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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court’s Troubled Treatment of Asian Americans</strong> - Students for Fair Admissions is one of only a few Supreme Court cases about the rights of Asian Americans. But what will it achieve on their behalf? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/affirmative-action-and-the-supreme-courts-troubled-treatment-of-asian-americans">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chuck Schumer’s Final Call</strong> - The Senate Majority Leader navigated one of the most sweeping legislative sessions in memory—why haven’t voters seemed to notice? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/chuck-schumers-final-call">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Republican Insiders Think the G.O.P. Is Poised for a Blowout</strong> - The consensus among pollsters and consultants is this Tuesday’s election will be a “bloodbath” for the Democratic Party. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/why-republican-insiders-think-the-gop-is-poised-for-a-blowout">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Unlikely Victory of John Fetterman</strong> - In the early hours of the morning, as it became clear that Fetterman had won his crucial Senate race, his watch party turned from tension to celebration. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-unlikely-victory-of-john-fetterman">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Midterm Elections Deliver a Stunning Return to the Status Quo</strong> - The red wave never materialized, Trump’s handpicked candidates underperformed, some new faces emerged—but the country appears as evenly divided as ever. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-midterm-elections-deliver-a-stunning-return-to-the-status-quo">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>South Dakota voters decide to extend Medicaid coverage to 45,000 people</strong> -
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Yet another Medicaid expansion ballot measure passed in a Republican state.
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Medicaid expansion has extended its extraordinary winning streak at the ballot box in <a href="https://www.vox.com/health-care/2022/9/30/23377495/medicaid-expansion-states-south-dakota-ballot-initiative">South Dakota</a>.
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Six times before this Election Day, voters in a state had weighed in directly on whether to <a href="https://www.vox.com/ad/18307627/medicaid-expansion-states-income-requirements">expand Medicaid</a> under the Affordable Care Act and make more low-income adults eligible for free public health coverage. Six times, the ballot measure had passed.
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That undefeated streak has now reached seven wins with the passage of South Dakota Constitutional Amendment D on Tuesday, according to <a href="https://electionresults.sd.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=BQ&map=CTY">the election results from the South Dakota secretary of state’s office</a>.
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Voters there approved <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/South_Dakota_Constitutional_Amendment_D,_Medicaid_Expansion_Initiative_(2022)">a constitutional amendment</a> that would extend Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act. Anybody making less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level (about $18,000 for an individual or $36,900 for a family of four) would qualify for Medicaid coverage.
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Right now, 5 percent of South Dakotans are uninsured. Childless adults of working age can not qualify for coverage at all. Pregnant women, children, and the elderly can currently receive Medicaid benefits, but working parents must have a very low income — less than 63 percent of the federal poverty level, about $17,500 for a family of four — to enroll.
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An estimated <a href="https://www.healthinsurance.org/medicaid/south-dakota/">45,000 South Dakotans</a> would be covered by the expansion, adding to <a href="https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/medicaid-expansion-enrollment/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D">20.4 million low-income Americans nationwide</a> already insured by the Medicaid expansion since the program took full effect in 2014. Many of those who would qualify for Medicaid in South Dakota — <a href="https://www.startribune.com/american-indians-in-south-dakota-slip-through-cracks-of-health-overhaul/278603381/">about 14,000</a> — are American Indians currently ineligible for coverage.
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Initially, the Affordable Care Act was meant to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income adults nationwide. The law offered a good deal: Expand eligibility and receive a generous federal funding match, 90 percent of the cost in perpetuity. But a 2012 Supreme Court decision made Medicaid expansion optional for states, and a dozen states still have not accepted the expansion a full decade later, leaving <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsured-poor-adults-in-states-that-do-not-expand-medicaid/">4 million people without Medicaid coverage</a> who would otherwise be eligible.
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In the face of that obstruction from Republican state officials, health care advocates have taken the issue directly to voters in largely Republican states, with remarkable success.
