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12:10 PM ET, November 5, 2014

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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.
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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: Power Line
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans Just Broke Democrats' Blue Wall  —  But is it a onetime, Obama-driven surge—or a blueprint for more success in 2016?  —  This is what a Republican wave looks like.  —  The biggest story from the 2014 midterms was not just how Republicans reclaimed red states they lost in 2008 …
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
No Obama pivot after midterms  —  Voters demanded change from Washington on Tuesday, and Republicans say it's now up to President Barack Obama to deliver it.  —  But don't count on that happening.  —  The White House that emerges after the midterm elections won't look …
New York Times:
Republicans' First Step Was to Handle Extremists in Party  —  WASHINGTON — It was late spring, and Republican leaders knew that if they wanted to win the Senate, they needed to crush the enemy: not Democrats, but the rebels within their own party.  —  And Chris McDaniel …
Elana Schor / Politico:
Elections give Keystone a filibuster-proof majority
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big win for conservative big money
Discussion: Seeing the Forest
Justin Sink / The Hill:
After blowout, Obama to answer questions
Discussion: Politico and Political Wire
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:   Election Night Takeaways
Tom Williams / Roll Call:
McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi and Reid Invited to White House
Discussion: National Review
Associated Press:
Exit poll: Nation in a funk turns to Republicans
Alexander Burns / Politico:
GOP takes control of Senate in midterm rout
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
A Republican Wave Sweeps the Midterm Elections  —  In an echo of 2010, the GOP overshot its targets, taking the Senate and winning House and statehouse races across the board.  Now what will they do?  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Republicans took the Senate majority in a commanding sweep on Tuesday …
Discussion: Vox
New York Times:
Negativity Wins the Senate
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Paul: Hillary Clinton ‘soundly rejected’
Washington Post:   Newly empowered Republicans should set a course to deliver tangible results
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.
Washington Monthly:
The New Segregation  —  It's class, not race.  And we know how to solve it.  —  Three years ago, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a poor, single mother, stood in a Summit County, Ohio, courtroom facing a number of felony charges, including one count of grand theft.  Her crime: stealing an education …
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Berkeley breaks through on soda tax  —  Berkeley, Calif., a city known for its progressive politics, made history Tuesday night by approving the first real sin tax on soda in the United States.  —  Voters looked likely to approve Measure D, a penny-per-ounce tax, by a wide margin …
Nathaniel Herz / Anchorage Daily News:
Sullivan lead holds in Alaska U.S. Senate race; Begich won't concede  —  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan appeared to grab an insurmountable lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Begich early Wednesday, with all of Alaska's precincts reporting.
Tina Nguyen / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Matthews and Sharpton Bash Grimes Concession Speech: ‘You Need to Be Gracious!’  —  In the Kentucky Senate race, Democrat challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes lost by a wide margin to Senator Mitch McConnell, and as such, gave a concession speech — one that the MSNBC election coverage team immediately tore apart.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Power Line, The Dish and Bloomberg View
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Axelrod: White House changes would be ‘wise’  —  Personnel changes at the White House would be “wise” to ensure President Obama's final two years in office are successful, former adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday.  —  Axelrod, who served at the White House during Obama's first term …
Discussion: Washington Post
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
27 senators who voted for Obamacare won't be part of new Senate  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE SENATE HEALTH CARE 2014 ELECTIONS  —  On Dec. 24, 2009, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed President Obama's healthcare law with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority …
Larry Mayer / ABC News:
Election Results 2014: Here Are the Key Races That Are Still Too Close to Project  —  Voters in states across the nation handed Republicans control of the U.S. Senate on Election Day 2014, strengthened their majority control of the House of Representatives and also made a strong showing in gubernatorial races.
 
 
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Scott first black senator elected in South since Reconstruction
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Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal:
West Virginia Elects America's Youngest State Lawmaker
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
4 indicted N.Y. pols win reelection
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
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Rick Scott staves off Charlie Crist in Florida
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