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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Power Line, Wake up America, New York Times, Connecting.the.Dots and Balloon Juice
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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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GOP 12 and Business Insider
Erick Erickson / RedState:
We Forget
We Forget
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The Other McCain, The Lonely Conservative and Fox News
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Conservative Reaction To Election '12, Part II: More, Not Less, Ideology, Please
Conservative Reaction To Election '12, Part II: More, Not Less, Ideology, Please
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Hullabaloo, National Review and Eschaton
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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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite and msnbc.com, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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Business Insider, Booman Tribune, The Raw Story and The Week
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, Crooks and Liars, Weasel Zippers and Gawker
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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E! Online, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Guardian, The Daily Caller, DCist, The Raw Story and Gawker
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Biden to cameo on ‘Parks and Recreation’
Biden to cameo on ‘Parks and Recreation’
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CNN and nation.foxnews.com
Bill Carter / New York Times:
No Method Acting: On Sitcom, Biden Plays Biden
No Method Acting: On Sitcom, Biden Plays Biden
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Business Insider, Weekly Standard and NewsBusters.org
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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The Hinterland Gazette, Prairie Weather and msnbc.com
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Pew Hispanic Center:
Latino Voters in the 2012 Election
Latino Voters in the 2012 Election
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Firedoglake, PewResearch.org, Riptide 2.0, NBC Latino, The Atlantic Online, American Prospect and The Fix
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The GOP's Hispanic Nightmare
The GOP's Hispanic Nightmare
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Washington Monthly, National Review, The New Republic, Spectator, The Daily Beast and NBC Latino
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Poll: Latino Vote Devastated GOP Even Worse Than Exits Showed
Poll: Latino Vote Devastated GOP Even Worse Than Exits Showed
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Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online
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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Weekly Standard and Weasel Zippers
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Amid new challenges, Boehner stresses unity at leadership table
Amid new challenges, Boehner stresses unity at leadership table
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Politico
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, UrbanGrounds, Scared Monkeys, americanthinker.com and The Lonely Conservative
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.
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The Jawa Report
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Ann Coulter / Official:
DON'T BLAME ROMNEY — We spent billions of dollars and billions …
DON'T BLAME ROMNEY — We spent billions of dollars and billions …
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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 …
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Power Line, Battleground Watch and Israel Matzav
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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Hit & Run and Progressive Change …
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, Althouse, The Agonist, Outside the Beltway, Ballot Box, msnbc.com, americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
Karl Rove's election nightmare: Super PAC's spending was nearly for naught — Karl Rove was the political genius of the George W. Bush era — the architect of the last Republican president's two electoral victories. But this week, he may have had the worst election night of anybody in American politics.
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The Atlantic Online, Sunlight Foundation …, Election 2012 and First Read
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 …
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Wonkblog 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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The American Conservative, Brad DeLong, Mother Jones, The Mahablog, New York Times, Hot Air and RedState
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, CBS Chicago and Outside the Beltway
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.
Army Court-Martial Defense Specialist / The Law Office …:
PFC Manning's Offered Plea and Forum Selection — PFC Manning has offered to plead guilty to various offenses through a process known as “pleading by exceptions and substitutions.” To clarify, PFC Manning is not pleading guilty to the specifications as charged by the Government.
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Politico, Firedoglake, alexaobrien.com/secondsight, CNET, Wired and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Analysis: 20 states will run their health-law exchanges — Twenty states will operate their own insurance exchanges in 2014 under President Obama's healthcare law, according to a new analysis. — Avalere Health released its estimate after Obama won a second term on Tuesday …
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southernstudies.org and Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire
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.
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Washington Monthly, Power Line and Balloon Juice
MiamiHerald.com:
Last of ballots being counted by Miami-Dade; results expected by afternoon — Long voting lines in South Florida drew criticism, but nowhere was worse than Miami-Dade. Mayor Carlos Gimenez acknowledged some problems, and ordered a review. — CMORGAN@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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The Atlantic Online, Riptide 2.0 and Naked Politics