BOOSTING COFFIN SALES with nude models? Hey, it always worked with auto parts.

MATH IS HARD: “Million Puppet March” on DC Misses Historic Head Count by Just 999,500!

FORMER VIRGINIA GOVERNOR WILDER ABANDONS OBAMA: “Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who supported Barack Obama in 2008, has essentially abandoned him in 2012 by failing to endorse him this time around.”

I KNEW ALL THAT TIME WOULD COME IN HANDY . . . OH, WAIT: Deflecting An Asteroid With Paintballs.

WELL, ONE MAN’S FABULIST IS ANOTHER MAN’S HEADLINE WRITER: Reuters runs cover for president’s ‘vote for revenge’ statement, attributes to Romney also; backlash on Twitter ensues.

Since when did Adnan Hajj get a transfer from Photoshopping war-torn Beirut for Reuters, to writing its headlines?

THE SAUDIS are bulldozing Islamic heritage sites. Why the silence from the Muslim world?

MEET THE NEW TONE: ‘All the cars with Romney bumper stickers have been keyed…’

Same as the old tone:

DEATH BY MISGUIDED FERVOR: Pielke v. Bloomberg.

I CAN’T FAULT HER: Freudian Slip: Candy Crowley Calls Him ‘President Romney’.  Yesterday on the way back from the rally I kept doing this to my family’s amusement.  Stuff like “When the president was speaking”  “Mom, he wasn’t there.”  “Romney, yes he was.”  “Yes, but he’s not the president.”  “Oh, sorry.”  And five minutes later, again.  Let’s hope my subconscious is right!  Oh.  Forget hoping.  GO VOLUNTEER.  AND VOTE.  Even if you DON’T have to crawl over broken glass, we need enough votes to overcome margin of fraud.  GO.

OBAMA: “I’M SORT OF A PROP IN THE CAMPAIGN.” Or an empty chair, you might say. In any case, the Washington Examiner notes, “Overshadowed by Clinton, Obama admits to being a ‘prop’ in his own campaign:”

“I was back stage with David Plouffe, as some of you know, he is sort of a mastermind in campaign organization, we were talking about how as the campaign goes on, we’ve become less relevant,” Obama joked. “I’m sort of a prop in the campaign.”

“The power is not with us anymore,” Obama reminded his cheering supporters. “The planning, everything we do doesn’t matter because now it’s up to you.”

But as Obama was speaking, many people took their cue and began making their way to the exits to beat the parking lot traffic on the way out.

Video of Obama’s “prop” remark here.

And speaking of Bill Clinton, he’s doing four events on Monday — in Pennsylvania, the state that birthed one of Obama’s more infamous Kinsleyesque gaffes in 2008. Or as Twitchy notes, on Tuesday, “It may all come down to the bitter clingers.”

DAVID MAMET: A note to a stiff-necked people.  As you stand next Tuesday, your descendants will judge you.  Think carefully.

SOMEONE WITH A BETTER CAMERA: last night’s rally.  Yep.  Was like that.

A WEATHER WRAPUP from Roger Kimball. “My neighborhood is right on Long Island Sound and was extremely hard hit by the storm.” Check the photos at the link.

CHUCK SIMMINS TRACKS private fundraising for Hurricane Sandy relief.

THE HILL: Obama’s ‘revenge’ comment reverberates on campaign trail.

ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT: Don’t let him forge your chains.

#BLOOMBERGFAIL: Devastated Rockaways residents lash out at Bloomberg during unannounced visit.

Also: Lights in lower Manhattan, misery in outer regions. “The lights were back on Saturday in lower Manhattan, prompting screams of sweet relief from residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy. But that joy contrasted with deepening resentment in the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs over a continued lack of power and maddening gas shortages.”

President Bomberjacket was not available for comment.

CHILDREN ARE CUTE BUT THEY SHOULDN’T GOVERN: “Million Muppet March” Descends On Capitol Hill.  Time to send the grownups in.

ROMNEY: ‘I promise change, and I have a record of achieving it.’

AT AMAZON, pre-Black Friday deals in Tools & Home Improvement.

Also, today only: Coleman Road Trip Portable Grill, $99.99.

BLUE STATE BLUES, HERE AND ABROAD: Victor Davis Hanson on the reasons why Californians choose not to flee an imploding state. (For me, it’s the sushi.)

Meanwhile, Dartblog notes that France, an even more punitive blue state than California, is about to receive a sharp lesson in modern economics and the mobility of capital.

THE GROUND-GLASS ELECTION: My Sunday Washington Examiner column is up.

MITTMENTUM: Four Years After Endorsing Obama, The New York Daily News Endorses Romney. “Four years ago, the Daily News endorsed Obama, seeing a historic figure whose intelligence, political skills and empathy with common folk positioned him to build on the small practical experience he would bring to the world’s toughest job. We valued Obama’s pledge to govern with bold pragmatism and bipartisanship. The hopes of those days went unfulfilled. . . . The regrettable truth is that Obama built a record of miscalculations and missed opportunities.”

Well, I saw this coming.

UPDATE: Also Newsday. “Had Barack Obama done the job of president with the same passion and vision he displayed in seeking it, he would likely deserve another term. He did not. . . . Romney’s potential to put America back to work earns him our endorsement.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another Romney endorsement from the Madison Wisconsin State Journal.

MITTMENTUM: Romney Ahead 60-40 on the Amazon Electoral Heat Map. Hey, let’s hope Tuesday night’s map looks like this. . . .