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The NY-23 special election on Tuesday has the attention of the White House at the highest levels, with White House sources saying that the endorsement of Democrat Bill Owens by "Republican" Dede Scozzafava came only after a call from White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel asking that she throw her support behind the Democrat. On Monday Vice President Joe Biden will visit the district, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Sunday was coordinating with its colleagues in the SEIU as well as the Working Families Party (ACORN) and may spend as much as $150,000 over the next 48...

You know with the Republicans starting to cut into leads the Dems are getting nervous and they have saved some dirty trick or anything to sway a few voters to insure the balance is tipped in close races. I don't know why conservatives would fall for this crap anymore, they've only seen the DNC cheerleader media doing everything they can to see Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Howard Dean. They have used unrealistic polling, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, some guys book on Bush making fun of conservative christians, Limbaugh v Fox, racism charge in Tennessee Senate race, and body count...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA managers put a brief but embarrassing setback behind them as the countdown to the first space shuttle flight in 2 1/2 years entered its final hours Wednesday, with only predicted thunderstorms posing some concern. A temporary window cover fell off the shuttle and damaged thermal tiles near the tail Tuesday afternoon, just two hours after NASA declared Discovery ready to return the nation to space for the first time since the Columbia disaster. The mishap was an eerie reminder of the very thing that doomed Columbia — damage to the spaceship's fragile thermal shield. Discovery...