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8:20 AM ET, November 6, 2014

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Washington Post:
Transcript: President Obama's Nov. 5 news conference on midterm election results  —  President Obama held a news conference Nov. 5 at the White House to discuss the results of the midterm congressional elections .  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Good afternoon, everybody.  Have a seat.
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
Obama Isn't Listening to Voters He Claims to Hear  —  “I hear you,” the president says.  But he doesn't.  —  Shellacked and thumped by an angry electorate, President Obama declared to every American who voted in Tuesday's elections—and to those who've checked out of the political process—"I hear you."
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Philly.com
Wall Street Journal:
Now We Can Get Congress Going  —  Reform the tax code, redefine ‘full time’ as working 40 hours a week, move on the Keystone XL pipeline—there are plenty of tasks ahead.  —  Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate.  We are humbled by this opportunity …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell may be the greatest strategist in contemporary politics  —  Mitch McConnell's reelection tonight wasn't very newsworthy.  Polls had shown clearly for weeks that Allison Lundergan Grimes was far behind, and far behind is where you would expect a Democrat to be in Kentucky …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation  —  Well, that could have gone better.  —  Shares  —  A cardinal fact of American politics that has emerged during the Obama years is that demographic forces are slowly and inexorably driving the electorate leftward.
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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!
Tom Brune / Newsday:
Steve Israel, outgoing Democratic House campaign chief, sees 2016 hope  —  WASHINGTON — The political climate for Democrats can only get better in 2016, said Rep. Steve Israel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on the day after Republicans swept into power in the Senate …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
‘Making the President Small’
Discussion: Washington Post
John Podhoretz / New York Post:   A stunning tidal wave of change in the Senate
Rebecca Leber / The New Republic:
Congratulations, Voters.  You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.  —  In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama's environmental legacy.
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Brad Plumer / Vox:
The biggest loser in this election is the climate
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Climate Change? An Issue for Losers
Discussion: National Journal and Politico
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
Democrats Didn't Lose Governor's Races Because of a GOP Wave.  They Lost Because of Bad Candidates.  —  I knew Democrat Anthony Brown was in trouble in the race for Maryland governor when every single voter I spoke with Tuesday—including several who voted for Barack Obama …
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Washington Post:
Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor's race in stunning upset
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 …
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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
Betsy Woodruff / Slate:
Wisconsin Three-Peat  —  Why no one can beat Scott Walker.  —  WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin—"First off, I want to thank God."  —  Gov. Scott Walker had just come on stage at the State Fair Exposition Center to give his third victory speech in four years, and the supporters mashed up in front of the stage were totally losing it.
Discussion: Althouse
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Joe Manchin on election results: ‘This is a real ass-whuppin’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) did not mince words on Wednesday when asked to describe the historic losses by congressional Democrats.  —  “This is a real ass-whuppin,” he said.  —  Manchin is a moderate first-term senator …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden revealed: Rob O'Neill named as SEAL Team Six hero who shot 9/11 mastermind three times in head - and has already inspired series of Hollywood films  — SEAL Rob O'Neill named ahead of Fox News interview in which he will tell how he killed bin Laden and why he is giving up his anonymity
Politico:
Personhood movement loses both state initiatives  —  The anti-abortion personhood movement failed key tests Tuesday in North Dakota and Colorado, with voters rejecting amendments to grant the unborn constitutional rights.  —  In North Dakota — a strongly anti-abortion state considered …
Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Mario Draghi's efforts to save EMU have hit the Berlin Wall  —  If the ECB tries to press ahead with QE, Germany's central bank chief will resign.  If it does not do so, the eurozone will remain stuck in a lowflation trap and Mario Draghi will resign  —  Mario Draghi has finally overplayed his hand.
Discussion: National Review and Vox Popoli
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Dana Milbank: Obama seems numb to this latest ‘shellacking’ of Democrats  —  “I hear you,” President Obama said to the voters who gave Democrats an electoral drubbing in Tuesday's midterm elections.  —  But their message went in one presidential ear and out the other.
 
 
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Daily Mail:
WHAT LANDSLIDE?  Obama threatens vetoes and executive orders - including immigration reform …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Republicans, Meet Science
Fox News:
Fox News Exit Poll: Dissatisfaction with Obama, economy keys GOP wave
Discussion: National Review and Hit & Run
EndPlay / Reuters:
The Democrats Lost Big Tonight. Why Obama Should Double Down
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Mia Love Argues with CNN Hosts: 'I Wasn't Elected' Because of My Race or Gender
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Outside Groups With Deep Pockets Lift G.O.P.
Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
The Democrats' Catastrophe and the Need For a New Agenda
 Earlier Items: 
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The 2014 electorate wasn't just older and whiter than 2012. It also voted more Republican.
Discussion: National Review and Bloomberg View
Andrew Romano / Yahoo! News:
How Hillary Clinton won the 2014 midterms
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
‘Hundred-year majority’ for House GOP?