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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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Politics Daily, Right Pundits and Wake up America
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:
G.O.P. Captures House, but Falls Short in Senate — Republicans captured control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday and expanded their voice in the Senate, riding a wave of voter discontent as they dealt a setback to President Obama just two years after his triumphal victory.
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Fox News, The Fix, The Huffington Post and CNN
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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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Opinions You Should Have
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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Pew Research Center
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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Washington Monthly, The Politico, POLISING, AMERICAN DIGEST, Outside the Beltway, The Atlantic Online, Firedoglake and Daily Kos
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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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Fox Nation and NewsBusters.org blogs
Emily Swanson / The Huffington Post:
Exit Polls 2010: See The Results
Exit Polls 2010: See The Results
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Taegan Goddard's …, CNN, Firedoglake, Examiner, The New Republic and The Eye
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
The First Reactions to the Exits, if Not the Exits Themselves
The First Reactions to the Exits, if Not the Exits Themselves
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Hot Air, Fox Nation and New York Magazine
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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The Politico, CNN, POWIP and Gateway Pundit
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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Fox News and The Politico
Lauren Effron / ABCNEWS:
Tea Party and Sarah Palin-Backed Nikki Haley Wins S.C. Gov. Race
Tea Party and Sarah Palin-Backed Nikki Haley Wins S.C. Gov. Race
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CNN, The Note and Top of the Ticket
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, Weasel Zippers, Examiner and Hot Air
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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CNN, Ballot Box, Pajamas Media, National Review, TPMMuckraker, Mediaite and Washington Post
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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RedState, Hot Air, American Power, Big Government, CNN, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Ben Smith's Blog, Nevada News Bureau and Pajamas Media
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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Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
ACORN filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
ACORN filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
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Big Government
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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Hit & Run, Hot Air, National Review and Advocate
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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
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The big tech pedigree doesn't help: Whitman and Fiorina go down in flames — Perhaps tonight's elections in California should be a lesson for technology executives at big tech companies. The pedigree of being an executive at a major tech company isn't necessarily a winning background for California politics.
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Mercury News and Capitol Weekly, more at Techmeme »
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Anthony York / PolitiCal:
Jerry Brown projected winner in California governor's race
Jerry Brown projected winner in California governor's race
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Swampland
Anthony York / PolitiCal:
Barbara Boxer projected to win a fourth Senate term
Barbara Boxer projected to win a fourth Senate term
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Pat Dollard and AlterNet.org
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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Oliver Willis and The Maddow Blog
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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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Althouse
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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Barefoot and Progressive, Poliglot and Daily Kos
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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.
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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TPMMuckraker, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, Michelle Malkin, Salon, Outside the Beltway, Atlas Shrugs and National Review
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.