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Four More Lessons from the GOP Landslide
A few more items to add to the list we drew up while the balloons were still falling early Wednesday morning: Christine O’Donnell was even less electable than Alvin Greene. Despite never actually campaigning and displaying even more bizarre behavior than O'Donnell, the South Carolina Democrat outdrew the Delaware Republican by 358,276 to 123,025 — […]
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Kanye Says He Understands George Bush's 'Disgust'
The former president blames West for the 'all-time low' of his tenure. A newly sympathetic West says he feels Bush's pain.
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Things We Learned at the Midterms
The big headlines were clear well before midnight: Republicans were retaking the House, while Democrats would hold the Senate. The big questions — what will President Obama do now, and how far to the right will the Tea Party drag Speaker-to-be John Boehner and the rest of the caucus — will be picked over endlessly over […]
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Keeping Hope (Barely) Alive: Two Last-Minute Causes for Democratic Optimism?
The polls say it’s going to be a bad-to-very-bad night for Democrats. But until the actual polls — the ones that voters actually vote at — close, it is still possible for Democrats and likeminded independents to hope all those polls are wrong. They are probably not (early intel on turnout, though a highly imperfect […]
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Obama's Interview with Ryan Seacrest: What Took Him So Long?
It has been noted that American Idol finales can draw more votes than American Presidents, a bit of fuzzy math (American Idol voters can vote more than once, and when ballots for losing candidates are included, presidential elections have tens of millions more participants) that has a way of sounding true, given the general health […]
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One Way Jon Stewart's Rally Is Already Working
Exclusive social media analysis shows subdued chatter around Saturday's event. But then, that's sort of the point.
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Stewart's Big Obama Interview Raises Question for Rally to Restore Sanity
As befits these fractious times, reaction to President Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show last night has split along predictable lines. If you like Stewart and Obama, you generally liked it. If you’re part of the president's disenchanted base, you found Obama’s answers insufficiently enchanting. If you’re a hater, hey, big surprise, you hated it. […]
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Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity Ignites Controversy
NPR forbids its jourmalists from attending the event
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