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Across the six states that had already expanded Medicaid <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/">through a ballot measure</a> — Idaho, Maine, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Utah — an estimated 811,000 people have either enrolled or become eligible for Medicaid coverage. It’s a new frontier for expanding access to health insurance in America. Before the election, I asked Paul Starr, a Princeton University sociologist and the preeminent historian of the American health system, whether there was any precedent for direct democracy leading to such significant coverage expansions.
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“The history of health insurance protection until the Supreme Court’s decision on the ACA in 2012 was almost entirely a history of legislation and administrative decisions,” he told me. “Ballot measures weren’t very significant.”
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But ballot initiatives have become, in the last few years, almost exclusively the path for Medicaid expansion to keep advancing. In the first few years after the Supreme Court’s decision, a number of Republican state leaders decided to adopt Medicaid expansion on their own, driven by the financial benefits and lobbying from local health care groups. The Obama administration accepted waivers — including one from future Vice President Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana — to tweak the program to make it more amenable to these GOP politicians.
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But by 2017, with Donald Trump entering the White House, the prospects for future action by Republican governors and legislatures looked grim. So the Fairness Project, an offshoot of an SEIU health care workers union in California that was supporting minimum wage ballot initiatives at the time, started coordinating with local organizers to put Medicaid expansion directly on the ballot.
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“Direct democracy has been a path for important change and also a path of last resort,” Kelly Hall, a former Obama administration health official who is now the executive director of the Fairness Project, said. “Expanding Medicaid anywhere helps protect it everywhere.”
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The last few years have been a revelation of Medicaid’s political potency. Concerns about ending the expansion and cutting Medicaid spending helped doom the Republican plans to repeal and replace the ACA. And these six expansion ballot initiatives have all passed since 2017, with South Dakota becoming the seventh.
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Hall said the campaign’s goal has been “helping to place Medicaid alongside the other third-rail public programs like Medicare and Social Security.”
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“Medicaid has a much wider base of support than many people appreciate,” Starr told me. “It’s not just the poor who benefit. It’s also people with disabilities and seniors, plus their families and the providers that benefit from Medicaid payment.”
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GOP leaders have still tried — unsuccessfully to date — to stop or subvert these ballot initiatives, first in <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/11/18220721/utah-medicaid-expansion-prop-3-sb96">Utah</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22440101/missouri-medicaid-expansion-joe-biden">Missouri</a>, and also in South Dakota. For the primary election in June, the state legislature put up a ballot measure that would have required a 60 percent supermajority for any future ballot initiatives to be adopted, with the intent of making it harder for the Medicaid expansion measure to pass. But <a href="https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2022/06/24/south-dakotas-journey-to-medicaid-expansion-an-update/">it was rejected</a> by two-thirds of South Dakota primary voters.
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Why does Medicaid expansion keep finding success with red-state voters, if not their elected representatives? Hall pointed to three successful messages: hearing from neighbors who will benefit, bringing federal tax dollars back to the state, and protecting the solvency of rural hospitals and health clinics. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBuC6-HuzPE">One of the ads</a> that ran in South Dakota featured a farmer who says he wants to keep his family farm running but can’t afford health care right now.
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To date, Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives have been an unqualified success. But their usefulness might soon be running out. Only about half of states allow citizen-initiated ballot measures and, of the 12 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, only four of them permit such initiatives: South Dakota — which has now voted on it — plus Florida, Mississippi, and Wyoming.
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Florida is the second biggest state, after Texas, that is still refusing Medicaid expansion. Those two states are home to <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsured-poor-adults-in-states-that-do-not-expand-medicaid/">more than half of the 2.2 million people nationwide</a> who have been left without a viable option for coverage because their state has not expanded Medicaid. But while ballot initiatives are permitted there, they require a 60 percent supermajority and the state legislature has shown <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/06/republicans-florida-amendment-4-voting-rights">a willingness to undermine ballot measures after their passage</a>.
