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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might be a radioactive figure in many parts of the country, but one day after Democrats lost the House in a landslide, Bay Area business and political leaders are already regretting the region's loss of clout. "Just look around," the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's Jim Lazarus told The San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday. "The $400 million for the Transbay Terminal project, the [$46 million] Doyle Drive rebuild, the [$86 million] Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup — if she wasn't there, I'm not sure we would have gotten the funding, and we certainly wouldn't have gotten it as...