The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy President Obama.
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds is urging campaign workers to spend the next three days persuading their friends and neighbors to go to the polls Tuesday.
Politico – Republican Dede Scozzafava’s decision Saturday to drop out of the New York special congressional election gave conservatives a big win, but may present a challenge for Republicans heading into next year’s mid-term elections.
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AP – It’s the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.
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In this Oct. 29, 2009 file photo House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio stands behind a copy of the Democrat’s version of the health care bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Reuters – The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Pacific island nation of Palau, the Center for Constitutional Rights said on Saturday.
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AP – It sounds like another New Jersey joke. Except it’s not funny if you actually live here. For the privilege of living in perhaps the nation’s most-maligned state, New Jerseyans pay the highest property taxes in America.
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AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah’s call for a boycott of next weekend’s runoff election in Afghanistan will not affect the legitimacy of that runoff.
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AP – Third party candidates are shaking up two major races in elections Tuesday, and the success of those candidacies is a warning shot fired at both major parties by voters angry at government and disillusioned by politics as usual.
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AP – President Barack Obama on Saturday tempered excitement about a growing economy with a sober outlook that more people will lose their jobs. He called that a heartbreaking reality and cautioned that even a burst of upbeat news “does not mean there won’t be difficult days ahead.”
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AP – Biographical details on the candidates for New Jersey governor:
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Politico – As conservative activists scored a political scalp, mainstream Republicans wasted no time in grasping at the coat tails of Conservative Doug Hoffman.
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