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BuzzFeed:
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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Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Atlantic Online, Outside the Beltway, The Agonist, 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.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A big night for Democrats and liberals
A big night for Democrats and liberals
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Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, americanthinker.com and Politico
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Yes, Obama Won a Mandate
Yes, Obama Won a Mandate
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NationalJournal.com, Washington Monthly and Newsday
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republicans Bet Everything, and Obama Won It All
The Republicans Bet Everything, and Obama Won It All
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Prairie Weather
Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops:
The Obama Realignment — When you do it once, it's just a victory.
The Obama Realignment — When you do it once, it's just a victory.
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Slate, Lawyers, Guns & Money, JustOneMinute, The New Republic, New York Magazine and The Week
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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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
COURAGE FOR THE LONG WAR AHEAD — On November 6, the people of the United States rejected President Barack Obama. And re-elected him to a second term in office. — Though Obama failed to win a majority in the popular vote—and may even have lost the popular vote outright …
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The Agonist, TBogg, The Lonely Conservative and Balloon Juice
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File — Nate Silver was right. His ideological antagonists were wrong. And that's just the beginning of the right's self-created information disadvantage. — Before rank-and-file conservatives ask, “What went wrong?” …
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The Week, Jay Bookman, bustardblog and Duck of Minerva
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
'Now I'm Going to Offer You a Hamburger' — I'm traveling overseas, so posting will be light, but a few quick things: — 1) I want to play poker with Sheldon Adelson. — 2) The Atlantic has excellent post-election coverage. You should read it all. — 3) I asked Ron Brownstein via Twitter …
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The Daily Caller
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Clarion-Ledger:
Ole Miss students' protest of Obama re-election sparks ‘riot’ rumors
Ole Miss students' protest of Obama re-election sparks ‘riot’ rumors
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The Hinterland Gazette, BuzzFeed and theGrio
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Muslim Brotherhood: Obama Needs To ‘Accept The Will Of The Arab People’
Muslim Brotherhood: Obama Needs To ‘Accept The Will Of The Arab People’
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
I was wrong-where it counted … The results are in and I was wrong when I predicted that Mitt Romney would win 315 electoral votes. For those of you who sent in nasty emails and for those who sent in reasoned arguments that I was wrong, please be assured that I will be on a diet of crow for some time.
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Politico, Via Meadia, The Volokh Conspiracy and Real Clear Politics
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Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
Doomed Beyond All Hope of Redemption — Dark thoughts on the meaning of a catastrophic election. — GAHANNA, Ohio — Late Tuesday night, the pundits on TV began jabbering incomprehensibly along the lines of, “What does it mean?” — The American people — or, at the very least …
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Crooks and Liars, Slate, Booman Tribune, BuzzFeed, Wake up America, CANNONFIRE, American Power and Shakesville
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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Ballot Box, TCPalm.com, Palm Beach Post, Wired, CBS Miami, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway and Pirate's Cove
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Tea Party favorite West calls for a recount
Tea Party favorite West calls for a recount
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National Review
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Colorado and Washington Have Legalized Marijuana. What Now? — As Mike Riggs noted earlier tonight, voters have approved marijuana legalization measures in Colorado and Washington—an unprecedented change that could help lead our country away from the unjust, cruel …
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Denver Post, Business Insider and Strange Bedfellows
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Begun, These Marijuana Wars Have
Begun, These Marijuana Wars Have
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CNN, The Fix and Mother Jones
Kyle Leighton / Talking Points Memo:
Fordham Study: Public Policy Polling Deemed Most Accurate National Pollster In 2012 — Fordham University has published a ranking of the most accurate pollsters of the 2012 in terms of national trends, and (both) top spots were held by Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling, the North Carolina-based firm.
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The Monkey Cage, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Taegan Goddard's …, Election 2012 and Outside the Beltway
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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ABCNEWS, americanthinker.com, Althouse and Connecting.the.Dots
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Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Why Mitt Romney Lost: A Simple, Overriding Theory — If last night proved anything, it's that no serious political party in America can win an election by suppressing votes. — Philip Andrews/Reuters — Mitt Romney lost because he was too conservative. Mitt Romney lost because he wasn't conservative enough.
BuzzFeed:
The New Most Popular Tweet Of All Time — Via @BarackObama. — John Herrman — an hour ago — 99 responses
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Taylor Marsh, New York Magazine and TechCrunch
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The Atlantic Wire:
The Sad Faces of Fox News on Election Night — The early election returns and exit polls had little good news for Mitt Romney, and you could see it on the Fox News election team's faces. The reporters and pundits were not uniformly dejected, with Megyn Kelly sounding mostly like a regular reporter …
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Mediaite, Sky Dancing, AMERICAblog, Taylor Marsh, The New Republic, the-reaction.blogspot.ca and The Huffington Post
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Reid moves to limit GOP filibusters — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP's ability to filibuster bills. — Speaking in the wake of Tuesday's election, which boosted Senate Democrats' numbers slightly …
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Michelle Malkin and The Lonely Conservative
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David Firestone / Taking Note:
A Liberal Fantasy — It's rarely wise to make upbeat predictions …
A Liberal Fantasy — It's rarely wise to make upbeat predictions …
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Washington Monthly
Wall Street Journal:
Hope Over Experience — A divided country gives Obama a second chance. — President Obama won one of the narrower re-elections in modern times Tuesday, eking out a second term with a fraction of his 7.3% margin of 2008, in a polarized country with the opposition GOP retaining and still dominating the House.
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Outside the Beltway, Israel Matzav, Business Insider, The Monkey Cage and Guardian
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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Balloon Juice, The PJ Tatler, americanthinker.com, Prairie Weather and Economist's View
Matt Gouras / Associated Press:
Tester wins re-election, defeats Rehberg — (Photo: Casey Page, Billings Gazette/AP) — 11:21AM EST November 7. 2012 - HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester has won a second term, fending off a challenge from Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. — Tester and Rehberg …
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Hit & Run
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Jon Tester triumphs over Rehberg in Mont.
Jon Tester triumphs over Rehberg in Mont.
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Mother Jones and The PJ Tatler
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Chris Matthews: “I'm So Glad We Had That Storm Last Week” — CHRIS MATTHEWS: I am so proud of the country. To reelect this president and overcoming — not because of the partisanship or even the policies. Here's an African-American guy with an unusual background — part immigrant background …
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The Daily Caller, Michelle Malkin, The Lonely Conservative, americanthinker.com and Gretawire
BuzzFeed:
The Sasha And Malia Obama Aging Timeline — Watch them grow up before your eyes. — August 2004. — Source: Getty Images — November 2004. — Source: Getty Images — November 2004. — Source: Getty Images — January 2005. — Source: Getty Images — View Entire List ›
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Outside the Beltway
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In Boston, stunned Romney supporters struggle to explain defeat — More Photos Related Videos Popular in Politics — BOSTON — About an hour after Mitt Romney delivered his brief, graceful concession speech at the Boston Convention Center, a group of his top aides — Beth Myers …
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Opinionator, Washington Monthly and The Week
Michael Scherer / TIME:
Inside the Secret World of Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win — “The cave” at President Obama's Election headquarters in Chicago — In late spring, the backroom number crunchers who had powered Barack Obama's campaign to victory noticed that George Clooney had an almost gravitational tug on West Coast females ages 40 to 49.
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Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Condom requirement for porn filming approved by voters — A measure that would require porn performers to wear condoms while filming in Los Angeles County was approved by voters. — The measure garnered 55.9% of the vote after a hard-fought campaign, — “This is a major referendum …
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The Daily Beast, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Taylor Marsh