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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%. ...

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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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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 72 Comments
Obama was much more animated, and I'm sure liberals on Twitter and elsewhere were happy much as during the Biden-Ryan debate. But I don't think it helped Obama much. I'll be interested to see the focus groups and polling. Obama got in some one liners, but Romney completely nailed it on Obama's record of broken promises. A 2 minute primer on the failure of the Obama administration. His line "you know better" may be the line of the night. Obama did better on Libya than expected, mostly because Obama backed up by Crowley incorrectly said he called it terrorism the day after. But Romney nailed it on the issue of Obama going to fundraisers the next day. All in all it was not the game changer Obama needed. Obama showed up, but not on the central issue of the election, Obama's record and why we whould expect anything better in four more years. Update: My column at USA Today, Obama needed debate blowout but didn't get it.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 204 Comments

Starts at 9 p.m. Eastern. It's hard to imagine that Romney will crush Obama as badly as in the first debate.  It just has to be more even, which will be enough for the MSM's "comeback kid" narrative which already has been written.  Maybe there was...

Posted by A.F. Branco on October 16, 2012 9 Comments

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Posted by Anne Segal on October 16, 2012 21 Comments

The standing of the media may be what is most at stake in tonight's debate, as moderator CNN's Candy Crowley comes under intense scrutiny after perceived "fails" by Jim Lehrer and Martha Raddatz in the two past debates. Both the Romney and Obama campaigns have jointly...

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 16, 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 21 days to go. Today’s Empty Chair photo comes to us from LI reader Larry who plays on the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 20 Comments

The much demonized kulaks (a/k/a the top 5%, 2%, 0r 1% depending upon the speech) were the first to rise up against Obama. Now the kulaks have been joined by the common peasantry, via NPR: As Mitt Romney and President Obama get ready for their second debate, a...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on October 16, 2012 6 Comments

October has been a month full of good news for Mia Love. The Operation Counterweight member running for Congress in Utah's newly created 4th Congressional District has faced an uphill battle since she entered the race. She began her campaign in the Republican primary with little...

Posted by Anne Segal on October 16, 2012 11 Comments

President Obama has announced he will travel back to his adopted hometown of Chicago to vote early on October 25. This will be the first time a presidential candidate has not voted in person on Election Day. Michelle Obama voted absentee a few days ago. Michelle...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

The guiding principle of the then-new Progressive Movement more than a century ago was: The greatest good for the greatest number of people.  Which was verbatim the rationale invoked by President Teddy Roosevelt when, in 1905, he approved construction of the aqueduct that would steal...

Posted by Joel Engel on October 16, 2012 14 Comments

Unlike the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times doesn’t have a motto.  But if it did, this would work: All the news that's fit to print for people who don't know any better, reported by those who don't want you to. Exhibit 7,593,648: A front-page...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

Some timeless advice from commenter vonbeck2, taken in Mandeville, LA: As I am always on the look-out for something out of the norm I spotted this and was lucky enough to be able to snap a pick at a red light. I think this is excellent advice....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2012 12 Comments

First it was union members being fined for not picketing for Elizabeth Warren.  Then it was Warren supporters taunting a gay staffer with Scott Brown's campaign. Now black supporters of Scott Brown have received the sort of racially based taunts that we have seen directed in the...

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