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Bruce Parker / Watchdog.org:
But wait, there's more: Fifth video shows Gruber mocking Vermonters — GIMME FIVE: Video from a 2011 Vermont House committee meeting shows Obamacare guru Jonathan Gruber insulting a Vermont citizen. — A video from Vermont shows Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber mocking a Vermonter …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did Jonathan Gruber earn 'almost $400,000′ from the Obama administration? — MIT economist Jonathan Gruber “was paid almost $400,000 by this administration.” — Republicans are demanding hearings into videos that have emerged in recent days of MIT professor Jonathan Gruber making impolitic remarks …
S.E. Cupp / CNN:
The guy who thinks voters are ‘stupid’ — Editor's note: S.E. Cupp is the author of “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity,” co-author of “Why You're Wrong About the Right,” a columnist at the New York Daily News and a political commentator for Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections) — For Democrats, Turnout Efforts Look Successful (Though Not Elections) — The turnout effort was relatively successful, even though Democrats failed to mobilize enough voters to win several important races.
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Washington Monthly and Bloomberg Politics
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Gruber Confession — It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch (the diplomatic cable Bismarck doctored to provoke the 1870 Franco-Prussian War). But what the just-resurfaced Gruber Confession lacks in world-historical consequence, it makes up for in world-class cynicism.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work
WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work
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Washington Post and Daily Signal
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Secret Emails of Potential Clinton Campaign Managers Revealed … For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the “Mook Mafia.”
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Erin McPike / CNN:
Rob Portman eyes WH run
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Newly Insured Through Exchanges Give Coverage Good Marks — Story Highlights — PRINCETON, N.J. — Over seven in 10 Americans who bought new health insurance policies through the government exchanges earlier this year rate the quality of their healthcare and their healthcare coverage as “excellent” or “good.”
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
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Billy House / National Journal:
Dems Deny Duckworth a Proxy Vote in Democratic Leader Elections — The pregnant Illinois congresswoman and wounded war veteran is unable to travel to D.C. — Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who is expecting a baby in December, is being denied a request to vote by proxy …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress
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Emily Cahn / Roll Call:
Mark Kirk: ‘No Frickin’ Way Am I Retiring' — Kirk says he'll run for a second term. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) — Sen. Mark S. Kirk, R-Ill., has a message for anyone who doubts his will or appetite for a second term. — “No frickin' way am I retiring,” he told CQ Roll Call …
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Duckworth interested in challenging Kirk for Senate seat in 2016
Duckworth interested in challenging Kirk for Senate seat in 2016
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
Dahlia Lithwick / The New Republic:
Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Columbia — The thing that scares me most about the Supreme Court — Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has emerged as one of the most ideologically aggressive in decades, and its rightward trajectory …
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Bush Tells Hannity Why He Refuses to Criticize Obama — Sean Hannity dedicated his entire show Thursday night to an extended interview for former President George W. Bush. At one point, Hannity expressed a little frustration over the fact that Bush is so reluctant to offer up any criticisms of President Barack Obama.
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CBS Miami:
Blind Man: Cops Arrested & Ditched Me By Side Of The Road — MIAMI (CBSMiami) — On August 27th at approximately 8:30 pm, four plain clothes Miami Dade Police officers pulled onto a dead end street in South Dade and arrested three young black men. The scene was captured on video camera.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Fox News, Where Conservative Senior Citizens Get to Look At Half-Naked ‘Girls’ — There's something almost endearing about the fact that in an age when there are literally millions of images and videos of humans without their clothes on available instantaneously to anyone with an internet connection …
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Washington Monthly and The Atlantic Online
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Loneliest President Since Nixon — Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond. — Seven years ago I was talking to a longtime Democratic operative on Capitol Hill about a politician who was in trouble. The pol was likely finished, he said. I was surprised.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big donors urge Warren to run — Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer. — The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars' welcome during …
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Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, Roll Call, Business Insider, The Lonely Conservative and Washington Times
Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Workers Promise Biggest Black Friday Strike Ever — A Black Friday protest outside of a St. Paul, Minnesota Walmart in 2013 — Walmart employees who are organizing as part of OUR Walmart are promising the biggest strikes ever on Black Friday, saying more employees will participate than the previous two years.
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The Huffington Post:
HUFFPOLLSTER: Three Theories For Why Polls Underestimated The GOP — Poll and poll averages generally understated Republican margins at the end of campaign 2014. We examine three theories that may explain why. This is HuffPollster for Friday, November 14, 2014.
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Politico:
Chris Christie's temperament spooks Wall Street — Top GOP donors still see the New Jersey governor as a risky investment. — Chris Christie has seemed on top of the world to donors and supporters in the days since the GOP racked up big wins in gubernatorial races with him leading the charge for the Republican Governors Association.
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Washington Monthly and No More Mister Nice Blog
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Obama's Unexpectedly Good Week — Eight days ago, President Obama went before the White House press corps to acknowledge the previous day's midterm-election results and take his knocks. “Obviously, Republicans had a good night,” he said. “And they deserve credit for running good campaigns.
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