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thinkprogress.org - 18 days ago

Rep. Foxx: Health care reform is a bigger threat than ‘any terrorist right now in any country.’

— thinkprogress.org — Few Republican congressional members have served as a greater fount for hyperbolic and uninformed ranting about health care reform as has Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC). As ThinkProgress previously documented, Foxx has claimed Democratic reforms would ... (more) Rep. Foxx: Health care reform is a bigger threat than ...

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fivethirtyeight.com - 18 days ago

Gubernatorial Races a Poor Yardstick

— fivethirtyeight.com — Here is the problem with using the results from New Jersey or Virginia tonight to judge the status of the national political environment. It's not so much that the races are "meaningless" in the abstract, but that ticket-splitting is so common in ... (more) Gubernatorial Races a Poor Yardstick

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fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 17 days ago

Election 2009: What Happened in Virginia?

— fdlaction.firedoglake.com — Democrats welcome (really) (photo by M.V. Jantzen) For those of you following the 2009 elections, I don’t have to tell you that Virginia–one year after voting Democratic for President for the first time since 1964–is about to sweep ... (more) Election 2009: What Happened in Virginia?

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AP: Even If Republicans Win Tomorrow, They Still Suck
Ace of Spades HQ — ... forward? It is odd to me that whether we are discussing divisions or unity, we always speak of them negatively with regard to Republicans, and positively with regard to Democrats. Democrats united? The party is the most unified it's been in recent history. Republicans united? The party is becoming increasingly homogeneous and few contrary opinions are expressed. Democrats divided? The party is a rich cacophony of diverse voices. Republicans divided? The party is in a state of civil war and cannot even manage to agree with themselves, let alone put forward any consensus ...

Weekend Opinionator: Are Democrats, Too, Facing a Civil War?
Opinionator — ... Democrats captured New York’s 23rd Congressional District for the first time since 1872, as Bill Owens defeated Doug Hoffman, the hard-line conservative who forced a moderate Republican out of the race. Mr. Hoffman’s narrow defeat is now likely to embolden conservatives — who far outnumber moderates in the party — to challenge Republican incumbents they find ideologically impure.” – George Stephanopoulos of ABC News (courtesy of NewsBusters.com): “But, what’s most interesting here is civil war inside the Republican Party. You saw this conservative candidate just come in and ...