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Opinion: What the post-election Tea Party presence in Washington will really mean for American politics (associatedcontent)
associatedcontent - If current Rasmussen Reports hold true, the Senate will be very close to a near deadlock between the Democrats and Republicans after the Nov. 2 General Election. The survey company reports 29 percent of American voters ally themselves with the Tea Party or know friends who are Tea ...
Midterm elections live blog 2010 (The Upshot)
The Upshot - 6:18 PM ET: Strangely, the most covered candidate of the 2010 election cycle was actually a candidate that has almost no chance of winning. As Michael Calderone reported in an Upshot exclusive this morning, Christine "I am not a witch" O'Donnell had almost twice as many stories ...
Obama tweets, talks and pleads to get out the vote (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama took to the airwaves and the Internet Tuesday in an 11th-hour appeal to rally support, urging young voters and minority groups to back his Democratic Party.
The GOP will win the House and the Senate (Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - It has been called the Great Recession, the worst economic downturn in decades. Yet the current economic situation — while an extremely important component of this election — takes a back seat to one man. These mid-term elections are, and always have been, about President Barack Obama. ...
VOTE: If the GOP makes major gains, what will Congress be like for the next two years?
VOTE: If the GOP makes major gains, what will Congress be like for the next two years?
Election Night: How to watch on the web
Here at the 2010 Election Desk at 30 Rockefeller Center, the NBC News political team and msnbc.com are gearing up for a busy evening of race calls, exit polls, and analysis.
Randi Zuckerberg talks Facebook and the elections ahead of ABC town hall (Daily Caller)
Daily Caller - Facebook has made enormous inroads into the American political process, and for election night, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg and David Muir of ABC News will be broadcasting from an ABC/Facebook town hall at Arizona State University.
Olbermann suspends ‘Worst Persons’ after Stewart critique (The Upshot)
The Upshot - In 2005, Jon Stewart's now-famous complaint that confrontational cable shoutfests like "Crossfire" were "hurting America" helped lead CNN to cancel the long-running political chat show. Now, the "Daily Show" host appears to have claimed another scalp: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann announced Monday night on "Countdown" that he's "unilaterally ...
O’Donnell receives most coverage of 2010 candidates (The Upshot)
The Upshot - Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't get too much national media coverage before upsetting the Republican establishment and winning the Delaware primary in September. But since then, O'Donnell's been all over the newsâwhether confirming she's not witch, questioning the separation of church and state, appearing in newly-surfaced "Politically ...