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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 …
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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Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Victories Suggest Wider Appeal of Tea Party — The Tea Party victories by Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida underscored the extent to which Republicans and Democrats alike may have underestimated the power of the Tea Party, a loosely-affiliated, at times ill-defined …
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Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Frank easily wins re-election, defeats Bielat
Frank easily wins re-election, defeats Bielat
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Gay Politics, Poliglot and Indecision Forever
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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Fox News:
Republicans Score Early Victories in Key Senate Races
Republicans Score Early Victories in Key Senate Races
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ABCNEWS, TPMDC, Pat Dollard, Indecision Forever and Scared Monkeys
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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Ana Campoy / Washington Wire:
Texas Gov. Perry Wins a Third Term
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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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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Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:
Exit Polls 2010: See The Results
Exit Polls 2010: See The Results
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Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
GOP Poised to Control U.S. House, ABC News Expects
GOP Poised to Control U.S. House, ABC News Expects
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The Politico and No Left Turns
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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GunsInTheSky / CBS News:
Republicans Rule the House, CBS News Projects
Republicans Rule the House, CBS News Projects
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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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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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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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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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CNN, Gateway Pundit, Fox Nation, Examiner, Hot Air and Wonkette
Anthony York / PolitiCal:
Prop. 19 headed to defeat, exit polls show — California voters appear to have rejected Prop. 19, an effort to legalize marijuana and allow local governments to tax the sale of the drug. — Prop. 19 received national attention, but relatively little money was spent on the campaign.
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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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Top of the Ticket, Firedoglake and The Reality-Based Community
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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Evan Bayh / New York Times:
Where Do Democrats Go Next? — DEMOCRATS can recover from the disappointments of this election and set the stage for success in 2012. But to do so we must learn from Tuesday's results. — Many of our problems were foreseeable. A public unhappy about the economy will take it out on the party in power …
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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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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.
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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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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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.
WisPolitics Election Blog:
Feingold campaign manager: It ain't over — Feingold's campaign manager George Aldrich told the crowd in Middleton that only 40 percent of the vote has been reported. — “Russ is down by 80,000 votes, but...up to 1.4 million votes haven't been counted,” he told the crowd.
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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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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Reports of Intimidation and Electronic Problems Surface at Polls Across the U.S. — 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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William Yardley / The Caucus:
Spelling Lessons in Alaska — GIRDWOOD, Alaska - For all the passion of the mid-term election cycle, pragmatism played a role on Election Day. — This ski village is the official residence of Senator Lisa Murkowski. And although Ms. Murkowski is a Republican and Girdwood is among …
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire:
Three Powerful Committee Chairmen Fall — Three Democratic committee chairmen — Reps. John Spratt of South Carolina and Ike Skelton of Missouri along with Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas — were ousted Tuesday night, illustrating how Republicans were able to take out some of Congress's most powerful incumbents.