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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Rove's On-Air Rebuttal of Fox's Ohio Vote Call Raises Questions About His Role — It was 11:13 p.m. on Tuesday, the moment that Fox News had called Ohio for President Obama. Karl Rove stood just off camera, his phone glued to his ear. On the other end was a senior Romney campaign official …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart Gleefully Rips Into Fox News Election Coverage: ‘There Was An Avalanche On Bullsh*t Mountain’ — Jon Stewart recapped all the big news from last night's election, but saved his harshest criticisms for Fox News, Karl Rove, and in particular, five fateful minutes of the network …
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Business Insider, Booman Tribune, The Raw Story and The Week
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
GOP civil war: Herman Cain calls for third party — As the GOP fights itself in the wake of Mitt Romney's loss, calls for a third party emerge — It's been less than 24 hours since the polls closed and already the first shots in an emerging civil war within the conservative movement are being fired.
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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Republican Reckoning Begins After Revealing Defeat … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Barack Obama , Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Natural Disasters, Republican Party, Video, Ground Game, Turnout, Politics News — BOSTON — Republican Party leaders on Wednesday began picking …
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Brad DeLong, The Mahablog, Mother Jones, New York Times, Hot Air and RedState
Erik Wasson / Ballot Box:
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party
Conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party
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ABCNEWS, CNN, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, Politico, Fox News, Outside the Beltway and News Desk
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Life after defeat for Mitt Romney: Public praise, private questions — BOSTON — Mitt Romney began his retreat from public life Wednesday at a private breakfast gathering with a couple hundred of his most loyal and affluent campaign benefactors. The former Massachusetts governor …
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New York Times:
Obama Campaign Clawed Back After a Dismal Debate — Seven minutes into the first presidential debate, the mood turned from tense to grim inside the room at the University of Denver where Obama staff members were following the encounter. Top aides monitoring focus groups …
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Politico:
Romneyworld reckoning begins — BOSTON — Advisers to Mitt Romney insisted Wednesday that they were surprised by the scale of their loss to President Barack Obama, while big-time GOP donors griped about the campaign's unflinching confidence in the final stretch.
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Connecting.the.Dots and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Talk of mandate ‘foolish, generally untrue’ — Obama senior campaign adviser David Axelrod downplayed talk of an election mandate on the “fiscal cliff” on Thursday. — Axelrod said presidents always talk after an election about a mandate, but he called such talk “foolish.”
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Amid new challenges, Boehner stresses unity at leadership table
Wall Street Journal:
Focus Shifts to ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Focus Shifts to ‘Fiscal Cliff’
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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Speaker.gov
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Boehner opens door to ‘new revenue,’ to halt debt
Boehner opens door to ‘new revenue,’ to halt debt
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Firedoglake, americanthinker.com, The Week, Hot Air, Influence Alley, Mother Jones, Guardian and Prairie Weather
Dan Snierson / Inside TV:
Vice President Joe Biden to guest on ‘Parks and Recreation’ — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO — Next week's episode of Parks and Recreation is going to have a VIP: the VP. — Joe Biden — yes, the very guy who was re-elected Vice President of the United States less than 24 hours ago …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
No Method Acting: On Sitcom, Biden Plays Biden — Among the truly minor questions settled by Tuesday's presidential election was this one: Would Joe Biden get a chance to play a winner on a sitcom? — The answer is yes. — With the race won, a guest appearance by Mr. Biden on the NBC comedy …
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Weekly Standard and NewsBusters.org
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Silver Lining and a Conundrum — I can see only one good outcome from yesterday's election: the fact that Barack Obama will be the president who inherits the mess left by Barack Obama. The economy is in awful shape; it won't get much better given Obama's policies, and may get worse.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Meaning of Yesterday's Defeat
The Meaning of Yesterday's Defeat
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Really clever American voters stick with Obama's failed status quo
Really clever American voters stick with Obama's failed status quo
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The Atlantic Online
Anne Sorock / rebelpundit:
Obama supporters celebrate: No more Israel; kill those motherf***ers — Obama supporters out celebrating his win on election night gathered on State Street Tuesday evening. I asked one man why he was celebrating Obama, and what that meant to him. He said, “It really means to me …
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The Lonely Conservative, Atlas Shrugs, Pirate's Cove and Jihad Watch
CNBC:
Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division — Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that will cut 30 percent of management jobs from 2010 levels, close facilities in California and consolidate several business units to cut costs. — The company [BA Loading...
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Twitchy, Weasel Zippers, Israel Matzav, americanthinker.com, UrbanGrounds and The Lonely Conservative
Associated Press:
Obama re-election protest escalates at Univ. of Mississippi; racial slurs, 2 arrests reported — JACKSON, Miss. — A protest at the University of Mississippi against the re-election of President Barack Obama grew into crowd of about 400 people with shouted racial slurs as rumors of a riot spread on social media.
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Crooks and Liars and thedmonline.com
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Jason Wallace / CBS Las Vegas:
Vegas Employer: Obama Won-So I Fired 22 Employees — LAS VEGAS (CBS Las Vegas) — A Las Vegas business owner with 114 employees fired 22 workers today, apparently as a direct result of President Obama's re-election. — “David” (he asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons) …
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Human Events and The Raw Story
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
Sneed exclusive: Jesse Jackson Jr. in plea deal talks with feds: sources — Sneed has learned U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who handily won re-election Tuesday despite a lengthy stay at Mayo Clinic for depression and bipolar disorder, is in the midst of plea discussions with the feds probing his alleged misuse of campaign funds.
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The Hill, Outside the Beltway and CBS Chicago
New York Times:
Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors — At the private air terminal at Logan Airport in Boston early Wednesday, men in unwrinkled suits sank into plush leather chairs as they waited to board Gulfstream jets, trading consolations over Mitt Romney's loss the day before.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Kay Bailey Hutchison: GOP can't ‘throw away’ women — Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Thursday that her party must stop treating women as “a throw-away.” — “When we talk about women's issues and the social issues, people have to stop acting like the woman is a throw-away here …
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Klein Online:
ISRAELI OFFICIAL: ‘WE WILL NOT CAPITULATE BEFORE OBAMA.’ Warns president's reelection means Jewish state must ‘take care of its own’ — TEL AVIV — The state of Israel will not capitulate before President Obama, whose “naive” leadership has hurt the U.S., stated Danny Danon, deputy speaker of Israel's Knesset.
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The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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Greg Risling / Associated Press:
Man behind anti-Muslim film sentenced to prison — LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter, then issued a provocative statement through his attorney.
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JONATHAN TURLEY, The Jawa Report, Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and Althouse
Politico:
2016 election: Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush? — BOSTON — American politics may be headed back to the future. — Four years after the country elected a 40-something African-American newcomer named Barack to the presidency, a more familiar political order is poised to reassert itself …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama's Victory Presents G.O.P. With Demographic Test — A couple of decades ago, Prince William County was one of the mostly white, somewhat rural, far-flung suburbs where Republican candidates went to accumulate the votes to win elections in Virginia. — Since then, Prince William has been transformed.
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Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Latino Vote Devastated GOP Even Worse Than Exits Showed — Mitt Romney lost Latinos by unprecedented margins — even worse than the initial exit polls showed — according to a study by Latino Decisions. — An election eve poll of 5,600 voters across all 50 states by the group …
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Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online