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Report says a second Trump term would add 4 billion tons of climate pollution; Trump predicts a bloodbath for the country if he is defeated in November's election; Nevada leaders discuss future of IVF, abortion in the Silver State; and anglers seek trawler buffer zone as Atlantic herring stock declines.

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The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

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Cure for Election Hangover? Race for 2016 Begins Today

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014   

RALEIGH, N.C. - After enduring months of campaign ads, North Carolinians are waking up today and learning how the candidates and issues they favored in this midterm fared. But today barely marks a break in the action for political insiders. Jill Hanauer, president and CEO of Project New America, says they're now ramping up for the 2016 presidential election.

"We're waking up today and wanting to take a nice sigh of relief that it's over, but it's not over," she says. "Politics just started for 2016, the minute the sun rose."

North Carolina's new voting law, passed last year, shortened early-voting days in this midterm, eliminated same-day registration and prevented out-of-precinct voting on Election Day. The law is expected to be challenged in court next year, along with its requirement for photo identification, scheduled to take effect in 2016.

North Carolina's campaign spending in this midterm was higher than any other election in the country for the U.S. Senate race. Hanauer believes this election could be the turning point with campaigns realizing they're not reaching the key youth vote with their traditional ads.

"The voters of the new America and the changing demographics, they're watching it on Hulu so they're not seeing the negative ads - but the conservative, Republican base is seeing it more," she says.

According to the Sunlight Foundation, $100 million was spent on the race between Senator Kay Hagan and Republican challenger Thom Tillis.


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