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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 13 Comments

It has come to this. From Jeanne: I took the photo on Granbury Road in Fort Worth. Ironically, we were headed to a debate between Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (D) and her challenger Texas Representative Dr. Mark Shelton (R). I insisted my husband turn the car around so...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 19, 2012 8 Comments

Legal Insurrection first became interested in Richard Mourdock in November 2011, long before others thought he had a chance of defeating Richard Lugar in the primary, and endorsed him on February 28. We followed that primary through to victory night, and since then have tracked Mourdock's...

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...

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...

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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...

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Each day until Election Day we will feature a previously unpublished photo sent in by a Legal Insurrection reader on National Empty Chair Day, September 3, 2012.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,...

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