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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 2/5/2009

First thoughts: Back to candidate Obama

— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Back to candidate Obama: The president is ramping up... the rhetoric as he tries to get back on offense to sell his economic stimulus plan. It started yesterday with two events, where for the first ... (more) First thoughts: Back to candidate Obama

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themoderatevoice.com - 1/29/2009

Quote Of The Day: Obama, The GOP, The Stimulus Vote And The “Big Fat 0″

— themoderatevoice.com — The new and old media are abuzz over yesterday’s clearcut House of Representative vote that passed President... Obama’s stimulus plan, getting zero Republican votes despite the new Prez’s steadfast efforts to woo GOPers into making it ... (more) Quote Of The Day: Obama, The GOP, The Stimulus Vote And ...

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firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 1/30/2009

First thoughts: Take me to your leader

— firstread.msnbc.msn.com — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Take me to your leader: The self-help saying, “Today is... the first day of the rest of my life,” could very well apply to the Republican Party today as it meets in DC to elect a new chairman ... (more) First thoughts: Take me to your leader

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Latest RNC Vote Tallies
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — With the vote for a new RNC chairman coming on Friday, here are the updated vote counts: First Read: Duncan 44, Steele 30, Dawson 18, Blackwell, 16, Anuzis 16, Saltsman 1, Unknown 43. YourRNC: Duncan 36, Dawson 20, Steele 18, Anuzis 17, Blackwell 13, Saltsman 0.

Quote Of The Day: Obama, The GOP, The Stimulus Vote And The “Big Fat 0″
The Moderate Voice — ... It’ll may take weeks (if ever) before reality reveals which assumptions by which side of partisans were correct on this vote. But our political Quote of the Day should spur discussions on both sides along. Here are two quotes from MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro, whose First Read is required reading for political junkies: ...

The Republican National Committe Chairmanship Race - January 29 AM Edition
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... The breakdown for the pledged votes from Your RNC is here. First Read has a different count: Duncan 44 Steele 30 Dawson 18 Blackwell 16 Anuzis 16 Saltsman 1 Unknown 43 The vote is coming tomorrow, Friday, at the Winter RNC Meeting. ...

The GOP: Tripling Down on the Shrinking Base
Firedoglake — ... Doctrine and FOCA, repeat “center-right nation” like a mantra, publicly grovel before Rush Limbaugh while letting the drug-addicted college dropout set ecomonic policy, and unanimously reject the extremely-popular new president's first big legislative initiative. (In contrast, Reagan’s first, the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, passed overwhelmingly in a Democratic House.) So how’s all this baseturbation working out for them? ...

Dear Republicans,
Upper Left — The jig is up. In addition to December's NBC/WSJ poll, which showed that only 27% of the country viewed the GOP favorably (versus 49% who said that about the Dem Party), a new Gallup analysis of the 350,000 interviews it conducted in 2008 finds the Democratic Party leading in every state in the nation except in Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska, Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah.Fondest wishes for a long, restful retirement, America