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Obama arrives in town
to cast early ballot

Chicago Tribune, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 6:12:24 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama today returned to the South Side and cast an early vote near his Kenwood home. While at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Bronzeville, Obama bantered with the election judge when he presented his ID. "Now ignore the fact that there's no gray hair on that picture," the Democratic president told the elections official. He added: "I'm just glad I renewed my driver's license." Obama then made a pitch for early voting that was clearly aimed at voters in states where the outcome will be tighter than in his home state.

Axelrod casts early ballot
ahead of Obama in Chicago

The Hill (Washington D.C.), by Alicia M. Cohn Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/25/2012 5:59:15 PM Post Reply

David Axelrod cast his early ballot on Thursday in Chicago, about an hour before President Obama voted. David Axelrod ✔@davidaxelrod Just voted early, in advance of POTUS, at MLK community center on Chicago'a South Side, where folks were lined up to cast early ballots. 25 Oct 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite The senior adviser to President Obama’s campaign is the latest part of the president’s team to emphasize early voting, something Team Obama sees as a key strategy to ensuring their supporters are voting in what is expected to be a very close election.

Electoral College Update

American Thinker, by Pete Wilson Original Article

Posted By: EnsignO'Toole- 10/25/2012 5:54:39 PM Post Reply

I believe that Mitt Romney will win on November 6th. The alternative is too ghastly to contemplate. I'm encouraged by the polls, as reported in Rick Moran's blog post, "Romney has lead in all 4 major tracking polls." These polls however don't address the electoral college vote. A friend argued recently that Romney would win the popular vote but still lose the electoral college. I had a moment's panic, but I was reassured by the latest Rasmussen Electoral College Scoreboard.

Foreclosed Family’s Belongings Taken
After Misunderstood Craigslist Posting

Yahoo! News, by Melissa Knowles Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/25/2012 5:54:29 PM Post Reply

A family in Woodstock, Georgia, learned a difficult lesson about the dangers of posting an online advertisement. The Vercher family, who recently lost their home of 20 years to foreclosure, posted an ad on Craigslist on Tuesday night, informing people that a yard-sale-style giveaway would take place at their home the following day. (Snip) Michael Vercher thinks the wording of the Craigslist ad may have confused people. It read, in part, as follows: "Fairly large, free yard sale. Moving and we want everything to go for free. So come over and take whatever you want

Boeing Tests Microwave Missile

CBS ST Louis, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: wetlander- 10/25/2012 5:53:12 PM Post Reply

Boeing successfully tests a new missile that can take out electronic targets with little collateral damage.The missile fired a burst of High Powered Microwaves at the two-story building on the Utah Test and Training Range where computers and electronic systems were turned on to gauge the effects of the missile’s radio waves, successfully knocking out the electronic systems and computers, and even taking out the television cameras recording the test.

Ted Turner: I Think It's Good
US Troops Are Committing Suicide

Breitbart, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: FormerDem- 10/25/2012 5:47:30 PM Post Reply

On CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, Ted Turner said he thinks it’s “good” that American soldiers are committing suicide in large numbers because it shows an aversion to war.

Texas sparks international
row with election observers

The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 5:32:38 PM Post Reply

Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). “The threat of criminal sanctions against [international] observers is unacceptable,” Janez Lenarčič, the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), said in a statement. “The United States, like all countries in the OSCE, has an obligation to invite ODIHR observers to observe its elections.”(Snip) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott further fueled the controversy on Tuesday when he sent a letter to the OSCE warning the organization that

Romney Adopts Obama’s Slogan
of 2008 and Promises ‘Big Change’

New York Times, by Michael Barbaro Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 5:29:24 PM Post Reply

CINCINNATI — With 12 days left until the election, Mitt Romney began offering the outlines of a closing argument here that co-opts President Obama’s message from four years ago, repeatedly promising to deliver “big change” at a moment of “big challenges” and calling his opponent a guardian of the status quo. Mr. Romney, who has narrowed Mr. Obama’s lead in state and national polls, started a bus tour across Ohio by casting himself and his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, as reformers prepared to correct America’s course, by reining in debts, salvaging Medicare and reducing taxes.

Paul Wellstone's
Legacy, 10 Years Later

Atlantic Monthly Magazine, by Al Franken Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/25/2012 5:17:15 PM Post Reply

My friend and hero Paul Wellstone died 10 years ago this week. I miss him. And so does pretty much anyone who cares about economic and social justice. Paul was the kind of progressive many of us strive to be -- feisty, fearless, and energetic. When today's progressives remember Paul, they tend to focus on his sheer political courage. Paul was the only senator up for re-election in 2002 to vote against the Iraq War -- a vote he told people he was convinced would cost him his job. (

John Kerry Seriously
Thinks It Was the Altitude

New York Magazine, by Dan Amira Original Article

Posted By: Scottyboy- 10/25/2012 4:56:02 PM Post Reply

Al Gore has been mocked relentlessly ever since half-seriously floating the suggestion that President Obama's pathetic performance in the first presidential debate could be chalked up to Denver's high altitude. Now John Kerry feels left out: Asked whether it surprised him that Obama gave such a lackluster performance in his first debate with Romney, Kerry said, “He knows he had a bad night. He just had a bad night. … I personally really do believe that the altitude may have had something to do with it.”

