memeorandum: Contrary the WSJ, GOP restrictionists fared relatively well this election (The Audacious Epigone)

3:25 AM ET, December 3, 2008

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sos.georgia.gov:

Georgia Election Results Unofficial And Incomplete Results of the Tuesday, December 02, 2008 General Election Runoff — The results displayed are UNOFFICIAL AND INCOMPLETE until certified by both county election superintendents and the Secretary of State, a process that will not be completed until the week of December 8.

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com, Hot Air, MyDD, Senate Guru, Frontloading HQ, Philly.com, Political Machine, Daily Kos, Gateway Pundit, Open Left, Salon, Hotline On Call, Don Surber, Blue Crab Boulevard and Macsmind

New York Times:

Republican Wins Runoff for Senator in Georgia — ATLANTA — Saxby Chambliss, a first-term Republican senator, was re-elected by Georgia voters on Tuesday in a substantial victory, ending Democratic hopes for a 60-vote majority in the Senate that would make it difficult for Republicans …

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Curt Brown / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

171 uncounted ballots turn up in Ramsey County; Franken nets gain — The final day of recounting in Ramsey County in the U.S. Senate race kicked up controversy today when 171 uncounted ballots from Maplewood turned up. The ballots apparently had been uncounted because of a ballot-counting-machine malfunction on Election Day.

Discussion: Politics from Minnesota …, TPM Election Central, Braublog, The Caucus, Buck Naked Politics, Minnesota Public Radio, Taegan Goddard's …, Power Line, Washington Monthly and AMERICAblog News

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:

Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite — With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Campaign Silo, MyDD and Braublog

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Chambliss gets the last word: ‘Georgia values matter’

Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
Chambliss wins Georgia Senate runoff over Martin

Discussion: Hot Air, Think Progress and Riehl World View

Eric Kleefeld / TPM Election Central:
New Signs That Recount Momentum May Be Swinging Back To Franken

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight.com and Minneapolis Star Tribune

Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff

Discussion: Reuters, www.redstate.com, Where's the Outrage?, The Raw Story, Flopping Aces and TigerHawk

Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Chambliss wins, denies Democrats 60 seats

Discussion: The Politico and Real Clear Politics

Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Chambliss to win Senate runoff, CNN projects

Discussion: The Democratic Daily, The Reaction and Donklephant

Hotline On Call:
Chambliss Wins; 60 Eludes Dems

Discussion: Hot Air and The Political Carnival

Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Franken camp claims margin at 50; new ballots found

Discussion: Senate Guru

Susan Page / USA Today:

Poll: Obama earning high marks — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama gets soaring marks for his handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, even at a time the public is downbeat over the economy. — More than three of four Americans …

Discussion: Buck Naked Politics, Wonkette, TIME.com, The Rude Pundit and The Democratic Daily

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Obama National Security Picks Get High Marks — Sixty-nine percent approve of Obama choosing Hillary Clinton as secretary of state — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans widely approve of Barack Obama's decisions, announced on Monday, to name Hillary Clinton secretary of state and to ask Robert Gates to stay on as secretary of defense.

Discussion: Washington Post, DownWithTyranny!, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room and Donklephant

David Stout / New York Times:
Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq

Discussion: The Daily Dish

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

NIXON TAPES: RUTHLESS, CYNICAL, PROFANE — From NBC's John Rutherford — Richard Nixon's reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today's opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception.

Discussion: Washington Wire, CBS News, The Moderate Voice, Hullabaloo, Amygdala, Oliver Willis and Truthdig

James P. Pinkerton / FOX Forum:
Bush = Nixon? Not So Fast, Says FNC's Chris Wallace

Discussion: The Raw Story, Gawker, Taylor Marsh, Washington Times, Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org, Truthdig and Don Surber

Marc Ambinder:

Jeb Bush Ponders Florida Senate Run — Two sources close to Jeb Bush, including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Buck Naked Politics, Foolocracy, Macsmind, The American Pundit, The Buzz, Naked Politics, The Raw Story and Group News Blog

