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As Feministing's Ann Friedman noted earlier today, yesterday's elections will bring more than just Obama to office this January. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will swear in 10 new Congresswomen and Vice President Dick Cheney will swear in 2 new women Senators. A look at the 10 Democratic women and 2 Republican woman who will join our federal government is after the jump (along with the lone new female governor). More »
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The election that I quit my career almost exactly a year ago to try my hand at covering is nearly at an end, but it's not technically over until John McCain calls Barack Obama and concedes. So it might actually be a while. Luckily, I'm here to sum up what I'm seeing and I have some friends around to help! Spencer Ackerman, Jason Linkins, Kay Steiger and [UPDATE!] Latoya Peterson will be dropping in and out between their own live-blogging duties to while away the hours. Drinks all around! It starts after the jump. More »
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• Sarah Palin feels the press should be forced to report about her in a certain way to avoid abridging her First Amendment rights. Add the actual First Amendment to Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution on the list of Constitutional amendments Sarah Palin is planning when she is Empress of America. [Huffington Post, U.S. Constitution]
• If you needed any other reasons to vote against McCain-Palin, Politico's list of Cabinet officials should help. It's got Dick Armitage for Secretary of State, Lindsay Graham for Secretary of Defense, Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General (!) and Randy "Biggest Asshole In the Universe" Scheunemann as National Security Advisor. And you thoughT Palin was a bad pick. [Politico]
• By contrast, their list of potential Administration officials for Obama reads like a liberal's wet dream. [Politico]
• Hey, while you weren't looking, Bush has been sneaking around trying to push controversial deregulation to "ease" consumer and environmental protections. Fuck. [Washington Post]

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