For Conservatives, It's Back to Basics
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and JASON DePARLE
After an election landslide, pillars of the conservative movement play
the blame game, soul search, and try to figure out how to pull their
elephant from the rubble.
Now, the Tape Measure for Those Other Drapes
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The Senate curse, a war albatross, flight from Washington and other
lessons for 2008 from the midterm elections.
An Uneasy Alliance
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By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
The election showed that online activists and the party need each
other.
Gifts From 2006 to the Next Election
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By BILL MARSH
You, the electoral lab rat, may have noticed a few innovations in
campaign tactics during the lead-up to the midterm elections. Here's
a short list just in case you missed them.
Revolving Doors Spin Once Again
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By ARON PILHOFER
It's the day after the election, and you've lost your seat in
Congress. Why not become a lobbyist? It is a well-traveled career path.
Venezuelans Square Off Over Race, Oil and a Populist Political Slogan
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By SIMON ROMERO
Supporters of Hugo Ch=E1vez disparaged an oil program proposed by his
main electoral challenger as a ploy with condescendingly racial
undertones.
'Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide'
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By JEFFREY GOLDBERG
Reviewed by ELENA LAPPIN
The journalist Jeffrey Goldberg writes about living in Israel, and the
Palestinian he got to know there.
Incoming Democrats Put Populism Before Ideology
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ted=3Dall
By ROBIN TONER and KATE ZERNIKE
Newly elected Democrats say they were given a rare opportunity by
voters, many of them independents and Republicans, and now they have to
produce.
Democrats Aim to Save Inquiry on Work in Iraq
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By JAMES GLANZ, DAVID JOHNSTON and THOM SHANKER
Congressional Democrats say they will push to restore the power of an
agency in charge of ferreting out waste and corruption.
New Democratic Majority Throws Bush's Judicial Nominations Into
Uncertainty
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By NEIL A. LEWIS
The impending Democratic takeover of the Senate, lawmakers and
administration officials agree, will produce a vast change in President
Bush's effort to shape the federal bench with conservative judicial
nominees.
G=2EO.P. Collapse in Indiana Emblematic of Larger Loss
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By ADAM NOSSITER
The mechanics of defeats in the state offer insights into the larger
Republican loss, and point to traps that Republican candidates appeared
to have unwittingly entered.
Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense
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By JOHN MARKOFF
Computer scientists and start-up companies want to make the Web less of
a catalog and more of a guide.
Maybe You Did Vote Your Pocketbook
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By DANIEL ALTMAN
Politics affects economics, and vice versa - at least that's the
widely held theory. But what was the reality in last week's election?
Rove Remains Steadfast in the Face of Criticism
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By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 12, 2006; A01
For a man still climbing out of the rubble, Karl Rove seemed in his
usual unflappable mood. He roamed around his windowless West Wing
office decorated with four Abraham Lincoln portraits, joking with his
staff, stuffing copies of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" into his bag
and signing the last paperwork of the day.
The Architect, as President Bush once called him, has a theory for why
the building fell down. "Get me the one-pager!" he cried out to an
aide, who promptly delivered a single sheet of paper that had been
updated almost hourly since the midterm elections with a series of
statistics explaining that the "thumping" Bush took was not such a
thumping after all.
Webb May Be Senate Maverick
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Newest Member Expected to Take Antiwar Lead
By Tim Craig and Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 12, 2006; C01
James Webb walked into the Fish Market restaurant in Alexandria in
December and wanted longtime Democratic strategist Steve Jarding to
answer just one question: What were his chances of defeating Sen.
George Allen (R), one of Virginia's most popular politicians?
"Give me a number. What are my odds?" Webb, who had never run for
elective office, asked.
"I said, 'Jim, they are really low,' " Jarding recalled. Webb shot
back, "Give me a number."
Democrats Find Lessons In GOP Reign
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New Majority Is Mindful Of Rivals' Mistakes, Successes
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 12, 2006; A01
Democrats preparing to take control of Congress for the first time in
over a decade are looking to the Republican takeover in 1995 as an
object lesson of what to emulate and what to avoid. They hope to match
the legislative energy of the Newt Gingrich era while avoiding at all
costs the partisan pitfalls that eventually soured voters on the GOP.
The majority party that takes control of the House and Senate in
January will look significantly different from the party that was swept
from power in the 1994 elections. The old-guard liberals and staunch
union supporters in control then are giving way to a new generation of
moderates with more temperate legislative ambitions.
Mortal Combat
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By William Saletan
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page B02
By one o'clock Wednesday morning, Democrats had taken the lead in the
Senate races in Montana and Virginia. Control of the Senate appeared to
rest on Missouri, where Democrat Claire McCaskill trailed Sen. James M.
Talent with three-quarters of the ballots counted. In a final surge,
McCaskill took the race and the Senate. And with her came the political
issue of the future: biotechnology.
Until now, elections have focused on three kinds of issues. During the
Cold War, national security vied with economics. Cultural issues came
third. Then communism collapsed, and we crushed Iraq in the Persian
Gulf War. Military and foreign policy lost their urgency, and recession
dominated the 1992 presidential campaign. "It's the economy, stupid,"
argued strategists for the governor of Arkansas. So we put him in the
White House.
