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Wall Street Journal:
Now We Can Get Congress Going — Reform the tax code, redefine ‘full time’ as working 40 hours a week, move on the Keystone XL pipeline—there are plenty of tasks ahead. — Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity …
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Obama Isn't Listening to Voters He Claims to Hear — “I hear you,” the president says. But he doesn't. — Shellacked and thumped by an angry electorate, President Obama declared to every American who voted in Tuesday's elections—and to those who've checked out of the political process—"I hear you."
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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.
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.
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New York Times:
Mr. Obama's Offer to Republicans — President Obama refused on Wednesday to submit to the Republican narrative that his presidency effectively ended with the midterm elections. — He said he will not agree to the repeal of health care reform, as many Republicans demand.
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Washington Post:
GOP crafts narrow agenda for new Congress, seeking unity, Democratic votes
GOP crafts narrow agenda for new Congress, seeking unity, Democratic votes
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell may be the greatest strategist in contemporary politics
Mitch McConnell may be the greatest strategist in contemporary politics
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
9 takeaways from the 2014 election
9 takeaways from the 2014 election
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Reid: Why can't we all just ... get along?
Reid: Why can't we all just ... get along?
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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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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Republicans now have historic majorities in state legislatures. That's a really big deal. — One Republican victory in the midterm elections has been mostly overlooked. Yes, Republicans took control of the Senate and a surprising number of governorships. But they also won a record number of state legislature seats.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Dana Milbank: Obama seems numb to this latest ‘shellacking’ of Democrats — “I hear you,” President Obama said to the voters who gave Democrats an electoral drubbing in Tuesday's midterm elections. — But their message went in one presidential ear and out the other.
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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.
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Brad Plumer / Vox:
The biggest loser in this election is the climate
The biggest loser in this election is the climate
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
CHARLES PIERCE LIVE BLOGGING: OPEN ALL NIGHT … 1:30AM — I think it was contemplating the fact that both Sam Brownback and Paul LePage both may have survived as governors that was the last straw for me tonight. Brownback has wrecked his state. Even Kansas Republicans believe that.
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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
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Tom Brune / Newsday:
Steve Israel, outgoing Democratic House campaign chief, sees 2016 hope — WASHINGTON — The political climate for Democrats can only get better in 2016, said Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on the day after Republicans swept into power in the Senate …
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
Losers — 1. Barack Obama is now a toxic brand. Arrogance and incompetence are a fatal brew. If once his problem was his failed policies, now it is also his persona, especially the blame-gaming and sense of boredom on the job that borders on public petulance, as if he came into the presidency to save us …
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Politico:
Personhood movement loses both state initiatives — The anti-abortion personhood movement failed key tests Tuesday in North Dakota and Colorado, with voters rejecting amendments to grant the unborn constitutional rights. — In North Dakota — a strongly anti-abortion state considered …
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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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