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Colorado: Wild West, Wild Voters

U.S. News & World Report, by Rebekah Metzler Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:49:41 AM Post Reply

DENVER – As with many who voted for President Barack Obama four years ago, some Coloradans are disappointed with the still struggling economy and his inability—or unwillingness—to deliver on promises he made. Colorado's unemployment rate of 8.2 percent in August has hovered just above the national average. Jeff Rodriguez, former building contractor now working at a golf course and volunteer with the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, says at first he thought it was his fault his business failed. (Snip)"But it's like, this ain't my fault, it's the government's fault," he says. Rodriguez was one of hundreds at a Hispanics for Romney event

Skewed Presidential Polls Should
Be Trashed, Not Published

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:45:25 AM Post Reply

With the public and the pundits hungry for more information about the election, the focus on polling seems to be greater than ever. Unfortunately for the pollsters, so has skepticism about their results. Part of that lies in the natural unwillingness of partisans to accept that their side is losing. Thus, Republicans take polls that show their side winning as truthful while scoffing at those that show Democrats ahead; Democrats play the same game. We’ve seen a lot of this during this election cycle. But as much as we should guard against the partisan knee-jerk when reacting

West-side ZIP code nears
$1 million in presidential donations

American-Statesman, AustinTX, by Chuck Lindell Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:44:21 AM Post Reply

People who live and work in one affluent Austin-area ZIP code have sent almost $1 million to the 2012 presidential candidates, making western Travis County a focal point for national political giving. Only three other Texas ZIP codes have provided more donations than 78746, which stretches from Lost Creek to Davenport Ranch and includes West Lake Hills, Rollingwood and parts of West Austin. President Barack Obama is by far the largest recipient of political donations from 78746, amassing more than $438,000 this election cycle, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit that monitors campaign finances.

WashPost Buries Its Tilted Sample,
GOP 'Zeal' for Romney on A-4

Newsbusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:42:46 AM Post Reply

It’s always wise to look inside the paper for the real news when The Washington Post reports on improving polls for Republicans. The headline in Monday’s paper is “GOP’s zeal for Romney grows,” but adds underneath “Race is still close after 1st debate; Poll shows little change among likely voters.” On the front page, reporter Dan Balz and pollster Jon Cohen urged on readers that “Even as voters overwhelmingly perceive that Romney won the first debate, the vast majority say their opinion of the president did not shift as a result.” Only inside do you learn

Hoping for a swing in his favor:
Obama hunkers down at opulent golf
resort for debate preparations -
but aides make sure he hasn't
got his clubs with him

Daily Mail [UK], by Toby Harnden Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:42:23 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama, who said that debate preparation before his disastrous showing in Denver was 'a drag' is practicing at a top notch golf resort in Virginia. Obama is hunkered down for hours of debate practice on Sunday at Kingsmill Resort, a luxury vacation spot in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was shuttling between a house on the campus where he is staying and the resort's main building, where aides are set up for debate practice. He only broke off to deliver pizzas to workers at the local campaign office, where he said his debate preparation was 'going great'.

Introducing 'Ryan Girl'
Singing 'Let's Get Fiscal'

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:29:26 AM Post Reply

In 2008, the YouTube video "Crush on Obama" introducing "Obama Girl" swept the nation with astonishing speed and media attention. On Saturday, a new video hit YouTube called "Let's Get Fiscal" featuring Maredith Walker as "Ryan Girl" singing and aerobicizing to a reworked version of Olivia Newton John's 1980s hit "Let's Get Physical" (video follows with lyrics and commentary):You’re saying all the things that I know are right, making good calculations-They want us to think you’re bad, but I can do the math.

Obama's Big Tax Increases
on Small Business

American.com, by Stan Veuger Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/15/2012 10:28:58 AM Post Reply

It is quite a stretch for President Obama to argue that he wants to cut taxes for small businesses. In reality, he is proposing to increase taxes on small businesses by around $49 billion. President Obama has touted his treatment of small businesses repeatedly over the course of the campaign, and last week’s presidential debate was no exception. “I also lowered taxes for small businesses 18 times. And what I want to do is continue the tax rate — the tax cuts that we put into place for small businesses and families,” argued Obama.
Headline split by staff

Welcome Back to the Woman
Wars, Camille Paglia…

PJ Media, by Leslie Loftis Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 10:26:20 AM Post Reply

The quality of discourse for women today is poor. The many and varied reasons for this will make a post for another day, but for the moment, note that the Mommy Wars and hookup culture discussions might be heartfelt but rarely resolve anything. Notable recent examples of unproductive chattering: Naomi Wolf has created a new range of vagina puns with her anecdotal account of her technicolor orgasms in her latest book Vagina. The Life of Julia is a left-looking faceless cartoon claiming that women need government to take care of them. (I linked to Iowahawk’s parody because

A Son of Europe Reflects
on the EU's Nobel Prize

American.com, by Vaclav Smil Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/15/2012 10:25:07 AM Post Reply

The Nobel Committee should have named the U.S. and NATO as equal co-recipients for their role in transforming Europe ‘from a continent of war to a continent of peace.’ Europe is always on my mind. After all, I am about as European as they come, born in the very center of the continent, with family history so typical of those ancient crossroads where Germans, Czechs, Jews, Austrians, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, French, Swedes, and Russians came to fight, settle, intermarry, live, and die. I had also lived on both sides of the Iron Curtain before it finally fell in 1989.