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The entire Mississippi ballot initiative process, meanwhile, was <a href="https://www.mississippifreepress.org/12260/in-blow-to-voters-mississippi-supreme-court-kills-medical-marijuana-and-all-ballot-initiatives/">upended by a state court decision in 2021</a>; advocates are working to restore the rights of citizens to collect signatures and put issues directly to voters. In Wyoming, there is some hope that the legislature and governor <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/08/30/wyoming-legislature-discussing-medicaid-expansion-again/">may yet get on board with Medicaid expansion</a> as the state faces budget woes.
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So while ballot measures could still make more gains in expanding Medicaid coverage, expansion advocates are running out of opportunities. Texas, for example, is one of the states that does not allow citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives. Neither do Georgia and North Carolina, the next biggest states after Florida not to expand Medicaid.
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“We’re pretty close to working ourselves out of a job on this topic,” Hall said.
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<li><strong>The 2022 midterm elections, explained</strong> -
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A person votes in Brooklyn, New York, in November 2021. | Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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The 2022 midterms are coming up on November 8, when voters across the US will decide the makeup of Congress, determine who will hold key offices in their states and cities, and weigh in on policies directly via ballot measures.
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Democrats currently have narrow majorities in both chambers, and because the same party holds the White House, conditions are ideal for them to pass bills President Joe Biden will sign. But forecasts suggest Democrats are likely to lose control of the House and keep the Senate this fall — though many key races are so close that anything is possible.
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Beyond Washington, governors, secretaries of state, and attorneys general, along with members of the legislature, are up for election in dozens of states. The winners of those contests will affect state policies on issues as varied as abortion, voting rights, and Covid-19.
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Vox has been digging into the stakes of individual races and the entire country and will continue to through and even after Election Day. If you’re just starting to follow the elections, you can get a better understanding of what’s on the line <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/12/23344632/midterms-2022-elections-key-house-senate-races-control-congress">here</a>, and if you’re trying to figure out what you need to do to vote, <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23363748/voting-guide-registration-polling-place-voter-suppression">start here</a>.
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Do you have something you want explained that you don’t see on this page? Ask a Vox reporter your questions about Congress <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6isuraAwbdnBBVVKorqU-b6TdYQFuHmQKqcrW5TC-N1Y4bg/viewform">here</a>, about what’s going on in the states <a href="http://vox.com/ask-nicole-narea.">here</a>, and about the politics of the midterms <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgKliYTFIvitGbPSxGzMyiB1PnfUWBq_Ef81sdv0y5-R8qGw/viewform">here</a>.
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<img alt="An illustration on a red background with blue shapes shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with his fist raised and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy with a sad expression. " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/HpsLuCIme6hgWhOsm3sgwTNb18M=/0x0:1440x1080/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71604250/winners_losers_midterms_v2.0.jpg"/>
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Big races and congressional majorities haven’t been called, but we have a few clear lessons.
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The votes are still being tallied in the 2022 midterms. Many key races haven’t been called as of early Wednesday morning, and we don’t know who will control either chamber of Congress. That means we also don’t know the answer to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/7/23441115/midterm-election-questions-answers-results">many of the big questions</a> these midterms presented.
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Those questions may take weeks to resolve. But before <a href="https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/01/politics/alaskas-foray-into-ranked-choice-voting-xoasq1i29i/">ranked-choice tabulations</a> occur in Maine and Alaska, let alone a potential Senate runoff in Georgia, there are a few clear lessons to be taken from the races called so far.
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Winner: Ron DeSantis
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Ron DeSantis may have had the best night of any Republican in the country. The Florida governor won what was once a swing state by a margin of nearly 20 points, and won base Democratic counties — or at least what were once base Democratic counties — like Palm Beach and <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/republican-socialism-attacks-haunt-democrats-in-florida.html">Miami Dade</a>. DeSantis built on Republican gains among Hispanic voters in Florida in 2020, including among Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans in metro Miami, and Puerto Ricans in metro Orlando. He also ended up carrying 62 of Florida’s 67 counties.
