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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Republicans not handling election results well — PPP's first post election national poll finds that Republicans are taking the results pretty hard...and also declining in numbers. — 49% of GOP voters nationally say they think that ACORN stole the election for President Obama.
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Nearly Half Of Republicans Believe Defunct Organization Stole The Election For Obama — Forty nine percent of Republicans believe that President Obama won reelection thanks to the allegedly illegal work of a group that no longer exists, according to a Public Policy Polling survey.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
That Pesky ACORN, and a Surge of Interest in Panetta-Burns — Public Policy Polling clearly decided to have some fun in its first post-election national survey. Take it away, Tom Jensen! … During the “secession crisis” of 1861 that ultimately led to the Civil War, the crucial “swing” …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench — The post-election soul searching going on inside the Republican Party is taking place inside Fox News as well. Fox News chief Roger Ailes, a canny marketer and protector of his network's brand, has been taking steps since November to reposition Fox …
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
When Roger Ailes tried to play kingmaker
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Lack of rank-and-file House GOP backlash hints at softening on taxes — Republicans appeared Tuesday to be moving reluctantly toward a debt deal that would increase revenues, one day after Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) offered up $800 billion in tax collection in the fiscal-cliff negotiations.
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Billy House / NationalJournal.com:
Boehner Backlash Begins on Right Over Fiscal Cliff — Conservative groups tongue-lash speaker for fiscal cliff proposal. — House Speaker John Boehner at a Capitol Hill press conference. — Scoot over Democrats. The Far Right is launching its own attacks against Speaker John Boehner
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Bloomberg:
Obama Sets Higher Top Tax Rate as Prelude to Fiscal Deal
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Jonathan Strong / Roll Call:
Dissidents Pushed Off Prominent Committees
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DP Show / The Dan Patrick Show:
Bob Costas explains why he made gun commentary at halftime of Sunday night game — NBC's Bob Costas joined the show to talk about his comments on the Jevon Belcher tragedy and more. — Costas explained why he chose to make a statement on gun control at halftime of Sunday night's Eagles-Cowboys game.
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Cindy Boren / The Early Lead:
Bob Costas calls Jovan Belcher commentary “a mistake”
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
How Unhinged Rhetoric Sank a Disabilities Rights Treaty in the Senate — The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities failed to capture the 2/3 vote needed for ratification in the U.S. Senate today due to fierce Republican opposition. Many Republicans and their allies …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Senate rejects treaty to protect disabled around the world — J. Scott Applewhite/AP - Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), center, gestures during a news conference in Washington, Dec. 3, 2012, to urge Senate approval of an international agreement for protecting the rights of individuals with disabilities.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Dick Armey, FreedomWorks president clashed over book deal — Dick Armey left the deep-pocketed tea party group he helped build over a clash with a top lieutenant who Armey and others in the organization believed was using the group's resources to pad his pockets, POLITICO has learned.
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Walter Hickey / Business Insider:
47% Of People Think The Deficit Would INCREASE If We Go Over The Fiscal Cliff — As the Fiscal Cliff fight rages on, both sides are using the media to position themselves as being serious and reasonable. — One big factor is that for all the hype about the issue, very few people really understand what The Fiscal Cliff actually is..
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
One in four Americans has an opinion about an imaginary debt plan
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Ryan, Rubio Distance Themselves From Romney, Call For GOP Focus On Those “Struggling” — Potential 2016 candidates make a move. — Image by Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP — WASHINGTON — In their most substantive remarks since the presidential election, former Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan …
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Alicia Mundy / Wall Street Journal:
Adelson to Keep Betting on the GOP — LAS VEGAS—After spending more than $100 million mostly on losing Republican election campaigns this year, casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson said he planned to stay in the game and double down on his political donations.
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Romy Varghese / Bloomberg:
Pennsylvania Step May Help Republicans Win Electoral Vote — A Pennsylvania lawmaker's plan to divvy up electoral votes based on a presidential candidate's public support may be just the first of many state legislative moves to alter the way the nation chooses a leader.
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Simon Kennedy / Bloomberg:
Gorman Skips Business, Jain Likes Faulks: Best Books of 2012 — What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year? — We asked chief executive officers, policy makers, investors, economists, academics and authors to tell us their favorites. Most chose new titles …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Arizona senators don't know Gov. Jan Brewer's whereabouts — Arizona Sens. John McCain (R) and Jon Kyl (R) said Tuesday they have no idea where Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) is. — “No, everybody keeps asking me that,” Kyl told The Hill. “I didn't know she was missing.” — McCain answered similarly.
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Ted Nugent / Washington Times:
U.S. sailed off the ‘fiscal cliff’ long ago — We created Fedzilla; now it's time to kill it — Only a Fedzillacrat could possibly think raising taxes on the wealthy could accomplish anything toward restoring sanity in the financial insane asylum known as our federal government.
TMZ.com:
Mitt Romney Hits Costco — Buys Toy Car (Manufactured in China) — HITS COSTCO — Buys Toy Car (Manufactured in China) — EXCLUSIVE — Mitt Romney went on MASSIVE (and fiscally responsible) shopping spree at a Costco near his home in La Jolla, CA this week ... stocking up on all sorts of goods …
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New York Post:
Queens dad pushed to his death by madman in Times Square subway station — Ki Suk Han, 58, of Queens frantically tries to climb to safety yesterday as a train bears down on him in Midtown. He was fatally struck seconds later. — A Queens dad trying to protect fellow straphangers …
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