I Am Macaca
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By S.R. Sidarth
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page B02
This past summer, between my third and fourth year of college, I
decided to volunteer for the campaign of Democratic Senate candidate
Jim Webb in my home state of Virginia. For most of the summer, I worked
behind the scenes at the campaign headquarters in Arlington, helping
set up field offices statewide and performing other odd jobs. In the
second week of August, I was dispatched by the campaign to serve as
Republican Sen. George Allen's tracker on a "listening tour" across the
state. Tracking was a rather solitary pursuit; I videotaped Allen's
public appearances whenever I was admitted into an event and killed
time between stops in places I had never been to before.
Then, on Aug. 11, my experience took a strange -- and now famous --
turn. On that day in Breaks Interstate Park, located on the Kentucky
border, Allen acknowledged my presence for the first time in one of his
stump speeches. I was singled out at a GOP picnic, identified as
"macaca or whatever his name is" -- despite the fact that Allen knew my
name, as we had been traveling the same route for five days -- and then
"welcome[d] to America and the real world of Virginia."
The Election Is Over. Let the Election Begin.
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By Ed Rogers
Sunday, November 12, 2006; B05
Phew, I'm glad those elections are over . . . (pause for four seconds).
Now we can focus on obsessing about the results and extrapolating their
meaning over two long years to predict who will win the presidency in
2008.
THE DEMOCRATS: IS WINNING WINNING?
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By Joe Trippi
Sunday, November 12, 2006; B05
Wham! The 2006 midterm elections are over, and the modern conservative
era has come to an end.
For the Democrats, a party so long on the outs, it feels good to be
back in power. But we can't just revel in yesterday. Democrats have to
start looking now to maximize our mandate for the 2008 presidential
election.
Right Vision, Wrong Policy -- and a Mideast Price to Pay
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By Jim Hoagland
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page B07
President Bush lost more than a midterm election and a cantankerous
defense secretary last week. He also abandoned any lingering chance of
remaking U.S. foreign policy into a radical force for democratic change
in the Middle East and elsewhere.
He had to. The American electorate showed emphatically that it had lost
faith in his party and his promises. Bush's refreshing generic
denunciations of foreign dictators -- including those who played ball
with Washington -- could not make up for his failure to produce
positive visible results to support the rhetoric. He needed an
immediate firebreak, and so he named Bob Gates to replace Don Rumsfeld
at the Pentagon.
Is America too Racist for Barack? Too Sexist for Hillary?
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page B01
The 2006 elections were for the technocrats and the operatives, pitting
the Democratic tacticians against the Karl Rove machine. But the next
election is already beginning to look quite different: 2008 may be one
for the novelists.
Viewers of the election returns late on Tuesday, after all, got an
early start on the iconography of the next presidential race. The cable
networks' cameras cut between Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanking her
supporters for an overwhelming victory in the New York Senate race, her
husband standing pointedly behind, and a smiling Sen. Barack Obama of
Illinois, giving cautious, professorial analysis to the television
viewers. Nobody noted the significance, but it stared us all in the
face: The two presumed leading contenders for the Democratic
presidential nomination are a woman and an African American.
Panel May Have Few Good Options to Offer
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Bipartisan Group's Plan Expected in Dec.
By Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 12, 2006; A01
After meeting with President Bush tomorrow, a panel of prestigious
Americans will begin deliberations to chart a new course on Iraq, with
the goal of stabilizing the country with a different U.S. strategy and
possibly the withdrawal of troops.
Tuesday's dramatic election results, widely seen as a repudiation of
the Bush Iraq policy, has thrust the 10-member, bipartisan Iraq Study
Group into the kind of special role played by the Sept. 11 commission.
This panel, led by former secretary of state James A. Baker III and
former Indiana congressman Lee H. Hamilton (D), might play a decisive
role in reshaping the U.S. position in Iraq, according to lawmakers and
administration officials.
Youth Movement at the Polls
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By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Peter Slevin
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page A05
Early returns from Tuesday's elections show that young people were
particularly inspired to cast ballots, a result that drew cheers from
voter activists.
Two million more people under the age of 30 voted in the midterm
elections than in 2002, according to an analysis by the University of
Maryland's Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and
Engagement.
New Clicks in the Arab World
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Bloggers Challenge Longtime Cultural, Political Restrictions
By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 12, 2006; A13
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- When he was a college student in Washington
state, Saudi Arabia's most popular blogger, Fouad al-Farhan, donned a
T-shirt emblazoned with "Animal Rights Equals Human Rights" and slept
on the campus lawn during a hunger strike protesting the slaughter of
foxes.
That type of freedom during six years in the United States gave Farhan
a taste for expressing himself that he was unable to satisfy when he
returned to Saudi Arabia in 2001.
Hezbollah Quits Lebanese Cabinet
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Protest Move May Weaken Support for Western-Backed Premier
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Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page A14
BEIRUT, Nov. 11 -- Cabinet ministers from Hezbollah and an allied party
resigned Saturday, a decision that could cost the Western-backed
government crucial support from Lebanon's Shiite Muslims.
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said he would not accept the resignations.
He has the authority to order the five cabinet ministers to stay on,
but it was unclear if his weak government could enforce the demand.
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