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Welcome To Liberal America — Barack Obama, gay marriage, weed, and a new focus on climate change. This is the country, and the Republican Party has to adapt. — Image by John Gress / Reuters — President Barack Obama's sweeping victory in the 2012 election, his party's wide win in the Senate …
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The Atlantic Online, Outside the Beltway, The Mahablog and Marbury
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Jonathan Martin / Reuters:
Election aftermath: GOP soul-searching: ‘Too old, too white, too male’? — BOSTON — President Barack Obama's thrashing of Mitt Romney exposed glaring structural weaknesses in the GOP that will shut the Republicans out of the White House until they find a way to appeal to a rapidly changing America.
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The Daily Caller, First Read and Politico
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republicans Bet Everything, and Obama Won It All — You remember the scene in Game Change, when John McCain's adviser tells him that selecting Sarah Palin is “high risk, reward”? And McCain (or Ed Harris as McCain, or whatever) starts grinning uncontrollably?
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Joe Von Kanel / CNN:
Exit polls: Top issues for voters — (CNN) - What issues are on voters' minds? — The exit polls give some insights. — Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker — Check out the CNN Electoral Map and Calculator and game out your own strategy for November.
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Harry J Enten / Guardian:
How the pollsters won the 2012 US election, mostly — It was a good night for most polling organisations; aggregators got it close to perfect. For the ‘unskewed’ crowd, not so much — The election has come and gone. There are still some results outstanding, but the biggest race is decided.
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The Daily Dish
Joe Von Kanel / CNN:
Exit polls: Abortion as an election issue
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Ballot Box, The PJ Tatler and Politico
Laurie Ure / CNN:
The Kennedys are back in Congress — (CNN) - After a two-year absence …
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The Greenroom
New York Times:
Divided U.S. Gives Obama More Time — Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected president of the United States on Tuesday, overcoming powerful economic headwinds, a lock-step resistance to his agenda by Republicans in Congress and an unprecedented torrent of advertising as a divided nation voted to give him more time.
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New York Times:
President Obama's Success — President Obama's dramatic re-election victory was not a sign that a fractured nation had finally come together on Election Day. But it was a strong endorsement of economic policies that stress job growth, health care reform, tax increases and balanced deficit reduction …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Vox Popoli, Guardian and Sky Dancing
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Joe Donnelly upsets Richard Mourdock in Indiana
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Matt Ferner / The Huffington Post:
Amendment 64 Passes: Colorado Legalizes Marijuana For Recreational Use … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Denver News, Polls, Smoking, Video, 420, Marijuana, Colorado Amendment 64, Campaign To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Colorado Marijuana Legalization, Colorado Politics, Denver Colorado, Legal Weed, Marijuana, Marijuana, Denver News
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Colorado, Washington pass marijuana legalization; Oregon says no
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The Fix, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Chelsea Conaboy / Boston Globe:
Massachusetts voters approve ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana
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Business Insider, Crooks and Liars and The Raw Story
Elyse Siegel / The Huffington Post:
Marijuana Legalization On The Ballot: (INTERACTIVE RESULTS)
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EconLog
Raquel Villanueva / KUSA-TV:
Colorado voters pass pot legalization with Amendment 64
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LewRockwell.com Blog and GayPatriot
Kevin Robillard / Reuters:
Rep. Allen West's race still undecided — Florida Rep. Allen West's bid for reelection remained too close to call on Wednesday, as the tea party Republican trailed his Democratic opponent by fewer than 3,000 votes. — Patrick Murphy has 160,328 votes, or 50.4 percent, to West's 157,782 votes …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Rep. Allen West loses reelection
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Talking Points Memo, Connecting.the.Dots and theGrio
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Karl Rove Freaks Out About Fox News Calling The Election For Obama — “We've got to be careful about calling things when we have like 991 vote separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote left to count.”
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Paul Krugman:
The Real Real America — So, for a while there during the campaign it seemed very iffy. But in the end, discipline and being on the right side of the issues prevailed. Yes, Elizabeth Warren won! — Oh, and that guy Obama too. — Tomorrow — or I guess today — comes the cleanup …
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Michelle Malkin:
Election 2012: Obama gets his “revenge,” but conservatives must stand tall — Ohio has been called for Barack Obama. Iowa went for Obama. Colorado went for Obama. Florida and Virginia have not been called yet, but those don't look good, either. The Romney camp is disputing the Ohio call.
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American Power
BuzzFeed:
The New Most Popular Tweet Of All Time — Via @BarackObama. — John Herrman — an hour ago — 99 responses
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Dunkirk — I'll have more in the morning, but my quick thoughts. — Of course it was a bad defeat tonight. Let's not kid ourselves. — We had a chance to stop the decline, and we didn't. — We held the House pretty strongly, so that's good, and a reflection that candidates and ideology matter.
CNN:
Transcript: Obama's victory speech — (CNN) - President Barack Obama delivered remarks Wednesday in Chicago. Read below for a transcript of Obama's remarks. — OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. — Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right …
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Bill O'Reilly: ‘The white establishment is now the minority’ — Fox News's Bill O'Reilly said tonight that if President Barack Obama wins re-election, it's because the demographics of the country have changed and “it's not a traditional America anymore.” — “The white establishment is now the minority,” O'Reilly said.
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Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
Republican Mia Love concedes to Democrat Jim Matheson in Utah — Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) survived a tough challenge from Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love (R), edging out the challenger by little more than a single percentage point. — (Rick Bowmer/AP) — With all precincts reporting …
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The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit, Pirate's Cove, americanthinker.com and theGrio
Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:
'That's When You Know You're Gonna Win' — PITTSBURGH - Mitt Romney's campaign always makes his arrivals in various cities known to the local media, and in turn the public, but never before has a crowd of this size shown up to greet him. Upon landing here in Pittsburgh …
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Weasel Zippers, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Gateway Pundit
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Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Boehner lays down a marker on taxes — Washington (CNN) - Shortly after multiple networks projected that Republicans would retain control of the House, Speaker John Boehner took to the stage with a message that looked ahead to the battle over the fiscal cliff - the GOP isn't budging on taxes.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
It's official: New Hampshire governor, House and Senate delegations all women — I posted yesterday on the possibility that New Hampshire could elect a female governor and an all-female congressional delegation this year, and that's exactly what has come to pass.
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Guardian, CNN and Outside the Beltway
CNN:
Transcript: Romney's concession speech — (CNN) - Mitt Romney delivered his concession speech Tuesday in Boston. Read below for a transcript of Romney's remarks. — Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you so very much. — (APPLAUSE) — Thank you.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney concedes race for the White House — BOSTON —Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney conceded the presidential election early Wednesday morning in a brief address to supporters in Boston. — Romney told a subdued crowd that he had called Obama to congratulate him on his victory, and he wished the president well.
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