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12:25 PM ET, November 17, 2013

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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Louisiana Republican Who Backs Obamacare's Medicaid Provision Wins Seat Over Party Favorite  —  Campaign ad for Rep.-Elect Vance McAllister (R)  —  Louisiana voters elected Republican Vance McAllister in a runoff to fill the state's vacant Fifth District U.S. House seat on Saturday.
Discussion: Liberaland, Roll Call and Post Politics
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
McAllister wins La. House special election  —  Republican businessman Vance McAllister has won a special House election in Louisiana, an upset victory for a political newcomer.  —  McAllister defeated Louisiana state Sen. Neil Riser (R) by 60 percent to 40 percent with all precincts reporting.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Melinda Deslatte / Associated Press:
McAllister Wins 5th District Congressional Seat  —  Vance McAllister, a political newcomer with the backing of the popular “Duck Dynasty” TV family, was elected Saturday as Louisiana's newest member of Congress.  —  McAllister, who largely self-funded his campaign, beat establishment candidate Neil Riser …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
McAllister wins La. House runoff  —  Businessman Vance McAllister has won the special runoff election for a vacant northeast Louisiana congressional seat, notching an upset win over fellow Republican Neil Riser, according to the Associated Press.  —  With 99 percent of precincts reporting …
Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix  —  A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.
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Washington Post:
Health-care law has changed game for Democrats looking to 2014 election
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
In Fracas on Health Coverage, Some Democrats Feel Exposed
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Woodward: Obamacare not Watergate, but it ‘is going to get worse’  —  President Barack Obama's mishandling of the Affordable Care Act rollout has been incompetent, Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said, but it doesn't rise to past president-dooming scandals.
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Four years ago, GOP showed exactly what was false about Obama's keep-your-coverage promise  —  It is now painfully evident to millions of Americans that President Obama's promise that they could keep their current health coverage under Obamacare wasn't true.
Discussion: Power Line
Julie Pace / ABC News:
Obama Health Care Woes Becomes Credibility Fight  —  Throughout President Barack Obama's first four years in office, he prided himself on his ability to bounce back when much of Washington thought his presidency was in peril.  —  But the political challenge posed by Obama's disastrous health care rollout …
Discussion: CNN
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Martin O'Malley Takes “Believe” Campaign To The Presidential Stage  —  In a speech to New Hampshire Democrats, the possible presidential hopeful turns his Baltimore campaign into a national argument.  But for Warren and Clinton supporters, the focus isn't O'Malley.  —  AFP / Getty Images
Discussion: Liberaland
Conor Finnegan / CNN:
Netanyahu on Iran: ‘This is a bad deal’  —  (CNN) - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern warning against the potential deal over Iran's nuclear program between Tehran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, along with Germany,.
Discussion: Reuters
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New York Times:
Not the Time to Squeeze Iran
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit
James Hohmann / Politico:
GOP's third shot at Senate: Charm or bust?  —  Sharron Angle.  Christine O'Donnell.  Todd Akin.  Richard Mourdock.  After Republican primaries produced that horror show of candidates in two consecutive elections, probably costing the party control of the Senate, GOP leaders vowed that 2014 must be different.
Spiegel Online:
Cornelius Gurlitt Shares the Secrets of His Pictures  —  Cornelius Gurlitt hoarded art treasures his father obtained under dubious circumstances in the Nazi era.  The reclusive 80-year-old has given SPIEGEL the first interview since news of their discovery broke two weeks ago.
Discussion: Guardian and New York Times
BBC:
PM rejects call to lower age of consent to 15  —  The prime minister has rejected a call from a leading expert on public health to lower the age of consent to 15.  —  Faculty of Public Health president Prof John Ashton said society had to accept that about a third of all boys and girls were having sex at 14 or 15.
Discussion: Spectator and Guardian
 
 
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