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• Tropical Update

  With 26 days to go in the official hurricane season and so far pretty much bupkus for the Caribbean, wouldn't you know that something would start to kick up. Better never than late.
  
  Right now it's Tropical Depression Eleven and gearing up to hit Nicaragua and Honduras with' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  

• Mr. Smith Goes to Asheville

  Congratulations to the Liberal Coalition's own Gordon Smith, aka Scrutiny Hooligans, who won his election for city councilman of Asheville, North Carolina, yesterday.
  
  If you've been following Gordon's excellent adventure through the Friday Blogarounds, you know it's been a pretty wild ride for him, and I wish' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:28pm EST
  

• Paging General Custer

  Here's the actual headline from the conservative blogger Erick Erickson:In NY-23, Conservatives WinIn the real world, Democrat Bill Owens won, beating the carpetbagged and wingnut-approved Doug Hoffman. Mr. Erickson's logic is that the goal all along was to beat the GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava since she wasn't right-wing enough,' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:23am EST
  

• MoDo Snarks Rushbo

  Maureen Dowd rips Rush Limbaugh a new one for calling President Obama a narcissist.[Years ago] Limbaugh credited his success with being “one-dimensional.” “I’m totally concerned with me,” he said. And that was way before he got a contract for $400 million, so we can only imagine how one-dimensional he [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:42am EST
  

• You Call That "Healthcare"?

  After more than six months of promising a healthcare reform bill "any day now," House Minority Leader John Boehner trotted out the Republican version. Matthew Yglesias sums it up:If you’re uninsured, this won’t help you.
  
  If you’re insured, but you worry that circumstances beyond your control—a global financial [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:17am EST
  

• Make Of It What You Will

  Yesterday's election results brought good news and bad news for Democrats and Republicans, LGBT's and their opponents, and the winners will try to make as much of their wins while the losers will try to shrug them off.
  
  The wins by the Republicans in the governors races in Virginia [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:14am EST
  

• Short Takes

  Election Results: Bob McDonnell (R) wins Virginia; Chris Christie (R) wins in New Jersey; Bill Owens (D) wins in NY 23, and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi (D) wins in another special election to fill another House vacancy in California; Equality loses in Maine, but wins [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:46am EST