Romney didn't load up on Staples
stock, devastating Allred's case

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/25/2012 4:47:44 PM Post Reply

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney not only thought Bain Capital-backed Staples stock was a risky investment, he never exercised all of his options to buy it, according to new testimony that is devastating to Obama backer and celebrity attorney Gloria Allred's bid to use a 1987 divorce and subsequent appeals to torpedo Romney's campaign. A source familiar with the case provided Secrets with testimony from the appeals case in which Romney revealed that he didn't buy all the Staples stock he could because he didn't see it as a sure thing.

Barack the Unlikable

Human Events, by John Hayward Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 4:37:33 PM Post Reply

The Des Moines Register, perhaps smarting from President Obama’s bizarre insistence (later rescinded after complaints from theRegister and other media) on keeping his half-hour telephone interview with the editors off the record, dropped a rather astonishing front page on Iowa voters this morning: [photo of newspaper] It’s not exactly a subtle contrast. Obama might be heavily into Muppets, but he probably never expected the Des Moines Register to stuff him into an Oscar the Grouch costume. Today, Politico caused a stir by posting the following excerpt from Rolling Stone’s

Boehner demands answers
on Benghazi while Panetta
warns of ‘Monday morning
quarterbacking’

Human Events, by Hope Hodge Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 4:30:29 PM Post Reply

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants President Barack Obama to explain in a public address what administration officials knew and when they knew it before and following a terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya last month that claimed the lives of four Americans. Though Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney declined to press Obama on the Benghazi attacks during a foreign policy debate Monday night, House Republicans have indicated they are not back down in their search for answers in a pattern of apparent security missteps prior to the attacks and misinformation afterward.

Romney’s Surge

The Daily Beast, by Douglas E. Schoen and Jessica Tarlov Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/25/2012 4:30:28 PM Post Reply

With just two weeks to go until Election Day, the popular vote is, as everyone knows, effectively a dead heat. The Real Clear Politics average has Romney enjoying a 0.9-point advantage. And while the latest Rasmussen numbers give Romney a 4-point edge and he is ahead 5 in Gallup, there are other polls that have Obama leading. In the latest IBD/TIPP poll, for instance, the president is up by 2. But there are two other crucial indicators that show momentum for Mitt.

Panetta: Unclear early info
slowed Benghazi response

CBS News & Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 4:26:30 PM Post Reply

Washington - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. military did not intervene during the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya last month because it was over before the U.S. has sufficient information on which to act. At a news conference, Panetta lamented second-guessing about how the U.S. handled the attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11. He said the U.S. military was prepared to respond but did not do so because it lacked what he called "real-time information." "You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on," Panetta said. "(We) felt we could not put forces

Obama at campaign stop in
Florida: ‘Where’s my plan?’ [Video]

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Alex Pappas Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/25/2012 4:23:37 PM Post Reply

While campaigning in Florida on Thursday, President Obama had some trouble talking about his plan for a second term when his new booklet outlining his agenda fell off the podium. “So I ask you to compare my plan to Governor Romney’s plan. See which plan — where’s my plan? — oh, it dropped — I couldn’t find my plan. There it is,” Obama said to laughter from the crowd, as he picked the booklet off the ground behind the podium. “Now, this is the same plan that’s on the website,” he continued. “And you should look and

Panetta Says Poor
Intelligence Barred
Forces to Benghazi

Bloomberg News, by Gopal Ratnam Original Article

Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 10/25/2012 4:18:08 PM Post Reply

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. military lacked intelligence needed to respond during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, during which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. “The basic principle is don’t deploy into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on,” Panetta said today at a Pentagon news conference. He said he and top generals “felt very strongly” that deploying forces sooner wasn’t the right option. The Pentagon did send a Fleet Anti-Terrorism Support Team, or FAST, to the region and had ships off the coast of Libya “prepared to respond

Could Obama's struggles with white
voters cost him the election?

CNN, by Halimah Abdullah Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 4:16:08 PM Post Reply

Washington - The nation's first black president could be in danger of becoming a "one-termer" if he can't convince enough white voters that he deserves another four years in the Oval Office. For weeks, he's hovered around 40% of white voter support - a level that Democratic presidential candidates have struggled with in the recent past and one that analysts believe Barack Obama must maintain in order to win. At the same time, he has to encourage minority voters to go to the polls and capture 80% of their support.

