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...It’s not ever fun to come out with the tie,” senior Anna McDonald said. “We’re at that point in the season where we need to start getting the wins [and] not take away from all the hard work that we’re doing...
...Underscoring the point, both Cook and Stuart Rothenberg, another independent handicapper, on Thursday reclassified the special election in Massachusetts between Coakley and Brown as a "toss-up," a major surprise given that they're running for a seat long held by Ted Kennedy. But the White House has more than a crucial Senate vote riding on the outcome: Tuesday's election will be the first crucial test of the effectiveness of their entire 2010 campaign plan...
...party has never won all of the competitive races in any given election cycle (currently Republicans would need to win all 50 competitive seats to win 218 seats in the House), the likelihood of one or two dozen potentially competitive Democratic seats entering the danger zone at some point in this cycle is high...
...Federal Government currently pays about 57% of all Medicaid costs, with the rest shouldered by states. But under reform, the Federal Government would eventually pay 82% to 95% of Medicaid costs for the 15 million people who would become newly eligible. At that point, the result would be a huge public insurance program funded mostly by the Federal Government. By contrast, the public option - which exists in the current House bill but seems headed for a quiet death because of moderate Democrats' concerns that it would lead to socialized medicine - would have included no federal funding of benefits. Some health...
...hijackers demanded that 1,500 prisoners in Cyprus and Israel be released and that they be flown out of Pakistan. At one point, the hijackers shot and threw hand grenades at passengers and crew in one part of the plane. Some 20 people, including two Americans, died during the hijacking...