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CBS News:
Poll: Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows — President Obama's job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it's lowest since CBS News started polling on the law.
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama hits new low with Dems — President Obama's relationship with congressional Democrats has worsened to an unprecedented low, Democratic aides say. — They are letting it be known that House and Senate Democrats are increasingly frustrated, bitter and angry with the White House …
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Jeffrey Young / The Huffington Post:
Obama Administration Maps Out Detour Around HealthCare.gov — WASHINGTON — People interested in buying health insurance under Obamacare could soon skip the HealthCare.gov website and apply for coverage and financial assistance directly with private insurance companies and online brokers …
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
The right's in a box: Here's how GOP loses Obamacare fight — The amazing politics of Obamacare's success stories — especially in Kentucky — could cost the GOP their leader — The fact that Affordable Care Act enrollments are spiking in states that have functioning exchange websites …
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The Week, The Impolitic, NewsBusters, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Taylor Marsh and Liberal Values
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Jonathan Kaminsky / Reuters:
Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers
Oregon healthcare exchange website never worked, has no subscribers
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Hit & Run, Washington Post and Weekly Standard
Peter Berkowitz / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Slow Learning Curve
Obama's Slow Learning Curve
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JustOneMinute and Questions and Observations
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
The Obamacare Crisis — Health care as a necessity comes …
The Obamacare Crisis — Health care as a necessity comes …
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Hot Air, Via Meadia, The Incidental Economist, Power Line and American Spectator
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Utah town forgets to hold election — again — Wallsburg » New recorder forgot to announce opening of filing period. — | The Salt Lake City — In the Wasatch County town of Wallsburg, the city employee responsible for oversight of elections brought new meaning to the job description by overlooking the election altogether.
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Paul Foy / MiamiHerald.com:
Nobody home: Utah town forgets to hold election — SALT LAKE CITY — A tiny Utah town had to skip an election earlier this month because part-time officials forgot to advertise or prepare for it — and it wasn't their first election flub. — Wallsburg, population 275 in the Wasatch Mountains 40 miles …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Utah Town Forgot To Hold Municipal Election In November
Utah Town Forgot To Hold Municipal Election In November
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Washington Post:
Three nearby hospitals with psychiatric units had room for Deeds's son on Monday — At least three hospitals near Bath County had available beds the day before the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds apparently stabbed his father and then shot himself to death, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Creigh Deeds's condition upgraded to good
Creigh Deeds's condition upgraded to good
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Talking Points Memo
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
The three things we learned from today's Obamacare update — Every day, usually around 2 p.m. or so, the Center for Medicare Services hosts a half-hour long call on the status of the insurance marketplace. Now, every day, we here at Wonkblog will update you on what the federal government told us about how Obamacare is going.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature
Obamacare bombshell: IT official says HealthCare.gov needs payment feature
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Washington Post, National Review, JustOneMinute and Patterico's Pontifications
ABC News:
Exclusive: US May Have Let ‘Dozens’ of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees … Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating …
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Hot Air, The Raw Story, Jihad Watch, Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon, Atlas Shrugs and Israel Matzav
Ed O'Keefe / Post Politics:
Radel didn't inform Boehner of arrest until Tuesday — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) did not vote Wednesday afternoon on a series of procedural matters hours after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court. — Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) (AP)
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Poll: Americans Think Obamacare Will Help the Poor, Not the Country — United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll finds public opinion on the health law remarkably steady despite rollout troubles. — More Americans continue to say that President Obama's health care law …
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and No More Mister Nice Blog
Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times D.C. shake-up — New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt will step down and be replaced by political editor Carolyn Ryan, sources familiar with the decision told POLITICO on Wednesday. — Leonhardt, who was appointed bureau chief shortly after Jill Abramson …
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Washington Post:
Obama says Republicans share some blame for health-care law's failures — President Obama on Tuesday sought to redirect some of the political blame for the botched rollout of the federal health insurance exchange to Republicans, characterizing GOP lawmakers as rooting for the law's failure.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Twisted Sister, and Brothers — WASHINGTON — And I thought my family Thanksgivings were rough. — My sister, who loved W. and worked on his 2000 convention, made it clear that I was not welcome in her guest room when I was writing about the phony run-up to the Iraq war.
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
HealthCare.gov Greets Sebelius With Error Message While Touting Law In Miami (VIDEO) — The plagued federal health exchange website HealthCare.gov greeted President Barack Obama's top health official with an embarrassing error message while on a trip promoting the Affordable Care Act in Miami on Tuesday.
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Healthcare Reform and Outside the Beltway
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Ted Cruz to Chris Cuomo: Thanks for lecture — Sen. Ted Cruz faced pointed questioning from CNN host Chris Cuomo on Wednesday, with the Texas Republican at one point thanking Cuomo for the lecture. — Cuomo asked Cruz on CNN's “New Day” on Wednesday what the senator has proposed to replace Obamacare …
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — November 20, 2013 - Christie Leads Clinton In Colorado In 2016 Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama Hits The Rocks In The Rockies — In an early look at the 2016 race for the White House, New Jersey Republican Gov. Christopher Christie tops former Secretary …
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Scott Gordon / nbcdfw.com:
North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood — Fort Worth police apologize for its role in federal survey — Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors …
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Spokesman.com:
Aryan Brotherhood may target teen suspects, police say — Two Spokane teenagers accused of killing a World War II veteran during a parking lot robbery may have been targeted by the Aryan Brotherhood, a California-based white supremacist prison gang. — Court documents indicate Spokane police learned …
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Sex in the Senate — Bobby Baker's salacious secret history of Capitol Hill. — On Jan. 1, 1943, Robert Gene Baker arrived in Washington at the height of World War II to become a Senate page. Two decades later, this son of a mailman from Pickens, S.C., had become the reigning Washington wheeler-dealer …
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