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11:55 AM ET, November 13, 2013

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Troubled HealthCare.gov unlikely to work fully by end of November — Software problems with the federal online health insurance marketplace, especially in handling high volumes, are proving so stubborn that the system is unlikely to work fully by the end of the month as the White House has promised …

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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:

It's Good That You Can't Keep Your Insurance Plan — Obama was wrong to mislead people but right to scrap dysfunctional insurance products. — “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” That was the promise Barack Obama made to insured Americans when stumping for his signature health insurance overhaul back in 2009 and 2010.

Discussion: Business Insider, First Read, The Week, The World's Greatest … and The Dish

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Obama is boxed in by Bill Clinton — President Obama scrambled to find a coherent response Tuesday after former President Clinton jammed the administration by saying it should keep its promise that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them.

Discussion: Instapundit

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Bill Clinton Is Wrong. This Is How Obamacare Works.

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Dean Baker / The Huffington Post:
The Obama Pledge on Keeping Your Insurance

Discussion: Eclectablog and Conservatives4Palin

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

A reversal of fortune for Democrats after Obamacare — Two months ago, polls showed Democrat Kay Hagan leading prospective opponents by double digits in her quest for a second term representing North Carolina in the Senate. — So why is she so nervous? — Well, her problem begins with Obamacare …

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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Obama's Image as “Strong and Decisive Leader” Takes a Hit

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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Feinstein becomes 5th Dem on bill fixing ObamaCare

Discussion: Wonkblog, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Ozymandias

Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
WebMD's healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama's critic-in-chief strikes again

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Phillip M. Bailey / WFPL:
Mitch McConnell Wants Kentucky Senate Race to Focus on Obamacare Woes

Discussion: Politico

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
NC Senate race tightens up

Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo

Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:

Exclusive: Obamacare's Mystery Woman Says She Fell Victim to Cyberbullies … The smiling woman who was once the face of the Affordable Care Act's website has come out of the shadows to stand up to the “cyberbullying” she says she suffered after the law's flawed kickoff.

Discussion: Washington Wire, Gawker, The Daily Caller, The PJ Tatler, The Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, National Review, ABC News and Yahoo! News

Tal Kopan / Politico:
Healthcare website photo: She smiled and now she speaks out

Discussion: Liberaland, The Daily Caller and National Review

Paul Farhi / Washington Post:

Controversy over Richard Cohen's comments on the de Blasio family — Richard Cohen has a knack for making venom-spewing enemies out of people who should be his allies. — Like on Tuesday, when The Washington Post columnist wrote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chances …

Discussion: Esquire, NewsBusters, ThinkProgress, Wonkblog, PostPartisan, Poynter, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Other McCain, The Week and The Atlantic Online

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Is Richard Cohen a Racist?

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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Richard Cohen Defends Column: ‘Word Racist Is Truly Hurtful’

Washington Post:

Democrat Mark Herring gets a leg up in Va. attorney general's race in late ballot count — State Sen. Mark R. Herring padded his still-narrow lead over state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain on Tuesday night in the race for Virginia attorney general, giving the Democrat an apparent 163-vote advantage …

Discussion: Business Insider, Outside the Beltway, Booman Tribune, Talking Points Memo and Election Law Blog

TIME:
With 106 Vote Attorney General Victory, Virginia Democrats Sweep State

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post

Elizabeth Titus / Politico:
Virginia AG race: Democrat widens lead

Discussion: CNN and The BRAD BLOG

Jose DelReal / Politico:

Charles Krauthammer: Death of ‘liberalism’ — Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer sees “the collapse of American liberalism” in sight, in no small part because of the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act. — “We have not just Obamacare unraveling, not just the Obama administration unraveling …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and p m carpenter's commentary

Ben White / Politico:

The Jeb Bush boomlet — Blankfein on Christie — Yellen hearing prep — THE JEB BUSH BOOMLET — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie gets all the love as the current GOP front-runner for 2016 (to the extent there can even be a front runner three years out.) But there is growing chatter in elite …

Al Kamen / In the Loop:

Tina Turner formally ‘relinquishes’ U.S. citizenship — This item just in via an “activity” report from the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, headlined “Soul Legend Relinquishes U.S. Citizenship.” — “Long-time Swiss resident Tina Turner” was in the embassy Oct. 24 to sign her …

Discussion: Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette and ImmigrationProf Blog

James Carville / TheHill:

Not so fast, my friend — In my column two weeks ago, I bet that Terry McAuliffe would have a decisive win in Virginia but that it wouldn't be enough for the Washington media elite. — Look, I'm not one of those people who always has to be right — when I'm wrong, I fess up.

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Republicans Again Reject Obama Pick for Judiciary — WASHINGTON — President Obama's latest choice to fill one of the vacancies on a powerful appeals court went down in a filibuster on Tuesday as Senate Republicans blocked another White House nominee — the third in two weeks …

Discussion: Master Feed and Washington Post

Niels Lesniewski / The World's Greatest …:
Democrats Closer to Deploying ‘Nuclear Option’ on Judges

Discussion: A plain blog about politics

Brett Norman / Politico:

Issa panel turns to Obamacare tech — The table is set for House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's first public feast on the Obamacare rollout disaster, with a handful of Obama administration tech officials set to testify under oath Wednesday. — But a full-blown committee food fight is already underway.

Discussion: CNN

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
CNN's Dana Bash: Friday ‘De Facto Deadline’ Before Dems ‘Defy’ Obama, Back GOP's Obamacare Fixes

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Plum Line and Roll Call

Dallas News:

One fired, three suspended after undercover health care video — By: myfoxdfw.com Staff - email — The Urban League of Greater Dallas fired one person and suspended three others after a video from a conservative activist reportedly showed the workers encouraging health care applicants to lie.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, National Review, Twitchy, UrbanGrounds, James O'Keefe's Project … and “The Lid”

ThinkProgress:

India's Top Police Official: 'If You Can't Prevent Rape, You Enjoy It' — India erupted in outrage Tuesday after the nation's top police official casually commented, “'If you can't prevent rape, you enjoy it.” — Ranjit Sinha, chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation …

Discussion: Liberaland, Guardian, India & World and Shakesville