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2:55 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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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
Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
Obama to Ask Congress to Approve Force Against IS
USA Today:
Obama: ‘Obviously, Republicans had a good night’
Discussion: Daily Kos
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 …
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rep. Steve Israel leaving DCCC
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air and NPR
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times:
ISIS Wave of Might Is Turning Into Ripple
Discussion: War on the Rocks and Defense One
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
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 …
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
CHARLES PIERCE LIVE BLOGGING: OPEN ALL NIGHT … 1:30AM — I think it was contemplating the fact that both Sam Brownback and Paul LePage both may have survived as governors that was the last straw for me tonight.  Brownback has wrecked his state.  Even Kansas Republicans believe that.
 
 
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Katherine Connell / National Review:
Losers  —  1. Barack Obama is now a toxic brand.
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Ali Hamedani / BBC:
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
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
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