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Posted by Anne Segal on October 18, 2012 10 Comments

Twitter is emerging as the preferred facilitator of online conversations through which Americans can immediately react to, digest, and in most cases, ridicule, the presidential debates. The October 3 debate saw a record number of tweets, 10.3 million, for a political event, and Twitter has put...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2012 28 Comments

No one expresses feigned outrage quite as well as Elizabeth Warren. Warren, who assumed a false Native American identity for employment purposes while climbing the law professor ladder and explained it away by playing on ethnic stereotypes of Indians having high cheekbones, is upset. Scott Brown said he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2012 26 Comments

Or you will miss the images below. I treat Technorati's rating of "authority" in the blogsphere the way I treat polls.  When the rating is good for me, it's science.  When the rating is bad for me, it's witchcraft. Today it is good. For the first time ever, Legal Insurrection has broken into the top...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 18, 2012 18 Comments

In the debate’s most (in)famous moment Tuesday night, Obama asserted that on September 12 he called the violence in Libya that occurred on September 11 an act of terror.  But his claim is belied by this report, published in the Washington Post September 13. At...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2012 54 Comments

I really sense that Obama supporters are losing it, completely.  I sense fear in their stupidity. After Big Bird and the contrived "binder" fauxtroversy, they have a new cause:  Tagg Romney threatened to take a swing at Obama when Obama called Tagg's father a liar. Of course,...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 17, 2012 2 Comments

Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012. The countdown continues with 20 days to go. Today’s creative Empty Chair photo comes to us from LI reader Papa Todd who writes,"The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 9 Comments

Reader Charles has been a great source of polling information, so I asked him to put together a list of the 10 most interesting recent polls in Senate and House races.  Here is his list, not in any particular order: GA-12 (Barrow - D) ( Cook Index...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 17, 2012 26 Comments

The U.S. Census, always seeking ways to go above and beyond its constitutional role of counting the number of people in the United States, may be planning to ask questions regarding sexual orientation in the 2020 Census community survey. A national advisory committee has been tasked...

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 17, 2012 8 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 18 Comments

There are a number of flip opportunities, just check out the Operation Counterweight Final List. But this one would be special, getting rid of David Cicilline in my home District in favor of Brendan Doherty: The latest polling showed Cicilline with a single digit lead within the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 23 Comments

Gallup's Daily Tracking Poll today shows Romney leading among likely voters 51-45% and 48%-46% among registered voters. I wonder whether the people in this video are part of the 51% or the 45%. I'm guessing the 45%. ...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 17, 2012 84 Comments

Heading into last night’s debate, I didn’t believe Candy Crowley would be an honest broker or that the room would be filled with “undecided” voters.  Both doubts were proved true at the same moment. Of all the statements that Crowley decided to fact check, why that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 92 Comments

A reader writes: Good morning! Any guesses as to what this referencing???? http://octsurprise.com/ The tweets for the website (private to protect their sources) say the campaign knows about it and is scared. “It has the potential to change the election into a landslide.” This will come out right...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 17, 2012 15 Comments

First they came for the countryside, now they're coming for the suburbs From Meg in the Philadelphia "Main Line" suburbs: I thought that you would enjoy this picture of a pickup with bumper stickers. What is very interesting is where it was parked - in a commuter train...

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