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The huge win positions DeSantis for a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23448695/trump-2024-republicans-desantis-abbott-scott-sununu">potential 2024 presidential campaign</a>, and it makes him the symbol of Republican success on a night that was underwhelming for the rest of the GOP. Florida was the one of the few states where expectations for a “red wave” came to pass.
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Loser: Waves
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Beyond Florida, the red wave didn’t wash ashore on Tuesday.
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Given all the hype of a big night for Republicans in the days and weeks before Election Day, it was a disappointing evening for them. The expectation that Republicans would not just win toss-up races, but carry races where they were underdogs, did not come to pass. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/11/08/republican-midterms-credit-mccarthy-mcconnell-scott">The frantic fight to take credit</a> for the wins on Tuesday afternoon was already turning into a frenetic effort to avoid taking the blame on Wednesday morning.
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The GOP may still end up capturing control of both chambers of Congress when all the votes are counted, but it would not be the type of win that some Republicans expected even in the hours before polls closed on Tuesday. Instead, it would be by narrow margins that will prove far short of GOP dreams of winning historic majorities in the House and picking up enough seats in the Senate to set themselves up for a filibuster-proof supermajority after 2024. And wins at this point will represent incremental gains for Republicans who were only able to grasp the lowest-hanging fruit.
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Loser: Donald Trump
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Former President Donald Trump’s candidates had a lackluster night on Tuesday, and there’s potential for this to turn into an embarrassing election season for him as more races are called.
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In Georgia, his handpicked Senate candidate <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23412672/herschel-walker-georgia-football-jeff-pearlman">Herschel Walker</a> ran far behind the rest of the GOP ticket. While Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, the incumbent governor and secretary of state whom Trump backed unsuccessful primary challenges against, won easily, Walker lagged behind them. With <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-georgia.html">over 95 percent of the vote reporting</a>, the former NFL player was just behind incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.
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In Pennsylvania, Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23425073/midterm-elections-2022-pennsylvania-senate-fetterman-oz">Oz lost a Senate seat</a> to the state’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman. Oz’s primary win over hedge fund mogul Dave McCormick and conservative activist Kathy Barnette was attributed to Trump’s endorsement, and he trailed Fetterman for most of the general election. In Michigan, Trump endorsed a former official in his administration, John Gibbs, against incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Meijer, who voted for impeachment. Gibbs won the primary, but lost on Tuesday night.
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There were some wins for Trump: J.D. Vance <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/21/23415211/ohio-senate-jd-vance-tim-ryan-midterm-elections">won handily</a> in the Ohio Senate race, for example<strong>,</strong> after Trump picked him in the primary and rallied for him throughout the general. But several races remain to be called where Trump put his finger on the scale (like Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters and Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake). All of that will call into question Trump’s political acumen as his favored candidates underperformed, while a top 2024 rival — DeSantis — had a successful night.
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Winner: Baseline partisanship
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The incumbent Republican governor won handily in Oklahoma on Tuesday night while the incumbent Democrat notched a victory in New York. The quick, clear results were mildly surprising, based on public polls that had Democrat Joy Hofmeister ahead of Gov. Kevin Stitt in Oklahoma and Gov. Kathy Hochul neck and neck with GOP challenger Lee Zeldin in New York.
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But it turned out Democrats in Democratic states ended up voting for Democrats, while Republicans in Republican states voted for Republicans.
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This didn’t hold everywhere. Incumbent Democrat Laura Kelly was in a strong position in the Kansas governor’s race early Wednesday, while Republicans seemed well placed in open congressional seats in New York. But more often than not, voters voted how one would expect them to. Republicans couldn’t pull off upsets they were optimistic about in Democratic-leaning congressional districts in Virginia and Rhode Island, and MAGA candidates couldn’t win statewide in states like Minnesota and New Hampshire, where Trump had never won in a general election. The result was a night that resembled the same political terrain fought over in 2020, with candidates winning narrowly in swing states after hard-fought and expensive races.
