HotAir Daily Express 11/08/2012

WaPo: Outside group spending didn’t have much impact 11/8/2012 10:11:33 AM  Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Remember all the hysteria about the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, in which politicians fretted that the wealthy would be able to buy elections through unlimited outside-group spending?  This election cycle provided a very good test for More... Rubio passes on NRSC chairmanship 11/8/2012 9:21:13 AM  Erika Johnsen 45 Comments As Republicans consider the party’s future and how to confront the demographic shifts made plain by Tuesday’s election, Florida Senator Marco Rubio‘s name has emerged as perhaps the 2016 candidate of GOP destiny (although, I would also More... Miller: If Romney’s what’s wrong with America, this country has serious problems 11/8/2012 8:41:01 AM  Erika Johnsen 182 Comments On the O’Reilly Factor last night, Dennis Miller gave voice to something that I’ve been pondering since last Tuesday night. One very grave disappoint of this election cycle (of which there are certainly very many) is that Team Obama is More... Just a reminder: Congress not done investigating Benghazi 11/8/2012 8:01:45 AM  Ed Morrissey 87 Comments Nor should they be.  Four Americans died, at least two of which might have been rescued had prompt action taken place when the attack occurred — and none of them would have been dead had the Obama administration paid attention to the increased More... Obama to run for a third term? Two weeks ago, S&A predicted Obama would win his second term. There’s an unstoppable economic force that’s underway now and in 2015 there’s specific event set to occur that will ensure Obama of a third term. This development will usher in a new age of American prosperity, but will also provide massive amounts of political power to the president.To learn all the details about this event, click here. Quotes of the day 11/7/2012 10:52:12 PM  Allahpundit 832 Comments Having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, Republicans plunged Wednesday into an intense period of self-examination, blame-setting and testy debate over whether their party needs serious change or just some minor More... Chris Christie: “I wouldn’t call what I did an embrace of Barack Obama” 11/7/2012 9:50:06 PM  Allahpundit 351 Comments The question he’s responding to isn’t included in the clip but I think I can guess what it is. Robert Costa posted this tidbit from an anonymous Romney advisor earlier today: Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the adviser adds, is persona More... Awkward video of the day: Netanyahu congratulates Obama on winning 11/7/2012 8:55:33 PM  Allahpundit 88 Comments Via WaPo, enjoy Bibi struggling mightily to keep a straight face as he coughs up the requisite diplomatic niceties for his “friend” Barack on the morning after. As if the famously strained Obama/Netanyahu relationship didn’t make this More... Matthews: Sorry for saying last night that I was glad we had that hurricane last week 11/7/2012 8:06:36 PM  Allahpundit 89 Comments Via Mediaite, effusive regrets for his Kinsleyan gaffe . Go watch the original clip at the DC if you haven’t yet. He’s waxing rhapsodic about the country’s magnificent noble willingness to re-elect a guy who’s overseen four years More... Looking at the national exit poll 11/7/2012 7:21:34 PM  Allahpundit 379 Comments I know you’re polled out, but with all the navel-gazing today about demographics and the future of the GOP, I figured people might want a link to the numbers behind last night’s disaster. Here’s CNN’s version, Fox News’s More... Paul Ryan’s next move 11/7/2012 6:43:09 PM  Erika Johnsen 127 Comments Even though the Romney/Ryan team didn’t manage to turn Wisconsin’s presidential vote around for Republicans, Paul Ryan hedged his bets and did win reelection to his House seat yesterday, and has confirmed that he’ll be returning to More... The War on Bacon 11/7/2012 6:03:53 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 23 Comments We’re on our way . . . Mary Katharine is on the road and we’ll be here soon with post election analysis! We’ll be here by 6:30! Mary Katharine Ham of HotAir.com and Kelly Maher of RevealingPolitics.com discuss politics, culture, and More... Boehner: I’m not open to tax hikes, but I am open to new revenue 11/7/2012 5:21:00 PM  Allahpundit 286 Comments The media’s hyperventilating over this as an early sign that the House GOP has been chastised by last night’s presidential/Senate whupping. (WaPo.com’s front-page headline: “A quick pivot after election.”) But … More... Harry Reid: How’s about we go a little nuclear up in this Senate? 11/7/2012 4:41:27 PM  Mary Katharine Ham 127 Comments I hate to foist him upon you in your time of pain, but alas, one of the biggest winners last night was— against all odds— that Sullen Senate Leader, that Dour Dynamo, Sen. Harrrrrry Reeeeeid! In his press conference today he said he wants to change More... The youths dig in for Hopenchange 2.0 11/7/2012 4:01:31 PM  Erika Johnsen 170 Comments I must admit, I thought that disenchantment with the shoddy results of President Obama’s first term, combined with the diminished spirit of Hopenchange, would mean we’d see some significant shift from the record-breaking decisiveness of the More... RCP poll averages predicted 49 of 50 states 11/7/2012 3:22:49 PM  Allahpundit 317 Comments One last 2012 poll post for old times’ sake before we start in bright and early tomorrow morning with 2016 polls. (Joking, joking.) There was one basic meta-question in the sturm and drang over Nate Silver and statistical models: Were the state More... So, about that Keystone pipeline… 11/7/2012 2:41:21 PM  Erika Johnsen 71 Comments During his 2008 campaign and the early period of his presidency, President Obama was much more vocal about climate change than he eventually became, as he realized obtaining a second term might be made harder by trying to win the favor of competing More... Puerto Rico votes for statehood 11/7/2012 2:01:54 PM  Ed Morrissey 101 Comments The overall vote in the US wasn’t the only one last night that was oddly contradictory, with voters wanting change but re-electing the status quo.  In Puerto Rico, a non-binding referendum on the future of the US territory found statehood the More... The Ed Morrissey Show: Post-election recap with Guy Benson 11/7/2012 1:46:49 PM  Ed Morrissey 24 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Guy Benson and I take a day-after look at the broad defeat suffered by Mitt Romney and the GOP last night. Guy and I will do the show from the Hugh Hewitt offices, not in the studio, so it will be a More... Look to the governorships 11/7/2012 1:21:04 PM  Erika Johnsen 105 Comments Even aside from the presidency, Republicans lost a good handful of races down the ticket last night — which of course means that the makeup of our federal government is going to just keep on keepin’ on for awhile  yet. If there isn’t More... Todd: GOP will run toward immigration reform next year 11/7/2012 12:41:11 PM  Ed Morrissey 244 Comments I think Chuck Todd has this right, and not just because of last night’s poor showing for Republicans among Hispanics.  In looking at the daunting issues facing the lame-duck 112th Congress and the incoming 113th, comprehensive immigration reform More... Does Barack Obama have a mandate? 11/7/2012 12:01:54 PM  Ed Morrissey 288 Comments In the aftermath of any victory, presidential candidates proclaim a new mandate to move forward on the values of their campaign.  Barack Obama will probably be no different, but National Journal’s Ron Fournier warns that claiming a mandate after More... Video: Was last night’s big winner Marco Rubio? 11/7/2012 11:21:22 AM  Ed Morrissey 262 Comments The appalling exit polls from yesterday’s loss shows a huge problem for Republicans in the shifting demographics of the nation.  Mitt Romney won 58% of the white vote, but didn’t even hit 30% among any of the non-white demographics in the More... Remember when Minnesota was going to turn red? 11/7/2012 10:41:17 AM  Ed Morrissey 155 Comments Ah, the halcyon days of, er, last week.  Friends insisted that my home state of Minnesota might go red in a presidential election for the first time in 40 years.  Paul Ryan made a last-minute stop, but more thrilling, the Obama campaign sent Bill Clinton More...