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Post-Election Video Roundup

Wednesday November 8, 2006
The 2006 Election: A Comedic Roundup
Watch a highlight reel of hilarious late-night jokes about the election results, presented by Keith Olbermann.

Bill Maher on the Election
Maher: "I don't want to say that George Bush is a lame duck, but today Dick Cheney shot him."

Stephen Colbert's Election-Night Meltdown
Colbert: "The people have spoken. And apparently they're tired of freedom. Don't get me wrong, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed -- I thought this country would last longer than 230 years. That's it, folks, America's over."

Howard Dean on The Daily Show
Stewart: "Is there some sort of noise that you could think of...that would convey your excitement over your victory?"

Dan Rather on The Daily Show
Dan Rather, providing his own inimitable brand of analysis of Hillary Clinton's Senate victory: "She ran away with it like a hobo with a sweet potato pie."

David Letterman on Schwarzenegger's Victory Party
Letterman taps into the live feed from Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign headquarters.

Vaya Con Dios, My Darlings
A fond farewell to the election's biggest losers.

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Quotes of the Week
"I think I'd just commit suicide." --Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), joking last month about the prospects of the Democrats taking back the Senate

"You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math." --White House adviser Karl Rove, insisting to NPR that pre-election polls "add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House"

"I obviously was working harder in the campaign than he was." --President Bush, on Karl Rove

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