democrats on the [...]
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• Democrats Now "All In" On Healthcare Reform

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 421
  For those of you not conversant in the language of gambling, allow me to explain. When you have a good poker hand you start raising the betting until, at some point, you are said to be "pot committed." This means youve invested such a major portion of your available chips in that hands kitty (or "pot") that folding ...
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• Dennis Moore Retirement Gives GOP A Shot At Kansas House Seat

  
  NPR Blogs: Political Junkie — Authority: 138
  Every election cycle, on a list of "vulnerable incumbents," the name of Rep. Dennis Moore always comes up. The Kansas Democrat represents the small 3rd District, centered around Kansas City in the eastern part of the state. Aside from Lawrence, which includes the University of Kansas (the most liberal part of ...
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• Democrats on Deficit: Proclaim, Don’t Blame

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Republicans have a potent issue to win over Independents and other swing voters in the 2010 congressional elections – the deficit. The Democrats’ defense against deficit spending charges so far has been “Bush did it first.” That “Bush did it first” blaming is certainly true. Bush’s Democratic ...
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• On Determining Palin’s Political Future

  
  PalinTwibe — Authority: 442
  By Shane Vander Hart, Caffeinated Thoughts   Everybody has an opinion, and 2012 is still three years away.  Oh but how we love to speculate.  The lamestream media reaches opposite conclusions when they try to strain a gnat over what Governor Palin has said or hasn’t said about 2012.  Speculation can be ...
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• Friday Talking Points [102] — Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 421
  Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether hes eating enough, and whether hes losing weight. ...
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• 2010 Midterm Elections Senate Update

  
  Minor Ripper — Authority: 137
  From Stu Rothenberg... When all the dust is settled, the Democrats 60-40 current majority will probably be little changed. However, it goes without saying that quite a bit can happen between now and November 2010--
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• YouTube: Chief Republican Haley Barbour Refuses to Say Palin is Qualified to be President

  
  Minor Ripper — Authority: 137
  Make no mistake about it people, Sarah Palin is very, very bad for the Republican party. The powers that be--Republican Governors Association president Haley Barbour chief among them, really, really wish she would just go away. Sarah herself, of course, as an ignorant narcissist--is completely oblivious to all this, ...
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• From CNN:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. In May, 53 percent blamed the GOP. According to the poll, 27 percent now blame the Democrats for the recession, up 6 points from May, and 27 percent now ...
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• Report: Rudy To Skip Gov Race, Opt For Senate Instead

  
  NPR Blogs: Political Junkie — Authority: 138
  Anyones list of Republicans running for governor of New York in 2010 invariably starts, and stops, with Rudy Giuliani . The word on the former NYC mayor and failed presidential candidate is that hes always wanted that job. Even when he was running for the Senate, back in 2000 (setting up a prospective clash of ...
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• Texas Governor: Kay Hedges Her Bets; Cheney Does Not

  
  NPR Blogs: Political Junkie — Authority: 138
  Hutchison says she will resign her Senate seat, just not yet. Earlier this year, when the polls regarding her primary challenge to Texas Gov. Rick Perry looked more favorable, Kay Bailey Hutchison announced she would resign her Senate seat , probably in October or November, to focus entirely on her ...
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• I Am Grading

  
  F. VARGA — Authority: 412
  Sorry for this week. No time to blog. It’s the midterm exam week and I am grading now. So blogging will make me feel guilty Today, 2 exams… About 100 students to grade. Tomorrow, 2 more exams but only about 50 students. And then, need to upload the grades. And then… need to upload the proposed ...
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• Senator Gillibrand talks tough defending special interests

  
  1800blogger — Authority: 170
  Submitted by Women’s Rights BlogWritten by Michael VassI noticed that Senator Gillibrand has recently been drumming up support to defeat an amendment to the Health Care Reform Bill called the Stupack Amendment.Now here is something I have not heard. Senator Gillibrand responding to questions about the Health Care ...
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• 2010: The Kyoto Election

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  The New York Times reports this weekend that: “SINGAPORE — President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to ...
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• Sarah Palin vanquishing 2012 GOP rivals

  
  Blogger News Network — Authority: 641
  PS Burton Blogging from Phoenix– I have been critical of her from day one, to the point of being tasteless, which is why my observation that Sarah Palin could if she desires, become the walk away choice for the republican nomination is pretty much a spot on prognostication.The pollsters who work for the ...
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• The Cancer in the GOP

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 126
  Tea baggers, or Sarah Palin. Or is there a difference? Her political celebrity is so powerful that it has reduced a large part of the Republican Party to irrationality and civic incoherence. According to Gallup, Republicans are more likely to say they would seriously consider voting for Palin for president (65 ...
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• Zardari is Here to Stay

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 447
  All these conspiracy theories about the removal of Asif Ali Zardari, and the new interim setup or the mid term elections are hogwash and only depict the wishful thinking of some journalists and the anchorpersons and PML-N. If you closely look at the ground realities, why would America and our establishment would want ...
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• News flash to Democrats who voted against the health bill...

  
  The SideTrack — Authority: 126
  TDS Contributor Robert Creamer (via HuffPo) presents a list of 10 blunders behind the choice of those Democrats who cast a "nay" vote in last Saturdays health care bill circus. All of them are great points, and many of them are nuggets of thought Rep. Jim Matheson should be pondering. But there were two ...
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