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4:35 PM ET, November 5, 2014

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Jay Newton-Small / TIME:
McConnell: No Shutdowns, No Full Obamacare Repeal  —  An exclusive interview with TIME about his plans as Majority Leader  —  Sen. Mitch McConnell was giddy, not an emotion often seen in the sober 72-year-old Kentuckian.  But that's the only way to describe TIME's interview with him in Perry County, Kentucky, on Monday afternoon.
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Washington Post:
Battle for the Senate: How the GOP woke up while Democrats were feeling the drag  —  One night in early September, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called a longtime colleague, Sen. Pat Roberts, from his living room in Louisville, furious about the 78-year-old Republican's fumbling and lethargic reelection campaign.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell expected to woo King, Manchin  —  Two Senate sources say they expect Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to reach out to Independent Sen. Angus King (Maine) and centrist Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) about joining the Senate Republican Conference.  —  Republicans have a 52-seat Senate majority …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Meet The Real Next Senate Majority Leader: Ted Cruz  —  If you thought House Speaker John Boehner has had a miserable time trying to govern, wait until you see what incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is about to deal with.  —  The Kentucky Republican achieved his lifelong dream …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin on election results: ‘This is a real ass-whuppin’
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ezra Klein / Vox:
9 takeaways from the 2014 election  —  1) The Democrats lost.  —  Badly.  This wasn't just a tough map.  Democrats lost Senate seats in Iowa and Colorado.  They lost governor races in Florida and Wisconsin.  Hell, they lost governor races in Illinois, Maryland, Maine, and Massachusetts!
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The Hill:
Democrats sift through the debris  —  Democrats on Wednesday morning began sorting through the wreckage of disastrous midterm elections in which losses eclipsed even their worst fears.  —  The scale of the defeats, taken together, was breathtaking: a Senate majority lost …
Discussion: Roll Call and Power Line
New York Times:
Obama and G.O.P. Speak of Cooperation
Discussion: TalkLeft, Power Line and Gawker
Nate Cohn / New York Times:   The Democrats' Southern Problem Reaches a New Depth
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans Just Broke Democrats' Blue Wall
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
David McCabe / The Hill:   Obama has lost nearly 70 House seats since taking office
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   A stunning tidal wave of change in the Senate
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What really went wrong for Democrats  —  The most common explanation we're hearing for the GOP sweep of a dozen Senate races last night is that an already-treacherous map for Democrats was made a lot worse by the failure of core Dem voter groups to show up.  —  But multiple Democratic …
Discussion: Firedoglake
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Here's Why the Democrats Got Crushed—and Why 2016 Won't Be a Cakewalk  —  Barack Obama has been elected president twice, but his party has now gotten drubbed in the two midterm elections held during his presidency.  He will face a Republican Senate and House.
New York Times:
Negativity Wins the Senate  —  Republicans would like the country to believe that they took control of the Senate on Tuesday by advocating a strong, appealing agenda of job creation, tax reform and spending cuts.  But, in reality, they did nothing of the sort.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
President Obama Left Fighting for His Own Relevance  —  WASHINGTON — Two things were clear long before the votes were counted on Tuesday night: President Obama would face a Congress with more Republicans for his final two years in office, and the results would be seen as a repudiation of his leadership.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Axelrod: White House changes would be ‘wise’
Discussion: Washington Post
Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal:   For Obama, a Harsh Referendum
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Were Skewed Toward Democrats  —  For much of this election cycle, Democrats complained the polls were biased against them.  They said the polls were failing to represent enough minority voters and applying overly restrictive likely-voter screens.  They claimed early-voting data was proving the polls wrong.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Evaporating Democratic Majority  —  “For Republicans, what counts as victory?”  I asked in my pre-election post, and now we have an answer: This counts.  Control of the Senate with room to spare, easy victories in what were supposed to be tight purple-state races and even easier victories in red states …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Climate Change? An Issue for Losers
Discussion: National Journal
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Tom Steyer, greens have rough night at the polls
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and ABC News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Hundred-year majority’ for House GOP?  —  Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, proclaimed Wednesday that Republicans may have built a “hundred-year majority” in the House.  —  “We're as back to a majority as any of us have seen in our lifetimes.
Discussion: rubber hose
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New York Times:
Republicans' First Step Was to Handle Extremists in Party
Elana Schor / Politico:
Elections give Keystone a filibuster-proof majority
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big win for conservative big money  —  Establishment Republican money finally got what it paid for — an electoral wave.  —  After two cycles during which conservative mega-donors' record spending was plagued by flawed candidates and internecine squabbling, their side's big money operatives got to do some gloating on election night.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:   New Outside Groups Prove Worth to Conservative Donors
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
First Impressions: Historic GOP House Majority  —  It's hard to overstate House Democrats' bad night.  By all measures, Republicans enjoyed an historic night, exceeding pre-election expectations across the country.  There are fewer than ten races where the outcome is in some doubt …
Jay / Miami Herald & MiamiHerald.com:
Alex Rodriguez's DEA confession: Yes, I used steroids from fake Miami doctor  —  ›  —  ‹  —  For 21 tumultuous months, New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez has defiantly maintained he never used banned substances from a Coral Gables anti-aging clinic …
ABC News:
Meet Elise Stefanik, the Youngest Woman Ever Elected to Congress … Republican Elise Stefanik has become the youngest woman elected to Congress in history, winning her race against Aaron Woolf in New York's 21st open district 56-32, ABC News projects.  —  She's the first Republican to win the district …
David Levenson / The Daily Beast:
NBC's Today Show ‘Hires’ Pippa Middleton  —  After rumored courting by both ABC and NBC, Pippa Middleton is reportedly inking a deal to become a Today correspondent.  Buckingham Palace may not be amused.  —  NBC News, which has an expensive affection for royalty—whether British or American …
 
 
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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The 2014 electorate wasn't just older and whiter than 2012. It also voted more Republican.
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Katherine Connell / National Review:
Democrats Sink to Pre-Great Depression Levels in State Legislatures
Andrew Romano / Yahoo! News:
How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Lessons for Obama's Final Two Years From Reagan, Clinton and Bush
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Larry Mayer / ABC News:
Election Results 2014: Here Are the Key Races That Are Still Too Close to Project
Washington Monthly:
The New Segregation  —  It's class, not race.  And we know how to solve it.
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Scott first black senator elected in South since Reconstruction
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
27 senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Berkeley breaks through on soda tax
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Wendy Davis Was The Face Of ‘War On Women’ Politics. How'd That Go?
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