Romney distances himself from
Bush-era neoconservatives

Los Angeles Times, by Paul Richter Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/15/2012 10:15:35 AM Post Reply

Washington-As he seeks to appeal more to moderates, Mitt Romney is putting new distance between his campaign and some prominent Republican allies who are pressing him to adopt the rousing but politically risky foreign policy principles of former President George W. Bush. The battle to set Romney's foreign policy has raged all year inside his presidential campaign, but has intensified in recent weeks as Republicans have sensed a political opportunity in the Obama administration's shifting characterizations of the terrorist attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. A senior Republican strategist close to the campaign

Police in Riot Gear Quell
Skateboarder Melee

NBC 4, (Los Angeles), by Michelle Valles & Jason Kandel Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/15/2012 10:13:16 AM Post Reply

The mob of skateboarders and skate fans who ran amok through Hollywood on Saturday night, captured on a YouTube video by a driver caught in the middle of the mayhem, garnered national attention just as it attracted a swift crackdown by riot police. Skaters were seen vandalizing businesses and throwing bottles, while bystanders are seen running — resulting in the deployment of more than 100 Los Angeles police officers in riot gear. The incident began before 9 p.m. as about 1,500 skaters and skate fans showed up to a theater that only holds 600 people to watch a free

Battleground Poll: Mitt more likable

Politico, by James Hohmann Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 10:08:53 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is finally getting his Sally Field moment: They like him. At least more than they used to. President Barack Obama clings to a 1-percentage-point national lead in a head-to-head matchup with the GOP nominee, but the first presidential debate has significantly improved Romney’s personal image. A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll of likely voters puts Obama ahead of Romney 49 percent to 48 percent, a statistical tie and the same as the week before. Across the 10 states identified by POLITICO as competitive, Romney leads 50 percent to 48

The Obama Breaking Point

PJ Media, by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 9:57:43 AM Post Reply

Was it the blame-gaming — “Bush did it!,” ATMs are at fault, tsunamis are the culprit, no other administration has had such challenges, the euro meltdown is to blame, earthquakes shook our confidence — that finally turned the country off of Obama? For the last two years, millions of Americans have grown, ever so insidiously, tired of Barack Obama and his administration. The Tea Party brought such frustrations to the fore. And now the debates — and the ability of Romney to show millions that he is a decent, competent alternative to Obama rather than the caricatured greedy white man

Elon student government
votes against Chick-fil-A

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:54:33 AM Post Reply

ELON — Elon University's Student Government Association has voted to get rid of a Chick-fil-A restaurant on campus because the restaurant chain's president is against gay marriage. The association voted 35-11 to ask its food vendor to find another restaurant to take its place. The decision now goes to the executive president of Elon's Student Government Association, Darien Flowers. He can accept or veto it. If he vetoes the resolution, it can still stand with a two-thirds vote of the association, according to media reports. Flowers said he wants to talk to students

GOP hopes soar as
Romney rolls in Ohio

Washington Examiner [DC], by Byron York Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 9:52:36 AM Post Reply

LEBANON, Ohio -- Just two weeks ago, Republicans here in Ohio, even in GOP stronghold Warren County, were filled with anxiety and doubt. Poll after poll showed President Obama widening his lead over Mitt Romney in this crucial battleground state. Republicans didn't know whether to believe the polls -- many didn't -- or admit their man was faltering in a nearly must-win state. Either way, it was a frustrating situation. No longer. In the wake of Romney's decisive victory over Obama in the first presidential debate October 3, the campaign's trajectory here in Ohio is up, up, up.

Green stimulus profiteer
comes under IRS scrutiny

Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:48:44 AM Post Reply

Vice President Biden snickered during last week's debate at the suggestion there was waste, inefficiency or cronyism in the 2009 stimulus bill. If he can stop cackling for long enough, Biden, the self-proclaimed "stimulus sheriff" should sit down with the IRS officials and the federal inspector general who are investigating a solar company owned by leading Obama donor and subsidy recipient Elon Musk. Musk, as he cashes in on his solar investment by taking his company SolarCity public this month, had to make an awkward admission in his financial filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Nothing Like a D+9 National
Sample to Cheer Up Obama

National Review Online, by Jim Geraghty Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 9:41:07 AM Post Reply

In the third-from-the-bottom paragraph in the Washington Post’s article — the 17th paragraph — on its new poll out this morning, showing President Obama leading, 49 percent to 46 percent, among likely voters: Partisan identification fluctuates from poll to poll as basic orientations shift and with the sampling variability that accompanies each randomly selected sample of voters. In the current poll, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nine percentage points among likely voters; the previous three Post-ABC polls

