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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver: Polls are failing us — Nate Silver fared terribly in Thursday's UK election: In his pre-election forecast, he gave 278 seats to Conservatives and 267 to Labour. Shortly after midnight, he was forecasting 272 seats for Conservatives and 271 for Labour.
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BBC:
Election 2015: Exit poll puts Tories close to majority — The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll. — The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The World May Have A Polling Problem — It's becoming increasingly clear that pre-election polls underestimated how well Conservatives would do and overestimated Labour's result. The BBC's exit poll was one early sign. But we're now seeing Conservatives outperform their poll-based projections …
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The Reaction, New York Times, Betsy's Page, Reuters, Guardian and Taylor Marsh
New York Times:
David Cameron and Conservatives Get Majority in British Election — LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservatives won a resounding victory in the British general election, with nearly complete results on Friday showing that the party had secured an overall majority in Parliament.
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P. J. O'Rourke / The Daily Beast:
Limey Liars & the Country That Doesn't Love Them
Limey Liars & the Country That Doesn't Love Them
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, Senators Both, Lead Republican Attacks on Congress — WASHINGTON — His voice exuding disgust, Jeb Bush could have been describing a blistering rash. — “I'm not a United States senator — thank God,” he told a ballroom full of people here the other day.
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Brendan Bordelon / National Review:
How Five Republicans Let Congress Keep Its Fraudulent Obamacare Subsidies — Health-care experts call it D.C. insiderism at its worst. — The rumors began trickling in about a week before the scheduled vote on April 23: Republican leadership was quietly pushing senators to pull support …
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Instapundit, Hot Air and Power Line
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Walker hits bump in '16 race
Walker hits bump in '16 race
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Hot Air, Liberaland, Washington Post, RedState, OnPolitics and Washington Monthly
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Lindsey Graham looking at June 1 to announce White House run, sources say — The announcement would likely take place in South Carolina, possibly near his home base of Seneca — Lindsey Graham is telling donors that June 1 is the likely date for his presidential announcement …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
The media's real role in 2016
The media's real role in 2016
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg View:
Hillary Clinton, Immigration Extremist
Hillary Clinton, Immigration Extremist
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Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Shows New Willingness to Tackle Risky Issues
Hillary Clinton Shows New Willingness to Tackle Risky Issues
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Hot Air, RealClearPolitics Videos, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, US News, Daily Kos, The Atlantic and Fox News
Sara Murray / CNN:
Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser — Washington (CNN)Jeb Bush cited his brother, former President George W. Bush, as one of his main advisers on the Middle East in a private meeting in Manhattan on Tuesday, according to three people who attended the off-the-record event.
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Washington Post:
One of Jeb Bush's top advisers on Israel: George W. Bush — When asked this week at an exclusive Manhattan gathering about who advises him on U.S.-Israel policy, Jeb Bush surprised many of the 50-plus attendees by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor.
Politico:
NSA ruling puts lawmakers on edge — Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell spar over the future of the National Security Agency's phone-data collection program after it was ruled illegal. — A court ruling against the National Security Agency's phone data collection Thursday sparked a war …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell, GOP defend NSA
McConnell, GOP defend NSA
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National Journal, Bloomberg View, American Civil Liberties Union, Hullabaloo, Politico and Boing Boing
Guardian:
Ed Miliband resigns as Labour leader — Miliband steps down after admitting scale of election defeat had taken him and his staff by surprise — A devastated Ed Miliband has resigned from the Labour party, saying he is truly sorry for the scale of the party's crushing defeat.
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Noelle Knox / POLITICO:
10 take-aways from the UK elections — What a breathless, barmy time this is. The exit polls made monkeys of us all, which was a fitting way for these Neanderthal elections to conclude. There is no silence more delicious than that of a political class gobsmacked into speechlessness.
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Meghan Barr / Associated Press:
Activist: No regrets about cartoon contest ended by gunfire — 6 photos — NEW YORK (AP) — Does Pamela Geller regret organizing the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in gunfire? — No, she says confidently. In fact, she says, she probably saved lives by hosting the event …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Peter King: Pam Geller Event Put “People's Lives At Risk For No Good Reason”
Peter King: Pam Geller Event Put “People's Lives At Risk For No Good Reason”
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly
Economist:
The dawn of artificial intelligence — Powerful computers will reshape humanity's future. How to ensure the promise outweighs the perils — From the print edition — “THE development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking warns.
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Shot in the Dark
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Added 223,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 5.4% — The American job market rebounded in April, the government said Friday, as employers added 223,000 positions and the unemployment rate decreased to 5.4 percent. — The April figures from the Labor Department came …
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ThinkProgress, Guardian, NPR, The Week and The Atlantic
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
‘Shawshank’ prison escape ends 56 years later with cinematic stakeout — A man convicted of manslaughter who escaped from an Ohio prison farm in 1959 was arrested in Florida Monday. But a friend says she hopes 79-year-old Frank Freshwater won't be sentenced. (AP)
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
How A Ragtag Group Of Lefties Mainlined Debt-Free College Into The Democratic Primary — A group of two dozen young activists working out of homes and coffee shops around the country has achieved something rather unusual: mainlining an idea into the upper echelons of the Democratic Party …
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