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- President Obama’s reelection is a windfall for the guns industry.
- Matt Yglesias explains how the roots of Mitt Romney’s crushing defeat among Latino voters can be found in the right’s racialized opposition to Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
- A mining company claims the Constitution protects its ability to use copious amounts of sulfuric acid.
- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s (R) property rights amendment, which passed Tuesday, threatens expansion of the DC metro and may provide a windfall to Starbucks.
- And, finally, two right-wing voters try to “test” the system to figure out if people who commit voter fraud will be caught. The system works. Both voters are now under arrest.
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