++ The LA Times front-page article has a conservative number of 9.5 million uninsured receiving health insurance for the first time. The article goes on to say this is the largest expansion of health care in over 50 years since Medicare.
++The Washington Post reports that there were 8.7 million visitors to Healthcare.gov this past week and 2 million this past weekend. The call centers took 2 million inquiries this past week.
++Brainwrap aka Charles Gaba revised his revised projection to say 6.8 will sign up on the federal and state exchanges by the end of the day,maybe 7 million, which would meet the CBO's original projections.
++Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast has a piece how Democrats should use Obamacare's success. Brian Beutler at Salon agrees and weighs in on the affect the GOP doubling down on repealing Obamacare will affect them.
++Mitch McConnell said this weekend that if the GOP takes over the Senate,it will be no problem repealing Obamacare. So naturally, taking health insurance away from 15 million Americans is a winning slogan.
++But the GOP is occupied by other things this morning. GOP senators have called for a Special Committee to investigate Benghazi.
++Karl Rove went ballistic over Young Wallace at Fox News calling the Christie report a "whitewash."
++That didn't take long. Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe, a strong Christie supporter, changed sides and supports Jeb Bush in 2016. He argues that only Jeb can beat Hillary Clinton. In Quinnipiac polls of the key states of Florida and Ohio,Clinton leads Jeb by 11+ points.
++A majority of Venezuelans think that President Maduro is not "democratic".
++The Senate Report on Torture concludes that torture yielded no information that led to the capture and killing of Bin Laden. In the DC media, they still call torture "enhanced interrogation".
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