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Sarah Palin in 2012? Why she’s for real (Time.com)

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Former Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin gives a speech in Las Vegas in May 2010. Palin's daughter is to marry her sometime boyfriend, father of her infant son and nemesis of her mother -- who had not been told of the engagement, Us magazine reported.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)Time.com – She is raising money, backing candidates and touting a Web video designed to make her a force in the 2010 midterms and beyond

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Angle says campaign to defeat Reid God’s ‘calling’ (AP)

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FILE - In this June 8, 2010 file photo, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle shakes hands of supporters in Las Vegas. Tea party darling Angle engineered a come-from-behind victory in Nevada over an establishment-preferred candidate and will challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File)AP – Republican Sharron Angle says her campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada is “a calling” from God and that her faith is helping her endure a fiercely competitive race in which Democrats have depicted her as a conservative extremist.

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Tea party favorite loses GOP runoff in Alabama (AP)

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AP – A mainstream Republican rolled past a tea party activist Tuesday in the GOP runoff for a southeast Alabama congressional seat that Republicans hope to reclaim. [more...]

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Pelosi Slams Gibbs for ‘Politically Inept’ House Forecast (CQPolitics.com)

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CQPolitics.com – Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs during Tuesday night’s House Democratic Caucus meeting for saying Sunday that Democrats could lose control of the House in November. [more...]

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Major banking bill faces final vote this week (AP)

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President Barack Obama makes remarks on financial reform legislation, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – President Barack Obama on Tuesday secured the 60 votes he needs in the Senate to pass a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations, all but ensuring that he soon will sign into law one of the top initiatives of his presidency.

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