Top Links: Rice meets her accusers, Arafat’s remains exhumed and the Washington Post is pro-pot

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• Susan Rice meets her Benghazi accusers—Senators McCain, Graham and Ayotte—today. (First Read)

• Poll: 54% say there was no Benghazi coverup, while only 40% say “coverup.” In other words, “coverup” doesn’t even get Mitt Romney numbers. (CNN)

• Yasser Arafat’s body is being exhumed to determine whether he died from a stroke—or poisoning. (BBC)

• An excellent picture of what protests in Tahrir Square look like right now. (Bobby Ghosh)

• So long, Intrade (U.S. edition). (NASDAQ)

• A timeline of Republicans throwing Grover Norquist under the bus. (National Journal)

• Washington Post comes out as, sort of, pro pot: “We favor decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, assessing civil fines instead of locking people up.” Somewhere, the Dude just bowled a Golden Turkey. (The Washington Post)

• The State Department decided not to send party rocker Andrew W.K. as cultural ambassador to Bahrain. Left unresolved: How will Bahrainis know when it’s time to party hard? (In the Loop)

• The people who brought you GOP electoral failures like Richard Mourdock and Sharron Angle seem ready to do it all over again in the 2014 congressional elections. (On Congress)

• North Dakota’s losing GOP senate candidate was so sure he’d win on Election Day, he left hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars unspent. Whoops. (Shira Toeplitz)

• A new Pew poll of voter demographics makes 2016 seem an even steeper uphill climb for the GOP: “The under 30s are by far the most racially and ethnically diverse age group. Just 58% are white non-Hispanic, compared with 76% of voters older than 30.” And “They are the only age group in which a majority said that the government should do more to solve problems.” (Pew Research)

• What do GOP super PACs do after an election? They turn on each other. (Mother Jones)

• Who’s at a closed-door meeting with potential 2016 hopeful Jeb Bush? Why none other than Mitt Romney pollster Neil “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers” Newhouse. (National Review)

• Potential 2016 hopeful New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo steps in it, saying Hurricane Sandy is worse than Katrina. (The New York Times)

• And Donald Trump is tired of people saying stupid things that make minorities angry. Yes, Donald Trump said this. Yes, that Donald Trump. (Newsmax)