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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Republican candidate in a closely watched U.S. congressional race in New York state abruptly suspended her campaign on Saturday in a move that could boost a conservative’s battle against a Democrat next Tuesday.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed on Saturday to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks with Israel, a spokesman for Abbas said, citing Jewish settlements as a stumbling block.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the controversial legislation quickly.

The news that Republican Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava is dropping out of the race in New York 23 threatens to completely upset the applecart in upstate New York.  PPP was in the midst of polling when the announcement came.   About 29 minutes ago they tweeted that “[w]ith about 200 interviews down we had Hoffman 45 Owens [...]

After a slew of polls from the Minutemen, the Club for Growth, and DailyKos, we finally get a poll from an independent polling outfit, Siena, confirming what those polls have shown:  Republican Dede Scozzafava has become the third party candidate in upstate New York.  Democrat Bill Owens leads Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Scozzafava [...]

Mason-Dixon has polled the Virginia Lt. Gov. and Attorney General races.  It shows Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling heading for re-election over Democrat Jody Wagner, 47%-34%.  State Senator Ken Cuccinelli leads Delegate Steve Shannon 46%-32%.  Everything is pointing toward a Republican blowout up and down the ticket in the Old Dominion.
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Research 2000, in conjunction with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, has polled the Arkansas Senate race.  The good news for Blanche Lincoln is that she leads her opponents; she leads Gilbert Baker 41%-39% and she leads Curtis Coleman 43%-38%.  The bad news is that I follow Senate races like Kirstie Alley follows the Swiss Made [...]

Republican polling outfit Neighborhood Research shows Chris Christie up by seven points heading into next Tuesday’s elections, 42%-35%-8%.   The dataset of 319 respondents is awfully low, and it seems unlikely that 15% of New Jersey’s electorate is really undecided this late in the game.  In the “definite” voter category, Christie’s lead expands to 44%-35%-8%.  This [...]

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, launching a rapid series of meetings with Palestinian and Israeli officials to keep up pressure for a new Mideast peace deal.

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