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–As Jay notes, Obama political arm Organizing for America is trying to take some credit for Bennet’s solid victory last night in Colorado. The message: Just because we couldn’t save Specter or clear the field for Lincoln and Bennet, the White House political operation is not ineffectual.
–Establishment …
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–There are a bunch of good races today in Colorado, Connecticut and Georgia. Jay and Katy walk them up.
–The House is poised to approve $26 billion in aid to the states today. Obama will give a gentle nudge.
–Six months ago, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signed onto a letter asking for more FMAP funds. He opposes …
After a much ballyhooed endorsement e-mail for Andrew Romanoff in June, Former President Clinton went dark in Colorado’s contested Democratic Senate primary: no more e-mails, no campaign events, no fundraisers, nada. The initial gesture was assumed to be simple reciprocity for Romanoff’s support of Hillary Clinton in ’08 and Clinton’s …
–President Obama is headed to Texas today for some fundraisers. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White will make himself scarce.
–Pauls Krugman and Ryan get their feud on. This is why we can’t have nice things.
–Rep. Boehner squirms over a question about the Bush tax cuts paying for themselves. Republican economists …
–Recovery is in a full-blown stall. The unemployment rate stayed at 9.5% in July as the economy lost 131,00 jobs. Losses were fed in part by departing temporary census workers; the private sector added 71,000 new positions, albeit below expectations.
–White House Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer plans to …
After another summer of hyperbolic debate, the Senate voted 63-37 Thursday to confirm solicitor general and former Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
Despite the obligatory objections over her judicial record (or lack thereof), legal philosophy (real and imagined) and all-around …
President Obama jokes with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka about eating birthday cake while he speaks at the labor union’s Executive Council meeting in Washington, August 4, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing
–Michael Lindenberger explains the ruling that struck down California gay-marriage ban yesterday.
–Dahlia Lithwick writes …
–BP says the Deepwater Horizon well is sealed and the government is saying most of the oil is gone. That doesn’t mean you won’t be hearing about it on TV this fall:
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–Sharron Angle’s ads are still focused on Nevada’s abyssal …
The Nevada Senate candidate’s rocky relationship with the press isn’t going to be getting much better after this one:
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For what it’s worth, nothing she says in this clip is untrue — every campaign wishes things worked that way. They just don’t usually admit it.
–There are primaries in Michigan, Kansas and Missouri today. Among the marquee contests are Republican Reps. Todd Tihart and Jerry Moran clawing it out for a good shot at Sam Brownback’s Kansas Senate seat, GOP congressman Roy Blunt trying to fend off Tea Party-fueled challenger Chuck Purgason for Kit Bond’s open Senate seat, and of …
–Obama is set to deliver a speech on winding down the mission in Iraq at the Disabled American Veterans convention today in Atlanta.
–Lindsey Graham warns of a bipartisan “unholy alliance” against the war in Afghanistan.
–John Kerry says he wouldn’t support a request for more troops. He’s sounding Ted Kennedy-esque to …
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President Obama appeared on the ABC talk show this morning. TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik thought it was a fluff sandwich albeit with a meaty-for-daytime-talk slice of substance salami in the middle. What was the Super Serious political take away from the interview? Snooki-Gate. There goes …
–President Obama is set to deliver a speech on education policy at the National Urban League’s 100th Anniversary Convention today. He will reportedly call for teacher pay to be pegged to performance, a serious bone of contention with unions.
–Harry Reid’s re-election campaign is getting defensive after Nevada lost out on federal …
