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It may be a bad night if even MSNBC hosts can't spin the results. Chris Matthews on Tuesday afternoon talked to Joy Reid and noted that they were both "progressives." Wondering for liberals everywhere, he asked, "What do you think is the good news that might come tonight for people that want to have good news tonight?" 

CNN's Carol Costello hyped how "Republicans have managed to use fear so successfully in these midterm elections" during interviews of two former governors on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom. Costello contended that "Republicans may be on the verge of winning Senate control – thanks, in large part, to a campaign of fear. If you examine the political ads that many Republican candidates have put out, they…

When your team is about to get trounced by its rival during an important game, how can you make sure that never happens again? Change the rules, of course, and that's exactly what David Schanzer and Jay Sullivan called for in an opinion piece published by the New York Times. “There was a time when midterm elections made sense -- at our nation’s founding,” Schanzer and Sullivan stated before…

Democrats have continued to stoke their phony "war on women" issue and racial politics this election cycle because it's all they've got. President Obama's domestic policy and foreign policy are in shambles, and they know it.

Vice President Joe Biden was exactly right when he said as he campaigned in Iowa on Oct. 27, "Folks, this election is even more important than the two elections you elected Barack and me." With President Obama's approval rating tanking to 38 percent in September, I can understand why Biden is shaking in his boots. The fact is that this election can serve for the 6 in 10 voters who are…

Jon Stewart, the smug, mugging hero of smarty-pants young liberals who watch The Daily Show, was interviewed by Chris Smith for the cover of New York magazine. Stewart got plenty of room to vulgarly bash various Republicans by name, praise Hillary Clinton, defend Obama and Obama-care, and again reiterate his call for a year of mandatory national service.

Global warming advocates started calling their opponents climate-change deniers. Liberals could add economic-recovery deniers to their phrasebook next. Despite the “objective reality” of an economic recovery this year, columnist Lynn Vavreck wrote this will not impact the midterm election. Posting on The New York Times’ The Upshot blog on November 3, 2014, Vavreck incorrectly implied that…

Conservative ‘mucking up’ facts, won’t vote for liberals because of partisanship.

Celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Dakota Fanning represent a slew of stars proving sorry role models for young women. But now, there’s a new option: Sadie Robertson.  In the wake of her new book, 17-year-old Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson went public with her stance on purity. Robertson recently spoke out for teens and offered advice on “staying pure in a relationship.” Published Oct. 28,…

If you haven’t watched the video above yet (or even if you have) you probably want to grab the tissues, not for a story of tragedy but of triumph. Last winter, 19-year-old Lauren Hill got the worst news one could get. She was dying from a rare and terminal form of brain cancer. Hill was informed by her doctors that she had an inoperable brain tumor the size of a lemon and had just months to live…

College basketball player Lauren Hill makes the most of the time she has left.

College basketball player Lauren Hill makes the most of the time she has left.

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe Tuesday morning, Politico's Jim VandeHei absurdly claimed that Republicans would be in big trouble if they took control of the Senate in the midterm election: "...even if Republicans win, I think they're going to be in a hell of a jam. In that they're not going to be able to get anything done."  

The cover of Tuesday’s edition of The Washington Post’s commuter tabloid Express reads “How Obama will need to lead differently if Republicans gain control of the Senate.” Jena McGregor’s article inside carried the headline “Obama’s turn to change.” McGregor noticed an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed two-thirds of voters want Obama to change: