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Likely 2016 GOP nominee goes on victory tour
11/6/2014 10:01:06 AM  Jazz Shaw
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Knowing as I do the deep and abiding love that Hot Air’s readers have for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and the near unanimity of support he enjoys here for a 2016 presidential run, you’ll all join me in these moments of basking in the
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Don't over-interpret an election: Pundits who set their hair on fire over 2012 results look silly
11/6/2014 9:21:13 AM  Noah Rothman
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Just hours after the second great shellacking of Barack Obama's presidency, Democrats are outwardly nervous. On Wednesday, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pronounced the Democratic Party is particularly endangered because, it seems clear now, Barack Obama's
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DCCC chair calls it quits after two failures — in bid to move up
11/6/2014 8:41:36 AM  Ed Morrissey
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A moment of shame for not just failing to reverse House losses for Democrats, but presiding over even more failure?  Not exactly. Perhaps alone among Democratic leaders at the moment, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) plans to leave his current position after a
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Liberals suddenly thinking this whole gridlock thing is worth a second look
11/6/2014 8:01:56 AM  Jazz Shaw
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With the elections over, it will quickly be time for conservatives to finish up their victory laps and set aside the schadenfreude. But not quite yet! One of the most widely heard complaints about Republicans for the last two years is that the House
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Quotes of the day
11/5/2014 10:41:04 PM  Allahpundit
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President Barack Obama hoped the midterm elections would help break the capital's gridlock. Instead, they became a referendum on his presidency. Voters went to the polls Tuesday deeply frustrated with the political system and handed Republicans a
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The man who would not pivot
11/5/2014 10:11:50 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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President Obama took to the podium today to inform the nation that he will change exactly nothing about how he does his job after a historic drubbing in the midterm elections. He will tout the same policies in the same ways, with no particular plan for
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The most important battle: Michael Jordan vs. Obama on their golf games
11/5/2014 9:31:14 PM  Mary Katharine Ham
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The epic undercard to the midterms, and let’s be serious, this was probably eating him more than the historic electoral rejection of his agenda, right? Michael Jordan talking junk about his golf game? The nerve. “In an interview last week
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No more tingles: Why can't this ideologically cocooned president cope with other views on immigration, asks … Chris Matthews
11/5/2014 8:41:53 PM  Allahpundit
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Via RCP, is my headline accurate or am I hallucinating from sleep deprivation? Assuming it’s the former, here’s a perfect bookend to the last 48 hours. This is how Hopenchange ends, with a guy who’s been mocked for six years for
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The War on Soda claims its first victory
11/5/2014 8:01:45 PM  Jazz Shaw
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Last month we featured an interview with the Mayor of Berkeley, where he fretted over whether or not Big Soda would be able to stop them from implementing a tax on soft drinks so they could save the people from themselves. The winning quote from that
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Out of the gate, Obama reminds the GOP a majority didn't vote for them
11/5/2014 7:21:35 PM  Noah Rothman
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The results of the midterm elections are not yet fully known, but it is safe to say at this point that Republicans won a historic victory. As of this writing, the Republicans have won a 52-seat Senate majority outright. Republican candidates are
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Top agenda items for new GOP Congress: Trade agreements, Keystone, parts of ObamaCare
11/5/2014 6:41:36 PM  Allahpundit
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The goal: Show voters right away that Republicans aren’t mere obstructionists, as Democrats so often claim, but are capable of passing popular bills that even Obama might be willing to sign. This ain’t your daddy’s GOP, they mean to
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Rand Paul: If the Clintons are so popular, why'd all of their battleground candidates get smoked?
11/5/2014 6:01:27 PM  Allahpundit
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Eventually the gloating over this election will end. But it won’t end today. And it won’t end because of me. From Paul’s Facebook page: The hashtag is a nice snotty touch. Is it fair to lay this landslide at the Clintons’ feet,
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Watch the evolution of an MSNBC meltdown
11/5/2014 5:21:13 PM  Noah Rothman
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As a rule, the most interesting coverage of an election night is always the losing side's coverage. Last night, MSNBC's anchors, most of whom would concede they are more ideologically friendly toward Democrats than Republicans, lost and lost big. While
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Time to work with the Democrats and Obama? Not so fast
11/5/2014 4:41:44 PM  Jazz Shaw
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When we published the Election Aftermath thread this morning, you give us an earful. The overarching theme for many of you seemed to be that if there was one thing worse than the prospect of losing the election yesterday, it was winning the election
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The 'War on Women' loses a general after Sandra Fluke rejected by California voters
11/5/2014 4:01:13 PM  Noah Rothman
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The hollow and silly "War on Women" narrative may never truly disappear. Democrats will need to marshal grievance among young and single women like never before if Hillary Clinton becomes the party's standard-bearer in 2016. But the 2014 elections have
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Why the gubernatorial wave matters now, and in 2016
11/5/2014 3:21:17 PM  Ed Morrissey
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In all the excitement over the midterm wave that put Republicans back in charge of the US Senate for the first time in eight years — and gave the GOP its biggest House majority in more than 80 years — we haven’t commented much on the
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Open thread: Injured-reserve President to address nation about non-repudiation, or something
11/5/2014 2:41:43 PM  Ed Morrissey
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How does a President whose own aides use analogies that come painfully close to the “lame” in lame duck assure the nation that he’s still relevant? One White House source for the New York Times described Obama as “on the bench in
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Maine Sen. Angus King to hold press conference at 3:30 ET to discuss which party he'll caucus with; Update: Not switching
11/5/2014 2:01:15 PM  Allahpundit
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Looks like Dan Sullivan from Alaska is going to end up being Republican senator number 53, with Bill Cassidy hopefully to follow as number 54 next month in Louisiana. Is Angus King number 55? Sen. Angus King (I-ME) is holding a 3;30 pm et presser in
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The polls were skewed… towards Democrats and by a lot
11/5/2014 1:21:28 PM  Noah Rothman
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As the unfavorable national environment began to close in around them, a cottage industry began to spring up on the left which propagated the notion that the polls were skewed against them. Republicans recognized this argument — it was a familiar
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Let the Democratic Civil War begin!
11/5/2014 12:41:52 PM  Noah Rothman
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Ahead of Tuesday's absolute rout of Democratic candidates on virtually every level, Peggy Noonan wrote a compelling and high-minded piece in which she advised both the president and Republicans to accept the results of the 2014 midterm elections
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Reid: Why can't we all just … get along?
11/5/2014 12:01:27 PM  Ed Morrissey
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Consider this karma avoidance by the soon-to-be-ex-Senate Majority Leader, but Harry Reid’s new act won’t fool anyone, least of all Mitch McConnell. Reid has run the US Senate for the past eight years like a dictatorship, steadily eroding
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Does this mean Obama's going to cancel his executive amnesty?
11/5/2014 11:21:59 AM  Allahpundit
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I’m surprised to see some people saying yes this morning. David Frum tweeted that he thinks O’s executive order is now sunk under the great red wave. As you’ll see below, Chuck Todd thinks so too. I get that at a gut level. Democrats
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NYT: Obama doesn't feel "repudiated" by crushing defeat of his party
11/5/2014 10:41:32 AM  Ed Morrissey
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In 2010, at least Barack Obama admitted to taking a “shellacking” in a historic midterm loss — or to be more accurate, his advisers did. After being the first modern President to suffer two massive midterm defeats, the New York Times
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