RealClearPolitics:
David Broder, Washington PostIt's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the (Read More)
India Times:
Election freebies in Jharkhand are getting trendier, with caps, paper goggles and mobile phone covers carrying party logos and icons being freely distributed ahead of the assembly polls. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
On a walkabout in east London, Nick Griffin is a magnet for feelings of grief as well as angerOn Thursday Nick Griffin paid his first official visit to Barking and Dagenham as the newly declared British National party candida (Read More)
NY Post:
ALBANY -- The momentum behind Attorney General Andrew Cuomo making a bid for governor is rising among potential voters, according to a poll released today. Among Democrats statewide, 72 percent said they would support Cuomo i (Read More)
NPR Topics: Politics:
The public option looms large in the minds of voters and certain lawmakers, but not so much in the Senate health care bill. There it limits eligibility, kicks in late, includes an opt-out provision for states, and is expected (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman (Read More)
RealClearPolitics:
Mort Kondracke, Roll Call"The mood of America is glum. Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country" and voters' anti-incumbent mood is approaching 1994 and 2006 levels, whe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
The appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton lay bare the rot at the core of the Lisbon projectIt's not often that the front pages of the Daily Mail and the Guardian have identical headlines. Still, both newspapers (Read More)
Bob Schwartz Online:
Texas is known for many ridiculous legislative ideas already but this one might take the cake. It is possible that in their haste to incorporate homophobia into the state's Constitution in 2005 by banning same sex marriage an (Read More)
Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leader should make good on an offer to step aside for a week so voters can focus on November 29 polls and resolve the country's political crisis, the U.S. (Read More)
National Review Online:
For Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the moderate Arkansas Democrat, the nation’s health-care woes may lead to more headaches than any medicine could alleviate. Lincoln is a pivotal vote on the motion to begin debate on Senate majority (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Cross-posted at The Bilerico ProjectI've been writing a lot on what happened in Maine (most recently this piece yesterday in a Los Angeles LGBT magazine), and where our movement should go from here. NGLTF had run much of the (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Last week, in response to the 2009 elections and the November jobs report, Senate majority leader Harry Reid came up with the idea of passing a new jobs bill. Open Left was able to quickly confirm that the House was working (Read More)
Swing State Project:
Rasmussen (11/18, likely voters):John McCain (R-inc): 45J.D. Hayworth (R): 43Chris Simcox (R): 4Some other: 2Not sure: 7(MoE: ?4%)The good news! for John McCain is that ex-Rep. and current right-wing talk show host J.D. Haywo (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Seems like only weeks ago that CNN was parting ways with former anchor Lou Dobbs because everyone was yelling at Dobbs to stop saying crazy birther and anti-immigrant nonsense on the teevee. Despite all that negative attentio (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Don't Arizonians know that he's a war hero? Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary v (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
President Barack Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 49% in today's Gallup poll -- the first time his approval has dipped below 50% and a sharp decline from the 69% approval rating Gallup recorded when Obama entered off (Read More)
Dispatches from the Culture Wars:
Just when you think things can't get any more loopy on the right, a new poll has found that a majority of Republicans actually believe that Obama is not the real president because ACORN stole the election for him. TPM Muckrak (Read More)
National Review Online:
In the 2008 presidential race, John McCain often dueled with Barack Obama over health care. Over a year later, Obama is in the White House and McCain finds himself back on Capitol Hill. The battle, however, continues. With (Read More)