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House Republicans are still favored to regain the majority in Congress, four years after losing it in the 2018 midterms, and current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is still favored to be the speaker of the House if they do. He sounded upbeat in remarks early Wednesday. “You are out late, but when you wake up tomorrow, we will be the majority and [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority,” he said.
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But if McCarthy’s hair was not already uniformly silver, it would be turning gray after this Election Day.
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If the GOP prevails, the House Republican leader will have to manage a far smaller majority than he had hoped. One member of Congress <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/10/2022-midterms-kevin-mccarthy-is-the-man-in-the-maga-middle.html">said</a> earlier in the fall that McCarthy would need a big majority — one greater than 20 seats — to be guaranteed to win the speaker’s gavel in 2023.
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Projections early Wednesday morning left it unclear he will hit that total, and the GOP will certainly fall short of the 60 seats that McCarthy boasted were in play just a year ago after Glenn Youngkin’s win in <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/579895-gop-leader-says-republicans-could-flip-60-seats-next-year/">the Virginia governor’s race</a>. That leaves him likely to manage a slender majority, a task that drove the last two Republican speakers, John Boehner and Paul Ryan, out of politics, as fractious right-wingers constantly rebelled against them.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL auction to be held on December 23 in Kochi</strong> - Istanbul, Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad were also in contention to host the mini auction ahead of the 2023 season</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bullish Tamil Nadu looks sharp for the upcoming Vijay Hazare Trophy</strong> - It’s recent outing against the visiting Bangladesh XI will hold it in good stead, says skipper Indrajith</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Petronia, Rodrigo and Django catch the eye</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mahendra Kumar Sharma no more</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Griner sent to Russian penal colony to serve sentence</strong> - A Russian court rejected an appeal of Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence last month</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>UDF will oppose LDF Ordinance to remove Kerala Governor as Chancellor: K. Sudhakaran</strong> - The Governor should be ready to legally implement his powers and rights, and the State government should ensure that it does not encroach upon his rights, he says</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Government stipulations for new varsities may inhibit their growth</strong> - Redeployment of staff as directed by the govt. fraught with difficulties</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Intellectuals pen open letter to Modi</strong> - Demands implementation of promises mentioned in Reorganisation Act</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Forest routes to Sabarimala set for full-scale opening after pandemic</strong> - The Forest department expects the path to witness heavy rush right from the season’s beginning and has kick-started works to restore the path</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Risk of blindness double among diabetics in urbanised States, says study</strong> - In India, about 30 lakh diabetics, aged over 40, are in danger of losing their sight, say researchers in an article published in The Lancet</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy earthquake felt in several countries</strong> - A 5.5-magnitude earthquake off Italy’s east coast is felt in Rome and parts of the Balkans.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>France calls time on anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane in Sahel</strong> - The Ukraine war shows France’s military might be better directed elsewhere than a thankless campaign.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>2023 Rugby World Cup: French prosecutors search headquarters</strong> - Financial prosecutors search the headquarters of France’s 2023 Rugby World Cup organisers.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ancient Rome: Stunningly preserved bronze statues found in Italy</strong> - The discovery of 24 statues thought to be around 2,300 years old may “rewrite history”, an expert says.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Norway princess quits royal duties for alternative medicine</strong> - Princess Märtha Louise and her fiancé, shaman Durek Verrett, have attracted criticism in Norway.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Patches for 6 zero-days under active exploit are now available from Microsoft</strong> - Exchange, Windows, and a bunch of other Microsoft software all affected. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896179">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ars OpenForum & Commenting System are getting a big upgrade</strong> - Comments and the OpenForum will be down from 1 am ET until Wednesday afternoon. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896147">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Elizabeth Holmes loses bid for new trial despite bizarre visit from key witness</strong> - Holmes is expected to appeal her conviction. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896155">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Redditor discovers legendary 1956 computer in grandparents’ basement</strong> - The 1956 LGP-30 computer, subject of hacker lore, is one of only 45 made in Europe. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1895927">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>US renewable growth puts them on par with nuclear</strong> - Coal, wind, and solar all went up as hydro took a dive. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896112">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>Voting is like doing a group project in school</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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I did my part, but I’m worried the rest of you are going to fuck this up
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MisterB78"> /u/MisterB78 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/yq7gzw/voting_is_like_doing_a_group_project_in_school/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/yq7gzw/voting_is_like_doing_a_group_project_in_school/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>As a butcher is shooing away a dog from his shop, he sees a $25 bill and a note in his mouth, reading: “10 pork chops, please.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Amazed, he takes the money, puts a bag of pork chops in the dog’s mouth, and quickly closes the shop.
