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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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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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Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Republican Party begins election review to find out what went wrong
Republican Party begins election review to find out what went wrong
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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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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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Let's Not Make a Deal — To say the obvious: Democrats won an amazing victory. Not only did they hold the White House despite a still-troubled economy, in a year when their Senate majority was supposed to be doomed, they actually added seats. — Nor was that all: They scored major gains in the states.
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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
Romney adviser concedes Florida vote to Obama
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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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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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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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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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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
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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Sky Dancing, Angry Black Lady Chronicles and Washington Examiner
Telegraph:
HSBC investigation: Drug dealers, gun runners and Britain's biggest bank — Britain's biggest bank is at the centre of a major HM Revenue and Customs investigation after it opened offshore accounts in Jersey for serious criminals living in this country, The Telegraph can disclose.
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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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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 Thune clears way for John Cornyn ascension
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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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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.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
For Romney, All His Career Options Are Still Open. Except One. — BOSTON — They predict he will write a book, convinced that the daily diary he kept on the campaign trail would make for a compelling read. — They speculate that he will return to the corridors of finance …
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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Timothy Stenovec / The Huffington Post:
Legal Weed: Marijuana More Popular Than Barack Obama In Colorado … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Denver News, Smoking, Video, Marijuana, Colorado Weed, Campaign To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, Colorado Amendment 64, Colorado Legal Marijuana, Colorado Marijuana Legalization, Colorado Politics …
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