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4:45 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  —  After years of frustration and months of feverish work, the Republican Party has finally won back the U.S. Senate, and with it, undivided control of Congress.  But no sooner had Tuesday night's balloon drops hit the floor than Republicans around the country …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz
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: The Dish, 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: Hot Air and Mediaite
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 …
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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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.”
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Looking Back, Looking Forward  —  The Republicans proved Tuesday …
Discussion: RedState
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
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 …
Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
Meet Ben Carson: First Republican to Throw His Hat in 2016 Ring … Yes, the 2016 race for the White House has already gotten started — and it looks like Dr. Ben Carson is first in the ring.  —  Carson, a famous pediatric neurosurgeon and conservative political star, will air …
Wall Street Journal:
After Harry Reid, the GOP Shouldn't Unilaterally Disarm  —  It will take years to undo the damage done by Senate Democrats' barring filibusters of judicial nominees.  —  By  —  Orrin G. Hatch And C. Boyden Gray  —  After the 2006 midterm elections delivered control of the Senate to the Democratic Party …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
GOP thanks Democrats for sidelining ‘best messenger’ Obama  —  Washington (CNN) — The strategist in charge of electing a Republican Senate majority thanked Democrats on Thursday for keeping President Barack Obama on the sidelines and building their campaigns around women's issues instead of making an economic argument.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand not interested in DSCC chairmanship
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Terrell Forney / WPLG-TV:
90-year-old man charged for feeding homeless cited again  —  Arnold Abbott cited for second time  —  Author: Bob Norman, Reporter, bnorman@Local10.com … Local 10 first brought you the story of the 90-year-old man who was arrested for illegally feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale.
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 …
Washington Post:
On his way to a slim victory in a changing Va., Warner may have wooed wrong voters  —  Virginia Sen. Mark Warner (D) is locked in a tight race with GOP challenger Ed Gillespie.  Returns tabulated late Tuesday showed the race was too close to call, but that didn't stop Warner from declaring victory.
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.
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.
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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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Chris Christie's big moment
Libby Nelson / Vox:
Republicans now have historic majorities in state legislatures. That's a really big deal.
Discussion: ABC News and The PJ Tatler
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Dana Milbank: Obama seems numb to this latest ‘shellacking’ of Democrats
Discussion: Fox News and Hot Air