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1:10 PM ET, November 12, 2013

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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Christie's tea-party problem  —  The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide reelection as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Express out to Iowa, surveying its various newspapers, blogs and such to see how he might do in the GOP caucuses …
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Mark Murray / NBCNews:
NBC poll: Christie faces divided GOP, trails Clinton in hypothetical '16 race  —  If New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie runs for president in 2016, he would likely face the dual challenges of uniting a fractured Republican Party and besting a formidable Hillary Clinton in a general election, according to a new NBC News poll.
Alex Bolton / The Hill:
Left wants challenger for Hillary  —  Liberal leaders want Hillary Clinton to face a primary challenge in 2016 if she decides to run for president.  —  The goal of such a challenge wouldn't necessarily be to defeat Clinton.  It would be to prevent her from moving to the middle during the Democratic primary.
Politico:
Wall Street's nightmare: President Elizabeth Warren  —  NEW YORK — There are three words that strike terror in the hearts of Wall Street bankers and corporate executives across the land: President Elizabeth Warren.  —  The anxiety over Warren grew Monday after a magazine report suggested …
Discussion: Power Line, WJLA-TV and The Raw Story
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Poll: Hillary Clinton 44, Chris Christie 34
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
‘Super PAC’ Gets Early Start on Pushing for a 2016 Clinton Campaign
Discussion: NBCNews and Liberaland
President Bill Clinton / Ozymandias:
Assessing the Healthcare Rollout … When OZY sat down with President Clinton, one of the things we were most interested to hear were his impressions of the recent national health care rollout.  Here's what he had to tell us.  —  1. The country is better off with the Affordable Care Act than without it.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bill Clinton: ‘President Should Honor the Commitment’ and Let People Keep Their Insurance Plans  —  Former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama should keep his pledge to allow people to keep their current health care plans, if they like them, under Obamacare:
Washington Post:
About 40,000 Americans are said to have signed up for plans on HealthCare.gov  —  Roughly 40,000 Americans have signed up for private insurance through the flawed federal online insurance marketplace since it opened six weeks ago, according to two people with access to the figures.
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Who counts as an Obamacare enrollee? The Obama administration settles on a definition.
Wall Street Journal:
HealthCare.gov brings 40,000 to 50,000 enrollees in private plans through last week, people familiar say
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:   Analysis: 50K enroll in state-based ObamaCare
John Fund / National Review:
The Truth about Navigators  —  James O'Keefe, the guerrilla videographer who helped bring down ACORN (the “community organizing” group that Barack Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer) and got NPR's president fired, is back.  —  This time, his undercover investigators focused on Obamacare's …
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Sarah Desprat / Twitchy:
'There's a new sheriff in town': James O'Keefe exposes Obamacare navigator fraud [video]
Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
I've Got Whooping Cough.  Thanks a Lot, Jenny McCarthy.  —  At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days.  Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months.  And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched …
Washington Post:
Virginia attorney general race: Herring takes lead, with a recount appearing likely  —  Democratic state Sen. Mark R. Herring took the lead in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race Monday evening, after he picked up more than 100 previously uncounted votes in Richmond.
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Associated Press:
Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The underdog of government health care programs is emerging as the rare early success story of President Barack Obama's technologically challenged health overhaul.  —  Often dismissed, Medicaid has signed up 444,000 people …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Liberaland
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
One in 10 veterans lacks health insurance. Obamacare could change that.
Harold Pollack / The Nation:
Why Obamacare's Troubled Rollout Might Force the Cooperation Health Reform Needs
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Andrew Huszar / Wall Street Journal:
Confessions of a Quantitative Easer  —  We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street.  Instead, it was a feast for Wall Street.  —  I can only say: I'm sorry, America.  As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program …
New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Talks: Unfinished, but Alive  —  The inconclusive negotiations over the weekend on Iran's nuclear program were disappointing, but two critical points have mostly been ignored.  First, diplomacy takes work, and agreements rarely flow seamlessly from beginning to end.
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Memo warned of “limitless” security risks for HealthCare.gov  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON — CBS News has learned that the project manager in charge of building the federal health care website was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website's security.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Dem.  Rep.: ‘I Think the President Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public’  —  Rep. Kurt Schrader, a Democrat from Oregon, said that President Obama was “grossly misleading” on Obamacare:  —  “Very misleading,” the Democratic congressman says of Obama's promise that you can keep your health care plan, if you like it.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
A New Firm Sets Out to Secure Women's Votes for a Vulnerable G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON — After months of deliberating over how to better appeal to Hispanic and other minority voters, some Republicans believe their party is overlooking another dire demographic challenge: women.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Rothenblog:
Why Most Postmortems of Virginia's Gubernatorial Race Are Wrong
Discussion: Guardian, First Read and CNN
Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Why Obama Won't Bounce Back  —  History shows presidents who aren't running for reelection don't recover from drops in their approval rating.  —  President Obama's approval rating is hovering around 40 percent, which could make him a drag on Democrats running in next year's midterm elections.
Dylan Byers / New York Times:
CNN hires Brian Stelter as Reliable Sources host, media reporter  —  CNN has hired Brian Stelter, the New York Times media reporter, to serve as the new host of “Reliable Sources” its Sunday media program, and as a full-time media reporter on its digital side, POLITICO has learned.
Jamelle Bouie / The Daily Beast:
The Right's Slavery Obsession  —  'This isn't racist,' but the federal debt is as bad as slavery, says Alaska's ex-governor.  Nothing about that statement is accurate—and it only minimizes real suffering.  —  Chattel slavery stands apart in American history.
 
 
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
GOP on ObamaCare offense
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“Don't Get Screwed By Obamacare, Find A Sugar Daddy!” Says Dating Website
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Public University's Plaque Labels President Lincoln A Democrat
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David Shamah / The Times of Israel:
Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station
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Michigan Bill Advances To Distribute Pot Through Pharmacies
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Obama to nominate Timothy Massad for CFTC chairman
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
How immigration died — Part 1
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New York Times:
Insurers Press for Way Around Healthcare.gov
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
How Republicans Rig the Game
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Republicans Shouldn't Let Obama Pack the Courts
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