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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 11, 2012 78 Comments
Assessment -- Not sure how to rate this. I wonder how Biden's constant laughing, smirks, and bombastic language ("bunch of malarkey") played with the viewers. Biden also talked over Ryan constantly, and the moderator often cut short Ryan's answers. Ryan also didn't get a chance to respond to many of Biden's over the top comments. Biden was so over the top, the liberals will be cheering, but based on how some liberals I follow on Twitter (below) reacted, he may have gone too far.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 06, 2012 7 Comments

Facebook has threatened to permanently block Twitchy from posting. The Twitchy Facebook page is here and has over 40,000 followers. Apparently someone or some group of people complained that a photo featured in a Twitchy story violated Facebook's "community standards." The photo was used in a story...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 21, 2012 21 Comments

There is no question that Scott Brown won the debate last night. It wasn't a knock out.  As Howie Carr correctly notes, a man can't get away with hitting a woman too hard in a debate: When he was pummeling her on the asbestos litigation, and her...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 19, 2012 30 Comments

In case you have not heard, the Obama campaign started another stupid Twitter hashtag #ForAll. Twitchy has the backstory, and The Right Scoop picked up on this hideously creepy image tweeted by Obama campaign manager Jim Messina" It has sparked a wave of photoshopping as well as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2012 25 Comments

You remember Julia, the Obama campaign-issued woman who turned to government for help at various life stages.  Those stages aptly were summarized in Iowahawk's Julia's Circle of Life. Julia has come to symbolize the dependency state.  So I wondered what Julia must be thinking about Mitt Romney's...

Posted by Joel Engel on September 14, 2012 48 Comments

There has been a complete lack of reality this week in our government and media. Words are not deeds.  This is especially important to remember if you're the President of the United States who has essentially talked himself into office. Behold a paragraph from President Obama’s stirring...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2012 88 Comments

Via Al Ahram English: Egyptian protesters on Tuesday took down the American flag from the walls of the US embassy in Cairo during a thousands-strong demonstration held to protest a short film produced by US based Coptic-Christians that critics say demeans Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. A...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 04, 2012 17 Comments

I have enjoyed Larry Sabato's coverage of elections both past and present, and his "Crystal Ball" reports are worth reading. So I mean no disrespect by this. It's just that this tweet from Geoffrey Skelley of the Sabato Crystal Ball report seemed like it deserved an award...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 31, 2012 135 Comments

Looks like Clint Eastwood got under Obama's skin. Obama sent this tweet today in response to Eastwood mocking Obama last night by using an empty chair as a prop (via The Rhetorican): While I was very uncertain whether the Eastwood appearance worked, I now believe it did. If it didn't,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2012 55 Comments

All you need to know about the media reaction can be summed up in one word:  JournoList. Same players still, just in more influential positions.  But that's for another day, maybe even tomorrow. Tonight I'm going to try not to let the stuck pigs distract me from...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2012 53 Comments

Can I call 'em or what? As news broke that a possible hurricane might disrupt the Republican National Convention, I predicted that Democrats would become religious quickly. Not religious in terms of religion, but in terms of proclaiming that God was on their side for disrupting the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 26, 2012 44 Comments

Is anyone surprised?  Crist's only chance at rehabilitating a political career is a senior position in the second Obama administration. Crist has an Op-Ed in the Tampa Bay Times (via DaTechGuy) today explaining his treachery: As America prepares to pick our president for the next four years —...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 25, 2012 60 Comments

Those of us of a certain age have the memories. I was 10 years old at sleep away camp.  I remember them bringing us into the rec hall to watch on the black and white televisions.  I can't tell you whether it was live or a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2012 13 Comments

For three bucks, you too can have dinner with Barack Obama.  You may be the winner already! But wait, there's more. You get to pay several hundred dollars in taxes! But call within the next ten minutes and you will get whine with dinner, because Romney is flush with...

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