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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 33 Comments

The Brown campaign has been silent on the issue of Elizabeth Warren's broad and longstanding practice of law from her Cambridge office without being licensed in Massachusetts. I assume that the Brown campaign wanted to have all their legal ducks in a row before they jumped on...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 22 Comments

Now about all those media memes about how the election was over. When Romney nominated Paul Ryan.  When Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair.  When Romney didn't get enough of a convention bounce.  When Bill Clinton gave Obama a bounce.  When Romney was the only one...

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 03, 2012 6 Comments

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Posted by Joel Engel on October 03, 2012 33 Comments

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is running for reelection in Illinois’s second congressional district.  Except he’s not exactly running. His name is on the ballot. But Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. hasn't made a campaign appearance since the primary. The Democratic congressman from Chicago is running for re-election for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 44 Comments

Haven't decided what to do for the debate, which starts at 9 p.m. Eastern. Live blog? Open thread? Nothing but post-analysis? So many people will be doing "live blogs" I'm wondering if it makes sense to do that here. What do you think? In any event, we will do...

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Posted by Anne Segal on October 03, 2012 17 Comments

Back in July, when Alderman Moreno and Chicago Mayor Emanuel decided that the best way to represent "Chicago Values" was to penalize a company for its president's personal views, Chick-fil-A had a brand rating of 62 according to rankings by researcher YouGov. New statistics released by...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 46 Comments

The Boston Globe is being dragged kicking and screaming to facts regarding Elizabeth Warren's private law practice history, including her representation of Dow Chemical which Warren never previously disclosed to the press (emphasis mine): Warren, a Harvard Law School bankruptcy specialist, released a list of 13 cases Monday...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 23 Comments

The video of Obama from 2007 will not itself change the election. At that level, it was over-hyped. But it is a reminder of the nasty side of Obama, the side well-hidden, the side which does not hesitate to play racial and class politics when convenient...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2012 2 Comments

A follow up to yesterday's post about a sign in Glenview, Illinois. From reader Jeff: Attached is another of those nasty repubs in Chicago being insubordinate to our fearless leader. Interstate 290 in Schaumburg, a suburb northwest of Chicago. About 15 minutes or so northwest of O'hare airport. If...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 118 Comments

A timely reminder that we still don't really know Obama...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 44 Comments

Because a tape is being released on Hannity tonight. And based on this tease by Drudge, it should be big. Guesses? One thing for sure, Democrats will scream Racism! for showing a tape of Obama saying words which are not helpful to Obama. Maybe that will result in a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 20 Comments

Elizabeth Warren is running hard left in her rhetoric, but the reality is she served big companies in her extensive private legal practice and got paid big, big dollars for it. At the first debate, Brown scored big points on Warren's representation of Travelers, for which...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 02, 2012 33 Comments

Thanks to the inimitable David Burge (AKA Iowahawk), I came upon a piece written by a New York University student titled—no kidding—“Have we taken free speech too far?”  The news hook for Muslim student Faria Mardhani's not-so-rhetorical question is the story of the Egyptian activist (and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 12 Comments

From the company which produced 2016: Obama's America. Opening in theaters on October 12, 2012.  Just in time to help get people motivated. (h/t Gateway Pundit) From the archives: Andrew Breitbart dead A personal note on the death of Andrew Breitbart, . Weinergate retrospective — the lying liars and their lies about...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2012 14 Comments

I'm not getting overly confident, but this is encouraging, Latest poll: Mia Love pulls ahead of Jim Matheson in 4th District race: Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love has overcome a double-digit deficit to overtake Rep. Jim Mathesonin Utah's hotly contested 4th Congressional District, the latest Deseret...

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