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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage — The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.
Jeffrey Bell / Weekly Standard:
A Guide to Elite Opinion — California's Prop. 8, Alaska's governor, and other abominations. — In times like these, when conservatives are licking their wounds and trying to figure out what comes next, a helpful framework exists. It starts with a simple, self-evident fact …
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Guy Adams / The Independent:
‘No More Mr Nice Gay’ as Mormons face vote backlash — Protesters vent fury after church funds successful effort to ban gay marriages — Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: “No More Mr Nice Gay.” Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of the Latter Day Saints …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
AN ADVANCE LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION.... It's only been a couple of days since Barack Obama was declared the president-elect, but it's hard not to notice that congressional Republicans are already striking a confrontational pose. Take these ridiculous comments from Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl (R).
Robert Novak / Washington Post:
Newt in 2012? — In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years? — To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House.
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Alan Fram / Associated Press:
‘Mutts like me’ - Obama shows ease discussing race — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — WASHINGTON - It popped out casually, a throwaway line as he talked to reporters about finding the right puppy for his young daughters. — But with just three offhanded words …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Uncounted Votes May Push Begich Past Stevens — Although Ted Stevens currently holds a lead of approximately 3,200 votes in ballots counted to date in Alaska's senate contest, there is good reason to believe that the ballots yet to be counted — the vast majority of which are early and absentee ballots …
Firedoglake:
Schadenfest 08 — The Hits Just Keep On Comin' — Nigh on 72 hours later and I am still bouncing off the walls here in the ol FDL Wheelhouse - little gifts everywhere, some unclaimed. — By now we are all well versed in the We Eat Our Own Drama that is McCrazy/Palin, but did you know. . .
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Most Implausible Palin Story of the Week? — Via Isaac Chotiner, Newsweek reports: … So according to the hatchet man/woman who talked to Newsweek, Palin is such an ideologue about drilling in ANWR that she won't stand next to Bradley, even though John McCain has the exact same position?
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
A Darfur-supporting, time-tithing, self-deprecating newcomer becomes Virginia's big electoral surprise. — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—It's been more than 72 hours since the polls opened on Tuesday, and Tom Perriello is only 19 minutes away from the official declaration that he has won …
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Dena Potter / Associated Press:
Fears of a Dem crackdown lead to boom in gun sales — MIDLOTHIAN, Va. - When 10-year-old Austin Smith heard Barack Obama had been elected president, he had one question: Does this mean I won't get a new gun for Christmas? — That brought his mother, the camouflage-clad Rachel Smith …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Is reported here: A McCain campaign postmortem. — Las Vegas As she dealt one losing hand after another at Mandalay Bay's $10 blackjack tables early Wednesday evening, Trisha, a chatty dealer from Bloomington, Minnesota, changed the subject from cards to Barack Obama.
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Before Obama, There Was Bill Cosby — Some theorists argue that political and social change is preceded by shifts in popular culture. So it's not surprising that the debate has heated up over who, or what, in arts and entertainment presaged Barack Obama's election as president.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
New U.S. Rule Pares Outpatient Medicaid Services — WASHINGTON — In the first of an expected avalanche of post-election regulations, the Bush administration on Friday narrowed the scope of services that can be provided to poor people under Medicaid's outpatient hospital benefit.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Byrd to Quit Powerful Senate Appropriations Post — WASHINGTON — Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, and the senior member of the Senate, agreed on Friday to relinquish his chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee, as Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama prepare …
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