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New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez said Sunday that Democrats are open to temporarily extending the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year, which are set to expire at the end of this year. (more)

Christine O’Donnell said she would close the gap in the Delaware Senate race if national Republicans would give her additional support, but that type of help is not going to come, according to NRSC Chairman John Cornyn. (more)

A top official at the Republican committee in charge of raising money for Senate candidates said Tuesday that a GOP takeover of the Senate is possible, indicating growing confidence on the right about the Nov. 2 elections. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats desperately need other Democrats — to vote. (more)

DES MOINES, IOWA | It seemed the GOP civil war could not get any more nasty, but somehow on Friday night it did.  (more)

There hasn’t been much to cheer up the White House in recent weeks, but last night’s Tea Party upset in Delaware’s GOP Senate primary must have prompted some pretty big smiles in the West Wing. “Tea Party Scores Big” was the Washington Post headline this morning. But the headline could easily have been: “Big Night for the White House.” (more)

Despite reports that national Republicans will shy away from the general election campaign of Delaware GOP nominee Christine O’Donnell, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Wednesday pledged the Party’s support and financial backing. (more)

DOVER, Del.— Newly nominated GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell says she will plead with National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn to devote resources to her race “for the greater good.” (more)

For Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, not all hypotheticals are created equal. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elections in Delaware, New Hampshire and New York on Tuesday are measuring the strength of the tea party movement against the Republican establishment as the primary season draws to a close. (more)

1.) Paper pushers will rule like kings if Republicans take Congress — Ever wondered what exactly would change if Republicans took back Congress in November? Of course you have! Perhaps you thought that the aggressive wringing of our national sponge would become less aggressive, or that the burning money pit (around which Congressional Dems have danced like satyrs honoring Dionysus, the patron saint of excess and entitlement programs) would starve for want of legal tender and eventually self-extinguish. This could happen, maybe. But it’s not likely that big government types will simply sober up and simmer down. According to The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward, “A Republican takeover of the House will make Capitol Hill a much less relevant place for President Obama, and is likely to turn the administration’s focus toward working through federal agencies and regulation—which it can do unilaterally—rather than trying to pass new legislation.” Ward points out that Obama and his team have their work cut out for them establishing the rules for health-care bill and financial regulatory “reform,” and that perhaps they have had their legislative fill. On the other hand, it’s not like federal agencies are all gums and no fangs. EPA? DEA? FCC? IRS? They don’t play. (more)

WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta is one of the best-connected rainmakers in the nation’s capital, with a web of personal contacts stretching back 42 years and six Democratic presidential candidates. His brother John was Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff and an adviser on President Barack Obama’s transition team. (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)

On Monday, The Daily Caller began revealing its Ranking of America’s 50 Best Colleges. We encourage you to check out our methodology and the reasons why our college ranking is uniquely definitive. (more)

In the 2008 general election, as in all other recent elections, a substantial minority (in some places a majority) of the military personnel who tried to vote by absentee ballot were disenfranchised through no fault of their own.  Because of late primaries, ballots access lawsuits, and other problems, the printing and mailing of unmarked absentee ballots is all too often delayed until just a few days before Election Day.  Military personnel at sea or in places like Afghanistan simply do not have sufficient time to receive their ballots, mark them, and return them on time. (more)

It’s not a news flash that the rapid growth of the federal government is alarming a large number of Americans.  Their outrage is witnessed in the rise of the Tea Party movement that marched on the National Mall and flocked to town hall meetings with an “SOS message” to Congress: Stop Over-Spending! But are lawmakers hearing this plea? A recent study from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) provides clues that at least some may be opening their ears.  For the first time in over a decade, there is a rising number of representatives and senators whose legislative agendas, if enacted into law, would decrease spending. (more)

As the election season gears up and the races grow more contentious, the aphorism “every vote counts” will become evermore consequential. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, a judge’s decision to block tough provisions of Arizona’s immigration law was a defeat for the state’s Republican governor and a win for the Democratic Obama administration. But neither party is sure it will play out that way politically, either this fall or beyond. (more)

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Democrat Joe Sestak — a son of the Philadelphia suburbs — needs the independent voters in his backyard as he campaigns for a Senate seat in a swing state that may tilt Republican this year. (more)

In six states — Kentucky, Nevada, Florida, Utah, Colorado and Minnesota — tea-party-backed Republican Senate candidates have won nomination or are favored in upcoming primaries. They are attracting outsize attention not only from Democrats and the media, but from conservative leaders such as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Fox News host Glenn Beck. (more)