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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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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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Marc Caputo / MiamiHerald.com:
VIDEO: Obama to win Florida; becomes emotional during thank you speech — 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 …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney adviser concedes Florida vote to Obama
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, Ballot Box and Outside the Beltway
Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Adviser: Romney “shellshocked” by loss — Mitt Romney's campaign got its first hint something was wrong on the afternoon of Election Day, when state campaign workers on the ground began reporting huge turnout in areas favorable to President Obama: northeastern Ohio, northern Virginia, central Florida and Miami-Dade.
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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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Susan Davis / USA Today:
Boehner sees short-term budget fix — 8:00PM EST November 8. 2012 - WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says he will resist any effort to make major tax or spending changes in the lame duck session of Congress beginning next week, seeking instead a short-term deal to delay the year-end “fiscal cliff.”
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The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and New York Magazine
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans To Obama On Taxes: Let's Compromise By Not Raising Taxes
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The Daily Banter, Connecting.the.Dots and Crooks and Liars
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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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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Ashley Killough / CNN:
LaTourette: Tea party response to Romney loss is ‘crap’
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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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The New Republic, Sky Dancing, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Washington Examiner
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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CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette and FishbowlDC
Bill Maher / HBO:
Why the Republicans Lost — Mitt Romney has lost and he'll soon be accepting his new job as professor of method acting at The New School in New York City. And after watching him play all these different characters over the last two years, really, who better?
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The Daily Banter
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Exclusive: Clinton leads in Iowa '16 - poll — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would start out as a dominant favorite in the 2016 Iowa caucuses if she chooses to run for president, a new survey from Public Policy Polling finds. — The PPP poll, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO …
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The Argo Journal, LifeNews.com, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Fox News:
Iran fired at unarmed US drone, Pentagon says — Iran fired on an unarmed U.S. drone last week as it was hovering in international airspace, the Pentagon announced Thursday. — Spokesman George Little said the incident occurred Nov. 1 at 4:50 a.m. ET. He said the unarmed …
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone
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Mediaite, Guardian, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, The Mental Recession, Wired and The Agonist
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama gets emotional talking to campaign staff — (CNN) - Video of President Barack Obama's visit Wednesday to his campaign headquarters in Chicago shows the newly re-elected commander in chief becoming emotional while heralding the hard work of his young staffers.
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Taylor Marsh and Towleroad News #gay
Wall Street Journal:
¡Estimados Republicanos! — The GOP's immigration and Hispanic debacles. — In 2004, George W. Bush—an immigration-friendly Republican who spoke semi-passable Spanish—won re-election with about 40% of the Hispanic vote. This year, immigration hardliner Mitt Romney got about 27% …
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National Review, Hot Air, Pew Hispanic Center, Philly.com and New York Times
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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
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
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. ‘far gone’ — Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week's elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government.
Brian Vastag / Washington Post:
Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says — NOAA/REUTERS - Hurricane Sandy is seen churning northwards in this NOAA handout satellite image taken on October 25, 2012. According to climate scientists, the world could be in for a devastating increase …
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The Agonist
Joseph G. Cote / The Telegraph:
With state representive win, Laughton state's first openly transgender lawmaker — NASHUA - Overshadowed by the wave of historic results that emerged from Tuesday's election, including women taking the governor's office as well as two congressional seats and making New Hampshire the first state …
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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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, The New Republic, Hot Air, Breaking News …, 24Ahead, Power Line and Israel Matzav
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Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:
The Case of the Missing White Voters
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