WaPo Packs Dems Into
Poll to Lift Obama

Breitbart's Big Government, by Mike Flynn Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 9:37:20 AM Post Reply

This morning Washington Post & ABC released their latest poll of the presidential race. Naturally, they find Obama leading Romney by 3 points, 49-46. This is similar to their last poll, which found Obama leading by 2, 49-47. Similar, but very, very different. Their last poll had a D+3 sample. Today, though, to keep Obama where he was, they had to juice the sample to D+9. So, WaPo's poll is based on an unrealistic best-case scenario for Democrat turnout, and Obama is still under 50%. Doom. In 2008, Democrats enjoyed their biggest turnout advantage in decades. The electorate was D+7
Author's name corrected by staff

Presidential contest tight nationally
ahead of second debate

Washington Post, by Dan Balz and Jon Cohen Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/15/2012 9:34:22 AM Post Reply

On the eve of their second debate, President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney remain locked in a virtual dead heat nationally, with Republicans showing increased enthusiasm for their nominee after his big win in the first debate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Likely voters in the new poll split 49 percent for Obama to 46 percent for Romney, basically unmoved from the poll two weeks ago, just before the two candidates met in Denver for their first debate. On topic after topic, the survey portrays an electorate that remains deeply divided

Time: Candy Crowley's 'Moderator Role
Under Scrutiny – Before the Debate'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:28:49 AM Post Reply

With less than 48 hours to go before Tuesday's presidential debate, the moderator's role is being questioned because of things Candy Crowley has said on CNN. Time's Mark Halperin reported late Sunday: While an early October memorandum of understanding between the Obama and Romney campaigns and the bipartisan commission sponsoring the debates suggests CNN‘s Candy Crowley would play a limited role in the Tuesday night session, Crowley, who is not a party to that agreement, has done a series of interviews on her network in which she has suggested she will assume a broader set of responsibilities.

Andrew Sullivan: Romney Will
'Launch a New Global War'

NewsBusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:22:05 AM Post Reply

"The key difference between these two candidates is that one is going to do all he can to avoid a new war in the Middle East and the other one is going to hand over U.S. policy to Bibi Netanyahu and launch a new global war." So actually said the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday (video follows with commentary): As readers know, Sullivan has been in a full-scale panic since the President's horrible debate performance in Denver. Obviously, as an unabashed Barack Obama supporter, it's clear which candidate he's saying will

U.S. to End Pro-Democracy
Broadcasts in Russia

Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:16:51 AM Post Reply

America’s broadcast voice in Russia will soon be silenced following Moscow’s ratification of a new law that will force a legendary broadcasting company to abandon the Russian airwaves. Radio Liberty (RL), a division of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE), recently fired a large portion of its staff after the passage of a Russian law prohibiting foreign-owned media outlets from broadcasting on AM frequencies. The unexpected mass layoffs came as a shock to RL journalists and Russian human rights activists alike, and spurred accusations that the Obama administration is kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir

Elizabeth Warren obtained federal
fee waivers despite high 6-figure
income and 8-figure net worth

Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson Original Article

Posted By: abuela10- 10/15/2012 9:13:31 AM Post Reply

Elizabeth Warren has built her progressive rock star image and her campaign by attacking the wealthy factory owners and others who supposedly do not pay their “fair share” and take advantage of loopholes to live off of infrastructure paid for by others. Yet Warren appears to be one of those people who takes advantage. Warren falsely and without any legitimate legal basis claimed to be Cherokee for employment purposes. Warren also chintzed by failing to register for the Massachusetts Bar despite an active practice of law in Cambridge since the mid-1990s,

ACLU sues Morgan Stanley alleging
discrimination in subprime mortgages

Reuters, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/15/2012 9:12:58 AM Post Reply

The American Civil Liberties Union is filing what it says is the first lawsuit against an investment bank, Morgan Stanley, alleging discrimination for packaging subprime mortgage loans into securities. The ACLU and other plaintiffs will file the case on behalf of five Detroit residents and its Michigan affiliate, claiming the investment bank encouraged a mortgage lender to make loans with justifiably high costs and a strong possibility of foreclosure to enrich its business of selling securities to institutional investors. "With this lawsuit, real victims of the subprime lending scandal are stepping forward to hold investment banks

Iran Strikes Back

Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 10/15/2012 9:12:05 AM Post Reply

Iranian hackers took over a University of Michigan computer network during a massive cyber attack on U.S. financial systems last week that continued following comments on the strike by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. According to reports by a leading Internet security-monitoring firm, the cyber attacks against Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank, and several other U.S. financial institutions began Oct. 8 when hackers gained control of the university’s College of Engineering network in Ann Arbor. The attack then used automated malicious software to simulate hundreds of thousands of attempts by customers to log in to the banks’ remote

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