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10:20 AM ET, November 14, 2014

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Rick Klein / ABC News:
Secret Emails of Potential Clinton Campaign Managers Revealed … For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the “Mook Mafia.”
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Erin McPike / CNN:
Is this the anti-Obama?  —  Cincinnati (CNN) — Rob Portman is mapping out a possible presidential run, creating a narrative, talking to fundraisers and looking to change his image from the senator who once ran George W. Bush's budget office to the anti-Obama from Ohio with a serious resume.
New York Times:
Obama, Down but Not Out, Presses Ahead  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama emerged from last week's midterm election rejected by voters, hobbled politically and doomed to a final two years in office suffering from early lame-duck syndrome.  That, at least, was the consensus in both parties.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Daily Kos
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program  —  Fake Cellphone Towers on Planes Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed …
CNN:
The immigration waiting game will end soon  —  Washington (CNN) — President Obama, who will act on immigration reform by the end of the year, has not reviewed final administration recommendations on immigration but is aware of the general details in the expected plan, says a senior White House official …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and RedState
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Mayor Betsy Hodges:
pointergate  —  A few days before the November 4th election, I took a photo with an organizer while doorknocking to get the vote out.  In that photo, the organizer and I pointed at one another (after, it has often been remarked, an awkward moment of set-up).
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Ranking member contest is early test of Pelosi's power in new Congress  —  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is a shoo-in to keep her spot as the top House Democrat in the next Congress.  But another intra-party election this month - the contest for ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
JakeTapper / CNN:
Obamacare architect discussed misleading public in 4th newly uncovered video  —  Washington (CNN) — As Congress voted on the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in 2010, one of the bill's architects, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, told a college audience that those pushing the legislation pitched …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Nancy Pelosi says she doesn't know who Jonathan Gruber is. She touted his work in 2009.
Marc Siegel / National Review:
Calling Me Stupid  —  The arrogant remarks of Obamacare architect …
Discussion: RedState
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The Jon Gruber controversy and what it means for Obamacare, explained
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Newly Insured Through Exchanges Give Coverage Good Marks  —  Story Highlights  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — Over seven in 10 Americans who bought new health insurance policies through the government exchanges earlier this year rate the quality of their healthcare and their healthcare coverage as “excellent” or “good.”
Discussion: Washington Times and Politico
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Obama's Unexpectedly Good Week  —  Eight days ago, President Obama went before the White House press corps to acknowledge the previous day's midterm-election results and take his knocks.  “Obviously, Republicans had a good night,” he said.  “And they deserve credit for running good campaigns.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Cassidy leads Landrieu in internal poll  —  Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) has opened up a 16 point lead over Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) in their Louisiana Senate runoff, according to an internal poll conducted on behalf of the Cassidy campaign and obtained by The Hill.
Discussion: Power Line
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Big donors urge Warren to run  —  Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer.  —  The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars' welcome during …
Adam Silver / New York Times:
N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver: Allow Gambling on Pro Games  —  BETTING on professional sports is currently illegal in most of the United States outside of Nevada.  I believe we need a different approach.  —  For more than two decades, the National Basketball Association has opposed …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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New York Times:
A Major Breakthrough on Climate Change
Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post
Politico:
Chris Christie's temperament spooks Wall Street  —  Top GOP donors still see the New Jersey governor as a risky investment.  —  Chris Christie has seemed on top of the world to donors and supporters in the days since the GOP racked up big wins in gubernatorial races with him leading the charge for the Republican Governors Association.
Washington Post:
Boehner weighs expanding suit over Obama executive powers to cover immigration  —  House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) is considering expanding a federal lawsuit on President Obama's executive orders to include immigration.  Filing a separate lawsuit over the president's authority …
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Reid to Obama: Wait on immigration orders until after CR passes
Discussion: Bloomberg Politics
 
 
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
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Wendy R. Weiser / American Prospect:
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New York Times:
Frustrated Democratic Senators Vent, but Re-Elect Reid to Be Their Leader
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
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