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The Politico:
EXCLUSIVE: Emanuel accepts White House job — Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), a wily, aggressive West Wing strategist under President Bill Clinton, has accepted the post of White House chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, Democratic officials tell Politico.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Exclusive: Gibbs will be WH press secretary — Robert Gibbs, a top aide to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on his campaign and in his Senate office, will be named the White House press secretary, a top Democratic official said. — Gibbs was usually the senior official on Air Obama, the campaign plane.
David Corn:
Is Rahm Emanuel Right for Obama's White House of Change? — As I wrote yesterday, it's hard to depict Representative Rahm Emanuel, who has been picked by President-elect Barack Obama to be his White House chief of staff, as an agent of change. After all, Emanuel has been a Washington player for years and …
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Paul / Power Line:
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY? — Rahm Emanuel apparently will be Barack Obama's chief of staff. Emanuel has what I take to be a well-earned reputation as a fierce, ruthless, and often nasty partisan. Peter Wehner provides some amusing cases in point. — Some, including Wehner …
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Axelrod, Emanuel to Obama White House; Gibbs, Jarrett to Play Key Roles
Axelrod, Emanuel to Obama White House; Gibbs, Jarrett to Play Key Roles
News-Talk 1110 WBT:
Obama adds symbolic NC victory to White House win — President-elect Barack Obama has won North Carolina, adding 15 electoral votes to his wide victory and a symbolic triumph in a state that hadn't voted for a Democrat in more than a generation. — The Associated Press declared …
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Jeremy Brilliant / WALV-TV:
Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages — Updated: — Indianapolis - Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning.
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How the President-Elect Did It — The new voters changed the game. — Intense and gripping, the 2008 election was also historic. The son of a Kenyan immigrant and an American mother has risen to the presidency of history's most powerful nation. Who was not moved by the sight …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps — PHOENIX — As a top adviser in Senator John McCain's now-imploded campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France.
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Jane Hamsher / Campaign Silo:
Lieberman After Meeting with Reid - Video — Reid and Lieberman won't say what happened in the meeting. — My guess? Reid told him he can stay in the caucus if he steps down from his committee chairmanship (a campaign we started shortly after the 2006 election, thanks to everyone who participated with pitchforks and torches).
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success — Just in time for the new James Bond movie, Chris Matthews has earned himself a new moniker: Odd Job. Matthews says he sees his job as a journalist as doing everything he can to make the Obama presidency a success.
Paul Walsh / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken says recount is needed — The Democrat's deficit is down to 341 votes in his Senate battle with Norm Coleman. — Democrat Al Franken, locked in an overtime election battle with incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman, said today that he is pushing ahead with the recount of Tuesday's voting.
Noelle Crombie / Oregonian:
Sen. Gordon Smith calls to concede to Jeff Merkley … Republican Gordon Smith, who has represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate for the last 12 years, this morning called Jeff Merkley, his Democratric challenger, to concede their race. — Jon Isaacs, an aide to Merkley …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
What In The Hell Happened in Alaska? — Although Ted Stevens holds a small lead in Alaska and is the favorite to retain his seat, the outcome is not as inevitable as it might appear to be. Stevens currently holds a lead of 3,353 votes, or about 1.5 percent of the votes tallied so far.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Gay Marriage Backlash — Megan McArdle reflects on the success of Proposition 8 in California and offers a familiar backlash narrative: … The narrative is familiar because it's often offered as an account of the politics of abortion. But efforts to study the issue empirically …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
An answer to Proposition 8: Repealing DOMA
An answer to Proposition 8: Repealing DOMA
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Agence France Presse:
‘Impeach Obama’ groups pop up on Facebook … Barack Obama has not even been sworn in yet as the 44th president of the United States but groups are springing up online calling for his impeachment. — On Facebook, an “Impeach Barack Obama” group has attracted more than 700 members …
Pat / BelchSpeak:
Reason 142 to Homeschool: Obama Teachers Won't Bully Kids Who Support McCain — Welcome, HotAir Readers! — And Welcome Michelle Malkin Readers! — This is a video of Diantha Harris, a lifelong democrat and avid Barack Obama supporter. She is also a lousy schoolteacher, as is evidenced by the mushmouthed kids in her class.
Quin Hillyer / American Spectator:
Saul Alinsky Takes the White House — Conservatives may not realize just how difficult it might be to recover from this week's elections. — The day after the big defeat, the conservative chatter everywhere was about how the “movement” and the Republican Party (two different things) …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Writers welcome a literary president-elect — NEW YORK - Last winter, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Sen. Barack Obama, then the underdog to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. — Obama had contacted Morrison to ask for her support.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
McCain at ease after loss — On the day after his victory, Barack Obama faced a world in financial crisis, shooting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a nation that expected him to deliver on all his promises. — John McCain faced a barbecue. — “I got nine racks of ribs,” McCain told his closest aide and co-author, Mark Salter.