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He follows the dog and watches him wait for a green light, look both ways, and trot across the road to a bus stop. The dog checks the timetable and sits on the bench. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the front and looks at the number, then boards the bus. The butcher follows, dumbstruck. As the bus travels out into the suburbs, the dog takes in the scenery. After a while he stands on his back paws to push the “stop” bell, then the butcher follows him off. The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the step. He goes back down the path, takes a big run, and throws himself -WHAP!- against the door. He does this again and again. No answer. So he jumps on a wall, walks around the garden, beats his head against a window, jumps off, and waits at the front door. A big guy opens it and starts cursing and shouting at the dog.
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The butcher runs up and screams at the guy: “What in hell are you doing? This dog’s a genius!” The owner responds, “Genius, my ass… It’s the second time this week he’s forgotten his keys!”
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A billionaire is sailing his yacht past a lighthouse, and he sees the elderly lighthouse keeper out on the rocks at the base of the lighthouse, getting a blowjob from a mermaid - the top half was a stunning, curvy redhead, and the bottom half was a tiger shark. As he watches, the pair finish the act and the mermaid swims away.
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The billionaire is stunned, and anchors his yacht there to see if it happens again. Sure enough, the next afternoon, the lighthouse keeper comes out, blows on a conch shell, and a gorgeous blonde merman with the bottom half of a swordfish swims up, and thoroughly satisfies him.
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The next day this happens again! This time he blows on a different conch and the mermaid is a petite brunette with the bottom half of a seahorse.
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The billionaire decides he must have this, and every night for the next two weeks, he scours the local bars to find the lighthouse keeper. He finally runs him down at a fisherman’s bar and sits down next to him.
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“I’ll give you a million dollars if you tell me how you get those mermaids to come up to you. Only the female ones, though, I’m prejudiced.”
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“No,” says the lighthouse keeper “it’s too difficult and dangerous, and I don’t want the liability”
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“Two million dollars and a waiver” says the billionaire.
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“Fine” says the lighthouse keeper, and they handle the paperwork.
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“Okay, here’s what you do. You learn to hold your breath for five minutes, and go to the rock pool behind the lighthouse. Stay underwater for five minutes without any help, and a mermaid will be impressed and swim up and give you a conch. And that’s how you get Seahorse Julie.”
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“Too hard!” says the billionaire. “What else do you have?”
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" Get really good at swimming in the open ocean. At exactly midnight, leave from the lighthouse shore, and swim due east for exactly four miles, without your GPS watch, and a mermaid will be impressed and give you a conch. That’s how you get Tiger shark Alice. "
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" Too complicated!" fumes the billionaire, “Try again!”
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“Fine, here’s an easy but gross one” says the lighthouse keeper. “Go to the chicken farm three miles north of here and ask for their sickliest chicken. Pluck it, and then soak it in their sewage runoff for a day. Then grind it up into a smoothie, let it ferment for two days, and then go onto the bow of your yacht and chug it at high noon. That’s how…”
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“At last!” shouts the billionaire, and rushes off to get the chicken. Three days later, he’s standing on the pointy end of his yacht, holding his nose and drinking a greyish pink smoothie.
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And that’s how he got Salmon Ella.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hearsdemons"> /u/hearsdemons </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ypp8pf/voting_is_a_lot_like_driving/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ypp8pf/voting_is_a_lot_like_driving/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A bird? A plane?
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Nope, nun of the above
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