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4:35 PM ET, November 12, 2013

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Christie's tea-party problem  —  The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses …
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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Racist Op-Ed Columns Are a Strange Business Strategy  —  I'm not sure what, if anything, Jeff Bezos will do to try to turn around the financial fortunes of the Washington Post.  But Richard Cohen's column today suggests one small step that the owner of the daily paper in a majority-black city could take …
Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Richard Cohen Has Written Something Insane About Interracial Marriage  —  Cotton-topped ladies man Richard Cohen hilariously poses as a “liberal” columnist at the Washington Post, despite being... how can we put this gently... a power-worshiping bigot.  Don't take our word for it.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo Publisher Calls Cohen Column ‘Brilliant’  —  Before Richard Cohen's latest column sparked widespread outrage, the publisher of the Washington Post praised the piece.  —  Katharine Weymouth tweeted a link to Cohen's column on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's (R) relationship with the tea party, which she hailed as “brilliant.”
Discussion: Mediaite and Feministing
President Bill Clinton / Ozymandias:
Assessing the Healthcare Rollout … When OZY sat down with President Clinton, one of the things we were most interested to hear were his impressions of the recent national health care rollout.  Here's what he had to tell us.  —  1. The country is better off with the Affordable Care Act than without it.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton: ‘President Should Honor the Commitment’ and Let People Keep Their Insurance Plans  —  Former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama should keep his pledge to allow people to keep their current health care plans, if they like them, under Obamacare:
Rush Limbaugh:
Clinton Lectures Obama: Keep Your Word
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Dem. Rep.: ‘I Think the President Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public’
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
BILL CLINTON TO OBAMA: ‘Honor Your Commitment’ On Obamacare
Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC poll: Christie faces divided GOP, trails Clinton in hypothetical '16 race  —  If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie runs for president in 2016, he would likely face the dual challenges of uniting a fractured Republican Party and besting a formidable Hillary Clinton in a general election, according to a new NBC News poll.
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Alex Bolton / The Hill:
Left wants challenger for Hillary
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Poll: Hillary Clinton 44, Chris Christie 34
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Dem poll: Kay Hagan lead vanishes  —  Incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) is near the top of national Republicans' target list for 2014 — and a new poll shows her lead over her potential GOP challengers has all but evaporated.  —  Against state House Speaker Thom Tillis, Hagan leads by only 2 points …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:   GOP on ObamaCare offense
David Shamah / The Times of Israel:
Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station  —  A cyber-security expert says several ostensibly secure facilities became victims of the virus that struck Iran's nuclear program  —  A Russian nuclear power plant was reportedly “badly infected” by the rogue Stuxnet virus …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP about to hurt itself again!:  New ploy to kill Obamacare will blow up  —  The new “Keep Your Health Plan Act” sounds great — but its timing reveals Republicans' dubious ulterior motives  —  Starting on Jan. 1, votes to repeal Obamacare will become votes to take health insurance away from a lot of people.
John Fund / National Review:
The Truth about Navigators  —  James O'Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR's president fired, is back.  —  This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare's …
Washington Post:
About 40,000 Americans are said to have signed up for plans on HealthCare.gov  —  Roughly 40,000 Americans have signed up for private insurance through the flawed federal online insurance marketplace since it opened six weeks ago, according to two people with access to the figures.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare's October Numbers Are Going to Be Low
Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
“Don't Get Screwed By Obamacare, Find A Sugar Daddy!”  Says Dating Website  —  Don't get screwed, by the government.  —  Seekingarrangement.com is a site that connects young females and older males for a “sugar daddy arrangement.”  —  seekingarrangement.com
Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
I've Got Whooping Cough.  Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy.  —  At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days.  Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months.  And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched …
Andrew Huszar / Wall Street Journal:
Confessions of a Quantitative Easer  —  We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street.  Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street.  —  I can only say: I'm sorry, America.  As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program …
Bryan Preston / CNN:
Voter ID critics proved wrong  —  Editor's note: Bryan Preston is editor at large of the conservative blog PJ Media.  He was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the “Laura Ingraham Show” and was communications director of the Republican Party of Texas.
Washington Post:
Virginia attorney general race: Herring takes lead, with a recount appearing likely  —  Democratic state Sen. Mark R. Herring took the lead in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race Monday evening, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Congressional Approval Sinks to Record Low  —  Current approval at 9%; 2013 average now 14%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' approval of the way Congress is handling its job has dropped to 9%, the lowest in Gallup's 39-year history of asking the question.  The previous low point was 10%, registered twice in 2012.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Reuters
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
Pro-Democratic super PACs outspend conservatives  —  Driven by two billionaires and organized labor, liberal super PACs get to an early start.  They are outspending conservative super PACs, but Republicans expect to catch up.  —  CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama …
 
 
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David Nutt / Guardian:
Alcohol without the hangover? It's closer than you think
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Wide-Open Race in 2016 Offers Ocean of Possibilities
Amy Snow Landa / capsules.kaiserhealthnews.org:
Washington State To 8,000 Obamacare Enrollees: ‘We Goofed On Cost Estimate’
Gene Healy / Washington Examiner:
Introversion isn't Obama's problem, his inability to tell the truth is
Associated Press:
Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story
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Public University's Plaque Labels President Lincoln A Democrat
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Why Obama Won't Bounce Back  —  History shows presidents …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
A New Firm Sets Out to Secure Women's Votes for a Vulnerable G.O.P.
Russell Berman / The Hill:
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