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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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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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Laura Frank / Rocky Mountain News:
Udall, DeGette, Perlmutter, Markey and Polis claim victories — Barack Obama won Colorado on his way to becoming the first African-American elected president of the United States. — Obama took key counties such as Arapahoe, Jefferson and Larimer by more than 10 percentage points.
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.
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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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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 …
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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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Live-Blogging Election Night — 10.54 pm. Initiatives easing marijuana laws are outpolling Obama in Massachusetts and Michigan. People are less afraid than politicians. — 10.52 pm. You drinking yet? Stupid question. I haven't touched a drop. Honest. But I'm close.
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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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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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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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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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Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
Why O Why O Why — from our David Kahane's amanuensis:
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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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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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Jim Manzi / The Corner:
Overcome — I have argued in this space that I believe that neither of this year's nominees was likely to be a successful President. I continue to believe that Barack Obama is likely to be a poor President who will attempt to implement policies that will be detrimental to the national interest.
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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 …
The Corner:
Vote Early, Vote Often — An Obama voter in Pennsylvania admits to CNN that he voted multiple times:
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Marc Ambinder:
Watching Florida: Real Vote Confirms Obama Lead — Bush won the huge swing county of Pinellas — [Sarasota ]— the St. Petersburg-Clearwater are — by a narrow margin in 2004. Obama won it by 8 pts in 2008 — 35,000 votes. Bush won Seminole County in central Florida with ease; Obama's leading McCain with half of the vote in.
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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Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
Obama's Night — On FOX, they're giddy about the Barack Obama election. On MSNBC, they're crying. This country faces serious challenges with an Obama election and such a large Democrat majority. I can't get caught up in Obamamania — I couldn't before and I can't now.
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Memo to Political Commentators for the Next Four Years: With a switch from Republican to Democratic control of the White House a few weeks away, I thought I would remind political commentators of the new ground rules. — 1) Republicans Must Now Oppose Executive Power; Democrats Must Be In Favor Of It.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC Promo: ‘Experience the Power of Change’ — It's taken them awhile, but good to see that MSNBC has now seamlessly integrated its own promotional advertising with that of the Obama campaign. — An MSNBC promo that just aired, touting the network's election coverage, concludes: “Watch MSNBC, and experience the power of change.”
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
What Freaks Me Out About This Election — is how oblivious to facts people have been. Everything about Obama's judgment and radicalism — whether Sean Hannity or Stanley Kurtz or Andy McCarthy etc. is telling you about it — was essentially deemed irrelevant (including largely by the McCain campaign …
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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