RASMUSSEN: Romney 49, Obama 47.

OPERATION DEMORALIZE CONTINUES: Pollsters: 1/5 of Ohio Vote Already In! Me: Bull by CAC over at Ace Of Spades Headquarters.

HOW LINCOLN EMERGED IN THE STRATOSPHERE OF GREATNESS: As Daniel Day Lewis’ portrayal of the 16th president is about to hit the silver screen, Conrad Black offers an assessment of the original.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Global Warming Stopped Sixteen Years Ago.  RELATED, IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT: The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?  And yeah, the ice age thing was in my books in middle school and it’s why I’ve never taken AGW seriously.  Opposing trends shouldn’t have exactly the same proposed remedy.  Unless the hot/cold stuff is an excuse to drag us into socialism and scarcity.

SO MUCH FOR CELEBRITY “COMPASSION:” Wyclef Jean’s highly-hyped Haiti charity defunct and in debt, surprising approximately nobody.

IN VAIN I HAVE STRUGGLED, IT WILL NOT DO: Curse you Michael Walsh for posting the Ryan girl video answer to Obama girl.  If my husband and kids get me committed for going around the house singing “Let’s get fiscal” it’s all your fault.

A RANT ON SUPPOSED RACISM: “You want to talk racism? Well, let’s talk about this.”

NO MORE BONHOMIE FOR BUBBA AND BARRY? “It appears that the Obama administration has a death wish,” Michael Walsh writes.

RELATED: Libya Fallout Gives Rise to Obama-Clinton Feud.

BY ALL MEANS, LET’S TALK RACISM: A Rant on Supposed Racism

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Predicting “The Withering Of The Affluent Society.”

Hmm. In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, he talks about globalization smearing things out “into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity.” I don’t see that as our future, assuming technology and free markets are allowed to flourish. But should we have a further run of the past four years’ “bad luck,” well, then we just might see the withering of the affluent society. There’s no limit to how long a redistribution recession can last . . . .

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestsellers in Coffee, Tea & Espresso Makers.

BARACK TO THE FUTURE: Michael Barone: Biden and Obama run a campaign fit for the 1980s.

RELATED: Bill Whittle, “Old School:”

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TOMORROW’S POST-ELECTION MSM APOLOGIAS TODAY, REDUX: On Twitter, Washington Post reporter calls Ryan ‘Law & Order: SVU’ ‘perp of the week.’

Rather nice of him to inadvertently prove our point.

IS THE BENGHAZI ATTACK OBAMA’S MADRID TRAIN BOMBINGS? The parallels bode ill for the Obama administration, writes Brad Thor and Robert C. O’Brien.

WHY NOT? Can the Chipotle ‘Fast Casual’ Approach Work for Pizza?

STEWART BAKER: RATs and Poison: Can Cyberespionage Victims Counterhack?

“MY CUT-RATE RESURRECTION:” Gerard van der Leun writes: “When people find out I dropped dead on October 13 of 2011, they often ask me if I saw ‘the white light.’ They are disappointed when I tell them I did not. They’ve come to believe in the light, believe in it in a very literal way. They’ve heard it is seen and they’d like continuing confirmation of this sighting. My report always, as I said, disappoints.”

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN MORE OF A CLAUSTROPHILE THAN A CLAUSTROPHOBE: Conquering Claustrophobia.

I SUSPECT THE PROLIFERATION OF HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL IS INVOLVED: More Young People Suffering Strokes.