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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s been a tough year for Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, one of dozens of Democrats facing a tight race to win re-election this fall. (more)

One sign of the strength of the 2010 Republican wave is in Arkansas, where the GOP is likely to flip the last Democratic stronghold in the South. (more)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Barack Obama doesn’t go there anymore. (more)

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In the turbulent year of the tea party, Republican Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware set out to jangle no nerves as he ran for a Senate seat long held by Vice President Joseph Biden. It’s the way Republican strategists originally envisioned 2010, a roster of seasoned politicians pointing the party toward significant gains in the Senate. (more)

Democratic senators are donating generously to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid but his biggest contributor is the one who often gives him a serious case of heartburn – Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.). (more)

Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column. (more)

Nothing quite compares to being the current occupant of the White House. The power. The prestige. The enchantment. The possibility of leaving office with a cherished legacy and the prospect of making history for all the right reasons. (more)

Primary elections in Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota and Connecticut on Tuesday will provide perhaps the best snapshot of the electorate’s mood since May 18, when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was ousted in a Democratic primary and Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff by Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Here’s POLITICO’s guide on the top races to watch. (more)

Obama White House hemorrhaging economic ‘experts’ — Senate Dems now bribing industrial farmers in order to save Blanche Lincoln
— Scottish doctor exaggerated Lockerbie bomber’s poor health — Back in Denver, teachers are probably burning Michael Bennett’s picture — Will Charlie Rangel be the only guest at Charlie Rangel’s birthday party?
– Tennessee gubernatorial candidate pledges to change the face of American politics  (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Her confirmation assured, Elena Kagan is on the brink of becoming the fourth woman ever to serve as a Supreme Court justice. (more)

Free market organizations that are now mobilized against the possibility of a repackaged version of “card check” legislation should remain mindful of administrative actions that could enshrine union favors without congressional approval. With mid-term elections looming, union bosses who spent millions to elect a Democratic president and congress are going for broke to secure transformative policy changes that could reinvigorate their membership rolls. (more)

The mid-term elections expectation game is in full gear and it is widely anticipated that the Republicans will make substantial gains on Tuesday, November 2^nd. (more)

President Obama is looking to throw a life preserver to farmers in Arkansas and elsewhere with an administrative action worth $1.5 billion. (more)

President Obama’s poll numbers last week in a variety of polls were portrayed by the media as foretelling a potential debacle for the Democrats in the November elections. Yet one positive data point was overlooked by most commentators:  the president’s job approval rating was 49% and disapproval 48% — a statistical dead-heat.  In other words, despite everything, Mr. Obama is just about where he was when he won the presidential election in 2008 with 53% of the vote and about half of Americans approve of the job he has done. Amazing. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Add Russ Feingold to the list of Senate Democrats who find themselves in unexpectedly tough races, the latest evidence of the GOP’s success in widening the playing field that President Barack Obama’s party has to defend. (more)

In a speech to the House of Commons in 1941, Sir Winston Churchill declared, “Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one’s pulse and taking one’s temperature.” (more)

Lawmakers closed in on a final Wall Street reform bill early Friday after Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) agreed to a compromise with moderate House Democrats on her derivatives regulation bill – clearing the way for the broadest rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations since the Great Depression. (more)

Two events last week involving elements of the Democratic Party who call themselves the “true progressives” show a danger they represent to the progressive change they say they want to effect. Together they offer President Barack Obama an opportunity for a “Sister Souljah” moment — perhaps to save the Democratic Party majority in both chambers of Congress, as well as his progressive agenda in the last two years of his administration. (more)

These days the left isn’t all too happy with President Obama. (more)

The Obama administration on Monday released a new regulation setting rules for who can keep their current health insurance plans under the law. The regulation gave special consideration to plans negotiated by unions, quickly drawing criticism from conservatives and others, who argue the rules will put small businesses at a competitive disadvantage. (more)