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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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Balloon Juice
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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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US News, Politico, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller and Reuters
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Republican Reckoning Begins After Revealing Defeat
Republican Reckoning Begins After Revealing Defeat
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Brad DeLong, The Mahablog, Mother Jones, New York Times, Hot Air and The Agonist
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, Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Politico, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Fox News and News Desk
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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American Power, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, The New Republic, JustOneMinute and The Week
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
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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 …
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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GOP 12
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney Adviser: It Was the Messaging — Boston — A Romney adviser partly blames last night's defeat on a weak message. “Turnout was the big problem since we didn't get all of McCain's voters to the polls, but we really should have been talking more about Benghazi and Obamacare,” …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Meaning of Yesterday's Defeat — Yesterday was a comprehensive disaster. Here in Minnesota, to add a local perspective, not only did the state go for Obama-no surprise there-but the Democrats recaptured both houses of the legislature, and voters defeated two ballot initiatives, one on gay marriage and one on voter ID.
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Pirate's Cove, Lawyers, Guns & Money, National Review, 24Ahead, Maggie's Farm and Balloon Juice
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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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The Lonely Conservative
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
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 …
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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Israel Matzav, Twitchy, americanthinker.com and The Lonely Conservative
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 and CBS Chicago
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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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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CNN
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
The next election already: Bill Daley serious about running for governor — In radio talk, he makes compelling case for tough times … Illinois Gov. William Daley. — Get used to it. Because he wants it. And he's reaching for it. — “I've thought about it before and I don't take it off the table …
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Hotline On Call
Aaron Sharockman / MiamiHerald.com:
How did the presidential pollsters do in Florida? — Which pollsters got it right? Which pollsters got it wrong? — TAMPA BAY TIMES — Pre-Election Day polls in Florida predicting Mitt Romney would comfortably win the state's 29 electoral votes were quite wrong, it turns out.
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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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Jihad Watch, JONATHAN TURLEY, 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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No More Mister Nice Blog
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
After Obama win, U.S. backs new U.N. arms treaty talks — (Reuters) - Hours after U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected, the United States backed a U.N. committee's call on Wednesday to renew debate over a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade.
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The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Florida's Votes Go Unclaimed, but This Time Less Depends on Them — MIAMI — Another presidential election has come and gone. Only not in Florida, where through much of Wednesday the swing state's 29 electoral votes remained an unclaimed, though largely inconsequential, prize.
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Prairie Weather
New York Times:
President Obama Begins Work on Second Term — Newly re-elected, President Obama moved quickly on Wednesday to open negotiations with Congressional Republican leaders over the main unfinished business of his term — a major deficit-reduction deal to avert a looming fiscal crisis …
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The American Conservative and The Caucus
John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Mulligan talks his book — Before engaging in another round with Casey Mulligan, I'd like to say that, while I find most of his arguments implausible, I don't think he's silly for making them. Given the position he's trying to defend, these are the best arguments available.