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Wall Street Journal:
Pressure Builds on Obama to Shake Up Inner Circle — Some high-level Democrats are calling for President Barack Obama to remake his inner circle or even fire top advisers in response to what many party strategists expect to be a decisive defeat on Tuesday. — Tensions have come to the surface …
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The Cook / NationalJournal.com:
The Cook Report Issues Final Forecast: GOP Gains 50 to 60 Seats in the House — In its final forecast for the election cycle, The Cook Political Report expects a gain for Republicans of 50 to 60 seats in the House, with six to eight seats in the Senate. Below are the final outlooks and latest ratings changes.
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The Other McCain, Gateway Pundit, Taylor Marsh, Scared Monkeys, Liberal Values, Sister Toldjah, Right Wing News, Hot Air and Broward Politics
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Second Marriage — The heavens rejoiced. Two years ago as Democrats cruised to power, Washingtonians felt a jolt of electricity in the air. News organizations published picture books celebrating the dawning of a new age. I distinctly remember seeing angels and cherubs drunk at the bar …
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Washington Monthly, Commentary and NewsBusters.org blogs
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Voters to show ‘Dem’ no mercy — Tweet — WASHINGTON — Angry voters head to the polls today and are set to throw out Democrats across the country — a wave of pink slips that Republicans say reflects the nation's deep dissatisfaction with President Obama's economic policies.
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The Moderate Voice, The Page and Politifact.com Truth …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
5 Reasons Democrats Could Beat the Polls and Hold the House — It was hard to pinpoint exactly when in the night things started to go wrong. But at some point, a trash can was knocked over in John Boehner's office in the Rayburn House Office Building. A half-hour later on the other side of town …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
House Forecast: G.O.P. Plus 54-55 Seats; Significantly Larger or Smaller Gains Possible — Republicans are well-positioned to win control of the House of Representatives in tomorrow's elections, and quite possibly to achieve the largest gain made by either party in a Congressional election since World War II.
Benjamin Sarlin / The Daily Beast:
A Midterm Flashback — As you may have noticed, we at The Daily Beast …
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Firedoglake, The Daily Dish, GayPatriot, Club for Growth and Guardian
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Keith Olbermann Suspends ‘Worst Persons’ Segment Until Further Notice — Longtime fans of Countdown may have been disappointed to learn tonight that one of the franchise segments, “Worst Persons,” is no longer - at least for the time being. Why? Well as host Keith Olbermann explains in the segment below …
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The Caucus, Tuned In and The Reaction
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Rally to Restore ‘Worst Persons in the World’
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Pat Dollard, Hot Air and The Blaze
Urban Cowgirl / texasobserver.org:
The Battle of Harris County — A firsthand look at early voting in Houston — Voting signs outside a polling station in Harris County. — On Friday, Oct. 29, the last day of early voting in Houston, the walkway into Moody Park's polling station in Houston looked like a gauntlet.
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Iowa Independent, TPMMuckraker and Right Wing News
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Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Why Obama Is No Roosevelt — Roosevelt: ‘Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst without flinching and losing heart.’ Obama: We don't 'always think clearly when we're scared.' — Whatever the outcome of today's election, this much is clear …
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Commentary, Viking Pundit and Betsy's Page
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Top Democrat says party faces ‘bloodbath’ on Election Day — Democrats could be facing a political “bloodbath” tomorrow if the polling is accurate, the third-ranking House Democrat said Monday. — House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Democrats must show up in full force on Nov. 2 …
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ABCNEWS and The Politico
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Jim Geraghty and Jay Cost: How does a 70+ seat pick-up tomorrow sound?
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Don Surber, National Review, Mother Jones, Gallup and Left Coast Rebel
Washington Post:
Companies may have to make amends after midterm elections — Republicans have a message for the businesses that worked closely with the Obama administration over the past two years on key controversial issues: We won't forget. — Take the case of Wal-Mart, the behemoth big-box retailer that liberals have long loved to hate.
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Ezra Klein, The New Republic and Pat Dollard
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Results may shrink president's agenda — WASHINGTON — President Obama will reduce the scope of his legislative ambitions if Republicans seize control of the House today as is widely predicted, jettisoning proposals to control greenhouse gases and overhaul immigration laws in favor …
Sara Kugler Frazier / Associated Press:
NYC mayor says independent president a good idea — NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent who has considered running for president, declared Monday that an independent has a better chance at succeeding in the White House than a Republican or a Democrat.
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The Fix, Outside the Beltway and The Page
J.P. Freire / Beltway Confidential:
Crazed Democrats in Virginia attack opponents, throw signs — If you thought negative campaign ads were a problem in this election, perhaps you haven't spent enough time in Virginia's 5th district. This video depicts two men unleashing a string of racial epithets at members of Americans for Prosperity, who took the video.
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Michelle Malkin and Instapundit
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Liberal Overreach — The expected Republican victory tomorrow, according to Jeb Bush, isn't so much an endorsement of the Republican Party as it is a “repudiation of the massive overreach” engineered by Barack Obama over the past two years. Is he right? — There's something to this …
Janet Adamy / Wall Street Journal:
Health Benefits Appear On Rise — The number of small businesses offering health insurance to workers is projected to increase sharply this year, recent data show, a shift that researchers attribute to a tax credit in the health law. Many small businesses, however, remain opposed to the law.
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The New Republic
Aharding / CNN:
Morgan Freeman in middle of campaign ad controversy — (CNN) - North Carolina Republican congressional candidate B.J. Lawson's campaign said it was “tricked” by a production company after it was revealed that actor Morgan Freeman was not the narrator in Lawson's latest ad, as the campaign had previously claimed.
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Judge questions Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona immigration law — A federal appellate judge expressed deep skepticism Monday about a Justice Department lawsuit challenging Arizona's new immigration law, leaving uncertain the Obama administration's chances of stopping the law from taking effect.
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Michelle Malkin, The Politico, Top of the Ticket, Althouse and Weasel Zippers
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Barack Obama preempts John Boehner's salvo — Hours before a scheduled scolding by House Republican Leader John Boehner in Ohio, President Barack Obama said Monday that he should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of 'enemies'" in a Univision radio interview.
Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Palin pounds ‘puppy-kicking’ Politico for heavy use of anonymous sources — On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin mocked her media detractors - Politico, specifically — as “puppy-kicking, chain-smoking porn producers” for their heavy use of anonymous sources in a quote as memorable as Spiro Agnew's …
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WNDU-TV:
Memorial Hospital cites Obama Health Care Reform on hospital layoffs — South Bend, Ind. … With St. Joseph County's unemployment rate still sitting above ten percent, things could be getting worse thanks to cuts at Memorial Hospital. Those cuts began back in June and hospital leaders say there's no end in sight.
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Beltway Confidential
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Seat Losses Everywhere — The above graph is courtesy of John Coleman. He writes via email:
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Yglesias and Ezra Klein
Ray Rahman / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Stands By Mohammed Remarks: 'I Don't Need To Apologize For Being A Proud Westerner' — Bill Maher showed up on CNN to talk about comments he made on Real Time regarding the ‘alarming’ number of ‘baby Mohammeds’ in England. Maher told Wolf Blitzer that he felt no need to …
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Big Hollywood and Weasel Zippers
The Huffington Post:
President Obama To Do Interview With Ryan Seacrest — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? … WASHINGTON — The administration's last-minute push to turn out the vote is spurring some unconventional media outreach efforts. But none of them have been quite as unlikely as that announced on Monday …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama says he's ‘not worried’ about the Tea Party
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MojoCincy, Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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