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There’s been an interesting turn of events in the up-to-now uncontroversial state legislative reapportionment committee process, as reported by a number of outlets in the previous few days. The last of seven regional House and Senate maps were initially approved this week. The state legislative reapportionment process has drawn much less interest than the court-bound […]

New polling results from Zogby show that Republicans are not on the side of most Americans when it comes to the debt ceiling debate — no surprise, as previous polling has indicated: A small majority (52%) of likely voters now agree Congress should raise the debt ceiling, which is twice as many who held that […]

Politico’s David Rogers updates: President Barack Obama and the two top House Republican leaders held an unannounced meeting at the White House Sunday, trying to get debt talks back on track with just two weeks left before the threat of default. Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were both part of the discussions […]

A report worth noting from the Greeley Gazette’s Jack Minor: Supporters of the McConnell proposal say that Tea Party expectations for spending reductions has always been unrealistic. The reasoning is, that by giving Obama the authority to raise the debt limit, he will own the issue… Tea Party members have expressed outrage over the McConnell […]

UPDATE (via Pols FP Editor “Rork”): It appears that Sen. McConnell is correct in guessing that Republicans would receive most of the blame for forcing the U.S. to default on its debts. From The Hill comes very bad news for Republicans: Voters would blame congressional Republicans more than the Obama administration if the $14.3 trillion […]