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Clinton: 'Not me'

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 12:01pm
 Hillary Clinton has said before that she won't run for president in 2016, and though much of her apparatus doesn't believe it, she says i


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Clinton: 'Not me'

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 12:01pm
 Hillary Clinton has said before that she won't run for president in 2016, and though much of her apparatus doesn't believe it, she says i


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The anti-Palin wing

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:59am
 Nobody's going to win the Republican primary by positioning himself or herself against Sarah Palin. But as I wrote earlier, there's certainly


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The anti-Palin wing

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:59am
 Nobody's going to win the Republican primary by positioning himself or herself against Sarah Palin. But as I wrote earlier, there's certainly


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The anti-Palin wing

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:59am
 Nobody's going to win the Republican primary by positioning himself or herself against Sarah Palin. But as I wrote earlier, there's certainly


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How the RGA did

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:54am
 Dave Weigel wrote yesterday that the hugely well-funded and high-profile Republican Governors Association this week — counter to co


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How the RGA did

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:54am
 Dave Weigel wrote yesterday that the hugely well-funded and high-profile Republican Governors Association this week — counter to co


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Dept. of different worlds

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:31am
 They may speak the same language, but this is unimaginably foreign:

LONDON — A British court on Friday threw out the


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Coal country

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 11:18am
 Jonathan Martin wrote back in February about the rising Republican fortunes in coal country, and it was the site of some of the Democrats


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Pelosi's excuse

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 10:03am
 The Democratic leadership continues to blame secret money for their defeat, as Nancy Pelosi wrote Wednesday in a letter to her surviving membe


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The next Ron Paul, and/or the anti-Palin

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:50am
 Benjamin Birnbaum writes that former New Mexico Gary Johnson looks set to inherit the small, entertaining Republican primary space occupied by


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The Tea Party slot

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:48am
 
The GOP pollster Bill McInturff got some pickup on TPM and TNR yesterday for a presentation in which he argued that the old "slot


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The Tea Party slot

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:48am
 
The GOP pollster Bill McInturff got some pickup on TPM and TNR yesterday for a presentation in which he argued that the old "slot


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Moseley Braun returns, whacks Rahm

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:25am
 There was no way the Chicago mayoral race would fail to entertain:

Chicago mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun went on the atta


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Moseley Braun returns, whacks Rahm

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:25am
 There was no way the Chicago mayoral race would fail to entertain:

Chicago mayoral hopeful Carol Moseley Braun went on the atta


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Health care advice

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:19am
 Just what the GOP leadership wants today: A warning from an HMO lobbyist that they should be working with Democrats:

Do not pas


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Health care advice

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:19am
 Just what the GOP leadership wants today: A warning from an HMO lobbyist that they should be working with Democrats:

Do not pas


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Sweeping the PhDs

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:16am
 Here's a statistic to warm David Brooks' heart: Mark Kirk pulled out his victory in Illinois by flipping the all-important egghead segment of


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Sweeping the PhDs

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 9:16am
 Here's a statistic to warm David Brooks' heart: Mark Kirk pulled out his victory in Illinois by flipping the all-important egghead segment of


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Speaking of transformation

Fri, 11/05/2010 - 8:59am
 A Los Angeles reader writes to dissent from something I wrote, perhaps too glibly, yesterday:

I would urge you to consider a s


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