memeorandum: Axelrod: Talk of mandate ‘foolish, generally untrue’ (Jonathan Easley/Ballot Box)

1:20 PM ET, November 8, 2012

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Ben White / Politico:

Will CEOs come to Obama's aid? - Markets keep sliding - Boehner bending? - Obama claims mandate - More Elizabeth Warren speculation — WILL CHIEF EXECUTIVES COME TO OBAMA'S AID? — One smart former top GOP operative emails: “You should start a pool — what day will the 80 CEOs who signed …

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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Talk of mandate ‘foolish, generally untrue’

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, The Agonist, Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers

Erskine Bowles / Washington Post:
Make a deficit deal now — Erskine Bowles, who served as chief …

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Wall Street Journal:
Focus Shifts to ‘Fiscal Cliff’

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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Amid new challenges, Boehner stresses unity at leadership table

Discussion: Politico

Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS: Biden Sees ‘Clear Sort Of Mandate’ on Taxes

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: ‘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 in near-pandemonium …

Discussion: Business Insider, Booman Tribune, The Raw Story and The Week

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:

Conservative Reaction To Election '12, Part II: More, Not Less, Ideology, Please — A second notable characteristic of conservative reaction to Tuesday's election results is the iron conviction that Republican pols from Mitt Romney on down did a poor job of articulating why and how the …

Discussion: National Review, Hullabaloo and Eschaton

Erick Erickson / RedState:

We Forget — There is no permanence in politics. All is fleeting. All is cyclical. We find comfort in our cycle and distress when others rise to the top. — Right now, conservatives are bitterly disappointed. Some choose to check out mentally. Some have decided to throw in the towel.

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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
GOP civil war: Herman Cain calls for third party

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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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New York Times:
Obama Campaign Clawed Back After a Dismal Debate

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Robert Costa / National Review:
Romney Adviser: It Was the Messaging

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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

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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Biden to cameo on ‘Parks and Recreation’

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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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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:

Bitterfest 2012 — Four years ago, at just this time, I wrote a column headed “Bitterfest '08.” I pledged a couple of weeks ago that I would not write such a column this year. I pledged to myself, I mean. I said, “If Romney loses, I'm not going to write another Bitterfest column.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Power Line and Balloon Juice

Ashley Killough / CNN:
LaTourette: Tea party response to Romney loss is ‘crap’

Discussion: Politico, WEWS-TV and ABCNEWS

Rebecca Berg / BuzzFeed: Republicans Prepare For Soul-Searching After Senate Rout

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:

The best thing about embracing your Hobbitry... ...Is that you can stop caring what the GOP establishment and its mouthpieces think about you. — And you can say things like this: if Chris Christie or Jeb Bush are ever put up for national office, I'll actively campaign against them.

Discussion: The Jawa Report

Ann Coulter / Official:
DON'T BLAME ROMNEY — We spent billions of dollars and billions …

Discussion: Hot Air and The Daily Caller

Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:

The Case of the Missing White Voters — One of the more intriguing narratives for election 2012 was proposed by political scientist Brendan Nyhan fairly early on: that it was “Bizarro 2004.” The parallels to that year certainly were eerie: An incumbent adored by his base …

Discussion: Power Line, BobKrumm.com, Battleground Watch and Israel Matzav

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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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.

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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:

Sheldon Adelson's Paper Runs Headline “America Chose Socialism” — The headline runs over an analysis piece in the billionaire's Israeli paper, Israel Today.

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 …

Discussion: Wonkblog, theGrio and New York Magazine

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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Michael Gordon / Observer:

Obama re-election sends U.S. down ‘path of destruction,’ says Franklin Graham — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On the day of his father's 94th birthday, and the day after the country re-elected President Barack Obama president, evangelist Franklin Graham gave two-pronged advice to the American people:

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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 …

Discussion: The Lonely Conservative, Atlas Shrugs, Pirate's Cove and Jihad Watch

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

A Silver Lining and a Conundrum [Updated] — 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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