Mondays news and post-election analysis

It Still Felt Good the Morning After

By FRANK RICH

This is MUST READ for any Democrat. This election was a stunning rebuke to the mainstream media, pundits and the divisive politics of Bush-Cheney-Rove.

Voter registration process is under scrutiny

Election reformers are pushing for a 'universal' approach, in which the government would ensure that all eligible citizens are registered to vote.

By David G. Savage

Gift card holders may be out of luck in retail bankruptcies

They could lose more than $75 million from store and restaurant closings in 2008, an analyst says.

By Jerry Hirsch

The Religious Vote Postmortem  on Street Prophets A Daily Kos Community

The Religious Vote Postmortem

by pastordan

Thu Nov 06, 2008 at 09:03:16 PM PDT

So how did Barack Obama do among the churchy types? The short answer is: He did great, but he did even better with the other folks. And that might turn out to be something of a problem in the long run.

Faith in Public Life points out that Obama made strong gains among religious voters, with his strongest improvements shown:

among voters who attend church more than once per week, narrowing a 29-point GOP advantage (64% - 35%) to a 12-point GOP advantage (55% - 43%). This represents an 8-point increase among a strongly Republican group.

According to the CNN exit poll, John McCain won the Protestant vote. He won pretty handily at that: 54-45, rising to 65-34 among white Protestants and just shy of 75-25 with white Evangelicals, depending on how the question was asked. McCain even won the white born-once constituency by a slimmer 54-44 margin.

But McCain lost everybody else, 67-31. Obama's margins, in declining order, were with Jews (78-21), non-religious voters (75-23), other religions (73-22), and Catholics 54-45.

Washington Post

Hillary Denied Bid to Take Charge of Health Care?

Ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) apparently has rebuffed a bold bid by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) 

to take over health care policy in the Senate when the new Congress convenes in January.