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November 3, 2012
EXPECT A LOT OF THIS ON TUESDAY: Incredible efforts–particularly in minority neighborhoods– to run polls like they are groupthink rallies. I feel sorry for the poor pollwatchers in these neighborhoods– like trying to monitor an election in a third world country.
ACTUALLY, I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OVER THE YEARS: Did The Sun-Times Get Played By Patrick Fitzgerald?
More here: Patrick Fitzgerald Joins Law Firm Of Obama’s Former White House Counsel.
ROMNEY UP BY 1 in DEEP BLUE MINNESOTA: According to an American Future Fund poll, Romney is up 46-45 in . . . Minnesota. He has a 13 point advantage with Independents. When it rains, it pours.
UPDATE: A reader emails: “My GF is a DFL party major donor in St. Paul…..they are pissing themselves…… For the love of God don’t use my name, she’s hot, but communicate the feeling……..” Well, make of that what you will. We’ll know soon enough. Meanwhile, don’t get cocky!
IT COMES OUT TOMORROW, BUT THANKS TO THE MIRACLE OF INSTAPUNDIT YOU CAN READ IT TODAY! My Sunday Washington Examiner column: The Ground Glass Election. Based on this quote from a blog commenter: “Romney was not my first, second, or third choice, but I will crawl over ground glass to vote for him.”
THEY DON’T SEE IT COMING: This Politico story is almost funny–they are scratching their progressive heads, wondering why early voting numbers are relatively even. In their words:
Republicans claim that although Democrats are leading in early voting in most battleground states, they are simply “cannibalizing” or diluting their Election Day turnout by turning out voters who would otherwise come out on Election Day.
Senior Obama officials aggressively refute this by pointing to the number of first-time voters they have registered in battleground states. In Florida and Colorado, for example, they have registered an overwhelming number of new Latino voters, who tend to vote Democratic. (In Florida, Democrats say the bulk of the new Latino voters are Puerto Ricans, who are more likely to vote Democratic than are Cuban-Americans). In those states, the campaign has used Spanish-speaking volunteers to return repeatedly to the voters it has registered until they have mailed in their ballots or gone to the polls.
In addition, in hotly contested Ohio — where voters don’t register by party affiliation and where 1.2 million people have already voted — Obama officials point out that of the newly registered voters, 83 percent are either women, young voters or minorities — which they believe works to Obama’s advantage.
What they don’t see coming–or are choosing not to see–is the absolutely massive, crawl-over-broken-glass turnout for Romney (and against Obama) on Tuesday.
But again: Don’t get cocky– just VOTE.
ON TWITTER: “I’m in Far Rockaway. Help needed here. There’s nowhere near enough food, no heat/power. People looting. Children in great need. Please help.” Hey, Mikey, Barry — do your jobs?
BIG TIME MITTMENTUM: SUSQUEHANNA POLL SHOWS ROMNEY UP BY 4 IN PENNSYLVANIA: Whoa. If this is accurate– and Susquehanna is Pennsylvania’s best, most accurate pollster– the race is OVER. Romney 49%, Obama 45%.
But for all the superstitious readers out there (including me): Don’t get cocky!!!!
HOPEY-CHANGEY: Union halting power repair crews is top Democratic donor.
NEW OBAMA STRATEGY: DEMONIZE THE TEA PARTY: After mentioning the tea party only once in the entire campaign (in October), Obama decides his last, best hope is to demonize millions of Americans who have the audacity to care about things like limited government and the Constitution, mentioning the tea party disparagingly at least 5 times on Thurs and Fri. Yeah, great strategy — I’m sure THAT will work.
CLAUDIA ROSETT: Benghazi and the Missing Obama 9/11 Timeline.
RELATED: Diana West on “Petraeus of Benghazi.”
VODKAPUNDIT 1, NATE SILVER Ø: “In 2010, how did a blogger in his pajamas absolutely smear a statistician armed with the best tools and data the New York Times could provide? It ain’t by the numbers.”
21ST CENTURY FEMINISM: Lady Gaga: ‘I Quite Like the Transference of Strength I Feel By Submitting To a Man – Being Under Him.’
Hey, these days it takes a lot to be transgressive.
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MARK STEYN: A Tale Of Two Crises. I love the “all jacket and no bombers” part.
A POEM: Benghazi, 2012. I don’t think Kipling would mind the homage.
THE SWINGERS’ GUIDE TO ISLAM: “IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING that there is a glaring contradiction in the fact that Gunung Kemukus, a mass ritual of adultery and sex, is going on in the middle of Java, the demographic heart of the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Of course, the ritual isn’t Islam as most would recognise it. Instead, it’s emblematic of Indonesia’s – and especially Java’s – syncretic mix of Islam with earlier Hindu, Buddhist and animist beliefs. But what is truly surprising is that even while Indonesia undergoes a steady shift towards more orthodox Islam, the ritual on Gunung Kemukus is exploding in popularity.”
TWITTER FAIL: #SaySomethingNiceAboutObama Hashtag Hijacked.
#OBAMAFAIL: Drip, Drip: CIA’s Benghazi Timeline Questioned.
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HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): America’s Geriatric Work Force. “Of the 3.3 million jobs ‘created’ (updated for October’s data), a gasp-inducing 3.8 million has gone to workers aged 55 and over, or the one cohort that according to conventional wisdom is retiring, and actively leaving the workforce. How can America’s elderly workers account for more than the total? Simple: workers in the young (16-19) and prime (25-54) cohorts have cumulatively lost a whopping 1.3 million, with just the 25-54 age group losing 842,000 jobs . . . In other words, America’s edlerly are not only not in a rush to retire, they are reentering the workforce. . . and in doing so preventing younger workers, in their prime years, from generating incremental jobs.”
It’s the Senior Squeeze meeting the Junior Squeeze.
COMPETENCE: FEMA Runs Out Of Water, No Deliveries Until Monday. “In contrast to its stated policy, FEMA failed to have any meaningful supplies of bottled water — or any other supplies, for that matter — stored in nearby facilities as it had proclaimed it would on its website. This was the case despite several days advance warning of the impending storm.”