November 08, 2012 Published Weekday Mornings   To see the full version of today's cartoon, click on the preview graphic of the cartoon (below the Commentary) to be taken to the full version in your favorite web browser. Advice For The Defeated Republicans Stung by Massive Losses Begin Debate Over Future Ezra Klein: The Romney campaign's biggest mistake in the election Pew Center: Changing Face of America Helped Assure Obama Victory Greg Sargent: Demographics as political destiny Election Night 2012: Fox News' dark night of the soul Rove's On-Air Rebuttal of Fox's Ohio Vote Call Raises Questions About His Role GOP Insider Steve Schmidt: The GOP Must Muzzle Rush Limbaugh Conor Friedersdorf: How Conservative Media Lost to the MSM and Failed the Rank and File Ross Douthat: The Age Of Reagan Is Over; The Age Of Obama Is Here Charles Lane: A reality check for the ages David Simon: Barack Obama And The Death Of 'Normal' Meghan McCain to GOP: #evolve Victory Notes President Obama's reelection: 12 takeaways How The Obama Campaign Clawed Back After a Dismal First Debate The Progressive Surge of The 2012 Election Ta-Nehisi Coates: Hippies Wander Into the Lions' Den, Maul Lions Joan Walsh: Why revenge is sweet Adam Serwer: Be Warned; A Decisive Win for Liberalism Is Not Necessarily A Permanent One Poll Tested Public Policy Polling Deemed Most Accurate Individual National Pollster In 2012 Most Accurate Aggregator: Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Correctly Predicts All 50 States, Pundits Wrong on "Close Race" Nate Silver & FiveThirtyEight Called the Election Right Weeks Ago Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win Health Care Checkup Conservatives begin to admit defeat in their 3-year war against 'ObamaCare' Analysis: 20 states will run their own health-law exchanges Energy, Climate & Environment Scientists agree; Climate Change Made Sandy Worse. Period. Obama to continue efforts to curb greenhouse gases, push energy efficiency Solar Tariffs Upheld, but May Not Help in U.S. Denmark surpasses 2020 solar power goal - 8 years early Nations In Turmoil Arab League says Assad's days are numbered Syrian President Assad vows to 'live and die' in Syria, warns against foreign invasion Red Cross says it cannot cope with scope of Syrian emergency The Wars Over There Afghanistan bombings kill 18 International News Turkey May Deploy Patriot Missiles Near Syria Jiang Zemin, Ex-Leader of China, Reasserting Sway China's Hu Jintao urges Communist Party to address corruption National Politics As the election ends, 25 problems facing Obama and Congress States Of Confusion Conservatives fail to oust judges in Iowa and Florida Puerto Ricans vote for statehood, but oust pro-statehood governor Fortu�o Midwest Roundup Non-Republican Nebraskans now have no representation in Congress How will Obama's re-election affect Keystone XL pipeline? Iowa's Republican Governor Branstad gives Obama credit for "tremendous ground game" Turnout operations in 5 Iowa counties proved critical for Obama Voters retain Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins Minneapolis election officials begin planning future voting improvements on day after election Coaching Advice For The Defeated It's been an interesting day or so since the announcement that President Barack Obama was re-elected for his second term. To start with, we've received some great praise from readers like you, both in writing and verbally, for our work guiding you and others through the tumultuous election period. We're proud that we can make you laugh with Paul's cartoons, while guiding you to the sage advice of our friends and media colleagues, like Nate Silver and his team at FiveThirtyEight. We are immensely humbled by your words of praise, and are even more motivated to deliver to you the best journalism that we can. Motivating people to improve is a key ability of those in self-sacrificing jobs like politician or coach. The best coaches and politicians are usually those individuals who aren't in it for their own selfish benefit, and who aren't blinded by their own propaganda telling them how great they are. For our friends in the Republican Party, they found that out the hard way on Tuesday night - so we've got a few important pieces of advice they may want to pay attention to, if they don't want their political party to become the next relic of history. Our first nugget of wisdom is to look at the calendar... To continue reading... click here. And now, for your Daily Felltoon preview for November 08, 2012 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) Taxes & Budgets Back to Work, President Obama Is Greeted Immediately by Looming Fiscal Crisis From Coast-To-Coast, Voters Reject Anti-Tax Hysteria Ezra Klein: Has Obama been given a mandate to raise taxes on the wealthy? Dana Milbank: Boehner says he wants to bargain. But will the Tea Partiers in the House GOP let him? | Boehner's Offer For Bipartisan Compromise On Taxes Nearly Identical To Romney Plan They Learned Nothing: Republican Eric Cantor Already Talking About Taking Debt Limit Hostage In Exchange For More Cuts Kevin Drum: John Boehner's Desperate, Empty Bluff on Taxes CBPP: $2 Trillion in Deficit Savings Would Achieve Key Goal Jobs & The Economy Jobless claims fall though storm distorts data U.S. Stocks Rise as Jobless Claims Drop, JPMorgan Rallies | Home Prices Now Up 7.6% From One Year Ago U.S. trade deficit narrows as exports climb Storm Cleanup Nor'easter Dumps Rain & Snow on Hurricane-Battered Region More than 400,000 NJ residents are without power after nor'easter The Euro Mess Euro weakens as eyes turn to ECB meeting Fragile Coalition in Greece Narrowly Backs Austerity Communications Breakdown Online television comes of age on Election Day 2012 Alyssa Rosenberg: Fox News' Election Night Meltdown - And Megyn Kelly's Legs Equality Andrew Sullivan: A Marriage Equality Tipping Point Ana Marie Cox: How gay equality became the new normal of US politics in 2012 It's Your Cap News Toon for November 08, 2012 (Click the preview cartoon above to see the full version of the cartoon) POTUS Update President Obama faces a host of tough issues as second term begins What Obama needs next: Executive branch nomination reform Money in Politics Karl Rove and his investors were the biggest losers on Election Day Connecticut Repub Linda McMahon Spent $100 Million to Lose Twice News From Capitol Hill Harry Reid: Filibuster Reform Will Be Pursued In The Next Congress Kevin Drum: 2013 Might Finally Be the Year of Filibuster Reform | Reid calls for ending 'gridlock' and pledges Senate rules changes Greg Sargent: Why having a more liberal Senate will matter On The Left Poll: Democratic Demographics Faced Significantly Longer Voting Lines Ed Kilgore: What Is This "Mandate" Thing Of Which You Speak? Why Americans Actually Voted For A Democratic House Kevin Drum: Beware of Beguiling Explanations for Obama's Victory On The Right The Republicans, Post-Election Day; Unplugged & Unhinged Extremist conservatives lambast Romney, vow to take over Republican Party Romneyworld reckoning begins Why Boehner Has Gerrymandering to Thank for His Majority State Level Races Washington state Republican candidate calls aborting rapist's child 'more violence on woman's body' | Missouri's Todd Akin also has history of pushing narrow definition of child abuse We hope you enjoy "The Daily Felltoon" every business day. Thanks for continuing to be a member! Paul Fell Shawn "Smith" Peirce Paul Fell Cartoons, Inc.