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Sharron Angle announced Wednesday that she will again try for elected office and will run for Congress to represent Nevada’s 2nd District. The seat is currently held by Republican Dean Heller, who has announced that he will make a bid for retiring Senator John Ensign’s seat. (more)

Tea Partier and U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke ripped into former U.S. Sen. and Virginia Gov. George Allen, calling him a part of the Washington establishment. The dig comes on the heels of Allen announcing on Monday that he’s running for Senate in 2012. (more)

A survivor of Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson blamed Fox’s Glenn Beck, former Alaska gov. Sarah Palin, and former senatorial candidate Sharron Angle for the actions of alleged schizophrenic Jared Loughner. (more)

1.) Desperate Dems attempt to rebrand the Obamacare repeal effort — House Republicans politely declined to remove the word “killing” from the “Repealing the Job Killing Health Health Care Law Act,” so Democrats decided to come up with a phrase of their own. “The Patient’s Rights Repeal Act” is what they settled on. Incidentally, the GOP’s name is pretty accurate: In June, the Boston Globe reported that “a 2.3 percent excise tax on companies that supply medical devices like heart defibrillators and surgical tools to hospitals, health centers and ambulance services will cost medical device manufacturers an estimated $20 billion in new taxes over the next decade. And they say that will force them to lay off workers and curb the research and development of new medical tools.” A report released by Senators Coburn and Barasso in October found that the outlook was equally bad in other industries. Meanwhile, “patient’s rights” is pure hogwash–as any depressed owner of a now useless health savings account will tell you. (more)

Speaking for the President of the United States on ABC’s This Week, CEA Chairman Austan Goolsbee launched this analysis of the upcoming need to raise the limit on federal debt: (more)

This is an exciting time to be a Republican, and we have an awesome task ahead of us. The American people have given us a “second chance.” That opportunity brings with it huge responsibilities and challenges. Now we turn our attention to 2012. America must elect a new president. It is that hope, that necessity, that challenge, that draws me to run for Chairman of the Republican National Committee. (more)

Maria Cino “should have been a nun.” (more)

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the strong favorite among Republican voters to challenge Sen. Bill Nelson (D) in 2012, a new Public Policy Polling survey shows. (more)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3: “Countdown” viewers witnessed a small but historic moment tonight when Keith Olbermann tacitly admitted he is a giant pain in the Keith Olbmermann. The admission came during his nightly “Tweet of the day” segment, when he reads aloud Twitter postings that are either funny (to him) or flattering (to him). Tonight’s tweet addressed his tiff last week with Bristol Palin: “Aww, Keith, Bristol is pissed at you,” a woman named Sabrina Brown wrote. “To Ms. Brown and Ms. Palin, I worked for ESPN for a total of seven and a half years,” he replied on air. “‘Bristol is pissed at me’ is my default setting.” (more)

Former U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene was pacing the second floor of the Richland County Courthouse around 9 a.m. Tuesday in a pair of wind pants, a gray Army T-shirt and a green baseball cap, which an officer later told him to remove when he entered the courtroom without his attorney. (more)

Is it . . . a plot? As Jimmy Kimmel put it: “Is there a tea party conspiracy?” (more)

ANCHORAGE — Two newscasts from Anchorage’s CBS news affiliate, KTVA-TV Channel 11, were canceled Wednesday so staff could deal with fallout from a phone message left by a station employee on the voice mail of a staff member working on Senate candidate Joe Miller’s campaign Oct. 28, the station announced on its website. (more)

In 2008, millennial voters – those individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 – played a key role in then-candidate Barack Obama’s historic victory. While young voters came out in record numbers in 2008, the 2010 midterms were starkly different. Poll numbers appear to show what some call a general skepticism and lack of enthusiasm among young voters – a result that may have had a profound impact on midterm election results. (more)

Republican congressional candidate Ed Martin, who ran in Missouri’s 3rd District against incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan, is calling for an investigation into possible voter fraud in St. Louis during Tuesday’s midterm election. (more)

Election week on “Countdown”! I’ll give you three guesses as to whether it ended in elation or a splitting headache. Or perhaps it ended with the revelation just this morning on Politico that Olbermann made three $2,400 contributions in the recent election, violating both NBC policy and basic principles of journalism. One donation, to Arizona representative Raul Grijalva, took place on the same day Grijalva appeared on “Countdown.” The other donations went to Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway and another Arizona representative, Gabrielle Giffords. (You will definitely want to read this.) But meanwhile, here’s the week that was: (more)

Some races are still too close to call. Here’s The Daily Caller’s rundown of the 3 messiest races: (more)

Lisa Murkowski, the write-in candidate in the Alaska Senate race, spoke disparagingly of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party Express in an interview with Fox News’ Dan Springer early this morning. (more)

She is 14 points behind in the polls, but Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is the second most covered political figure of the 2010 election season, according to a study released by the Pew Research Center. (more)

It’s one of the most remarkable and under-reported stories of the current campaign season. The Republican Party, the presumed bastion of insensitive white males, has managed to field one of the most impressive arrays of women and minority candidates in US history. And to the chagrin of Democrats, most of these die-hard conservative candidates are expected to win on November 2. Their victory could well turn liberal “identity politics” on its head. (more)

Florida’s Democratic Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is accepting support from former President Bill Clinton at a Monday rally, even after Clinton tried to talk Meek into dropping out of the three-way race to give independent candidate Governor Charlie Crist a chance to beat GOP nominee Marco Rubio. (more)