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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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The Cook / NationalJournal.com:
The Cook Report Issues Final Forecast: GOP Gains 50 to 60 Seats in the House
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 …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Cornyn: GOP would ‘welcome’ party switch by Joe Lieberman
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Republicans set to win House, gain in Senate: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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Hot Air, The Plum Line and The Fix
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 …
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Firedoglake, Sabato's Crystal Ball, TRAIL BLAZERS, The Daily Beast and Club for Growth
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record Midterm Enthusiasm as Voters Head to Polls — Republican enthusiasm exceeds that for either party in prior midterm election years — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' enthusiasm about voting exceeds the recent midterm election high set four years ago, with 50% of Americans and 53% …
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Wake up America and AMERICAblog News
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Final Gallup enthusiasm gap: nineteen points
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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PostPartisan, Ezra Klein, Pat Dollard, The New Republic and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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The Atlantic Online, Weasel Zippers and Pirate's Cove
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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Pirate's Cove and Instapundit
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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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Sister Toldjah, Moe Lane and Proof Positive
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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Hot Air, JammieWearingFool and msnbc.com
Ezra Klein:
What will a GOP win mean for health-care reform? — The question is not whether Republicans want to repeal the health-care overhaul. They do. “We offer a plan to repeal and replace the government takeover of health care,” reads the 2010 Republican Agenda. — The question is whether they'll succeed.
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Caucus, Hot Air, Tuned In and Raw Story
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
Paul Krugman:
Math Rage — A number of my recent blog posts have involved pointing out adding-up constraints: you can't have some people spending less than their income unless others spend more than their income, all the world's currencies can't devalue against each other, etc..
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Scripting News
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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TalkLeft, The Monkey Cage, POLISING and Swampland
Max Read / Gawker:
'John Boehner: Stop Using My Dad's Name as a Punchline, You Asshat.' — Republican House minority leader John Boehner has been using a dumb—trust me, really dumb—line involving Johnny Cash in some recent speeches. Cash's daughter Roseanne doesn't think much of that. And she let Boehner know, by calling him “asshat.”
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Ben Smith's Blog, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Big Hollywood and Raw Story
Nick Baumann / Mother Jones:
The Real Prize in Tuesday's Elections — The GOP is hoping to redistrict dozens of Dems out of their congressional seats—and if things go their way in the Rust Belt, they just might pull it off. — Post Comment — Forget the Senate and House. That's short-term thinking.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mother Jones and Daily Kos
James Hohmann / The Politico:
Third Way aims for front and center — The long-simmering battle between moderates and liberals for the soul of the Democratic Party is about to explode. — That presents a golden opportunity for Third Way, a five-year-old think tank that remains largely unknown outside the Beltway.
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Daily Kos, Oliver Willis, AMERICAblog News, Guardian, Washington Wire and Time
Michael Calderone / Yahoo! News:
O'Donnell receives most coverage of 2010 candidates — Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't get too much national media coverage before upsetting the Republican establishment and winning the Delaware primary in September. But since then, O'Donnell's been all over the news …
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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Fausta's Blog, Betsy's Page, Wonkette, Viking Pundit and Commentary
Roger Catlin / The Huffington Post:
How Glenn Beck Spent the Day of Rally to Restore Sanity — What's Your Reaction: — It seemed the opposite of sanity that on the day of Jon Stewart's big rally with Steven Colbert on the National Mall that Glenn Beck, who inspired the gesture with his own late summer rally, that would be here …
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The Right Scoop
CEPR:
Deficit Commission Plots to Overhaul Social Security Behind Voters' Backs — That is what the NYT reported today, although it used somewhat different language. It told readers that: — “The group, which has a Dec. 1 deadline for recommending how to reduce the annual deficits swelling the federal debt …
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Firedoglake and New York Times
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Midterms 2010: Americans aren't stupid - but they are angry with Barack Obama — Today's mid-term elections will highlight the divide between Barack Obama's big government and disaffected voters, says Toby Harnden. — It has been easy this year to present the American mid-term elections …
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The New Ledger and RedState
Quin Hillyer / American Spectator:
Justice, Denied — By Quin Hillyer from the November 2010 issue — Under attorney general Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) is dangerously politicized, radically leftist, racialist, lawless, and at times corrupt. The good news is that it's also often incompetent.
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Last-minute stops for Reid and Angle as Nev. decides day's top race — LAS VEGAS — Senate candidates Harry Reid and Sharron Angle are making last-minute campaign stops Tuesday with voting under way across Nevada. — Senate Majority Leader Reid is set to rally volunteers on Tuesday morning …
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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