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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
For Democrats, Even a Gain May Feel Like a Failure — In most midterm elections, an out-of-power party picking up, say, 14 seats in the House and five seats in the Senate could call it a pretty good night. — But for Democrats in 2006, that showing would mean coming up one seat shy of taking control of both the Senate and the House.
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Washington Post:
Angry Campaigns End on an Angrier Note — Iraq War Remains Paramount Issue as Voters Go to Polls — As the 2006 campaign staggered to an angry close, national security and the Iraq war dominated the final-day debate of midterm elections in which national themes, not simply local choices, have framed the most competitive races.
Washington Post:
It's a Candidate Calling. Again. — Republicans Deny Subterfuge as Phone Barrages Anger Voters — This year's heavy volume of automated political phone calls has infuriated countless voters and triggered sharp complaints from Democrats, who say the Republican Party has crossed the line …
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Exit-Poll Secrecy Measures Aim to Plug Leaks to Blogs — Two-by-two, polling specialists from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press will go into rooms in New York and Washington shortly before noon Tuesday. Their cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated …
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Michael Kinsley / Slate:
Pelosi's Platform — HOW THE DEMOCRATS COULD GOVERN IF THEY WIN THE HOUSE. — What will a Democratic House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi be like? The Republicans have been painting an unattractive portrait of Democrats roasting young children on a spit in the Capitol rotunda and whatnot.
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Confederate Yankee:
"Absolutely True:" Rather Continues to Defend 60 Minutes TANG Story — Just moments ago on North Carolina's Morning News with Jack Boston on Raleigh-based News-Talk 680 WPTF, former CBS anchor Dan Rather defended the infamous 60 Minutes story using forged documents to attack President Bush's service …
Barbara Carmen / dispatch.com:
Franklin County phone system returns to service — Franklin County's phone system was returned to service about 90 minutes after it collapsed today under a crush of calls from voters and poll workers. — The volume of calls "overwhelmed the system," Franklin County Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:New rules, machines trouble voters early
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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Election season is bad time for slip of the quip — My face time with John Kerry has been brief but choice. In 2003, I was at a campaign event in New Hampshire chatting with two old coots in plaid. The senator approached and stopped in front of us. The etiquette in primary season …
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
State Laws Vary on Polling Place Photography — (This guest posting comes via Lauren Gelman, deputy director of the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School.) … - Can you photograph or video your vote inside the polling station- either a paper ballot or electronic screen?
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David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Election chief concerned about voter confusion — JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Secretary of State Robin Carnahan raised concerns about potential voter confusion in Tuesday's elections, citing her own experience casting an absentee ballot as an indication that some poll workers may wrongly …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Following the Election Returns — An hour-by-hour guide to tonight's results. — This year the networks say they are guarding their exit poll results as if they were crown jewels. The results will be delivered to a "quarantine room," access to which will be granted to only two staffers …
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Cut and run? Let's retire that phrase — Advocating withdrawal from Iraq is hardly dishonorable. — With tomorrow's election, we hope one loopy phrase can be stomped back in the can of political sleaze from which it escaped. The phrase? "Cut and run."
MSNBC:
Olbermann: Where are the checks, balances? — Bush has been 'making it up' for too long, and the people have let him … MSNBC TV — We are, as every generation, inseparable from our own time. — Thus is our perspective, inevitably that of the explorer looking into the wrong end of the telescope.
Damien Cave / New York Times:
N.Y. Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice — Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery. — Under the rule being considered …
Arthur C. Brooks / Opinion Journal:
The True Ideological Battle — Will today really be the dawn of a new day for the left? — In their 2004 book, "The Right Nation," John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chronicle America's rightward tilt. "If American politics is a seesaw, it is an unevenly balanced one.
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Bryan Caplan / Cato Unbound:
THE MYTH OF THE RATIONAL VOTER — There's an election tomorrow. Do voters know what they're doing? According to the typical economist — and many political scientists — the answer is "No, but it doesn't matter." How could it not matter? The main argument is that the public's errors cancel out.
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