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Morning Fix: NY-23 as 2012 litmus test?
The Iowa caucuses may be more than two years from now but a series of moves by potential Republican presidential contenders has turned a special election in New York's 23rd district into an early test of conservative bona fides. In the last week three GOPers with an eye on 2012 -- former House ...
Obama continues to lead 2012 contests
Obama continues to lead 2012 contests
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com — Almost a year after his election as President, Barack Obama continues to lead his most likely 2012... rivals in hypothetical contests for reelection. Obama leads Mike Huckabee 47-43, Mitt Romney 48-40, Sarah Palin 52-40, and Tim Pawlenty 50-30. This is ... (more) Obama continues to lead 2012 contests
Pawlenty doesn't back GOP candidate
thehill.com — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) did not offer support for the Republican candidate running in N.Y.'s special... election. (more) Pawlenty doesn't back GOP candidate
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WaPo: 'It Is Now a Two-Person Race Between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens With Scozzafava Fading Badly'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post has written a story in his Morning Fix political news analysis that is sure to cause conniption fits over at the Daily Kos which ...

The Daily Grind
Weekly Standard Blog — ... or even to require TARP recipients to report how they used the billions Congress and the Treasury Department gave them, makes it highly unlikely that the $317 billion outstanding -- nearly half the TARP total -- will ever be returned to taxpayers." Responding to John Kerry on Afghanistan. McDonald's is leaving Iceland. That's how bad the economy is. The Top 10 political masks for Halloween. Henry Waxman is inexplicably missing. Sources say NY-23 is a two-man race, with Scozzafava "fading badly," like ...

Former NRCC Chair Tom Cole Endorses Hoffman
Ace of Spades HQ — ... easy familiarity with Candadian-border New York like former Royal Mountie/free-range syrup magnate Newt Gingrich does. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that veteran and widely-respected Rep. Tom Cole (R, Okla.), former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee and a member of the GOP Steering Committee and a Deputy GOP House Whip, will be endorsing Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 race. Meanwhile, the Washington Post says that sources close to "both" camps (not all three?) say Scozzoflava is imploding and it's now a two man race. That last bit thanks to Hot Air's ...

Is it time for Scozzafava to drop out?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... while dKos has the Democrat ahead by the same margin. Whichever it is, there seems to be no dispute that Scozzafava’s a distant third. WaPo’s hearing from multiple sources that it’s now a two-man race between Hoffman and Owens, and that’s exactly how the DCCC ...

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If you had any doubts that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin intends to run for President in 2012 and her upcoming book wasn’t enough for you, then here’s a second sign: she has sided with the party’s conservative activist base against the Republican party establishment to ...