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The Hill
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Nov 7, 08 2:56 PM CST
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John McCain released his first public statement today since conceding the election, congratulating President-elect Barack Obama and urging supporters to work together with the new administration, the Hill reports. “Although we were disappointed with the results,” the joint statement with wife Cindy said, “we must move beyond this campaign and work together to get our country moving again.”
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MSNBC
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Nov 7, 08 12:02 PM CST
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Every left-leaning constituency in the country wants to chalk up credit for the Obama victory—labor put him over the top, Latinos put him over the top—but the support was so broad, an MSNBC analysis finds, that few individual claims are valid. Most surprising is the much-ballyhooed youth vote: If nobody under 30 had voted, Obama would have won all the same states except for squeakers North Carolina and Indiana—still plenty for an Electoral College win.
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Washington Post
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Nov 7, 08 10:39 AM CST
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It’s easy to see what killed John McCain’s presidential ambitions. McCain, ahead on Sept. 15, was crushed by falling banks, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post . There was a full-fledged panic in America, as the S&P suffered its steepest drop in 71 years. The populace naturally blamed incumbents, and sought government protection, Democrats’ stock-in-trade. “Not even a Ronald Reagan could have survived.”
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Der Spiegel
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Nov 6, 08 1:22 PM CST
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With the election over, what's more fun than calling out all those whose predictions were off—way off. Der Spiegel lists some highlights: "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win." Hillary Clinton , on Barack Obama "We'll win Florida." Rudy Giuliani "Virginians are really getting fired up for this ticket of McCain and Palin." George Allen "Romney for the Republicans, Hillary for the Democrats." Ann Coulter , on the nominees
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Chicago Tribune
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Nov 6, 08 2:38 AM CST
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Sarah Palin's shaky grasp of geography stressed out the McCain campaign, the Chicago Tribune reports. A Fox News reporter, sworn to secrecy until after the election, said a campaign insider told him Palin was unaware that Africa was a continent rather than a single country, and she was unable to name the three members of NAFTA—Mexico, the US, and Canada.
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Time
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Nov 5, 08 11:49 AM CST
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Hey, John McCain—welcome to the new Real America. Joe Klein writes in Time that Barack Obama’s victory isn’t just a changing of the guard, but fundamentally redefines how we think of the country. We’ve been living in Ronald Reagan’s America for years, writes Klein, nostalgic for the “real America” that McCain talked about—“white, homogeneous, small-town.” But now “real America” is Obama’s, not Reagan’s.
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Omaha World-Herald
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Nov 5, 08 9:11 AM CST
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Nebraska was never a swing state, but its unique system of assigning electoral votes has left it with a surprising question mark after election night. The 2nd Congressional District, which includes Omaha, remains too close to call, with John McCain leading President-elect Barack Obama by 569 votes. And 9,000 provisional and early ballots are still uncounted, reports the Omaha World-Herald .
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Politico
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Nov 5, 08 9:00 AM CST
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How did the first African-American president piece together such a decisive winning coalition? In Politico, David Paul Kuhn picks apart the pieces of the Barack Obama vote: Obama won a solid 43% of the white vote, matching Bill Clinton’s 1996 performance in that group and nearly Jimmy Carter’s from 1976. The Democrat actually won young white voters outright.
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Wall Street Journal
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Nov 5, 08 7:00 AM CST
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Though the official percentage isn’t in, yesterday saw what could have been the highest voter turnout in a century, the Wall Street Journal reports. One expert foresaw 64% of Americans casting ballots, the AP notes, as some 30 million voted early, with 100 million more thought to have stormed the polls yesterday. That would tie or beat 1960’s high turnout, making it the largest since 1908, he said.
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Slate
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Nov 5, 08 6:46 AM CST
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The fight for the presidency has left John McCain's reputation battered and bruised, but Christopher Beam of Slate suggests six steps the senator should take to return to glory. Remeet the press. The bad blood between McCain and the media can be removed if he stops clamming up and "goes rogue" again. Acknowledge his mistakes. McCain has owned up to his mistakes in the past and he would win respect by admitting campaign missteps—perhaps starting with his choice of a certain Alaskan.
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Chicago Tribune
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Nov 4, 08 11:56 PM CST
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President-elect Barack Obama addressed the country and the world for the first time tonight, vowing to unite a nation beset by trouble at home and abroad, the Chicago Tribune reports. "Change has come to America," Obama told a crowd of tens of thousands at Chicago's Grant Park and millions more watching around the world. "Our stories are singular, but our destinies are shared."
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Wall Street Journal
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Nov 4, 08 11:55 PM CST
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John McCain ended his long fight for the presidency with a generous concession speech, warmly congratulating Barack Obama and hailing a historic moment for America. “I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president,” McCain told a crowd of supporters in Arizona, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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MSNBC
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Nov 4, 08 11:01 PM CST