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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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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
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.
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Voters to show ‘Dem’ no mercy
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The Moderate Voice, Pirate's Cove, The Page and Politifact.com Truth …
The Hill:
Predictions from lawmakers and the Obama administration on Election Day 2010
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Democrats bracing for major losses
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USA Today, Online NewsHour, FP Passport, New York Times and The BLT
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.
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Firedoglake and Sabato's Crystal Ball
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 and Tuned In
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Rally to Restore ‘Worst Persons in the World’
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, Pat Dollard, Hot Air, The Huffington Post and The Blaze
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
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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Althouse, Big Hollywood and Weasel Zippers
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 …
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Post-election inaction in D.C. probably won't bode well for the economy
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: GOP establishment ‘sleazy’ — Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin says “sleazy” establishment Republicans are out to get her. — Following a POLITICO story reporting that top GOP operatives in Washington - some of whom support her 2012 rivals - are working to stall her momentum …
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Beast, Yglesias and Salon
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Palin pounds ‘puppy-kicking’ Politico for heavy use of anonymous sources
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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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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Official Election Predictions Post — When all the votes are counted, I think there'll be 232 House Republicans. They'll be joined by 49 Senate Republicans, which is going to set off an interesting frenzy of efforts to entice Senators Nelson, Lieberman, Landrieu, and Pryor to switch parties …
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Swampland
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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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Wonkette, Commentary, Betsy's Page and Viking Pundit
Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:
Where do I vote? Polling locations and other election day questions answered — It's only hours until the polls open tomorrow, and if you're like most people, you're probably just tuning in to the election (yes, the ad wars are almost over) — that includes figuring out where to vote …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Immigration and the Reddish Yellow Menace — If you try to work out Brad DeLong's midterm questions you'll see that if China ever does overtake the US in per capita GDP terms, it'll take a very long time for it to happen. At the same time, China's much larger population means they can overtake us …
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Grasping Reality …
Mytheos Holt / National Review:
Remember 2008... When all those nauseating, over-produced faux-musical Obama ads came out? Well, someone noticed a few discrepancies between what those slick ads promised and what actually happened in the intervening few years and pointed them out in this highly amusing video parody:
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RedState
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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Wonk Room and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Curtis Sittenfeld / Slate:
Am I the last person in America who still adores President Obama? — Just before Halloween 2008, while out for a walk, I noticed that on the front porch of a nearby house sat a row of five pumpkins, each carved with one letter of Barack Obama's last name. The election was, at that point …
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Beltway Confidential, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Beast
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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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, Political Byline and Instapundit
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Rand Paul: ‘We will challenge’ Mitch McConnell — Rand Paul, the Republican Senate nominee in Kentucky, says that if he's elected he would not be an automatic vote for the state's senior senator, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who did not back him in the primary but supports him now.
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CNN and Washington Monthly
Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
U.S. is not greatest country ever — When foreign car companies started opening factories in the United States, back in the 1980s, it seemed like an act of obeisance. The plants didn't make economic sense — Americans had to be paid so much more — but this was a tactful bit of tribute to Empire Central.
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