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The assumptions behind the latest poll from CNN are surprisingly typical and it tells you everything you need to know about why people are so skeptical about the polling data that they’re seeing. The top line is Barack Obama 49 vs. Mitt Romney 49. Looks close, right? But then, you look at the crosstabs: and see […]
If Obama wins a second term its trajectory is already written in the history of his first: Mr. Obama has governed from the left not because he miscalculated his priorities but because these are his priorities. His first term is best understood as a race to put himself in the pantheon of the great progressive […]
Just before Election Day, the Washington Post is super excited about all that “job growth” for October. Yet the paper goes on to note that the “unemployment rate is flat.” So, which is it, Washington Post? Are we to be jubilant that there was job growth in October, or is the unemployment rate flat? Regardless, […]
Speaking in Springfield Ohio, Barack Obama mentioned Mitt Romney.: As soon as he mentioned Romney’s name, the crowd began to boo. Obama told the crowd: “No, no, no. Don’t boo, vote. Voting is the best revenge.” Speaking in New Hampshire, Romney told supporters how Obama had said that voting would be their “best revenge” against […]
The Politico takes an interesting look at what kind of blamestorming will occur if Obama loses on Tuesday A defeat for Barack Obama on Tuesday would be no ordinary loss for Democrats. It would be a traumatic experience: the death of the dream of liberal realignment embodied in Obama’s insurgent 2008 campaign. And it would […]
An interesting little HuffPo article by Robert Creamer is pulled by Memeorandum, asking people to visualize what Romney World would look like if he’s elected My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea. Bea is now 95 years old. Bea was born in 1917. She was born in a […]
The basic problem we have with calling this election is a dearth of reliable polling data. Gallup and Rasmussen seem to be predicting that the composition of the electorate will be closer to the one we saw in 2010, while almost all of the other pollsters seem to be anticipating a Democrat advantage similar to […]
Remember when liberals scoffed at the fact that Romney could win more than 60% of the white vote? Not only has Romney successfully tackled that hurdle, and liberals are apparently mad about it. Tom Scocca of Slate Magazine wrote on November 2 about the “tribal appeal” that Mitt Romney has with whites and why “white […]
This past week a YouTube video of: a crying four-year-old little girl named Abigail: went viral. In the video Abby’s mom asks her why she’s so sad. Abigail replies through a steady stream of tears and mucus that she’s “tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.” Well, little sister, I feel your pain. Now, mind you, I’m […]
Well, this is it. Two days till we know who wins. Two days till we know in which direction our country will travel — toward liberty and a constitutionally limited government, or further down the rabbit hole of a new normal where the president does an end zone dance on an uptick in the unemployment […]
Right Wing News polled more than 230 right-of-center bloggers on who they think is going to win tomorrow and whom they plan to vote for in the election. The following 68 bloggers responded. 101 Dead Armadillos, A Quiet Simple Life, All American Blogger, American Power, Argghhhh!, Babalu Blog, Basil’s Blog, Betsy’s Page, Blonde Sagacity, Blue […]
If you’ve ever gone on Nate Silver’s 538 Blog for The New York Times, you’ll see where reality ends, and fantasy begins. : It was more vividly displayed after the third and last presidential debate where I wrote, in a previous post,: for Hot Air that “the headline for his [Silver’s]: October 23 post: after the last presidential debate […]
Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That’s bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents, and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president. But it’s also true that most voters oppose Obama’s major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish […]
While the chances of Republicans retaking the U.S. Senate have diminished — thanks to a few unnecessary comments about rape — House Republicans could make gains in 2012. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake noted how Democrats were euphoric about retaking the House, but admit that opportunity will not come to fruition due to ten Democratic […]
This news is certainly no surprise to anyone on the right, but a new Pew study finds that MSNBC is far more biased than Fox News. The Pew study, Winning The Media Campaign 2012, tracked the political coverage that President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney received between the conventions and the final days of […]
There were really only two stories out there this week. Okay, there were more, but the rest were boring. Duly reflected. I’ll depart momentarily from the usual stack of automotivators now, just because I’ve had this picture a while: Which leads me into: Okay, so there were two stories this week. I’m choosing to focus […]
Just imagine yourself in a time when George Bush was president. After a heartfelt meeting with Cindy Sheehan, Cindy decided to become a liberal darling by accusing Bush of all sorts of things, including murdering her son. The majority of the Credentialed Media covered Sheehan on a daily basis, often with lead stories. Flash forward […]
Some of what our teachers have to put up with. “. . . He then punched a boy in the mouth and yelled ‘Hammer of Justice.’”
Except for: the rice, the pumpkin, and the ginger ones, pretty similar to what we have here.
President Bill Clinton used his presidential pardon power in July 2000 to commute the sentence of Serena Nunn, who was sentenced to 15 years for a first-time nonviolent drug offense when she was 19. The pardon shaved three years off Nunn’s sentence. Nunn told me over the phone, “I thought then that it was a […]
I am a born and bred New Yorker and have lived nearly my entire life in this great city. I love New York — and raise my kids here today in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side.: : I have never seen New York City in such devastation, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy […]
Jonathan Chait has made his choice for 2012. Unsurprisingly, it’s Obama. But wait, there’s more. Chait decided to tell us exactly why he chose Obama in a recent column for New York Magazine and his reasons makes his endorsement one of the great howlers of the year. Chait tells us that Obama is one of […]
You might recall the Obama political ad a few weeks ago that featured a practically unknown Hollywood “celebrity” talking about her “first time” in a video ad? The ad eventually revealed that her “first time” wasn’t her first time having sex, but was her first time voting for President. This ad was hailed as innovative […]
Well, yeah, it is kinda like racism. Liberals are constantly yammering on about it, ascribing it to everything, but are still rather unsure of the concept, and are often the worst offenders. Of course, that’s not what Ahmed Shihab-Eldin at the HuffPo means Climate change is kind of like racism. Nobody really wants to talk […]
This sounds more like something you’d hear from a candidate running against a long term third world dictator. Or from the guy (Henrique Capriles) who ran against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, not from a sitting US president who acts more like Hugo Chavez (though I’m not sure Chavez spends as much time playing golf and […]
One of them is “The no huddle is about to take over the league.” We’ll see.
Kate Middleton’s hair secrets.
As Election Day approaches, we must be very sensitive to last minute changes in the polls. Remember, George W. Bush fell from a 4-point lead into a tie over the last weekend in 2000, and Bill Clinton rose from a tie to a 5-point win in the last weekend of 1992. With that caution in […]
Election 2012 has had few surprises. So it’s somewhat surprising that heading into the final weekend of the election season, we are unable to confidently project who is likely to win the White House. All year long, the economy has been the No. 1 issue of the campaign. That hasn’t changed. While Mitt Romney has […]
Churchville,: VA–Mitt Romney says he could create 12 million jobs in a four year term. Could he really do it?: The odds are he could.: Romney would start, of course, with energy, where gasoline prices have doubled under Obama. High energy costs have scuttled lots of small businesses; people could no longer afford their goods or […]