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Not really interested in your criticisms of the Ryan pick

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 112 Comments

Whether the pick of Paul Ryan for Veep was a good pick or a bad pick or something in between is irrelevant at this point. Ryan was the pick. The left-wing writers and bloggers are all over it, portraying the pick as extremist and a cave to...

Paul Ryan speech today (added, prototype for 1st ad)(added, actual 1st ad)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 63 Comments

Here is the full speech, via Darleen) who links to this video of Andrea Mitchell saying: I think you’re going to see that they are decided that this is a base election. This is not a pick for suburban moms, this is not a pick for...

No longer on the donation sideline

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 59 Comments

The choice of Paul Ryan, and the reaction, finally got me off the donation sideline. I just donated to the Romney-Ryan campaign. And in case you were wondering, maxed out. For the first time in my adult life I was proud to do so. It's not...

Romney-Ryan 2012

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 129 Comments

It's official, it's going to be Paul Ryan. The Romney Veep App made the announcement earlier this morning, and every news source is reporting it. The decision was made on August 1. The left already is going crazy, but that would have happened regardless of who the...

No one is

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 11, 2012 1 Comment

until November 7, and only if. From reader and frequent photographer Scott: Greetings once again from Raleigh, NC. I spotted this at a stoplight early this afternoon headed to a weekly appointment with my chiropractor who, by the way, insists that "he & his wife did build that"...

40 Percent of Undergrads at Stanford Now Receive Disability Accommodations

New Pro-Life Group at U. Southern Maine Faces Vicious Harassment

Antifa Aligned Prof to Teach Seminars at Rutgers This Spring

Florida Bill Would Limit Number of Foreign Students at State Universities

Orientation at Amherst College Allegedly Included Students Mimicking Sex Acts

Trump Education Dept. Announces They've Prevented More Than a Billion in Student Aid Fraud

V.P. Announcement Saturday, 9 a.m.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 39 Comments

Romney will announce the Veep pick Saturday morning at 9 a.m. We'll have coverage here. The Weekly Standard is calling it for Paul Ryan, which means it's either Paul Ryan or the Romney campaign ran a really good feint. NRO is reporting the same: Take note, veep watchers: Earlier...

Donation strategy in a political swarm

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 17 Comments

From a reader: Sorry to bother you, Professor, but I got an e-mail from a Wisconsin Recall Fund (which I don’t remember donating to, but they probably bought my e-mail from a list since I made several donations to Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefish), asking for...

If you have a mansion in Hyde Park, you didn’t build that

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 12 Comments

No one gets rich on his own. No one. In Obama's case, Tony built it. Romney helped a couple buy house? Big deal, so did Tony Rezko nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/…— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 10, 2012 ...

Massachusetts voter mass mailing looking like pro-Elizabeth Warren set-up

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 38 Comments

The lawsuit by Demos (an ACORN successor), which resulted in Massachusetts voluntarily taking the unprecedented step of mailing registration forms to almost 500,000 welfare recipients and other steps in welfare offices not required by law, is looking more and more like a pro-Elizabeth Warren set-up. The...

Why are infographics so irresistible?

Posted by Anne Segal on August 10, 2012 10 Comments

If you were to look to the masses to see what stereotypes persist about different states, analyzing the auto-completes that come up in google searches is certainly a creative way to start. The blog No Upside mapped the auto-completes for each state, with some amusing conclusions. Renee DiResta,...

Do I live in the same country as these mysterious non-liberal Obama supporters?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 77 Comments

Paul Rahe (via Instapundit) compares the polling punditry to those who could not see the collapse of the Soviet Union coming because they were too focused on minutiae: When I read Nate Silver, Sean Trende, Charlie Cook, Jay Cost, and the others who make a profession...

Update on Upstate NY Operation Counterweight races

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 1 Comment

This is an update on the Upstate New York races covered last month as part of Operation Counterweight, and as before was prepared by a Cornell undergraduate student who prefers to remain anonymous. Included at the bottom of each race update are the newest Cook Report...

Problems, we’ve got a few

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 10, 2012 19 Comments

Reader Manny has to suffer through NYC subway nanny state posters day in and day out, like this one which he sent a while back: It has been a while since I emailed but you still remain my favorite Blogger on my reader roll. I use the...

Contribute to the Allen West boxing fund

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 19 Comments

After you have maxed out, of course, on contributing to the Allen West Congressional Black Caucus Chick-fil-A Fund. Via The Shark Tank, a SuperPAC to which West's opponent's father contributed a large sum of money is running an ad showing West beating up old women and...

Throwing the bums out is the bipartisan theme of 2012 primaries

Posted by Anne Segal on August 09, 2012 36 Comments

If it had seemed like anti-incumbency fever reached its pitch in 2010, take another look at the sleeper phenomenon taking over the 2012 primary races. Ballotpedia.org reports that, so far, a total of 135 incumbents have been defeated in the state legislative elections alone. This...

More confrontation outside Chicago Chick-fil-A

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 31 Comments

There was another protest outside the Chicago Chick-fil-A last night, but unlike the other day when Anne filmed, there were protesters on each side of the issue. Rebel Pundit has the video, involving Father Gerald O'Reilly being jeered by anti-Chick-fil-A protesters and seemingly led away by...

Pointing out media double standard is not “crying racism”

Posted by Anne Segal on August 09, 2012 20 Comments

Jack Fowler of National Review Online writes about the double standard perpetuated by the media, recently at-play in coverage of the anti-Chick-fil-A activists we videotaped this week. Fowler points out that if the situation had been reversed, there is a distinct possibility that this *might* have made the mainstream...