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3:10 PM ET, November 6, 2014

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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 …
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Sen. Mike Lee / The Federalist:   Mike Lee's Plan To Fix Congress
Townhall.com:
Obama Has Called the GOP's Bluff.  What Will the House Do Next?  —  SHARES  —  If you were looking for any acknowledgment from President Obama that he bears any responsibility for the massacre Democrats suffered at the polls on Tuesday, then you were probably very disappointed in his press conference yesterday.
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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: Philly.com and Ed Driscoll
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Barack Obama's case for himself has holes
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: Midterms? What midterms?
Discussion: Mediaite
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama to Ask Congress to Approve Force Against IS
Politico:
Frustration with Pelosi simmers among Democrats  —  No Democrat is gearing up to challenge Nancy Pelosi in public, but behind the scenes some Democrats are saying it's time for new blood at the leadership table ahead of 2016.  —  Senior aides said they hope the party's big losses Tuesday …
Discussion: National Review
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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 …
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Looking Back, Looking Forward  —  The Republicans proved Tuesday …
Discussion: RedState
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rep. Steve Israel leaving DCCC
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Wrote Secret Letter to Iran's Khamenei About Fighting Islamic State  —  Presidential Correspondence With Ayatollah Stresses Shared U.S.-Iranian Interests in Combating Insurgents, Urges Progress on Nuclear Talks  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama secretly wrote Iran's Supreme …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
ISIS Wave of Might Is Turning Into Ripple  —  BAGHDAD — The extremists of the Islamic State appeared unstoppable after their sudden blitz through Iraq this summer, with its battle-hardened fighters continually raising their black flag over newly conquered areas.
Discussion: War on the Rocks and Defense One
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
C-SPAN Caller On Air: ‘Republicans Hate That N***er Obama’ (VIDEO)  —  A man who called into C-SPAN's “Washington Journal” Thursday morning referred to President Barack Obama as “that n***er” before getting booted off the air.  —  The caller, who gave his name as Anthony from San Diego …
Politico:
Democrats scrap ad buys for Mary Landrieu  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is canceling at least some of its advertising reservations for Sen. Mary Landrieu ahead of the December runoff in Louisiana.  —  The committee canceled buys planned from Monday through December 6 in the Lafayette …
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Frank Luntz / New York Times:
The Midterms Were Not a Republican Revolution  —  ON election night 1994, as Republicans recaptured the House for the first time in 40 years, I stood in the audience and watched my client Newt Gingrich, who would soon become speaker of the House, declare the beginning of the “Republican revolution.”
Discussion: Gawker, PoliticusUSA and Mediaite
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Republicans now have historic majorities in state legislatures.  That's a really big deal.  —  One Republican victory in the midterm elections has been mostly overlooked.  Yes, Republicans took control of the Senate and a surprising number of governorships.  But they also won a record number of state legislature seats.
Discussion: ABC News and The PJ Tatler
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's claim that Obamacare has reduced health-care inflation ‘every single year’ since it was passed  —  “Health care inflation has gone down every single year since the law [the Affordable Care Act] passed, so that we now have the lowest increase in health care costs in 50 years …
CBS Chicago:
Former Republican Committeemen Claim Election Judges Coerced Into Voting GOP  —  (CBS) - A day after the election, officials are still counting ballots and the investigation into who made robocalls that allegedly persuaded many judges not to show up Tuesday is heating up.
Politico:
How to waste 10 million dollars  —  Embracing the irony of setting up a super PAC that would spend big money in order to fight super PACs and other groups that spend big money, Harvard professor Larry Lessig and GOP strategist Mark McKinnon went all-in on the idea voters would kick megadonors to the curb.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Gawker
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.
Discussion: Fox News and Hot Air
Reeve Hamilton / The Texas Tribune:
What Went Wrong With Battleground Texas? … *Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Battleground Texas launched in January 2013 with the goal of turning reliably red Texas into — at minimum — a purple state where Democrats could compete.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Rare WWII Story By John Steinbeck Finally Being Published  —  NEW YORK (AP) — In July 1944, Orson Welles wrapped up one of his wartime radio broadcasts with a brief, emotional reading of one of the country's favorite authors, John Steinbeck.  —  The piece was titled “With Your Wings,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Kirsten Gillibrand not interested in DSCC chairmanship
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kate Gibson / CNBC:
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Discussion: FOX News Radio
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The gay people pushed to change their gender
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Politico:
Personhood movement loses both state initiatives
Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

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