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The Yes Men Fix an Interview

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The Media’s Constant Bullying Of Women Leaders

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Warning sign for Democrats? They're losing Independents

President Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of Congress — they're losing independents to the Republicans and parts of their own Democratic base to apathy.

Strong majorities of independents turned away from Democrats and voted Republican in both Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, a key defection signaling that they could be up for grabs heading into the 2010 elections. They went for the Republican gubernatorial nominee in Virginia by a margin of 66 percent to 33 percent, and in New Jersey by 60 percent to 40 percent, according to exit polls.

Magnifying the challenge, the swing isn't limited to those two states. A new McClatchy-Ipsos poll found that independents have pulled away from Obama steadily for months and have turned sharply against his highest domestic priority, the plan to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Democrats also face challenges energizing their base in the 2010 elections when 36 senators and the entire House of Representatives will be up for election. In Virginia on Tuesday, for example, voters under age 30 made up just 10 percent of the vote, less than half the 22 percent they comprised last year when Obama won the Old Dominion, the first time it voted for a Democrat for president since 1964.

The new poll this week found independents nationally turning ever more skeptical toward Obama, helping drive his job approval rating to 53 percent, the lowest of his presidency.

Only 45 percent of independents now approve of how Obama's doing his job, down 12 points from August and 25 points from the start of his term. Disapproval among independents has more than doubled in his first 10 months, to 41 percent from 19 percent.

Independents also have turned sharply against the health care plans being pushed by Obama and Democrats in Congress, the McClatchy-Ipsos poll found. After narrowly supporting the proposals by a margin of 39 percent to 37 percent in late August, independents now oppose it by 53 percent to 29 percent. Democrats and Republicans were virtually unchanged over the same period.

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Republicans set sights on 2010 after Virginia, New Jersey wins

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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush debate canceled

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Ten election races worth watching around country

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John McCain wants Barack Obama to pardon Jack Johnson the famous boxer

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In December Obama may sign away our freedoms and liberties at Copenhagen.

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Boycott FOX News Advertisers | Democrats.com

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Sail Away MUSIC-- By AVISION New Galactic release

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Glenn Beck vs. Chris Wallace

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Jon Stewart Slams Politicians Against Net Neutrality

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Obama to Create a National Resource Center for LGBT Elders

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Obama's foreign policy report card

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Obama's Choices: Failed War President, or the Prince of Peace

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Gordon Brown backtracks on TA cutbacks

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First Lady Michelle Obama On The Jay Leno Show

Michelle Obama interviewed by Jay Leno for the 10@10 segment.

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Obama seeks changes in Alaska hunting, fishing oversight

Sarah Palin won't be happy.

The Obama administration is launching a rapid, sweeping review of the way the federal government manages subsistence hunting and fishing in Alaska, Interior Department officials said Friday.

"The system, frankly, today is broken," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced in a video shown at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention in downtown Anchorage.

Subsistence rights -- the battle over who gets the first opportunity to hunt and fish on state or federal land -- is a headline issue at this year's convention. For decades, the debate has pitted rural Alaskans and Alaska Natives, who say they hunt and fish to survive, against sports groups and urban hunters and fishermen, who argue everyone should have equal access to fish and game.

The state makes hunting and fishing rules across Alaska. But the feds regulate subsistence on federal lands, creating a confounding, overlapping system.

In contrast to the state Constitution, a 1980 federal law guarantees rural Alaskans priority when it comes to subsistence. Some Alaska Native leaders say the feds haven't done enough to protect that right, and are proposing a resolution at the convention today that calls for broad changes to subsistence management.

AFN leaders met with Interior officials at least twice in the past four months, outlining some of those requests, said state Sen. Albert Kookesh, an AFN co-chairman who praised Friday's announcement.

"We couldn't have asked for more," he said.

Gov. Sean Parnell couldn't be reached for comment Friday afternoon. Parnell served as lieutenant governor to Sarah Palin before inheriting the job in July. Palin opposed a rural preference for subsistence hunting and fishing. Parnell's rural affairs adviser, John Moller, answered an interview request with an e-mail:

"The administration is interested in hearing more about the suggested federal review," he wrote. "We plan to take an active role in the review and look forward to hearing details on what changes the federal government believes would make the existing dual-management system more workable."

In a statement explaining Friday's announcement, the Interior Department said subsistence is vital to the physical and spiritual culture of Alaska Natives, and federal oversight needs to be retooled to better meet the needs of Native communities.

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