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Palin Smacks New Jersey’s Daggett for False ‘Drop Out’ Claim

Sarah Palin is chiding Chris Daggett, an independent candidate for governor of New Jersey, for inaccurately claiming Sunday morning on MSNBC that she had urged him to drop his third-party bid. “Despite what candidate Chris Daggett is claiming, I have never contacted him or his campaign,” wrote Palin Sunday on her Facebook page. “I have never asked him to drop out of the NJ Governor’s race. Now, if a politician is going to play loose with facts like this, the electorate needs to know it.”

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Roundtable on Race: 'Obama Can't Walk On Water'

A year after President Obama’s election, recent Gallup poll numbers on race show that 40% of Americans believe race will always be a problem, up from 30% who said that a year ago. Roughly the same number of people said...

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November 1, 2009 in Barack Obama, This Week with George Stephanopoulos | Permalink | User Comments (38)

Plouffe Book - Sharpton's Side of the Story

Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe’s new book tells a story of how the Obama camp was concerned when they heard that the Reverend Al Sharpton would be coming to Iowa in the final days before the caucus.

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Jarrett: Dover A Reminder of How Deep the Sacrifice Is

Jarrett said the President wouldn't have done it if the families had objected.

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Gillespie: Health Care Stakes - Dems Could Lose House

Former RNC Chairman and Bush Advisor Ed Gillespie told me on 'This Week' that the stakes for passing health care reform couldn’t be higher for House Democrats and it could cost them the majority.

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GOP Civil War – It’s Not Over Yet

George Will told me on 'This Week' he predicts Florida's popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist will lose the Republican primary for the state's open Senate seat to the conservative Marco Rubio. Another casualty of the "civil war" in the party...

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Jarrett: Partisan Divide = GOP's Fault

Though the President pledged on election night to work with the GOP, the President’s top adviser blamed Republicans for the partisan chasm that has grown in the year since. When I asked about the divide Jarrett said, “You should ask...

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Jarrett: Obama Won't Break Middle Class Tax Pledge

Senior White House Counsel Valerie Jarrett told me this morning that the President will keep to his pledge not to tax the middle class to pass his health care package. “He’s confident that a bill will be passed consistent with...

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Jarrett: NY-23 Shows Republicans More and More Extreme

Moderate NY Republican Dede Scozzafava’s move Saturday to drop out of the NY-23 Congressional race drew harsh criticism from the President’s top adviser, Valerie Jarrett. She told me this morning on This Week that it shows the Republican party has...

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Afghanistan: Abdullah Withdrawal Won't Complicate Obama's Strategy -- His Decision Could Slip

Top counselor to the President, Valerie Jarrett, acknowledged to me this morning that the President’s long awaited decision on Afghanistan could slip to late November.

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