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Zachary D. Carter / The Atlantic:
The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools  —  Republican Glenn Youngkin's victory in Tuesday's Virginia gubernatorial election was about schools.  It wasn't about Donald Trump, or inflation, or defunding the police, or Medicare for All, or President Joe Biden's infrastructure agenda.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Democrats Need to Face Up to Their Public School Problem Education should be helping Democrats, not hurting.  What happened?  —  Election reaction statements by politicians and interest groups may be the most robotic genre in the messaging business.  Every outcome proves everybody was right all along.
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
At Least 7 Republicans Who Were At The Jan. 6 Rally Just Got Elected To Office  —  And even more attendees of the rally that turned into the Capitol riot will likely be on the ballot in 2022.  —  At least seven Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. …
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Early Thoughts on a Very Tough Night  —  There is no other way to put it, last night was a disaster for the Democrats.  How we respond in the coming days and weeks will set the stage for 2022  —  One year ago, Joe Biden won Virginia by ten points.  Four years ago, Ralph Northan won it by nine.
Jared Yates Sexton / Dispatches From A …:
A Completely Predictable Disaster: Virginia and the Need for Courage  —  The Democratic Party has a problem and it's the same problem that's plagued them for decades.  But now, the stakes are too dire to continue on this same path.  —  Everyone felt pretty certain what Tuesday would bring.
Discussion: RedState
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
How McAuliffe Lost Virginia  —  An uninspiring candidate with no big ideas and terrible messaging.  —  Going into the 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia, a state that Joe Biden won by ten points, former governor Terry McAuliffe likely reasoned that he had a good chance of repeating his remarkable feat from eight years earlier:
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A sobering reality hits Democrats after election losses  —  Democrats awoke Wednesday to a sobering reality.  A year after celebrating victory in the 2020 elections, their slender congressional majorities are now even more at risk than they feared, and it is not clear that President Biden …
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Democrats, Stung by Electoral Losses, Press Forward on Biden Agenda
Discussion: Politico and Wall Street Journal
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Black voters in Virginia refuse to be blamed for a major Democratic defeat.
Discussion: Raw Story and Breitbart
Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP leader says Republicans could flip 60 seats next year
Discussion: Washington Times
Charles Sykes / Politico:
Terry McAuliffe Bet on Voters Hating Trump. Turns Out They Dislike Democrats More.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Why Can't You Beat These Guys?  —  Plus: 5 remarkable election results
Discussion: CNN, KING-TV and BuzzFeed News
Politico:
5 things we learned from Republicans' big night
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Internal Lincoln Project Emails Show How a Charlottesville Tiki Torch Stunt Went Wrong … When Lauren Windsor, a Democratic operative working with the Lincoln Project, sent five young people dressed in khakis, white shirts, and sunglasses to hold tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin's campaign bus …
Discussion: Fox News and PolitiFact
Matt Friedman / Politico:
Meet Ed Durr, the candidate who might knock Steve Sweeney out of the Senate  —  Meet Edward Durr, giant slayer.  Maybe.  —  Durr, a truck driver for the furniture store Raymour & Flanigan, held a roughly 2,000-vote advantage Wednesday morning over Senate President Steve Sweeney …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Breitbart
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Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Blue Collar’ Truck Driver on Verge of Unseating Leader of Democratic Machine
Discussion: Fox News
Matthew Stanmyre / New Jersey Online:
How a truck driver spent $153 on his N.J. election campaign to likely dethrone a political kingpin
Discussion: Washington Post
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin says ‘unbelievable’ Virginia results validate concerns over spending package
Discussion: Yahoo News and Political Wire
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The NRA had a very good day in the Supreme Court  —  There appear to be at least five votes to significantly expand the Second Amendment.  —  The biggest surprise in Wednesday morning's arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. (NYSRPA) v. Bruen, a major Second Amendment case …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Supreme Court appears likely to void New York's gun permit law
Washington Post:
Majority of Supreme Court appears to think N.Y. gun law is too restrictive
Washington Post:
Trump campaign payments for ‘command centers’ at D.C. hotels could undermine executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 investigation  —  It was a month after the 2020 presidential election, and Bernard Kerik was starting to panic.  The former New York City police chief and his friend Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
I Hung Out With Both Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams on Election Night  —  It was the best of parties, it was the worst of parties.  —  At Empire Steak House on East 50th Street, the stench of fait accompli hangs in the air.  The Curtis Sliwa campaign has gathered here in midtown to watch him go down.
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Amanda L Gordon / Bloomberg:   Eric Adams Hangs With CEOs, Rappers in NoHo After Win
Ed Cunningham / Time Out Worldwide:
9 cities that could be underwater by 2030  —  With sea levels rising worldwide, several major metropolises are at risk of being submerged  —  Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise.  If you're not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires …
Amitai Ziv / Reuters:
U.S. Blacklists Israeli Cyberarms Firms NSO, Candiru for Harming ‘National Security and Interests’  —  NSO Group and Candiru developed and supplied spyware ‘to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers,’ the U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Senate Republicans block debate on a third major voting rights bill  —  Republican senators on Wednesday voted to block debate on the third major voting rights bill that congressional Democrats have sought to pass this year in response to the state-level GOP push to restrict ballot access …
Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
Why hundreds of QAnon supporters showed up in Dallas, expecting JFK Jr.'s return  —  In rainy Dallas with temperatures dipping into the low 60s, hundreds huddled with umbrellas, flags and signs to wait for history to be made on Tuesday.  Some even brought folding chairs.
Lyz / Men Yell at Me:
There Have to Be More Sides Than This  —  Balance doesn't exist in a lopsided world … Last week, in Charlottesville, I reached out to the Charlottesville Clergy Collective to talk to them about how the community was doing.  —  As it turns out, the community was not doing fine.
 
 
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Marquette University:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds state incumbents lagging in approval, favorability one year before 2022 elections
Discussion: The Hill, WISC-TV and Political Wire
Associated Press:
Watchdog finds no misconduct in mistaken Afghan airstrike
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
Discussion: CBS News and Politico
Plain Dealer:
Justin Bibb wins Cleveland mayoral election in dominating fashion over Kevin Kelley to succeed Frank Jackson
Jacob Frey / vote.minneapolismn.gov:
2021 Mayor results  —  This was a ranked-choice voting (RCV) race.  Voters were asked to rank up to three candidates.
Discussion: The Hill
Zach Everson / Forbes:
How Trump's D.C. Hotel Cashed In On The Jan. 6 Riot
Mike Rosenstein / New Jersey Online:
Ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine hints at election fraud, strikes out in bid to become mayor
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