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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Republicans Will Take Control of the House — Republicans won control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, riding a powerful wave of voter discontent as they dealt a setback to President Obama two years after his triumphal victory. And while the G.O.P. made strong gains in the Senate …
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Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Frank easily wins re-election, defeats Bielat — loading video... Requires Adobe Flash Player — NEWTON - Barney Frank, the irascible powerbroker who has survived scandal, repeated redistricting, and the ups and downs of the Democratic Party, today easily beat back his strongest challenge in years.
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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Victories Suggest Wider Appeal of Tea Party
Victories Suggest Wider Appeal of Tea Party
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Fox News:
Republicans Score Early Victories in Key Senate Races
Republicans Score Early Victories in Key Senate Races
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
A Victorious Paul Vows to Stick to Message
A Victorious Paul Vows to Stick to Message
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Ana Campoy / Washington Wire:
Texas Gov. Perry Wins a Third Term
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Tea Party Comes to Power on an Unclear Mandate
Tea Party Comes to Power on an Unclear Mandate
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
What's behind the Tea Party's ire?
What's behind the Tea Party's ire?
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The First Reactions to the Exits, if Not the Exits Themselves — I don't have the exits, but folks I know in the media and political worlds are getting their first glimpses. — Indicator Number One: I am told that one Democratic strategist, helping a television network with Election Night analysis …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Exit Polls: Voters give low marks to both parties — (CNN) - Voters may not be happy with the Democratic Party. But they aren't too thrilled with the GOP either, according to early exit polls. — Democrats have a 10-point favorability gap: 43 percent of voters have a positive opinion of the party, while 53 percent aren't thrilled.
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Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:
Exit Polls 2010: See The Results — In just a few moments, exit polling data will start percolating through news sites and blogs. Before looking at the data, what should you know before consuming exit poll data? — When will the exit polls tell us who won?
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Torey Van Oot / Capitol Alert:
Exit polls show voters split by age on Prop. 19
Exit polls show voters split by age on Prop. 19
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Senate Exit Polls
Senate Exit Polls
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Preliminary Exit Polls: Large Majority of Voters Dissatisfied With Government
Preliminary Exit Polls: Large Majority of Voters Dissatisfied With Government
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Exit polls: Economy the No. 1 issue
Exit polls: Economy the No. 1 issue
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Live Blogging the Election Returns — We will be covering tonight's election returns beginning at around 5 p.m. Eastern, an hour before the first polls close in Kentucky and Indiana. — You can follow along here and check out our hour-by-hour, district-by-district guide for watching the returns.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
THE LATEST: Live Blogging 2010 Elections from the CNN Election Center — The CNN Live Blog will provide THE latest news and analysis from The Best Political Team throughout the night. For more breaking developments check out @cnnpolitics on Twitter. — 7:15 p.m. ET: CNN's Jessica Yellin …
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The Media Desk / Media Decoder:
Election Night: Live Blogging the Media Coverage — With issues like health care and the dismal economy on most voters' minds and the emergence of the Tea Party and new political personalities like Carly Fiorina and Christine O'Donnell, tonight's midterm election results are being covered …
The Politico:
LUNTZ CALLS IT FOR REID — GOP polling guru Frank Luntz is predicting Republicans will win seven Senate seats and 50 House spots, based on exit polls he had seen. On a conference call with associates from K Street, Luntz also said he thinks Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will win reelection.
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Molly Ball / The Politico:
Sharron Angle files voter intimidation complaint — LAS VEGAS — A lawyer for Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle has filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging illegal voter intimidation on behalf of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's campaign.
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Elizabeth Crum / National Review:
Collusion: Harrah's Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote Reid
Collusion: Harrah's Bosses Put Squeeze on Employees to Vote Reid
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Reid expects he'll have to ‘wait for a decision’
Reid expects he'll have to ‘wait for a decision’
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Exit Polls: the surprise in Delaware — (CNN) - The thing about Delaware is: it's no Kentucky. — The Tea Party's first Senate loss of the night may be no big surprise - the only question heading into tonight's been how big a victory margin Chris Coons would capture over Christine O'Donnell.
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Ray Sanchez / ABCNEWS:
O'Donnell Out in Delaware — Vice President Joe Biden's Old …
O'Donnell Out in Delaware — Vice President Joe Biden's Old …
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Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
Lesson from Christine O'Donnell defeat: where tea party overreached
Lesson from Christine O'Donnell defeat: where tea party overreached
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Bertha Lewis / ACORN:
The end of an era: ACORN files Chapter 7 bankruptcy — For over 40 years ACORN has fought the good fight. From a few initial neighborhoods in Little Rock, Arkansas, we grew to become a large, active, national organization of low- and moderate-income families, mostly people of color …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
ACORN formally folds
Coordinator / ABC News' Press Room:
ABC's Letter to Andrew Breitbart — The following letter was sent from ABC and received by Mr. Breitbart: — Dear Mr. Breitbart, — We have spent the past several days trying to make clear to you your limited role as a participant in our digital town hall to be streamed on ABCNews.com and Facebook.
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Denis / Gay Politics:
BREAKING: Lexington, Kentucky elects openly gay mayor — Kentucky's second-largest city has elected an openly gay man as its next mayor. Vice-Mayor Jim Gray was victorious tonight in his second campaign for the city's top job, beating incumbent Mayor Jim Newberry.
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Daniel Davies / Standpoint:
Rushdie on Jon Stewart — In my previous post about Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam I quoted Salman Rushdie's surprise that Jon Stewart had given a starring role at his “Rally for Sanity” to a crooner who had previously opined that Rushdie deserved to die for deciding of his own free will to abandon Islam and criticise its texts.
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
The End Of A Progressive Champion: Russ Feingold Loses To Ron Johnson — As the Republican wave spreads across the country, it's time to say goodbye to one of the big-name progressive champions of the past 18 years: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), champion of campaign finance reform and longtime opponent …
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MyFox Philadelphia:
New Black Panther Seen At Polling Place — No Voter Intimidation Reported Tuesday At Poll — PHILADELPHIA - Fox 29 News spotted Tuesday a member of the New Black Panther Party standing outside of a local polling place where voter intimidation was reported two years ago.
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Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Coalition Crumbles, Exit Polls Say — Amid deep pessimism about the economy, the coalition of voters that gave Democrats control of Congress in 2006 appears to have fractured. — Preliminary exit polls showed that the party lost ground to Republicans in Tuesday's midterm elections among women …
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Bush Considered Dropping Cheney From 2004 Ticket — President George W. Bush considered dumping Vice President Dick Cheney from his 2004 reelection ticket to dispel the myths about Mr. Cheney's power in the White House and “demonstrate that I was in charge,” the former president says in a new memoir.
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Widespread Reports of Problems at Polls — WASHINGTON — Voters in some states encountered isolated problems with electronic voting machines and delays in the opening of polling stations, but they also reported many instances of voter intimidation and misinformation.
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Mark Schlueb / Orlando Sentinel:
Grayson concedes to Webster — Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has conceded victory to Republican former state lawmaker Dan Webster, ending his congressional tenure after a single term. — With vote-counting nearly complete, Webster has an insurmountable lead.
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Jim Demint / Wall Street Journal:
Welcome, Senate Conservatives — Remember what the voters back home want—less government and more freedom. — Congratulations to all the tea party-backed candidates who overcame a determined, partisan opposition to win their elections. The next campaign begins today.
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