Damien Cave / New York Times:
Republican Senator Opts Against Run for 2nd Term

Discussion: The Politico

Daily Mail:

Jewish mother killed in Mumbai attacks ‘was pregnant’... and her son, 2, may have been beaten by militants … The Jewish mother murdered in the brutal Mumbai terror attacks last week was six month pregnant, her father revealed today at her funeral. — And Rivkah Holtzberg's two-year-old son …

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs, The Jawa Report, Gateway Pundit and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Tim Butcher / Telegraph:
Mumbai attacks: Rabbi's wife killed in attacks was pregnant

Discussion: Seraphic Secret and American Power

iowahawk:

Apologetic Mumbai Killers: “We Didn't Get the Memo About Obama” — MUMBAI - Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving member of the 10-man team of Pakistani gunmen that left hundreds dead or wounded after a bloody three day rampage in Mumbai, today blamed the mayhem on an “email mixup” …

Discussion: TigerHawk

Art To Go:

Deborah Lawrence's Impeach Bush ornament goes viral — Congressional representatives from all 435 districts were invited this year to pick an artist to create an ornament for the White House holiday tree. Some representatives didn't get the job done, but there is only one district in the nation …

Discussion: Truthdig

Reliable Source:
Christmas Colors for the White House: Red, White and Impeach

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Think Progress, PoliGazette, Political Punch, Wonkette, Washington Post, Michelle Malkin, Comments from Left Field, Taylor Marsh, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Raw Story and Don Surber

Reliable Source:
White House Won't Hang Christmas Impeachment Ornament

Discussion: Political Machine and Think Progress

Mirror.co.uk:

Mumbai bombers ‘took cocaine and LSD’ before carrying out attacks — Terrorist Azam Ameer Qasab lies dazed after his capture (Pic:Getty) — The Mumbai terrorists may have pumped themselves full of drugs to keep going during their murderous three-day rampage.

Discussion: Telegraph, Little Green Footballs, American Power and Gateway Pundit

The Trail / Washington Post:

Holbrooke Under Consideration for South Asia Diplomatic Role — President -elect Barack Obama is seriously considering giving former ambassador Richard Holbrooke a key role in handling diplomacy in south Asia, a move that would put one of America's most prominent international troubleshooters …

Discussion: FP Passport and ATTACKERMAN

Tom Gross / Wall Street Journal:

If this Isn't Terrorism, What Is? — Last week in Mumbai we witnessed as clear a case of carefully planned mass terrorism as we are ever likely to see. — The seven-venue atrocity was coordinated in a highly sophisticated way. The terrorists used BlackBerrys to stay in touch with each …

Discussion: Atlas Shrugs

Wall Street Journal:

More Immigration Losers — GOP hardliners need to face reality. — Virginia Republican Congressman Virgil Goode's narrow loss to Democrat Tom Perriello became official last week, and it caps another bad showing for immigration restrictionists. For the second straight election …

Discussion: Facing South

The Audacious Epigone:
Contrary the WSJ, GOP restrictionists fared relatively well this election

Discussion: ParaPundit and The Corner

Mike Soraghan / The Hill:

Anxiety among Democrats as Pelosi tightens her grip — Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) moves since the November elections have shaken up some of her colleagues, with some looking over their shoulders and others worried about how the Speaker will lead her expanded majority in 2009.

Discussion: Don Surber

New York Times:

After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task — WASHINGTON — For two years on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama rallied crowds with strongly worded critiques of the Bush administration's most controversial counterterrorism programs, from hiding terrorism suspects …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

‘Political Archaeologists’ Find Surprises During the Transition — WASHINGTON — For the first time since they threw their old, boxy pagers over the White House fence on Jan. 20, 2001 — the BlackBerry as we know it wasn't on the market yet — the alumni of the Clinton Administration have returned to their old haunts.

Discussion: MyDD, No More Mister Nice Blog and ABCNEWS

Tim Weiner / New York Times:

Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 — Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77. — The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager.

Discussion: DownWithTyranny!