Morning Must Reads: Counting Seats

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–The GOP has a narrow but very real path to control of the Senate. Nate Silver updates his forecast.

–West Virginia’s legislature leaves the special election to fill Robert Byrd’s seat in doubt.

–Things are looking up for Harry Reid in Nevada. But the state’s economy continues to suffer.

–Obama enters full-blown campaign mode, takes a confrontational turn in his weekly address.

–He’ll head to Chicago in August to help out with the very troubled effort to defend his old Senate seat.

–The spill is over. Meet the “seep.”

–The Washington Post debuts their new series on the tangled, inefficient web of the U.S. intelligence community. Part one of “Top Secret America” is up today.

–Colorado gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis’ campaign experiences exodus in wake of the plagiarism flap.

–The title of this Paul Krugman post could sum up the last year of his work. More on the politics of stimulus in his column today.

–The Financial Times kicks off a series on austerity vs. stimulus with a piece from Larry Summers defending the administration’s approach.

–Paul Volcker gets profiled in the New Yorker.

–And Palin as Shakespeare.

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