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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 54 Comments

Operation Counterweight 2012 is over.  I reported the results in an earlier post, here is my assessment. The first thing you need to understand is that by definition we chose difficult races, not easy ones.  The goal was to try to flip Democratic seats or protect...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 79 Comments

in Wisconsin, GOP retakes state Senate and full control of state government: Republicans recaptured the state Senate on Tuesday, once again giving them the complete control of state government that they used to enact sweeping changes in the last legislative session. Yet this, Tammy Baldwin tops Tommy...

Posted by A.F. Branco on November 07, 2012 22 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 35 Comments

This headline at DEBKAfile is spot on, Barack Obama wins reelection: Mid East faces nuclear Iran, Brotherhood grip: The prospect of another four years of Obama in the White House fills some Middle East nations, including the Persian Gulf and Israel, with trepidation. They envisage a foreign policy...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 07, 2012 103 Comments

Barack Obama is the first two-term president in at least 100 years to get fewer votes in his reelection than he did the first time out. (FDR did less well in both his third and fourth terms.) That is a consequential fact, completely aside from whether...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 33 Comments

This seems like a fitting post Election Day entry, summing up hundreds of bumper stickers we have seen the past several months. From an unknown Sprint phone: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 07, 2012 168 Comments

I'll have more in the morning, but my quick thoughts. Of course it was a bad defeat tonight.  Let's not kid ourselves. We had a chance to stop the decline, and we didn't. We held the House pretty strongly, so that's good, and a reflection that candidates and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 78 Comments

The time has arrived. You can follow the Legal Insurrection Election Night Twitter Feed embedded below for the fastest results -- no one can type a blog entry as fast as Twitter. The Authors at Legal Insurrection and College Insurrection also will be updating in the dialogue box below...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 5 Comments

The live feed for the night will have frequent updates from Twitter feeds -- in my view the best way for you to keep track of results. But here are some resources you may find useful: MAP of closing times, via PJ Tatler via Politico: Politico Election Results...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on November 06, 2012 2 Comments

I cannot at this point verify that this was in fact a Senior Prank, or if it was just a rogue gang of Republican students wanting to make a statement or have a laugh. Whatever the case, my former high school in Cobb County, Georgia has...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 41 Comments

Some thoughts. Should Romney lose, there will be trolling beyond belief, including liberals trying to get Republicans to fight with each other in order to tear the party apart. There are fights which will need to be had, but not tomorrow.  Operation Demoralize never stops. Don't...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 5 Comments

And I don't even maintain an office in Massachusetts. But I am a member of the Bar.  Bar Association dues are for the little people, and suckers. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 35 Comments
There are way too many events today for me to post separately. This is a trial run of what we will do tonight starting at 6 p.m. Eastern, which is a Twitter feed using accounts I selected for today, together with a WordPress "live" feed for me and the other Authors to update (once we reach a certain critical mass of updates, you should be able to scroll through. (I'm also exploring Scribble Live, so we may use that tonight.). READERS CAN POST COMMENTS as usual in the comment section. I will probably leave this "sticky" at the top for a while. Let me know what you think. [TWITTER FEED REMOVED] Click "More" for LI Author updates.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 48 Comments

I am going to regret doing this. You can send me reports and photos, and I will selectively post them. If things get overwhelming, as on National Empty Chair Day, I may have to call it off! If you have reports without photos, do not email me,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 06, 2012 13 Comments

Events will move quickly tonight. On the presidential level, we will get a sense of where things are headed when the polls close in Virginia and Florida at 7 p.m. Eastern (8 in the Pandhandle), Ohio and North Carolina at 7:30, and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin at 8.  (Closing...

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