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11:50 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 …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work  —  Or, if you prefer a more acerbic conclusion, taxpayers paid Jonathan Gruber in the mid-six-figures to lie to them, and then brag about it to all of his friends and fans later.  Glenn Kessler fact-checked an assertion …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Gruber Confession  —  It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch …
Marc Siegel / National Review:
Calling Me Stupid  —  The arrogant remarks of Obamacare architect …
Discussion: RedState
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: US News, Washington Times and Politico
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 55% of Uninsured Plan to Get Health Coverage
Discussion: Washington Post
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: Hot Air, 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 …
Washington Post:
GOP debates its immigration strategy as Obama prepares executive action  —  Congressional Republicans have split into competing factions over how to respond to President Obama's expected moves to change the nation's immigration system, which are likely to include protecting millions from being deported.
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Washington Post:
Boehner weighs expanding suit over Obama executive powers to cover immigration
Discussion: US News, Daily Kos and The Hill
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).
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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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Evaluating the Success of Democratic Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts  —  The Democrats invested millions of dollars in a vaunted field operation to mobilize the young and nonwhite voters who do not usually participate in midterm elections.  Yet it was not enough to save Democrats from a Republican landslide.
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Leahy eyes NSA reform as crowning glory  —  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) isn't leaving the Senate majority without a fight.  —  The outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has put his full weight behind passing legislation to rein in the National Security Agency (NSA) during this year's lame-duck session.
Discussion: Politico
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Mark K. Matthews / Denver Post:
MARK UDALL TO CONSIDER ALL OPTIONS TO REVEAL CIA TORTURE REPORT
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Hill and Washington Post
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 …
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
Maria L. La Ganga / Los Angeles Times:
Shell lawsuit against environmental groups ruled unconstitutional  —  Two years ago, in a preemptive move, Shell sued a host of environmental and advocacy groups to prevent them from suing Shell over its plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.  —  On Wednesday, a federal appeals court called …
Discussion: The Hill and ThinkProgress
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
The Atlantic Online:
The Conservative Case for Net Neutrality  —  Everyone likes the Internet.  —  While not wholly true, per se, it can sometimes seem this way in national politics.  Democrats like tech startups, Republicans like tech startups, everyone likes innovation and entrepreneurship and jobs and …
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: Liberal Values and Power Line
 
 
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
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Politico:
Chris Christie's temperament spooks Wall Street
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The Ben Carson Super PAC Is Pretty Lucrative If You're Running It
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Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Steve King warns of ‘constitutional crisis’