Overlooked in the last-minute frenzy of the campaign, a fourth of Massachusetts voters surveyed believe ACORN will attempt to steal enough votes in today's election to eke out a victory for Democrat Martha Coakley over Republican Scott Brown, according to Public Policy Polling, Inc.
But there it is on question 17 of the survey: Q17 Do you think that ACORN will try to steal the election for Martha Coakley? If yes, press 1. If no, press 2. If you’re not sure, press 3.
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Ed Morrissey at Hot Air takes a spin in the Way Back machine and returns to remind us that it was Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, who in 2004 pushed the law that required his state to hold a special election to replace him when he passed to his eternal reward.
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A new poll by the Las Vegas Review Journal shows that a solid -- and growing -- majority of Nevadans oppose the Democratic health care plan now working its way through Congress. The margin for Nevadans overall is 54 percent oppose to 35 percent support.
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On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs declined to answer questions about the president's campaign commitment to hold health-care negotiations on C-Span. Gibbs said he had not seen a letter from C-Span's Brian Lamb to congressional leaders requesting the coverage and thus could not comment on it.
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Some commentators have accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of caving to Democratic pressure by agreeing to hold the vote on final passage of the national health care bill on Christmas Eve morning as opposed to the originally-planned 7 p.m. "Mitch McConnell Surrenders," reads one blog headline.
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Sen. Richard Durbin, the number-two Democrat in the Senate, says the public has had hours and hours of time to familiarize itself with the newest version of the Democrats' national health care plan -- and that's more than enough of a chance to scrutinize the 383-page Reid Amendment to the original 2,074 page health care bill. "This bill has been before the American public for at least 70 hours on the Internet," Durbin said during debate on the Senate floor early Tuesday morning.
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Almost everyone agrees our health care system is broken and enormous waste and abuse must be eliminated. We have never had a social priority of this magnitude — one so closely associated with our economic stability, our physical well-being and the very future of our country.
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First, President Obama's EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson threatens to implement draconian new federal controls on the private economy if Congress fails to pass cap-and-trade legislation that is opposed by a majority of Americans.
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Scarcely more than an hour after the House narrowly passed the Democrats' health care legislation Saturday night, President Obama sent out a fundraising email asking supporters for money to push a national health care bill through the Senate.
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A heated exchange during a visit to the office of Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., led to a staffer putting his hands on Teri Christoph, executive director of Smart Girl Politics, in order to get her to put her camera down, reported Jillian Bandes of TownHall.
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