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Tonight on Hardball, Chris has an exclusive interview with House Majority
Leader John Boehner (R-OH). What has Congress accomplished this year and as
Election Day approaches, can Republicans hold onto the House? We'll get the
Leader's take on that and the fight over the NIE's key judgment portion
released last night (The AP has the latest here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15024576/the).
Today, the Washington Post reports on the GOP's struggles in the Majority
Leader's home state of Ohio:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601262.html.
Then, forget pregnant chads, will the next election be hacked? After 2004,
Rolling Stone writer and political activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. delved into
the allegations of voter fraud in Ohio. Now, he's written about the problems
electronic voting machines may cause in '06 and beyond.
Read Kennedy in Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked
and Kennedy on the 2004 election:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen.
Next up, in-depth analysis of the midterm election - NBC Political Analyst
Charlie Cook, editor of The Cook Political Report, will be here with the
lowdown on all the big races. If you haven't read Charlie's column this week,
check out Off to the Races: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15017424/.
For more on Decision 2006, Chris turns to the Senate race in the Sunshine
State. Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) was complimented by President Bush last
week at a fundraising event in Florida, but she has been shunned by her own
party. Tonight she'll talk to Chris about her chances of beating Sen. Bill
Nelson (D-FL).
Finally, don't miss HotSoup.com co-founders Michael Feldman, a former Gore
advisor, and Matthew Dowd, former Bush-Cheney chief strategist and co-author of
the new book "Applebee's America." We'll cover all the bases from the hot
Virginia Senate race to Iraq and the NIE terror report.
Here are some things you might not have read yet today:
--NYTimes: Someone else comes forward with claims that Sen. Allen used racial
slur:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/us/politics/27allen.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
--Howard Fineman on the Bushes vs. the Clintons:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15029316/from/ET/
--NBC's "First Read" http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
--MSNBC.com's political calendar http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14708421/
--POLITICS.MSNBC.COM http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/
--Faces of the Fallen from Washington Post: Nearly 2,700 U.S. service members
dead in Iraq since the start of the war
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/
Shelby Poduch and Colleen King compiled the "Hardball Briefing" in Washington,
D.C.
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