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Obama Calls Indian Prime Minister The Obama transition office has announced that Barack Obama called Indiana Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last night, offering his condolences for the people killed in the Mumbai terror attacks. The announcement is careful to note that Obama "told the Prime ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — This Morning: Another Obama Press Conference Barack Obama is holding a press conference today at 10:45 a.m.... ET -- his third presser in three days -- centered around the economy. As we posited yesterday , Obama appears to be trying to quasi-assume ... (more) Election Central Morning Roundup
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — Obama Briefed On Mumbai By Condoleezza Rice President-elect Obama spoke by phone yesterday with Secretary Rice to... get an update on the Mumbai situation, an Obama aide says. He also received an intelligence briefing on the attacks and is getting ... (more) Election Central Morning Roundup
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com — Obama Announcing Economic Team Today Barack Obama will officially roll out key members of his economic team... today, at a 12 p.m. ET press conference in Chicago. Among the expected appointments are Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and ... (more) Election Central Morning Roundup
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Election Central Saturday Roundup
Talking Points Memo — ... South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's (R) prescription for fixing the Republican Party's problems: A smaller, more ideologically pure tent. That and other political news in today's Election Central Saturday Roundup. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Less big tent, more pup tent. Less compassion, more indifference. I like it. Sounds like a recipe for success. Watching these disempowered dimwits thrash around in the coming months and years and (hopefully) decades looking for "the answer" as their base dwindles away will be a great source of entertainment for me. [via TPM] ...

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