• Matt Stoller: “I spoke to a New York state party insider who told me that candidate numbers have been dropped ten points in local elections to be held [today] because of immigration, across all major voting blocs.”
  • CNN reports that “Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.” Obama “has missed nearly 80 percent of all votes since September” while “Joe Biden of Delaware has missed 68 percent of the votes…Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut 65 percent and Clinton of New York 63 percent.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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