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Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
Romney campaign: We lost Florida — President Obama will win Florida when all votes are counted, judging from the makeup of the ballots still outstanding from heavily Democratic counties. — MCAPUTO@MIAMIHERALD.COM — Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured …
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Washington Monthly, The Caucus, Advocate and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
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Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Why Obama wins Florida — Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured a victory in Florida because the lion's share of the outstanding ballots come from Democratic-heavy counties. — Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by 58,055 votes — or 49.92 percent to 49.22 …
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Orlando Sentinel, Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and Riptide 2.0
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney adviser concedes Florida vote to Obama
Romney adviser concedes Florida vote to Obama
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Ballot Box and New York Magazine
Joshua Green / Business Week:
Obama's Holding the Cards — At first glance, the results of the 2012 election look like a return to the status quo: President Obama was reelected, Democrats retained the Senate, and Republicans held on to the House. But don't be fooled. The political dynamic of the next four years …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
John Thune clears way for John Cornyn ascension — John Cornyn's path to become the Senate GOP's No. 2 Republican is now clear after a potential challenger decided against challenging the Texas Republican for the plum spot. — South Dakota Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) informed his colleagues Thursday …
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Washington Monthly, CNN, The Hill and LifeNews.com
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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Hot Air, BobKrumm.com, Breaking News …, Power Line, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Battleground Watch, 24Ahead and Israel Matzav
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
The Case of the Missing White Voters
The Case of the Missing White Voters
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National Review, The PJ Tatler, ABCNEWS and American Spectator
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The GOP's Hispanic Nightmare
The GOP's Hispanic Nightmare
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National Review, The Atlantic Online, The New Republic, Spectator, The Daily Beast, Washington Monthly, TIME and NBC Latino
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Rove: Obama won ‘by suppressing the vote’ — GOP strategist Karl Rove went on Fox News today to argue that President Barack Obama “succeeded by suppressing the vote” — an argument that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that Romney failed to appeal to non-white and female voters.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and FishbowlDC
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jon Stewart Gleefully Rips Into Fox News Election Coverage: ‘Avalanche On Bullsh*t Mountain’
Jon Stewart Gleefully Rips Into Fox News Election Coverage: ‘Avalanche On Bullsh*t Mountain’
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Business Insider, Booman Tribune, CANNONFIRE, The Raw Story and The Week
First Read:
The last days of Romneyland — BOSTON — From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.
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Angry Black Lady Chronicles, Sky Dancing, Little Green Footballs and Washington Examiner
Barbara Starr / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone — Two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf on November 1, the Pentagon disclosed on Thursday. — The incident, reported first by CNN, raised fresh concerns within the Obama administration …
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Guardian, The Mental Recession, Wired, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America, Atlas Shrugs and The Agonist
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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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The Raw Story, Human Events, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Wonkette, UrbanGrounds, Wake up America, Balloon Juice, Gawker and THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE
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 Hill, The Daily Caller, DCist, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, Gawker and The Raw Story
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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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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, Weekly Standard and NewsBusters.org
Marc Ambinder / GQ:
How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney — At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: “Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue.”
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Politicker and Strange Bedfellows
Lindsay Young / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
Outside spenders' return on investment — Tuesday's elections produced some big winners — and some really big losers — whose names never appeared on any ballot. After outside groups spent more than $1.3 billion in independent expenditures to influence the outcome of the election …
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Politico, msnbc.com, Election 2012, The Raw Story, Booman Tribune, Business Insider and Prairie Weather
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Michael Isikoff / Open Channel:
Karl Rove's election nightmare: Super PAC's spending was nearly for naught
Karl Rove's election nightmare: Super PAC's spending was nearly for naught
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First Thoughts: Back to work
First Thoughts: Back to work
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New York Times, BillMoyers.com and Connecting.the.Dots
John Parkinson / ABCNEWS:
Boehner Exclusive: Raising Tax Rates ‘Unacceptable’ but Will Put New Revenue on Table — Raising tax rates is “unacceptable” to House Speaker John Boehner as he prepares to open negotiations on the looming “fiscal cliff” with the president and congressional Democrats, he told “World News” …
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The Hill, CNN, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Towleroad News #gay and Washington Post
Terrence Dopp / Political Capital:
Obama's Congrats Caller: Christie — President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie look at storm damage along the coast of New Jersey from Marine One, on Oct. 31, 2012. — Chris Christie, who last year dashed many Republicans' hopes by turning down pleas to challenge President Barack Obama …
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Weasel Zippers, The Hill, Gawker, New York Magazine and Wonkette
Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Jared Loughner sentenced to life in Tucson mass shooting — Jared Lee Loughner, who shot former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head, killed six and wounded 12 others in a 2011 Tucson rampage, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after listening to some of his victims berate him for damaging their lives.
