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- Reports on election night can be incomplete, misleading or inaccurate. So why the rush for results? We can’t stop news outlets from reporting the results that they have, but we can require that votes not be released until there is a reasonable certainty of the outcome.
- The National Rifle Association, long considered one of the most powerful and professional lobbying groups in the world, is losing a crucial public relations battle to bunch of teenagers from Florida.
- First John Boehner shocked his colleagues by announcing his retirement from the Speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives, effective at the end of October.
- There's another scandal to the J. Dennis Hastert case, says Robert Reich: the fact that he made a fortune as a lobbyest.
- Jules Witcover says Republicans see the need for a makeover after the disasters of 2012
- Robert Reich says Hillary Clinton will take Joe Biden's spot on the 2012 ticket, Mitt Romney will win the GOP nomination, and he'll pick Marco Rubio as his running mate. The upshot: Obama/Clinton in a walk.