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10:15 PM ET, November 14, 2008

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The Huffington Post:
Clinton Met With Obama About Role In New Administration  —  A Democratic official confirms to the Huffington Post that Sen. Hillary Clinton met with President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss her role in the new administration.  —  Clinton's trip to Chicago, described in press reports as …
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Jennifer Parker / Political Radar:
Details on Hillary-Barack Meeting  —  ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports: President-elect Barack Obama met with Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Thursday in Chicago to discuss the possibility of the senator becoming secretary of state.  —  A source with knowledge of the transition process describes the meeting as not a hard offer.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and Kevin Drum
The Trail / Washington Post:
Clinton, Richardson on Short List for Secretary of State  —  President-elect Barack Obama met Friday with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in Chicago, Democratic sources said, and is under consideration to be Secretary of State in the Obama administration.  —  News of the meeting comes …
Jodi Kantor / The Caucus:
Obama Hires Jarrett for Senior Role  —  Nearly two decades ago, Valerie Jarrett hired a young lawyer named Michelle Obama for a job at Chicago's City Hall.  Now President-elect Barack Obama has hired Ms. Jarrett for a senior role in the White House.  —  Ms. Jarrett's role will be threefold …
Discussion: Marc Ambinder and TIME.com
Marc Ambinder:
What Hillary Clinton Gets Out Of A Cabinet Spot, And Other Thoughts  —  1. There's was a private meeting.  Contrary to what I said earlier, Rahm Emanuel wasn't in the room.  He was in DC.  But no one was in the room with the principals.  —  2. The meeting was not a formal interview …
Glenn Thrush / The Crypt's Blogs:
Source: Clinton serious about SoS
Discussion: City Room and New York Times
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
HRC for Secretary of State: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Hillary Clinton For Secretary Of State
TPM Election Central:
Bernie Sanders Joins Leahy In Demanding Ouster Of Lieberman From Chairmanship  —  Okay, we now have a second Senator who's stepped up and joined Senator Patrick Leahy in calling on Democrats to boot Joe Lieberman from his plum slot atop the Homeland Security committee.
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Kos / Daily Kos:
CT-Sen: Hatin' Joe in Connecticut  —  Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/11-13.  Likely voters.  MoE 4% (6/30-7/2 results) … Brutal.  It seems that the people of Connecticut don't like the Republican version of Lieberman, the one that trashed Democrats on the campaign trail with John McCain …
Bob Kinzel / Vermont Edition:   Vermont Edition: Friday November 14, 2008
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
AUDIO: Leahy Says Lieberman Should Lose His Chairmanship
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Vote tally trend favors Begich for Senate  —  SENATE RACE: With Stevens strongholds still uncounted, leader isn't celebrating yet.  —  scockerham@adn.com  —  More than half the absentee and questioned ballots still to be counted in Alaska's U.S. Senate race come from areas of the state …
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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Begich lead increases in race for Senate  —  Mark Begich has extended his lead over Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens to 1,022 votes with the latest count of absentee and questioned ballots.  The Elections Division counted 14,508 ballots today.  The count of absentee and questioned ballots will pick up Tuesday.
Discussion: The Fix, TPM Election Central and MyDD
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
BOBBY JINDAL STEPS UP.  —  The Republican ticket this year was notable for refusing to run on any policy innovations or substantive accomplishments whatsoever.  In retrospect, most people think that a mistake.  And so you're going to see a real effort in the GOP over the next few years …
Discussion: Wonk Room
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good.  “There's nothing going on.  I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I'm with haven't fired their weapons …
DEBORAH SOLOMON / New York Times:
Party Loyalist  —  Do you see the election results as a repudiation of your politics?  —  Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
RISING TO THE MOMENT  —  We've been fielding emails all day in response to this morning's post on ‘drift’.  And the ones that have particularly stuck out to me are the ones about bailing out the auto industry.  Quite a few readers are of the opinion either that the Big Three are ground central …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Scott Horton / Harper's:
A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?  —  Gene Burns is one of the nation's most popular talk radio hosts.  For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture.  But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood …
The Trail / Washington Post:
McCain-Obama Meeting Set in Motion by Graham  —  The upcoming meeting between President-elect Barack Obama and his onetime rival Sen. John McCain was set in motion during a phone call over the weekend between Obama and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), McCain's closest friend.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Nitya / Political Radar:
Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge  —  ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A conservative California congressman announced Friday that he's mounting a leadership challenge to House Minority Leader John Boehner, as the GOP continues to assess the fallout from last week's election losses.
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Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:   Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot
John Derbyshire / The Corner:
The Libertarian Temptation  —  A reader who, if not disgruntled, is certainly very far from being gruntled: … Hmm.  As the parent of two teenagers, I come out in hives when someone tells me something is “cool.”  As for “sexually repressed bigoted” etc.; I thought Sarah Palin kicked …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Will Wilkinson:
Failure: For Our Future  —  Megan McArdle has been righteous on the Detroit bailout.  The argument from justice is most hard-hitting in this post.  Lots of companies fail.  Lots of cities, built around those companies, decline.  If employees of the Big Three deserve to have taxpayers pay part …
Discussion: The Confabulum and The Corner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Takes On Campaign Finance Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday added two cases to its docket arising from hard-fought elections, including one concerning whether a film critical of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and advertisements for it are subject to regulation under the campaign finance laws.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Democratic Pressure on Obama to Restore the Rule of Law  —  In a Senate hearing room in September, weeks before Barack Obama won the election, a series of law professors, lawyers and civil libertarians outlined one of the biggest challenges that will be facing the next president …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Peter Robinson / Forbes:
The Loss Of Individual Liberty  —  The challenge for this generation is to get it back.  —  Over dinner with Milton Friedman several years before he died, I offered the great man a compliment.  He refused it.  —  I had just re-read God and Man at Yale, the 1951 book in which William F. Buckley Jr. …
 
 
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Katie Allison Granju / Because I said so:
From the mouths of (political) babes
Discussion: Mere Rhetoric and Moonbattery
Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Aide to Boxer Fired After Being Charged in Child Pornography Sting
Kimberly Hefling / Associated Press:
Mayors of Philadelphia, Phoenix seek bailout share
Jaxon Van Derbeken / San Francisco Chronicle:
Suspect in 14-year-old S.F. boy's slaying had avoided deportation
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New York Times:
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Discussion: Gothamist
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
In Praise of Irish Corporate Taxes
Mark Mooney / ABCNEWS:
Campaign Bogeyman William Ayers Talks to ‘GMA’