DNC: Election day 'a very good day to run as a Democrat'
(CNN) - National Democrats touted their 2013 election victories in New York and Virginia as 2014 bellwethers while writing off Gov. Chris Christie's New Jersey landslide.
Representatives of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee held a conference call Wednesday with reporters to lay out their vision for the coming midterm election.
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Top 10 states buzzing about Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton
(CNN) - Thanks to a special partnership with Facebook, CNN looked into who is getting America talking. Measuring the total number of mentions by name on Facebook from the last 24 hours, we ranked a list of the top ten states talking about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Facebook.
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GOP focuses on overall Obamacare troubles, not just website
Washington (CNN) - It's not about the website anymore.
Republican foes of Obamacare still use words like "disaster" and "epic" failure in describing problems with HealthCare.gov, the portal for enrolling in President Barack Obama's signature health care reforms.
FULL STORYRubio: Don't jump to conclusions about meaning of Christie win
Washington (CNN) – In an interview with CNN, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio downplayed Wednesday any national takeaways from GOP Gov. Chris Christie's crushing victory in the blue state of New Jersey and Republican Ken Cuccinelli's loss in Virginia, saying what happened in Tuesday's elections carry little implications for the future of the GOP.
"I think we need to understand that some of these races don't apply to future races. Every race is different–it has a different set of factors–but I congratulate (Christie) on his win," he told CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash.
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House Republican not running for re-election
Updated 11/6/2013 at 12:04 p.m. ET
Washington (CNN) - Former star pro-football player Jon Runyan, a two-term Republican congressman from New Jersey, will not run for re-election next year.
In a statement released Wednesday morning Runyan said "politics shouldn't be a career and I never intended to make it one. While it has truly been an honor to serve the people of New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, at this stage in my life, and more importantly, the lives of my three children, spending time with them is my top priority. As I serve out the rest of my term, I will continue to work hard on behalf of the people of South Jersey."
Vice President Biden works the phone
Updated 11/6/2013 at 10:25 a.m. ET
(CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden called several winners in Tuesday's elections, including reaching out to the new mayor of a town in Iowa - a contest that had garnered national attention, an official in the Vice President's office confirmed.
The Vice President reached out to Tuesday evening to new Coralville, Iowa mayor John Lundell after Americans For Prosperity, a group linked to the Koch Brothers, weighed in against his candidacy and that of two city council members. The conservative national advocacy group got involved because of the city's debt.
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5 things we learned from Election Night 2013
Washington (CNN) - There was little drama in the four key races we were watching Tuesday night. But the off-year elections were viewed as much for what they would say about next year's midterm elections and the next presidential contest in three years.
Here are five things we learned Tuesday night:
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SPECIAL EDITION OF CNN's GUT CHECK for November 6, 2013
CNN's GUT CHECK | for November 6, 2013 | 9 a.m.
– n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle
The Main Story Lines: Christie wins big in New Jersey; McAuliffe squeezes out a victory in Virginia; de Blasio’s crushing victory means a Democrat will lead the Big Apple for the first time in more than 20 years; and the GOP establishment scores a win over the tea party in Alabama.
The 2013 election is so yesterday as we look forward to the 2014 midterms and the wide open presidential race in 2016. But before we do …
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Documents show first days of Obamacare rollout worse than initially realized
Updated 4:19 p.m. ET, 11/6/2013
(CNN) - A stack of daily updates written by Obamacare contractors shows the October rollout hit more walls than previously known: In the first days, half of the calls to the phone center had problems, paper applications could not be processed and up to 40,000 people at a time were sitting in the waiting room of http://www.HealthCare.gov.
The 175 pages of internal updates during the sign-up chronicle the growing ailments and efforts to heal the system during October. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Republican Darrell Issa, obtained the documents from contractors involved and released them Wednesday.
"50% of the call center calls have issues," reads an entry on day three of the sign-up. "Anecdotal evidence supports a widerspread problem (with the call centers)," the October 3 document says.
Terry McAuliffe: I always said it was going to be close
(CNN) – Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe always knew the race would be close.
"I always said it would be a couple points from the day I got in," McAuliffe told CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash.
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