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Alex Johnson / MSNBC:
Obama elected 44th president — ‘Change has come to America,’ first African-American leader tells country — Supporters of Barack Obama celebrate as they await his victory address at Grant Park in Chicago. — ‘End of a long journey’ — Nov. 4: John McCain concedes to Barack Obama …
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Obama Beats McCain to Become First Black President — McCain Graciously Concedes to Obama — Barack Obama cruised to victory Tuesday night in an historic triumph that promised change, overcame centuries of prejudice and fulfilled Martin Luther King's dream that a man be judged not by the color …
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Washington Post:
Obama Makes History — U.S. Decisively Elects First Black President; Democrats Expand Control of Congress — Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the nation's 44th president yesterday, riding a reformist message of change and an inspirational exhortation of hope to become the first African American to ascend to the White House.
Associated Press:Democrats unseat GOP House incumbents
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Roxana Tiron / The Hill:Murtha wins reelection despite controversial remarks
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Forbes:
Full Text: Obama's Victory Speech — Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama, as prepared for delivery — If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time …
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Fox News:
RAW DATA: Text of John McCain's Concession Speech — John McCain delivers his concession speech after losing the presidential election to Barack Obama — JOHN MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
Scott / Power Line:
TEN THESES ON PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA — The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States calls for reflections far beyond these provisional thoughts, but here are ten: — 1. The original thesis of the Obama candidacy was that, in a multiparty field …
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Memo to Political Commentators for the Next Four Years: With a switch from Republican to Democratic control of the White House a few weeks away, I thought I would remind political commentators of the new ground rules. — 1) Republicans Must Now Oppose Executive Power; Democrats Must Be In Favor Of It.
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John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle:
Battle over same-sex marriage ending — (11-04) 21:45 PST SAN FRANCISCO — After a heated, divisive campaign, fueled by a record $73 million of spending, California voters Tuesday were backing Prop. 8, which would change the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Lieberman: ‘I Fear’ That ‘America Will Not Survive’ If Democrats Get 60 Senate Seats — With the possibility that Democrats might soon gain a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has been openly flirting with thoughts of voting with his conservative colleagues.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:Don't Count on Joe — As everyone knows, Democrats …
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Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Bill Ayers Speaks — CHICAGO — In his first interview since he became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign, Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground leader, said today that he had a distant relationship with Barack Obama and that Obama's opponents had turned him into “a cartoon character.”
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David Remnick / New Yorker:MR. AYERS'S NEIGHBORHOOD — Early this morning, the Obama family voted …
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Salon
Michelle Malkin:
Obama's civilian security force: Billy club-wielding security guards at Philly polls — Here's the vid of billy club-wielding “security” guards at the 1221 Fairmount Ave. polling place in Philly from Election Journal. Just as I suspected, these guys look like NBPP from the emblem on one of the “guard's” jackets.
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Carrie Dann / MSNBC:
EMANUEL OFFERED TOP OBAMA SLOT — Three House Democratic sources confirmed Rep. Rahm Emanuel has been offered a Chief of Staff job with an Obama White House and is currently “agonizing” over whether to take the job.
Michelle Malkin:
Gird your loins, conservatives — There is no time to lick wounds, point fingers, and wallow in post-election mud. — I'm getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails. — What do we do now? We do what we've always done. — We stand up for our principles …
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Obama to Assemble Transition Team — Barack Obama will take office in 76 days, but the moves he begins making tomorrow will immediately begin to define his presidency. — He is expected to name a White House chief of staff in the next day or two, and the clear front-runner is Rep. Rahm Emanuel …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:For Obama, No Time for Laurels; Now the Hard Part
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Fox's Nina Easton: 'I think there's a real possibility' that this is now a ‘center-left’ country.» — This evening on Fox News, host Brit Hume commented, “It has been conventional wisdom for some time, and I certainly thought it was true, that this is a center right country.”
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Jim Manzi / The Corner:
Overcome — I have argued in this space that I believe that neither of this year's nominees was likely to be a successful President. I continue to believe that Barack Obama is likely to be a poor President who will attempt to implement policies that will be detrimental to the national interest.
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Looking for a Post-Election Republican Agenda?: Here's something I think the vast majority of Republicans/conservatives/libertarians can agree on: holding Obama to this pledge, made to the American public during the third debate: … UPDATE: Not that I expect this to happen …
Market Wire:
Republican National Committee Prepares for Computerized Voting Fraud Legal Battle — Forensicon, Inc., a Chicago-based computer forensics company, was contacted last Thursday by a security firm lining up vendors to assist the Republican National Committee with consulting related to potential allegations of computerized voter fraud.
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