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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"...

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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 63 Comments

The Rachels built America. The Sandras just feed off of it. The Sandras get calls from this President, the Rachels don't. Via DailyRushbo: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 40 Comments

Another fabricated hate crime, this time by a gay man who claimed to have been beaten outside a bar. Via NY Daily News: A 22-year-old Montana man who told cops he was beaten up by gay-bashing thugs  while club-hopping on his birthday — igniting calls online for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 09, 2012 7 Comments

From commenter Calypso Facto: Bumper stickers ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 08, 2012 5 Comments

After two months of attack ads from Richard Lugar, and Lugar and his supporters slow to help, it's not surprising that Richard Mourdock is just a little bit ahead of Joe Donnelly in the latest Rasmussen Poll (via Power Line): The U.S. Senate race in Indiana...

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