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Republicans poised for
gains in governor’s races

Associated Press, by Mike Baker Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/30/2012 7:39:17 AM Post Reply

Olympia, Wash. - Republicans are in position to extend their recent gains among governors as they compete for seats they haven’t won in a quarter-century. Of the 11 states with gubernatorial elections in November, eight are now led by Democrats, and each of the most competitive races is a GOP pickup opportunity. The numbers suggests that Republicans soon will claim 30 to 33 governorships after holding just 22 a few years ago — an advantage not reflected in the divided Congress or competitive presidential race. “It says that when people are choosing the government closest to the people,

October Jobs Report
Still On Tap For Friday

FOX Business, by Dunstan Prial Original Article

Posted By: Mobyclik- 10/30/2012 7:10:30 AM Post Reply

The U.S. Labor Department said it plans to release the October jobs report due out Friday as scheduled, despite the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy. "The employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics are working hard to ensure the timely release of employment data on Friday, November 2," said a Labor Department spokesperson. "It is our intention that Friday will be business as usual regarding the October Employment Situation Report." The October jobs report could have a significant impact on the Nov. 6 presidential election. A positive report would undoubtedly be hailed by President Obama

Hundreds of public housing tenants defy
evacuation orders, choosing to wait out
Hurricane Sandy in buildings without
elevators, heat or hot water

New York Daily News, by Greg B. Smith* Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/30/2012 6:56:02 AM Post Reply

Hundreds of public housing tenants ignored mandatory evacuation orders Monday, living without elevators, hot water and heat to face down Hurricane Sandy. "I'm not leaving. I have faith in God. If he wants to get us, he will,” declared Dorothy Shields, the 80-year-old tenant leader in the Red Hook East Houses in Brooklyn. “It won't be as bad as they think it will be," she predicted. Red Hook was one of 26 housing developments located in low-lying areas along the city’s waterfront that NYCHA targeted for evacuation late Sunday. Cops with bullhorns drove building to building and NYCHA workers knocked

Tyrone and Lena

American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 6:16:20 AM Post Reply

Tyrone Woods. Lena Dunham. There are Two America's out there. One is represented by Tyrone Woods. Mr. Woods, recall, was one of two Navy Seals (Glen Doherty was the other) who rushed to the aid of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and other Americans in the Benghazi consulate and were murdered by terrorists. Specifically, according to their own boastful claims, murdered by members of Ansar al-Sharia, an al Qaeda offshoot seeking the ultimate Islamic supremacist goal of imposing the totalitarianism that is Sharia everywhere around the globe. In this case, in eastern

Why don't people evacuate when
Sandy or another major storm
looms? Are they nuts?

Fox News, by Dr. Keith Ablow Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/30/2012 5:41:51 AM Post Reply

With Hurricane Sandy slamming into the East Coast, two men in their 20s decided, nonetheless, to kayak into the waters of Long Island Sound Sunday night. One was rescued from the churning waters while clinging to his kayak. The other remains missing, with the search for him being called off until the storm passes. Needless to say, rescuers were placed in harm’s way by the brazen acts of these thrill seekers. One, tragically, may no longer be alive. So, why did they do it?

Obama 2012 diagnosis:
Stage Two Death Rattle

Daily Caller, by N. Scott Jones Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:34:06 AM Post Reply

As a veteran of numerous national, state and local campaigns, I can tell you that each race and each campaign has its own life cycle. The 2012 presidential contest is no exception. As polls tighten, and especially since Mitt Romney’s decisive performance in the first debate, Team Obama and the president himself are showing signs of what I term a campaign’s “death rattle.” GOP contender Rick Santorum withdrew from this year’s Republican primary within three days of my declaration that his campaign was in the final stages of “death rattle.” The phenomenon has three distinct stages.

Obama dispatches election
lawyers 'all across the country'

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:31:14 AM Post Reply

President Obama's reelection campaign, openly concerned that his supporters will be turned away from the polls, is offering legal help to voters who see problems. The president today said in an interview that the campaign has enlisted an army of lawyers to clear hurdles away for his supporters, telling American Urban Radio Networks, "If people have problems voting, we can solve those problems. We've got lawyers all across the country." Urging supporters to vote early, as the president himself did in Chicago last week, he told black radio host April Ryan that voters should contact his campaign

The Fog of Obama's Non-War

Wall Street Journal, by William McGurn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:26:17 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney had it only half right when he attempted in the second presidential debate to score Barack Obama for his reluctance to concede that Benghazi was a terrorist attack. The real issue is not how long the president took to call the assault on the U.S. consulate an "act of terror"—but that he still has not called it an act of war. Plainly this is no oversight. On "The Late Show with David Letterman" a week after the attack—late-night television having become our commander in chief's preferred venue for addressing the great public issues—Mr. Letterman asked President Obama

Playing politics? Nah, playing smart

Boston Herald, by Joe Battenfeld Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:18:23 AM Post Reply

Scott Brown puts public safety over politics and this is what he gets: a headline saying he “pulls out” of a final election debate. This bizarre twist in the final full week of Brown’s Senate re-election campaign comes courtesy of the Boston Globe-led media “consortium” that apparently was the last to realize that holding a political debate just hours after Sandy ripped through Massachusetts was not a good idea. Millions were urged to stay in their homes. Schools closed. The stock market shut down. Hundreds of thousands are without power. The presidential candidates even stopped campaigning.