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The Jawa Report, NewsBusters.org blogs and Outside the Beltway
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Giffords confronts her shooter in court: ‘Done thinking about you’
Giffords confronts her shooter in court: ‘Done thinking about you’
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Politico and Associated Press
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
As Nation and Parties Change, Republicans Are at an Electoral College Disadvantage — Two more presidential elections, 2016 and 2020, will be contested under the current Electoral College configuration, which gave Barack Obama a second term on Tuesday. This year's results suggest …
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A plain blog about politics, CNET and Donklephant
Julian Walker / Virginian-Pilot:
McAuliffe tells Dems he's running for governor — Terry McAuliffe's head fakes about his widely presumed 2013 run for governor have come to an end. — The Northern Virginia businessman is now formalizing plans for his second gubernatorial bid and has begun the process of phoning key Democrats to inform them of his plans.
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Ballot Box, Politico, Taylor Marsh, Election 2012 and Hotline On Call
Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Federal Judge on Ohio's Ballot Order: ‘Democracy Dies in the Dark’ — There are hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count in Ohio — and a federal judge is angry about how the secretary of state there plans to count them. — Reuters — On the day after Election Day …
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Plain Dealer
Glen Johnson / Boston Globe:
Mitt Romney planned Boston Harbor fireworks show that was scotched by election loss — Mitt Romney had planned to celebrate his election as the nation's 45th president with an eight-minute fireworks display over Boston Harbor. — The same company that does some of the illuminations …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Guardian, The Hill and Towleroad News #gay
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Conservative Reaction To Election '12, Part I: Despair Not Denial — By and large, I've been surprised by the relative docility with which conservative voices have accepted their defeat on Tuesday. Once the deal went down, there was relatively little talk about “voter fraud” or stolen elections.
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The Moderate Voice, Paul Krugman, BuzzFeed, Hullabaloo, BREITBART.COM, 24Ahead, Maggie's Farm and Power Line
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Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Bitterfest 2012 — Four years ago, at just this time …
Bitterfest 2012 — Four years ago, at just this time …
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Power Line and Balloon Juice
JohnE / Ace of Spades HQ:
The Unmitigated Disaster Known As Project ORCA — What is Project Orca? Well, this is what they told us: … Pretty much everything in that sentence is false. The “massive undertaking” is true, however. It would take a lot of planning, training and coordination to be done successfully (oh, we'll get to that in a second).
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Battleground Watch
Philly.com:
Vote was astronomical for Obama in some Philadelphia wards — Some Philadelphia neighborhoods outdid themselves in Tuesday's presidential election. — In a city where President Obama received more than 85 percent of the votes, in some places he received almost every one.
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Pundit Press, Weasel Zippers, Sky Dancing, The Lonely Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
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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The Lonely Conservative, Politico, Little Green Footballs and The Other McCain
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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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Wonkblog, Hullabaloo and Eschaton
Mark Hansel / Cincinnati.com:
Race tied after candidate's wife doesn't vote — Robert McDonald learned the hard way that every vote counts. — McDonald, who is known to most people as Bobby, finished in a dead heat Tuesday with Olivia Ballou for the sixth and final seat on the Walton City Council.