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• Statements by Virginia Democrats on Health Care Reform Passage

  Tom Perriello:
  Whether for or against health care reform, most people in the district asked me to fight for deficit reduction, a fair shake for rural doctors, and no federal funding for abortions. I helped to score major victories on all three fronts. Today’s vote on health care legislation [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:22pm EST
  

• Health Insurance Reform Vote: Open Thread

  Posted by The Green Miles
  
  Health insurance reform is the most important bill Congress has voted on since ... what? The Iraq War authorization? The legislation that helped President Clinton balance the budget in 1993? The Clean Air Act updates in 1990?
  
  This is vote is as [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:53pm EST
  

• New Poll: Large Majority of Obama '08 VA Voters Who Did Not Vote in '09 Thought Creigh Deeds "Not Progressive Enough"

  As if we need any more evidence that Creigh Deeds lost on Tuesday largely because he failed to appeal to "base" voters, a new poll provides it. Keep in mind that Creigh Deeds received 1.2 million fewer votes than Barack Obama did last year, while Bob McDonnell [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:57pm EST
  

• President Obama on Historic Health Care Vote

  
  The Washington Post reports:After receiving a pep talk from President Obama, House Democrats cleared a key procedural hurdle Saturday in the debate over expanding the nation's health care system, setting the stage for a daylong debate and an evening vote that could push the legislation across a historic [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  

• Republicans Gone Wild

  
  ThinkProgress describes the situation:
  This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:59pm EST
  

• Jim Moran Stands by "Taliban" Remarks, Says Deeds Lost by Dissing Obama, Ignoring NOVA

  
  I think that we had a Democratic candidate who is a very decent guy...but he didn't necessarily engage with people in Northern Virginia. I don't think he was able to mobilize and motivate the kind of base that President Obama was able to get engaged. Young people, minorities, they [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

• PPP: Deeds Lost Because of Deeds, Not Obama

  As if exit polls indicating that Virginia voters did not vote based on their approval or disapproval of Barack Obama, combined with analysis like this, weren't enough to kill the idiotic "meme" that Creigh Deeds lost the Virginia governor's election "because of Barack Obama," how about this?[...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• President Obama on "Despicable" Murders at Fort Hood

  
  It is an act of violence that would have been heartbreaking had it occurred anyplace in America. It is a crime that would have horrified us had its victims been Americans of any background. But it’s all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because of the place [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:20am EST
  

• Whipple Clip Dozen: Saturday Morning

  Thanks to Tom Whipple for the Saturday version of the "Clips."
  
  1. MCDONNELL STAFFS UP
  2. AFTER BAD FALL, DEMOCRATS LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK
  3. OLESZEK AND BULOVA OUT FOR SENATE, MARSDEN POSSIBLY IN
  4. SHAD PLANK: HAMILTON NOW MAY 'ROO THE DAY
  5. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:13am EST