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The partisan

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 9:30am
 One vote against nonpartisan redistricting:

“Bottom line is that one thing you have to be careful at the Congressional le


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Rubio's achievement

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 8:55am
 
Among Marco Rubio's most impressive political accomplishments this year was to harness the grass-roots conservative fervor without bei


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Dept. of preparation

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 8:47am
 From Ralston's look at Harry Reid's "Terminator-like single-mindedness, relentlessness and discipline":

One other pre


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'Tis the season

Mon, 11/08/2010 - 8:25am
 

Now is the moment for every national politician's most enthusiastic and obsequious supporters to tell him he's got a shot at t


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Cooley up in California

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 8:25pm
 Republican Steve Cooley is now up by about 26,000 votes out of 7 million, with more than a million left to count, in the hotly-contested Calif


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Swinging seniors

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 5:23pm
 Byron Tau writes up the biggest demographic trend of the midterms:

In an election marked by dramatic defections from the Democr


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Red Missouri

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:34pm
 
Some remarkable maps from the Post-Dispatch.

(h/t Jonathan Martin)


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Sightings, Indiana edition

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:08pm
Sightings, Indiana edition


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Sunday reading: O vs. the volcano

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 1:21pm
Blog: The real takeawa


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Hispanics, 2012

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 12:17pm
 Carrie Budoff Brown's and my story today:

Hispanic voters saved the Democratic Party Tuesday — buoying Senate Majority Le


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Drafting Mitch

Sun, 11/07/2010 - 10:46am
 The Mitch Daniels draft movement has begun.

I spoke this morning to John McKay, a Chicago-area businessman who runs Switch2Mitc


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Saturday reading: Rubio

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 9:55pm
 Let the Rubio VP talk begin.
Donors keep Angle, O'Donnell around.

Adam Smith suggests Alex Sink should have won.


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Bloomberg vs. populism

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 4:09pm
"If you look at the U.S., you look at who we're electing to Congress, to the Senate — they can't read," he said. "I'll bet you


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Protests in India, from ACORN

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 2:36pm
 The American group ACORN filed for liquidation last week, but ACORN International apparently lives on — and isn't thrilled, accordi


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Dept. of culture: 'Populism Yeah Yeah'

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 2:17pm
 I don't do much plugging real-world events on this blog, as what's convenient to my Northeast corridor self may not be convenient to most read


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From Cuomo to Romney

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 12:08pm
As the 2012 money chase begins in earnest, some Wall Street conservatives were surprised to see who was hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at Manh


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From Cuomo to Romney

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 12:08pm
As the 2012 money chase begins in earnest, some Wall Street conservatives were surprised to see who was hosting a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at Manh


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Florida recriminations

Sat, 11/06/2010 - 10:35am
 Jonathan Martin finds fingers pointed both ways from Tallahassee and Washington in the wake of the Democrats' single worst defeat of the cycle


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Bloomberg differs on Murdoch conversation

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:59pm
Blog: Howard Wolfson emails that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a different recollection of the conv


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The RNC's new message

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 5:38pm
Hire Pelosi. 


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