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Washington (AP) – Democratic voters are closely divided over whether President Obama should be challenged within the party for a second term in 2012, an Associated Press-Knowledge Networks Poll finds. Among Democrats, 47 percent say Mr. Obama should be challenged for the 2012 nomination, and 51 percent say he should not be opposed. Those favoring [...]

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Washington Times: If Republicans on Tuesday win the majority of seats in the House, that body’s intelligence panel is likely to give fresh oversight of the Obama administration’s prosecution review of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the highest-ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told The Washington [...]

Politico: In a compelling sign that the Republican tide on Tuesday will produce a historic sweep in the House, the final pre-election poll by the Gallup Organization gave the GOP a 55 percent to 40 percent lead over Democrats among likely voters in its generic congressional ballot test. The commanding 15-point advantage makes a Republican [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban overran a district in eastern Afghanistan, occupying government buildings and capturing police officers after an intense gunfight, an Afghan police chief and Taliban spokesman said Monday. Government offices in Ghazni province’s Khogyani district were taken over, said district police chief Mohammad Yasin, who was away during the overnight attack. [...]

Them Hill: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowed on Spanish-language television to bring the DREAM Act back for a vote in the lame-duck session. On the Univision program “Al Punto,” Reid was repeatedly hammered by host Jorge Ramos on whether the vote would happen, win or lose on Tuesday. “The answer is yes,” Reid [...]

The Hill: President Obama is ready to flex some muscle by using the veto pen if Republicans win back a majority in the House.

Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Zapata, Texas — Most days, Zapata appears a town unchanged as the four lanes of U.S. Highway 83 tick past the Lone Star Western Store, Robert’s Fish N’ Tackle and Tacos Tio Beto before running into the south Texas scrub where fishing camps emerge at the end of dirt and [...]

Washington Post: The Federal Reserve is preparing to put its credibility on the line as it rarely has before by taking dramatic new action this week to try jolting the economy out of its slumber.