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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Daily Political Wire 10-23-2010

George Wenschhof

Latest WikiLeaks documents on Iraq war released -
with hundreds of thousands of documents released, it will take some time for news organizations to read through and report on them. The NY Times has an early read here on treatment of prisoners, civilian deaths and the involvement of Iran.

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President Obama continues to campaign hard for Democratic candidates. Here, he is speaking at a rally for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) -
Reid is locked in a "pick-em" race with Republican Tea Party favorite Sharron Angle.



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Democrats are jumping on the comments made by Stephen Broden; a Republican candidate for a House seat in Texas -
a tea party and Glenn Beck favorite, he recently said he would not take violent overthrow of the government off the table as an option for Americans. You can read more here.



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Whitman Trails Brown by 8 points in California Governor Race -
in spite of spending 163 million of her own money Republican Meg Whitman remains behind Democrat and former Governor Jerry Brown. Politico.com has more here.

Sestak and Toomey battle in Pennsylvania Senate Debate - another "pick-em" contest between Democrat Joe Sestak and Republican Pat Toomey. They both try to label each other as too extreme.



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