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2:55 AM ET, November 6, 2014

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Ezra Klein / Vox:
9 takeaways from the 2014 election  —  1) The Democrats lost.  —  Badly.  This wasn't just a tough map.  Democrats lost Senate seats in Iowa and Colorado.  They lost governor races in Florida and Wisconsin.  Hell, they lost governor races in Illinois, Maryland, Maine, and Massachusetts!
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation  —  Well, that could have gone better.  —  Shares  —  A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell may be the greatest strategist in contemporary politics  —  Mitch McConnell's reelection tonight wasn't very newsworthy.  Polls had shown clearly for weeks that Allison Lundergan Grimes was far behind, and far behind is where you would expect a Democrat to be in Kentucky …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Reid: Why can't we all just ... get along?  —  Consider this karma avoidance by the soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader, but Harry Reid's new act won't fool anyone, least of all Mitch McConnell.  Reid has run the US Senate for the past eight years like a dictatorship, steadily eroding minority privileges …
Jay Newton-Small / TIME:
McConnell: No Shutdowns, No Full Obamacare Repeal
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Real Next Senate Majority Leader: Ted Cruz
Washington Post:
Transcript: President Obama's Nov. 5 news conference on midterm election results  —  President Obama held a news conference Nov. 5 at the White House to discuss the results of the midterm congressional elections .  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.  Have a seat.
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Washington Post:
GOP crafts narrow agenda for new Congress, seeking unity, Democratic votes
Discussion: New York Times, Techdirt and Hit & Run
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Hundred-year majority’ for House GOP?
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What really went wrong for Democrats  —  The most common explanation we're hearing for the GOP sweep of a dozen Senate races last night is that an already-treacherous map for Democrats was made a lot worse by the failure of core Dem voter groups to show up.  —  But multiple Democratic …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Firedoglake
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Here's Why the Democrats Got Crushed—and Why 2016 Won't Be a Cakewalk  —  Barack Obama has been elected president twice, but his party has now gotten drubbed in the two midterm elections held during his presidency.  He will face a Republican Senate and House.
Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal:
For Obama, a Harsh Referendum
Discussion: National Journal, Hot Air and The Hill
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin on election results: ‘This is a real ass-whuppin’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) did not mince words on Wednesday when asked to describe the historic losses by congressional Democrats.  —  “This is a real ass-whuppin,” he said.  —  Manchin is a moderate first-term senator …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell expected to woo King, Manchin
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   A stunning tidal wave of change in the Senate
Betsy Woodruff / Slate:
Wisconsin Three-Peat  —  Why no one can beat Scott Walker.  —  WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin—"First off, I want to thank God."  —  Gov. Scott Walker had just come on stage at the State Fair Exposition Center to give his third victory speech in four years, and the supporters mashed up in front of the stage were totally losing it.
Discussion: Althouse
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
Democrats Didn't Lose Governor's Races Because of a GOP Wave.  They Lost Because of Bad Candidates.  —  I knew Democrat Anthony Brown was in trouble in the race for Maryland governor when every single voter I spoke with Tuesday—including several who voted for Barack Obama …
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Washington Post:
Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor's race in stunning upset
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden revealed: Rob O'Neill named as SEAL Team Six hero who shot 9/11 mastermind three times in head - and has already inspired series of Hollywood films  — SEAL Rob O'Neill named ahead of Fox News interview in which he will tell how he killed bin Laden and why he is giving up his anonymity
Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
Congratulations, Voters.  You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.  —  In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama's environmental legacy.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Climate Change?  An Issue for Losers  —  Ross Douthat nails it in his NY Times blog post-mortem: … Andrew Restuccia notes in Politico: … Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Daily News: … The Keystone pipeline appears to have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, according to the National Journal:
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Tom Steyer, greens have rough night at the polls
Jay / Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com:
Alex Rodriguez's DEA confession: Yes, I used steroids from fake Miami doctor  —  ›  —  ‹  —  For 21 tumultuous months, New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has defiantly maintained he never used banned substances from a Coral Gables anti-aging clinic …
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, joined by his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, celebrates with his supporters at an election night party in Louisville,Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
EndPlay / Reuters:
The Democrats Lost Big Tonight.  Why Obama Should Double Down  —  If I were advising the White House right now, I would encourage President Obama to take advantage of the end of this year's election cycle—the next fifty or so days—to immediately try to change the subject, in a big way.
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Elects America's Youngest State Lawmaker  —  A West Virginia University freshman who did most of her campaigning out of her dorm room became the youngest state lawmaker in the nation Tuesday.  —  Republican Saira Blair, a fiscally conservative 18-year-old …
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
Democrats Sink to Pre-Great Depression Levels in State Legislatures
 
 
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Mia Love Argues with CNN Hosts: 'I Wasn't Elected' Because of My Race or Gender
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Outside Groups With Deep Pockets Lift G.O.P.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The 2014 electorate wasn't just older and whiter than 2012. It also voted more Republican.
Discussion: National Review and Bloomberg View
Politico:
Colorado to vote on personhood, again
Andrew Romano / Yahoo! News:
How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms
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Hurd upends Gallego in District 23
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Democrats' Southern Problem Reaches a New Depth
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
27 senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate
 

 
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