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7:30 PM ET, November 4, 2010

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The Politico:
Michele Bachmann bid adds drama to the GOP leadership race  —  House Republicans look like they've largely been spared any uncomfortable leadership races as they cruise into their robust new majority, except for one little speed bump: Michele Bachmann.  —  The often fiery and always …
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New York Times:
Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan  —  The PowerPoint slides presented to House Republicans in January 2009 seemed incongruously optimistic at a time when the very word “hope” belonged to the newly ascendant Democrats and their incoming president, Barack Obama.
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Rep. John Boehner Says President Obama and Democrats in ‘Denial’  —  Slurpee Summit?  Future Speaker Boehner Says He'd Prefer Merlot  —  Republican Rep. John Boehner, the likely next speaker of the House of Representatives, says he believes President Obama does not fully comprehend the meaning …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
GOP candidate slams the NRCC
Discussion: Riehl World View
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
McConnell: No Mood for Compromise
Discussion: The Politico and Moe Lane
John Thune / CNN:   America to Democrats: Stop what you're doing
Rasmussen Reports:
GOP Voters Like Three Candidates Best for 2012  —  OK, the election's over, and the message from most voters was that they didn't care much for President Obama's agenda.  Now the focus is on the race for the presidency in 2012.  —  On the Republican side, it's a dead heat between the ex-governors …
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Jsimoncnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama vs. Palin in 2012?  —  Washington (CNN) - His party got its clock cleaned in Tuesday's midterm elections, but according to a new national poll President Obama remains competitive in hypothetical 2012 presidential election matchups, especially against Sarah Palin.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Looking at the 2012 Presidential Field
Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway
NDTV.com:
34 warships sent from US for Obama visit  —  New Delhi: The White House will, of course, stay in Washington but the heart of the famous building will move to India when President Barack Obama lands in Mumbai on Saturday.  —  Communications set-up, nuclear button, a fleet of limousines …
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Cubachi:
Governor Christie to cut 1,200 public sector jobs, saving NJ millions  —  When Governor Christie set his sights on reducing the size of government and the debt in the Garden State, he is keeping that promise.  —  The governor announced that beginning January, he'll cut 1,200 state jobs saving New Jersey taxpayers $8.8 million.
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Chris Christie: ‘Zero chance’ for 2012 bid
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Chris Megerian / New Jersey Online:   Gov. Christie says N.J. to shed at least 1,200 public employees by next year
The Politico:
Top Blue Dog calls for Pelosi to quit  —  An elder statesman of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition is calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to step down from party leadership after a historic election in which she presided over the loss of 60 seats and control of the House.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Gateway Pundit
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Kathleen Hunter / Roll Call:
Shuler Threatens to Challenge Pelosi for Minority Leader
ABCNEWS:
Transcript: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Day After the Day After  —  O.K., you poor little Democrats.  Stop sobbing.  Lift up your little liberal heads and shout.  There's gonna be. ...  Umm.  —  Harry Reid!  There's gonna be more Harry Reid!  Nobody thought it could happen, but the charisma-challenged Senate majority …
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Cafe Hayek
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Defining “compromise”  —  Can we please bag this idea …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Booman Tribune
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Rep. Grayson: Dems lost because of ‘appeasement’  —  House Democrats were swept out of power because party leaders tried to hard to “appease” Republicans on major issues, said a high-profile member Thursday who lost his seat.  —  Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) said Democratic leaders …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Alan Grayson blames Dem ‘appeasement’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Emily Pierce / Roll Call:
Nelson: No Plans to Switch Parties
Discussion: The Atlantic Online and The Page
Joe Klein / Swampland:
Blue Dogs Dumped  —  Bill Galston has an elegant statistical analysis of what happened on Tuesday: it wasn't so much that Republican enthusiasm was up or Democratic fervor was down—there was a near symmetrical shift from blue to red among independents.  This stands to reason …
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William Galston / The New Republic:
It's the Ideology, Stupid
George F. Will / Washington Post:
A recoil against liberalism  —  Unwilling to delay until tomorrow mistakes that could be made immediately, Democrats used 2010 to begin losing 2012.  Trying to preemptively drain the election of its dangerous (to Democrats) meaning, all autumn Democrats described the electorate as suffering a brain cramp …
National Review:
The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward  —  Have an intelligent message, and fight for your right to be heard.  —  Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 midterm elections, it's slowly becoming clear just how monumental the results really are.  We saw an extreme left-wing agenda suffer a crushing defeat.
Discussion: CNN and Los Angeles Times
Jeremy P. Jacobs / Hotline On Call:
Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg.  Seats  —  While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats.  —  Republicans picked up 680 seats …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Pulling a Clinton?  —  John Harris, the noted Clinton biographer, considers the notion of a 1994 repeat:  —  [T[he widespread speculation that what Obama needs to do now is simply “pull a Clinton”—replicating Bill Clinton's comeback after being trounced by Newt Gingrich in 1994 …
Discussion: CNN and TalkLeft
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Mr. Obama, It's Time for Some Poetry
Keach Hagey / The Politico:
Kondracke: Palin's a ‘joke’  —  At the Roll Call/CQ election analysis session at the Ronald Reagan Building this morning, Roll Call Executive Editor and Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke blamed Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint for Republicans' failure to capture the Senate.
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
You think '10 was tough?  Check out '12  —  For the first time in two cycles, Democrats will have more seats up for grabs than the Republicans, and the party could see its shrunken majority erased altogether.  —  Several of the senators up for reelection came in on the 2006 Democratic wave …
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved use of waterboarding  —  Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice …
Ian Katz / Bloomberg:
Geithner Visited Jon Stewart in April, Though Not for Laughs  —  In the midst of debates on financial regulation and China's currency in April, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner sat down to discuss the U.S. economy — with comedian Jon Stewart.  —  Geithner and Stewart, host of Comedy Central's …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Harkin warns: No repealing or defunding healthcare reform on my committees  —  A well-placed Senate Democrat warned Thursday that efforts to scale back the new healthcare reform law will hit a brick wall in the upper chamber.  —  Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) — chairman of both the Senate Health Committee …
Discussion: CNN and JOSHUAPUNDIT
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Pawlenty Inadvertently Explains How House Republicans Are ‘Lying To You’ About Spending Cuts  —  As ThinkProgress has repeatedly noted, despite their professed commitment to cut government spending, most Republicans in Congress refuse to propose specifics that would actually cut spending in any significant way.
Discussion: Oliver Willis and Wonk Room
 
 
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Minnesota Public Radio:
Former Coleman attorney, law experts: Emmer has steep hill to climb
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Philip Wolgin / The Huffington Post:
Five Ways to Move Forward on Immigration
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
In Feingold's Loss, Independents Turn on One of Their Own
Discussion: Althouse
Nicholas Stephanopoulos / The Huffington Post:
A Rare Progressive Success
David Jackson / USA Today:
Obama, McConnell dispute the meaning of Tuesday's election
The Huffington Post:
Obama Can Pursue Ambitious Agenda Without Congress's Help
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Hartford Courant:
New Haven Votes Could Push Malloy Over The Top In Governor's Race
Discussion: Hotline On Call and The Fix
The Politico:
In 2012, could Dean beat Obama?
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
DNC memo on health care reform
Clay Dillow / Popular Science:
Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, Scientist Makes …
Discussion: Watts Up With That? and Raw Story
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Bill Moyers: “Welcome to the Plutocracy!”
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