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By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe outlook for Democrats on Election Day has gotten so bad that estimates of the mayhem require metaphors only Mother Nature can supply. Will it be a wave or a tsunami? An early winter storm or a Category Five hurricane? On Tuesday night, electoral math will decide which party controls each chamber. Republicans will need a net total of 39 pick-ups to take back control of the House and install John Boehner as speaker. But the numbers will only tell part of the story for the next Congress. The rest will be revealed by the following four trends, personified by 10 races, that will determine ...
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By David Knowles - Politics DailyThough it may sound trite, or stolen from the pages of a self-help paperback, on some fundamental level all Americans were winners in last night's historic election. By choosing Barack Obama president of the United States, our country did something few have ever done before: it selected a member of a minority to lead the majority. That fact alone speaks to the fulfilling of the promise of America as so eloquently laid out by our founding fathers. Yet, while we can take time to bask in the betterment of our union, there are those whose wounds are still smarting today. Yes, there were more than ...
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