- New Jersey State Governor Chris Christie seems to have won by a big margin. Christie will say that this win should make him a contender in a 2016 presidential election. Chris Hayes has a panel who give an overview of results. 5 min audio
- Bill De Blasio the first liberal Democrat in many years to get this far will be the next Mayor of New York City. Wall Street types are already talking of moving to New Jersey.
- In a poor pool of candidates, Terry McAuliffe will be the next Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. But the Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was much more the social conservative in several ways
- The more moderate of two Republicans won the availaable Alabama House of Representatives seat.
It's official, the CIA will take on all aspects of the drone program for the foreseeable future.
planet money had a talk about what economic bubbles look like and don't, by last month's Nobel Prize winning economists; 16 min audio
NPR also says their brand is worth nearly half a billion $. Not the assets, the brand. 5 min
How do right in the US sell the idea of cutting Social Security to their constituents? By lying about it.
How do the old south authoritarians plan to sell their dystopian future? They won't. Nor will they compromise. They'll just take the whole tent down. Tribal resentment drives many of them.
David Corn in Mother Jones says tonight's electoral victories and losses do not mean the end of the teaparty or their supporters. He plays a prudent cautious liberal by comparing the W-L scorecard to the Battle of Chancellorsville, when Robert E Lee scored a real vctory against General Joe Hooker and knew then he could go far with his army. Corn says, "This crowd will not be bowed because RINO Christie won a second term."
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