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2014 Midterm Elections: Results and reactions from Election Day
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November 20, 2014
A top UN official says marijuana legalization in the US violates international law
A major challenge to marijuana legalization in four states and Washington, DC, may come from international agencies.
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November 17, 2014
Election results 2014: News and updates on major midterm races
We'll update this page, so check back!
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November 8, 2014
No, women aren't overwhelmingly more likely to oppose marijuana legalization
There's a gender gap, but it's probably not 15 points.
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November 6, 2014
Sen. Lisa Murkowski celebrated the GOP Senate takeover yelling "I am the chairmaaaan!"
Senate Republicans were very excited about their takeover of the Senate on Tuesday night. But perhaps no senator was excited as one Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
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November 6, 2014
25 out of 28 incumbent governors on the ballot this week won reelection
This is great news for the GOP's future.
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November 6, 2014
Will Congress block marijuana legalization in Washington, DC?
Congress could act, but how likely is it?
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November 6, 2014
How banning felons from voting affected the midterms, in one chart
3 key Senate races and 1 governor's race show the impact of banning people from voting based on their criminal records
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November 6, 2014
The best evidence yet that Republicans won't do anything on immigration in 2015
Or, what we learned from watching Univision on election night
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November 6, 2014
17 interesting facts about the midterms, and 3 uninteresting ones
Demographic firsts, historic waves — and some stuff that's same old, same old.
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November 6, 2014
Republicans now have historic majorities in state legislatures. That's a really big deal.
The consequences don't end with this election cycle. They could reverberate for generations.
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November 5, 2014
Vox Sentences: Republicans, pot smokers, minimum wage workers, and other midterm winners
The votes are in. Here's what happened yesterday.
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November 5, 2014
18,000: the number that shows voting in America is way too hard
An unusually high volume of glitches and irregularities were reported on November 4.
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November 5, 2014
Watch Obama explain the election, subtweet John Boehner, and call out America’s non-voters
Obama is saying that he doesn't think the electorate was rejecting his policies. He thinks they were rejecting his failure to pass his policies.
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November 5, 2014
For the first time ever, Congress has 100 female legislators
After last night's election, the 114th Congress appears to be the first to have 100 female members.
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November 5, 2014
The midterm elections proved that Democrats aren’t alienating Jews on Israel
It turns out the most salient point of the American Jewish approach to politics isn't pro-Israel sentiment or greater concerns about terrorism. It's that they're highly partisan Democrats.
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November 5, 2014
5 reasons why it will be really tough for Democrats to retake the Senate in 2016
It's a more favorable map. But they face many obstacles.
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November 5, 2014
The Senate can now pass a Keystone pipeline bill. Will Obama veto?
A lot may depend on the form that the Keystone bill takes.
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November 5, 2014
Personhood lost the midterms battle, but the pro-life movement is winning the war
Sarah Kliff explains in two minutes.
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November 5, 2014
The 7 most important midterm election results you might have missed
Last night was important for far more than the Senate.
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November 5, 2014
American politics is descending into a meaningless, demographically driven seesaw
Get ready for another wave in two years. Then another one back in the other direction two years after that.
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November 5, 2014
The polls were skewed — against Republicans
Polling averages gave no indication that the GOP wave would be so big.
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November 5, 2014
Marijuana legalization sweeps the 2014 midterm elections
Several states radically reshaped their approach to marijuana.
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November 5, 2014
The 2014 midterm elections, explained in 4 minutes
What the hell happened last night? Ezra Klein's 5 biggest takeaways.
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November 5, 2014
Meet Tom Cotton: Arkansas's next Senator and Rand Paul's worst nightmare
Arkansas' new Senator-elect is the young face of Republican hawkery. He and Rand Paul are not going to get along.
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November 5, 2014
The midterms may have killed bold executive action on immigration
It's hard to cry obstruction after taking a beating on this scale.