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Obama's Calm Response to Election Results: Change on the Way?

The president’s press conference was eerily calm and deliberate—as though his party hadn’t been blown out the night before. Howard Kurtz talks to White House reporters on the challenge of penetrating Obama’s armor.

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The magnificent white columns still greet visitors with grandeur. The presidential seal remains affixed to the lectern. And when Barack Obama walked into the high-ceilinged East Room today, beneath a trio of glittering chandeliers, it seemed that very little had changed.

As exhausted aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs looked on...

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