Could blueberry state Maine be a
slice of Romney's presidential pie?

Reuters, by Andy Sullivan Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 5:18:04 AM Post Reply

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are scouting an unlikely path to the White House through the vast forests and blueberry barrens of northern Maine. President Barack Obama is expected to win the Pine Tree State easily in the November 6 election. Regardless, Romney allies are buying TV time with the hope of carrying the state's thinly populated interior and scraping out one electoral college vote in Maine that could edge their man closer to the 270 needed to win the White House. With polls showing a dead heat nationally, Republicans in the state are focusing their

San Francisco Giants fans burn
bus, smash windows after team
wins the World Series

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/30/2012 5:15:20 AM Post Reply

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco to celebrate the Giants' World Series victory, with revelers gathering on corners, in parks and at watering holes — and some turning rowdy. Fans across the city left their televisions and rushed outside, greeting diners, bar patrons and other merrymakers Sunday night after the Giants defeated the Detroit Tigers 4-3 to sweep the Series for their second title in three years. Some violence and vandalism was reported, with revelers setting a public transit bus on fire, flipping over a vehicle

The president who seems not to care

Washington Post, by Richard Cohen Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:10:41 AM Post Reply

One of the more melancholy moments of the presidential campaign occurred for me in a screening room. The film was Rory Kennedy’s documentary about her mother, Ethel — the widow of Robert F. Kennedy. Much of it consisted of Kennedy-family home movies, but also film of RFK in Appalachia and in Mississippi among the pitifully emaciated poor. Kennedy brimmed with shock and indignation, with sorrow and sympathy, and was determined — you could see it on his face — to do something about it. I’ve never seen that look on Barack Obama’s face. Instead, I see a failure to embrace

Barack Obama and
Other Has-Beens

Wall Street Journal, by Bret Stephens Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 5:09:05 AM Post Reply

On the eve of the U.S. presidential election four years ago, educated people nearly everywhere understood that China was the country of the future, green was the energy of the future, and Barack Obama was a man of destiny. How quaint it all seems now. In a remarkable piece of investigative journalism last week in the New York Times, reporter David Barboza identified assets worth $2.7 billion belonging to various members of the family of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, including his 90-year-old mother, a retired schoolteacher named Yang Zhiyun.

Prez race goes on
with junkies in dark

New York Post, by John Podhoretz Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 5:03:22 AM Post Reply

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy, what are you doing to us? I don’t mean us New Yorkers — I mean us election junkies. You may have thought the most haunting news yesterday morning was the flooding of the FDR Drive, or the closure of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Silly you. Such piffle was nothing compared to the nuclear force of the announcement among people who are consumed by the 2012 election that one of the 10 national “tracking” polls — which try to measure the short-term, day-to-day state of the presidential race — was shutting down due to the storm.

America's Foes Are Giddy
About Hurricane Sandy

Atlantic [Washington, DC], by John Hudson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:59:04 AM Post Reply

The eye of Hurricane Sandy hasn't hit land yet but state-run news outlets in countries at odds with the U.S. are brimming with apocalyptic coverage of the swirling weather system. Government news outlets in countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela rarely hide their schadenfreude at American misfortunes, but some events shift this propensity into overdrive. Today, Sandy is God's gift to Uncle Sam's least favorite news outlets: For our comrades over in Russia, Hurricane Sandy has reached Super Bowl-like coverage. Today, the Kremlin-backed outlet RT is dedicating its homepage to

Superstorm Sandy: New York subway
system flooded in 'worst ever disaster'

Agence France-Presse, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:57:10 AM Post Reply

"The New York City subway system is 108 years old, but it has never faced a disaster as devastating as what we experienced last night," said Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). "Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our entire transportation system, in every borough and county of the region. It has brought down trees, ripped out power and inundated tunnels, rail yards and bus depots," he said. The MTA released the statement after Monday's disaster, in which high tides driven onwards by hurricane-force winds flooded a vast swathe of the US East Coast,

Fighting in blue states is a
good sign for Romney

Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:53:42 AM Post Reply

The president and Mitt Romney are both suspending campaigning through Tuesday due to Hurricane Sandy, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t campaign news. To the delight of Romney forces, the map continues to expand, and without the campaign itself spending a dime. After Romney super PACs announced spending plans for both Pennsylvania and Minnesota, the Obama campaign announced its own ad buys. Moreover, Vice President Biden is going to Pennsylvania on Thursday, and Bill Clinton is heading for Minnesota. Two heavily blue states are now, in effect, toss-ups.

