Big win in PA: Dems. take AG office, elects first woman.

SCRANTON - Vowing to lead her office as a prosecutor and not a politician, Democrat Kathleen Kane sailed to victory Tuesday in her historic bid to become the first woman and first member of her party elected as Pennsylvania's attorney general.

The former Lackawanna County prosecutor outpaced Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed, her GOP rival, with a commanding lead that put her on track to win with a margin wider than that of any other Democrat on the statewide ballot.

"Tonight is a historic night," she said to cheering supporters at the Radisson Hotel downtown. "We have expanded the boundaries for women in

Kane, 46, took the stage just before 11 p.m., flanked by her husband and two young sons.


http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-08/news/34974406_1_democrat-kathleen-kane-sandusky-case-district-attorney

AP calls Florida for Obama.

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President Obama wins Florida, topping Mitt Romney in final electoral vote tally 332 to 206: http://apne.ws/TSa63v -RAS


https://twitter.com/AP?tw_i=267323069067055105&tw_e=screenname&tw_p=tweetembed

Hank Williams Jr. upset about Obama win

Country star Hank Williams Jr. really wanted the presidential election to go the other way.

Fuming about President Barack Obama’s victory, he tweeted Thursday: “America has committed Economic Suicide.”

Williams hasn’t hidden his disdain for the president. He got in trouble for comparing Obama to Hitler last year and released a song knocking POTUS over the summer.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/11/hank-williams-jr-upset-about-obama-win-149113.html?hp=l14

Tammy Baldwin To Ron Johnson: 'I'm Quite Confident' I Understand The Federal Budget

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D), Wisconsin's new senator-elect, is confident that she will be able to understand the federal budget without the assistance of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

In an Associated Press interview on Wednesday, Johnson said he hoped he would be able to work with Baldwin in the Senate -- as soon as he explained the "facts" of the budget to her.

"Hopefully I can sit down and lay out for her my best understanding of the federal budget because they're simply the facts," he said. "Hopefully she'll agree with what the facts are and work toward common sense solutions."

"I was a double major in college in mathematics and political science, and I served for six years on the House Budget Committee in my first six years in the House," Baldwin responded in an interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.

"And I am very confident that when proposals come before the U.S. Senate, I will be able to evaluate them as to how they benefit or harm middle-class Wisconsinites. A yardstick of 'does it create jobs,' 'does it lower the deficit' and 'does it help grow the middle class' is an important one. I'm quite confident that I have those abilities," she added.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/tammy-baldwin-ron-johnson-federal-budget_n_2102760.html

Election 2012 MVP: Joe Biden

Let's e honest, we were wetting the bed after the first debate. Romney's support WAS increasing and a lot of us were demoralized. But when the Vice President got in Ryan's face and called MALARKY, the fire was back. It was also the point in October when Romney's "momentun" stopped. Joe has always been one of the most underrated and under-appreciated people in American politics and I want to single him out for stepping upand pushing back at time we needed it most.

Tweety: Is this country America or Greenwich Village?

I'm sorry, I thought the Village was part of America.

Supreme Court to review Voting Rights Act.

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a legal challenge to the Voting Rights Act, a landmark law adopted in 1965 to protect African-American voters who had faced decades of discrimination at the polls.

The high court accepted an appeal brought by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging a core provision of the act that requires nine states and several local governments with a history of bias to get federal permission to change their election procedures.

(Reporting by Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Jackie Frank)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/09/us-usa-court-voting-law-idUSBRE8A81G920121109

Turnout operations in 5 Iowa counties proved critical for Obama

President Barack Obama won Iowa by about 6 percentage points by matching or eclipsing his historic 2008 turnout numbers in five of Iowa’s biggest metropolitan counties.

Robust get-out-the-vote operations in Polk, Linn, Scott, Dubuque and Woodbury counties alone raked in about 73,000 more votes than Republican Mitt Romney, helping clinch Obama’s victory by nearly 87,000 votes statewide.

The Obama campaign had a huge analytics team in Chicago that sized up every voter in Iowa, said Jeff Link, a Democratic strategist from Des Moines and alumnus of the 2008 Obama team.

Aides then strategized how to encourage Iowans to vote, set goals and met those goals, Link said. At the same time, internal polling showed Obama up 6 to 8 percentage points in Iowa before the election, he said.


http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121108/NEWS09/311080051/Turnout-operations-in-5-Iowa-counties-proved-critical-for-Obama?Frontpage&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

CEO lays off employees he forced to attend Romney rally.

For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer – and layoffs.

Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: “Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build.”

On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a “war on coal” by the administration of President Barack Obama.”

Murray Energy is the country’s largest privately owned coal mining company, with about 3,000 employees producing about 30 million tons of bituminous coal a year, according to its Web site.

The company was the subject of an article in the New Republic that said the company had forced miners to attend a Romney campaign speech in southeastern Ohio in August. Murray denied the account. The New Republic also reported that Murray Energy employees have given more than $1.4 million to Republican candidates for federal office since 2007.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-obama-re-election-ceo-reads-prayer-to-staff-announces-layoffs/2012/11/09/e9bca204-2a63-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_story.html

Election night 2012 unfolds on CNN (VIDEO)