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Alex Johnson / MSNBC:
NBC: OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT — Illinois senator to become first African-American executive in U.S. history — Supporters of Barack Obama celebrate as they await his victory address at Grant Park in Chicago. — Slide show — America votes — Nov. 4: Americans line up early …
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Laura Frank / Rocky Mountain News:
Obama wins Colorado; Udall, DeGette, Perlmutter and Polis claim victories — Barack Obama won Colorado, taking key counties such as Arapahoe, Jefferson and Larimer by more than 10 percentage points. — Obama led rival John McCain by 3-1 in Denver. — On his coattails …
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Obama Wins Ohio, New Mexico in Growing Tide of Blue States — Obama Takes State Critical to McCain Victory — Sen. Barack Obama is projected to win Ohio, a crucial battleground state that went Republican in the last election and which Sen. John McCain saw as essential for a Republican victory.
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Byron York / The Corner:
Inside the Ohio Numbers — In addition to the traditional Republican constituency in Ohio, McCain was hoping for significant support among Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton. But the exit polls show that of the 16 percent of the electorate who identified themselves as Clinton Democrats, Obama is winning 82-17.
Michelle Malkin:
Election Night: Counting the votes — I'm starting a fresh thread for the night. Just a reminder that you can catch me on PJTV sometime during the 8pm-9pm Eastern slot. — Scroll for rolling updates... Tidbits: — The Real Clear Politics electoral map is here.
Fox News:Obama Wins Pennsylania, Takes Early Lead With East Coast Victories
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Marc Ambinder:
McCain Aide: “We Need A Miracle” — A very senior McCain aide just told me: “At this point, we need a miracle.”
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Waiting for a Concession — Phoenix, Arizona — A somber mood here at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, where Republicans, dressed in their best Indian summer cocktail attire, are gathering to hear John McCain concede to Barack Obama. Jim Woolsey was seated below a mounted television …
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:McCain's Path to 270 Hard to See
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Bill Ayers Speaks — CHICAGO — In his first interview since he became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, said today that he had a distant relationship with Barack Obama and that Obama's opponents had turned him into “a cartoon character.”
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David Remnick / New Yorker:MR. AYERS'S NEIGHBORHOOD — Early this morning, the Obama family voted …
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Lieberman: ‘I Fear’ That ‘America Will Not Survive’ If Democrats Get 60 Senate Seats — With the possibility that Democrats might soon gain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has been openly flirting with thoughts of voting with his conservative colleagues.
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Market Wire:
Republican National Committee Prepares for Computerized Voting Fraud Legal Battle — Forensicon, Inc., a Chicago-based computer forensics company, was contacted last Thursday by a security firm lining up vendors to assist the Republican National Committee with consulting related to potential allegations of computerized voter fraud.
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Skip / GraniteGrok:BREAKING - POSSIBLE VOTER FRAUD IN NH!
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging Election Night — 10.20 pm. North Carolina is a nail-biter. So's Indiana. — 10.18 pm. Legalization of small amounts of marijuana is winning big in Massachusetts. — 10.03 pm. Evangelicals move to Obama in the rust-belt. But the Southern Christianists harden toward McCain.
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama's civilian security force: Billy club-wielding security guards at Philly polls — Here's the vid of billy club-wielding “security” guards at the 1221 Fairmount Ave. polling place in Philly from Election Journal. Just as I suspected, these guys look like NBPP from the emblem on one of the “guard's” jackets.
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Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
EMANUEL OFFERED TOP OBAMA SLOT — Three House Democratic sources confirmed Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been offered a Chief of Staff job with an Obama White House and is currently “agonizing” over whether to take the job.
TMZ.com:
Tim Robbins Couldn't Vote — Cops Called — Tim Robbins tried voting at his NYC polling place earlier today. There was some kind of ruckus and the cops were called. — Apparently Robbins has been voting at that polling place for more than a decade, but today his name wasn't on the register.
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox's Nina Easton: 'I think there's a real possibility' that this is now a ‘center-left’ country.» — This evening on Fox News, host Brit Hume commented, “It has been conventional wisdom for some time, and I certainly thought it was true, that this is a center right country.”
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David Owens / Hartford Courant:
Shays Concedes — New England's last remaining Republivan in the U.S. House of Representatives was swept out of office today, largely by Democratic surge in his hometown of Bridgeport and an Obama wave throughout the 4th Congressional District. — U.S. Rep. Chris Shays conceded defeat …
Michaelscherer / Swampland:
Steve Schmidt Talks On The Final McCain Flight — John McCain came back to bid farewell to his traveling press corps on his final campaign flight from New Mexico to Arizona. A few minutes later, his chief political strategist Steve Schmidt stood in the aisle surrounded by reporters' digital audio recorders.
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Why O Why O Why — from our David Kahane's amanuensis:
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New York Times:
Democrats See Chance to Dominate Congress — Democrats scored some quick and convincing victories Tuesday in both houses of Congress, picking up Senate seats in North Carolina, New Hampshire and Virginia in what the party hoped were the first of a series of triumphs that would give …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls — Oh, let me count the ways. Almost all of this, by the way, is lifted from Mark Bluemthnal's outstanding Exit Poll FAQ. For the long version, see over there. — 1. Exit polls have a much larger intrinsic margin for error than regular polls.
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Dawson Bell / Detroit Free Press:
Nader out, predicts Obama landslide — Ralph Nader, the self-styled consumer crusader and perennial third-party presidential candidate, has conceded, telling the Free Press about 7 tonight that there was going to be “a landslide” for Barack Obama. — “The streets are going to be filled with revelry …
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The Corner:
Vote Early, Vote Often — An Obama voter in Pennsylvania admits to CNN that he voted multiple times:
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Good for Obama, bad for same-sex marriage? — California Democrats want Obama to win, but they're growing nervous tonight that a landslide back east could, perversely, help the state's conservatives pass an amendment barring same-sex marriage. — Their problem: If the presidential election appears over …
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