Blame Early and Blame Often

Wall Street Jounal, by James Taranto Original Article

Posted By: BamaMan- 10/25/2012 4:09:14 PM Post Reply

"What's welling up in America's ruling Democrats is not yet a full-throated scream of desperation," observes commentator Neil Macdonald, who is Canadian and therefore a neutral observer. "But as Samuel Johnson famously remarked, the prospect of being hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully." True, as Macdonald says, "for the most part, Barack Obama's supporters are still clutching the cloak." Mitt Romney is only slightly ahead in most national polls, Obama clings to a slender lead in Ohio (though Josh Jordan argues at National Review Online that those polls seem to overrepresent Obama supporters who say they've already voted),

Feds consider rule for electric car
noises to alert blind pedestrians

Daily Caller, by Michael Bastasch Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 4:07:58 PM Post Reply

Federal regulators have proposed a rule to require electric and hybrid car manufacturers to add artificial noises that to alert pedestrians, in particular the blind, to slow-moving electric vehicles. “Because these cars operate so quietly, particularly at low speeds, they are involved in more accidents with pedestrians and cyclists who can’t hear the vehicle coming,” according to the Department of Transportation. “This problem is even bigger for the visually impaired who rely on sounds for guidance.” The secretary of transportation was supposed to initiate rule-making by July 2012, and issue a final rule in January 2014. However, the rule has

Rendell: ‘Startling upset’ for Romney
‘a possibility’ in Pennsylvania [Video]

Daily Caller, by Nicholas Ballasy Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 3:59:20 PM Post Reply

Former Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said he “believes” a victory for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania is “a possibility” since both President Obama and Romney have not actively campaigned in the state. What is the Romney campaign thinking? Rendell speculated. (Snip) “Our voters are not nearly as reliable as Republican voters, regardless of the enthusiasm gap,” Rendell added. “Maybe they figure our turnout collapses, Republicans still turnout well, and they sneak across the finish line and do a startling upset. And I believe that that’s a possibility enough that I was on the horn to Chicago, and …

France's Hollande's approval
ratings now at 36 percent

Reuters, by Alexandria Sage Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 3:50:28 PM Post Reply

Paris - Only about a third of French people are satisfied with President Francois Hollande, the lowest ratings so far for his Socialist government which is struggling to combat joblessness, a poll showed on Thursday. The OpinionWay poll for Le Figaro found 36 percent of those polled were satisfied with Hollande, versus 64 percent who said they were unhappy with his work since his May election. (Snip) Unemployment and tax policy are the two biggest grievances for the French, the survey found, and 47 percent of those polled said they thought the situation in France had deteriorated in the past

White House Insider: Mitt Romney’s
Quiet Prayer Amidst
The Sound Of Thunder

The Ulsterman Report, by Ulsterman Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/25/2012 3:48:06 PM Post Reply

A remarkable story from a longtime D.C. political operative of just how personally moved Mitt Romney was following a campaign stop in Red Rocks Colorado where over 10,000 enthusiastic supporters greeted the man they hope will be the next President of the United States. Got this feedback earlier today and thought you’d like to hear it. You know, I’ve gone from just trying to defeat Obama to really trying to help Governor Romney be this country’s next president. I’m really starting to believe there might be something very special about this man.

A Cool Airline Tray Table
You Wish You'd Invented

CNBC, by Darren Booth Original Article

Posted By: schnapps- 10/25/2012 3:41:15 PM Post Reply

It's a common problem. You're squeezed into a tight economy-class seat trying to eat a snack while working on your iPad or other personal electronic device. SmartTray X1 With tray table space limited, you often have to power down and eat first. But one company has an ingenious and simple solution both airlines and travelers will love. (snip) With more passengers using mobile devices while traveling, the patented design of SmartTray couldn't be more timely. Most tray tables have a short, three- to four-year life cycle as they're the most abused item on an aircraft, said CEO Nick Pajic of Smart Tray International
Headline split by staff.

For America's future, The Post
endorses Mitt Romney for president

New York Post, by Editorial Staff Original Article

Posted By: Photoonist- 10/25/2012 3:39:09 PM Post Reply

Four frustratingly long years ago, a war-weary and economically battered America took a flier on a savior. It didn’t work out. Now, in 12 days, the nation will return to the polls — to reject, or to ratify, the results of the great Barack Obama experiment. That is, to reject or to ratify the notion that hoping for change is a sound footing for productive national policy. But, by the evidence, it is not. It cannot create jobs. (Snip) America needs more than hope. It needs leadership. That is why The Post today endorses the candidacy of Mitt Romney for

Obama's EPA Plans for 2013

American Thinker, by S. Fred Singer Original Article

Posted By: mickturn- 10/25/2012 3:32:38 PM Post Reply

The November elections will determine the direction of US climate policy -- and therefore also energy policy and the pace of economic growth: jobs, standards of living, budget deficits and inflation. Obama has already promised to make climate change the centerpiece of his concern -- with all that implies: "Green" energy policy, linked to loss of jobs (Keystone pipeline disapproval), rising gas prices (ethanol mandates), and crony capitalism (Solyndra).

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