Dirty tricks on Nov. 6

Washington Times [DC], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:49:50 AM Post Reply

The race for the White House is coming down to the wire, and the closer this contest gets, the greater the chance it could be decided by electoral shenanigans. Though voter fraud affects everyone, it has turned into a highly partisan issue. Republican efforts to strengthen laws to require voter identification and an audit of voter rolls have met persistent challenges from Democrats and the Obama Justice Department. Democrats pretend such fraud is imaginary and allegations to the contrary must be manifestations of racism. This argument not only has a corrosive effect on the political culture, it is

Election 2012: Ohio President Ohio:
Romney 50%, Obama 48%

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Phil_hk- 10/30/2012 4:44:38 AM Post Reply

The race for Ohio’s Electoral College votes remains very close, but now Mitt Romney now has a two-point advantage. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Ohio Voters shows Romney with 50% support to President Obama’s 48%. One percent (1%) likes some other candidate, while another one percent (1%) remains undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) Ohio remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections. Based on the current projections, Romney would have to win Wisconsin if he loses Ohio in order to move into the

Flooding, outages hit Shore hard

Philadelphia Inquirer, by Edward Colimore & Matt Katz* Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:43:14 AM Post Reply

With powerful, damaging winds and relentless rain, Hurricane Sandy barreled into New Jersey and Pennsylvania on Monday, causing widespread flooding in shore communities, smashing part of Atlantic City's Boardwalk, and leaving hundreds of thousands to hunker down in homes without power. More than 4,600 New Jersey residents were evacuated to dozens of state, county, and municipal shelters as the storm surge, heavy precipitation, and full moon exacerbated tidal flooding, state officials said. Power outages were widespread, affecting about 1.3 million people in New Jersey and 166,000 Peco

50 homes destroyed in
6-alarm fire in Queens

WABC [New York NY], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:37:34 AM Post Reply

NEW YORK- Firefighters are battling a six-alarm fire in the Breezy Point section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. Officials say the fire was reported at about 11 p.m. Monday and involves about 50 houses situated in a flooded Zone A area. A fire department spokesman says nearly 200 firefighters are currently at the scene. He says two people have suffered minor injuries. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. A separate fire burned through a string of homes on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 115th Street in Rockaway Park. A third fire damaged a church

Why Romney’s Mormonism Has Caused
No Backlash Among GOP Faithful

Daily Beast, by Michael Medved Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/30/2012 4:34:47 AM Post Reply

It's too early to know whether Mitt Romney will realize his dream of becoming the first Mormon president, but he has already made history by achieving a new pluralism in the Republican Party and encouraging a more inclusive focus for the religious right. I saw that change first hand as a featured speaker at a Battleground States Talkers Tour event in Cleveland last Thursday night. The boisterous, overflow crowd of 1,700 included a prominent portion of evangelical Christians who nonetheless cheered lustily at every mention of a Mormon named Romney, a Catholic named Paul Ryan,

Mainstream scream: Matthews
says some Romney backers
driven by racial hatred

Washington Examiner [DC], by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/30/2012 4:32:29 AM Post Reply

Our weekly look at the loudest screech from the mainstream media features MSNBC's Chris Matthews, after the last presidential debate, claiming that "racial hatred" motivates Romney voters. "They hate Obama. They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al Qaeda. Their number one enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred -- hatred for Obama. We can go into that about the white working class in the South, and looking at these numbers we're getting in the last couple days about racial hatred in many cases.

Romney Reinforcements

Time, by Mark Halperin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:30:23 AM Post Reply

The outside groups supporting Mitt Romney have a shared sense that Obama’s need to make sure he protects Ohio leaves other states on his flank potentially vulnerable. According to news accounts and a Republican source familiar with the outside group activity, Americans for Job Security went up with TV ads in Pennsylvania over the weekend, and Restore Our Future goes on the air there Tuesday. And now both this source and Karl Rove speaking on Fox News Monday evening suggest American Crossroads just might also go on the Keystone State TV airwaves as early as Wednesday.

Obama: I’m offended that
people would accuse me of not
being forthcoming about Benghazi

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:26:15 AM Post Reply

Via Breitbart.com, he’s pulling the same move here that he pulled on Romney at the second debate, deflecting criticism by suggesting that somehow he’s the victim because people found the White House’s “acts of terror”/Mohammed movie protest vacillations suspicious. But okay: If he’s as forthcoming as he says, he has two new chances to prove it. First, how about answering Bing West’s question? If, as he claimed on Friday, he really did issue an order to secure American personnel in Benghazi, show us the order. The SecDef and the president have issued contradictory explanations.

The Benghazi Story Refuses To Die,
And It’s Hurting The President

American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/30/2012 4:19:27 AM Post Reply

We still don’t know exactly what happened between the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA and the White House as Americans in Libya requested support for Ambassador Stevens and his team in their final hours, and we almost certainly won’t before the election. But that doesn’t do the administration much good. As various departments and officials leak to save their careers and retaliate against rivals, grenades keep getting lobbed and emails and memos keep getting leaked. The result is that the attack in Benghazi isn’t fading out of the news. As the last undecided voters make up

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