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Christine O’Donnell denied charges that she had used campaign funds for personal use on Thursday, calling the accusations “thug tactics,” and casting doubt on the political motivations of her accusers. (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)

Democrats can’t seem to wait for Sarah Palin to be back on a ballot. (more)

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and GOP challenger Sharron Angle tied with 43 percent of the vote in a new poll that suggests most Nevadans won’t gamble on half a dozen other little known contenders. (more)

Christine O’Donnell, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, is slated to appear on Sean Hannity’s television tonight at 9 pm on FOX News. The newly minted Tea Party star has rocketed to fame over the past two weeks, following her surprising victory over moderate GOP congressman Michael Castle in the primary to fill the former seat of Vice President Joe Biden.  (more)

Christine O’Donnell’s stunning victory in Delaware over the liberal — but, as some have argued, much more electable — Republican Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination was the culmination of several days of heated back-and-forth among conservatives. Here’s a sampling:
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The Tea Party effect may have hit Maine’s sometimes-liberal Republican Senator Olympia Snowe on Friday as a new Public Policy Polling poll suggested she might have to consider running as a Democrat in 2012 if she wants to keep her job – something that conservative Scott D’Amboise, who announced his candidacy back in February, is jumping at. (more)

The first Rasmussen Reports post-primary survey of the Florida governor’s race finds Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Alex Sink in a close contest. (more)

Democrats will get their stronger candidate if Kendrick Meek wins the Florida Senate primary tonight as expected- but the biggest winner coming out of the primary may be Marco Rubio. PPP finds he would begin the general election in the lead at 40%, followed by Charlie Crist at 32%, and Meek at 17%. If Jeff Greene were somehow able to pull off the upset tonight it would be much closer with Rubio at 37%, Crist at 36%, and Greene at only 13%. (more)

Since winning her primary in Nevada, Republican Sharron Angle has been fighting off millions of dollars in attack ads from her opponent, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid. But there’s another option on the ballot for voters in her state that could also threaten her chances at kicking the majority leader out of office: “None of these candidates.” (more)

Former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas John Rood, a current Jacksonville, Fla. real estate developer, has filed a class action lawsuit against Governor and independent U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Crist seeking the return of campaign donations he made before Crist left the GOP. (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)

With the investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel nearing its second anniversary, the New York Democrat and the House ethics committee face a new challenge — the political calendar. (more)

Citing the BP oil spill, unemployment and Israeli attacks on a Gaza flotilla, Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s top strategist and pollster for her 2008 presidential campaign, last week argued that voters are now “wondering if they underestimated the value of experience and crisis management as important attributes for their president.” (more)

“There is a cancer on the presidency. It has been growing daily for the past three months. It’s compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself. And there is no assurance that it won’t bust.”  (more)

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration dangled the possibility of a government job for former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff last year in hopes he would forgo a challenge to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, officials said Wednesday, just days after the White House admitted orchestrating a job offer in the Pennsylvania Senate race. (more)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs indicated Tuesday that Rep. Joe Sestak was not offered a spot on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board but refused to say what was dangled in front of the Democrat in an attempt to remove him from a Senate primary. (more)

Here’s more evidence that the GOP is trying to keep the Joe Sestak affair alive despite today’s White House memo denying wrongdoing: A group of Republicans have sent a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller asking for an FBI investigation of “allegations that White House officials bribed Representative Joe Sestak with promises of a senior Administration position in exchange for his withdrawal from the Pennsylvania Senate primary.” (more)

A Texas man with no military experience tricked the Army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, an Associated Press investigation has found. (more)

I first saw, heard and then met Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) on the evening of April 21 at the University of Pennsylvania’s historic Palestra sports arena. With nearly all 10,000 seats filled the night before the Pennsylvania primary, it was an old-fashioned, rousing rally for then-New York senator and—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. (more)