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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 24 Comments

Claire McCaskill is so unpopular that she's barely running ahead of Todd Akin despite his self-inflicted wounds and the defection of almost all of the Republican establishment from supporting him. McCaskill has had to spend heavily just to stay slightly ahead: Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 29 Comments

In a ritual as old as the existence of the modern intelligence community, leaks are beginning to spill out protecting the CIA from having to take the fall for Obama's Libya cover-up. Via CBS News, CIA found militant links a day after Libya attack: U.S. officials tell...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 4 Comments

Obama's ground game is working about as well as the Stimulus. From reader Ed: Thought you might enjoy the picture below of a sign i saw while walking my dog today. Here in very blue NW Ohio, the area that has sent Marcy Kaptur back to Congress for...

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

Bruce Springsteen is all in for Obama again: If any doubt remained about how central the state of Ohio is to President Obama's reelection campaign, the sight of Bruce Springsteen and former President Clinton on stage at Cuyahoga Community College on Thursday made it clear...

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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 18, 2012 3 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Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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 19 days to go. Today’s patriotic Empty Chair photo comes to us from Doug in Minnesota. The TEA Party is,...

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 18, 2012 7 Comments

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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...

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...

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...

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