From TPM -
And so the Alaska Senate race has truly come to an end: Ted Stevens has conceded the election, after Democratic challenger Mark Begich built up a small but nevertheless insurmountable lead in last night’s vote count.
Stevens shocked the political world when the ballots counted on Election Night originally showed him winning the race, [...]

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Cannon: If Steny Hoyer is still listening, we need more oversight staff in Congress. That’s something that is vitally important.
Cavuto: …but didn’t you know this when you voted for this?
Cannon: Sure I did.
Cannon: We have congressional oversight, and if I can blatantly suck up for a minute, we have you. In fact I love your [...]

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OMG! A Black man with a check book! Not for these “folks.”
From the NRSC -

Breaking news. . .
Barack Obama’s sending his campaign staff to Georgia in order give himself another rubberstamp in the U.S. Senate: <– And, really, who’d know a rubber stamp better than the GOP?
“Obama is keeping 25 of his Georgia field offices [...]

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What is stand-up comedy going to do for material when Utah finally secedes from the Union?
Last night for instance, Comedy Central’s coverage of the election skewered the Beehive State three (3) times for cheap laughs. In a report on the Mormon church’s $25 million in financial support for California’s Prop 8, Jon Steward quipped:
If there [...]

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Oh, man! I thought we were done with the shenanigans of ol’ Chris Cannon and the Cannon family after his ignoble defeat at the hands of a guy who helf the only position on a football team more effeminate than male cheerleader, but, sometimes Christmas comes early.
Chris Cannon, soon to be former Congressperson from Utah [...]

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Did anyone else notice that Obama went through that entire thirty minute ad yesterday without mentioning McCain once? McCain can’t make it through 30 seconds without targetting Obama, being a racist and lying. That’s not change, that’s more of the same.

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From the Tribune forums, to Blog Comments to my mail box, some curious, yet curiously anonymous, folks have been asking some questions of Republican candidate for Congress, Jason Chaffetz. Namely -
Questions that Chaffetz has yet to answer:
What is the truth behind your resignation from Governor Huntsman’s office?
What happened in San Francisco in the late 1980’s?
Have [...]

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Too bad Senator Ted “TUBES!” Stevens wasn’t in Dubai, or Orrin Hatch’s stirring oratory may have gotten him out of trouble on all this … you know, corruption stuff.
From Roll Call:

A federal jury on Monday found Sen. Ted Stevens guilty on all counts of failing to disclose gifts on his annual financial disclosure forms.
The decision [...]

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from C&L:
Joe Biden sat down for an interview with Florida television anchor Barbara West Thursday and got hit by a barrage of Sean Hannity’s talking points, prompting him to ask at one point, “Are you joking? Is this a joke? Is that a real question?”

Interviewer: “You may recognize this famous quote: “From each according to [...]

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From the Salt Blog via Sidetrack
Think back to 2007, when a bunch of out-of-state nutjobs decided that Utah was the perfect test laboratory for their experimental plan to kill the “socialistic” public-school system by diverting our meager school funds toward wacky, private religious schools.
Remember how we resoundingly defeated their crazy plan? Remember how we vowed [...]

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Oh, noes … ‘win’ or lose, John McCain won’t be addressing his campaign or the folks that show up for his concession party on November 4th. Well, he might show up. Maybe.
From SFGate:
[T]he Republican presidential nominee plans to address another group of supporters and a small group of reporters on the hotel lawn; his remarks [...]

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OMG! This is the funniest thing ever. John McCain is already notoriously soft on illegal immigration and now we find out that his $150,000 clothes horse loves the amnesty, as well.
It seems the right just can’t catch a break.
From C&L:
With 12 days to go until the election, today was the wrong time for Sarah Palin [...]

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From Craig41 at the SideTrack:
It’s a story we’ve all heard before, congressman gets earmarks for a company, and the company kicks in a few bucks to get the congressman reelected. This time the characters in the story are ES3, a government military contractor, and Rob Bishop, congressman from Utah’s 1st district.

ES3 holds a fundraiser for [...]

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Not only is this from the Daily Herald … in Provo … it’s in THE DAILY HERALD!
Jordan Tanner took advantage of early voting Tuesday to choose Democratic challengers over Republican incumbents.
Who’s Tanner? He’s a former GOP lawmaker who spent 10 years in the state House proposing ethics and campaign reform that he feels went nowhere.
He’s [...]

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