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Why Hurricane Sandy might cost Obama
the popular vote—but not the presidency

Yahoo! News, by Jeff Greenfield Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/31/2012 10:58:14 AM Post Reply

This year’s black swan arrived on a rush of wind. Once again, a highly unlikely, unanticipated event has roiled the waters—literally—late in the campaign cycle. Twelve years ago, it was the revelation of George W. Bush’s long-ago drunk driving arrest that likely cost him the popular vote and almost cost him the White House. Four years ago, the September collapse of Lehman Brothers and the near-collapse of the global financial universe turned a likely Obama victory into a certain one. And this year, the impact of Hurricane Sandy makes it more likely that we’ll see a presidential election where

Analysis: Doing his job,
Obama a subtle campaigner

Associated Press, by Ben Feller Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 10:56:27 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- It may look to America like President Barack Obama is off the campaign trail. He's really not. By commanding the response to a ferocious October storm a week before the election, Obama is employing a political advantage in the race to be president. He is the president. Clearly, Obama's imperative to act transcends the election. Superstorm Sandy's wrath is real. At a time of death and danger, any president is expected to lead for the people of every state, battleground or otherwise. Yet in a political sense - and politics are absolutely part

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Rasmussen Reports, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 10/31/2012 10:54:02 AM Post Reply

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 49% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 47%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) remain undecided. (Snip) Sixteen percent (16%) of white Democrats now support Romney. New surveying Monday night finds Romney ahead of the president 50% to 47% in the key swing state of Colorado. That marks little change from a week ago, and the state remains a Toss-Up in the Rasmussen Reports Electoral College Projections.

Eurozone unemployment
rises to new record

Associated Press, by Pan Pylas Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/31/2012 10:53:22 AM Post Reply

London — Unemployment in the 17-country eurozone hit a record high of 11.6 percent in September, official figures showed Wednesday, a sign the economy is deteriorating as governments struggle to get a grip on their three-year debt crisis. The rate reported by Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, was up from an upwardly revised 11.5 percent in August. In total, 18.49 million people were out of work in the eurozone in September, up 146,000 on the previous month, the biggest increase in three months. While the eurozone's unemployment rate has been rising steadily for the past year as the economy

It Is Time to Stop
Putting Food in Our Cars

American Magazine, by Ken Green Original Article

Posted By: eagleblurst- 10/31/2012 10:51:06 AM Post Reply

The ethanol mandate continues to do more harm than good — inflicting environmental damage, raising food prices, and distorting energy markets. Two recent developments warrant a reexamination of the fuel ethanol issue. First, on August 20, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a call for comments on suspending the renewable fuel standard (RFS), sometimes known as the ethanol mandate: EPA is seeking comment on letters requesting a waiver of the renewable fuel standard and matters relevant to EPA’s consideration of those requests. Governors of the states of

Lack of white support could
cost Obama his presidency

Washington Examiner, by Brian Hughes Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/31/2012 10:50:58 AM Post Reply

Ames, Iowa -- If President Obama doesn't win a second term next Tuesday, he won't have trouble finding the root problem. As the president likes to say, it's simple math: Waning support among white voters could torpedo his re-election bid. America's first black president, who rode a wave of enthusiasm from both Democrats and Republican-leaning independents four years ago, faces a far more tenuous path to victory this time around. Polls show Obama winning less than 40 percent of white voters and having to make up that gap by mobilizing minority voters in force. The reasons for that sagging

Final CBS/NYT/Q-polls in
OH, FL, VA show Obama up …

Hot Air, by Ed Morrissey Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 10:28:04 AM Post Reply

We’re down to the final week of the election, where we’d normally expect to see pollsters fine-tuning their samples in order to get the most predictive survey results ahead of the election. It’s refreshing, therefore, to see the CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac partnership decide to buck that trend and stick with consistency. Their polls in the most hotly contested swing states of Ohio, Florida, and Virginia all show Barack Obama edging Mitt Romney — as long as voter turnout resembles Obama’s big win in 2008: President Obama has maintained a five-point lead in the crucial swing state of Ohio,

Hurricane Sandy might be
Obama's October surprise,
but history still says he'll lose

Telegraph [UK], by Tim Stanley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 10/31/2012 10:26:49 AM Post Reply

There is a 74.6 percent chance that this is the last post I will ever write about polls. I’m sick of talking about them. Elections should be about policy and morality, not data sets and electoral statistics. We should be discussing the US election in terms of who will create jobs or who will bring peace to the Middle East, not who will turn out the biggest numbers in a handful of counties in a single state (damn you, Ohio). It’s become a numbers game. Gone are the war heroes, Hollywood actors, crusader priests and crazy hippies who once made American politics so colourful and epic. Now it’s run by geeks

Governor fights legalizing
of pot in Colorado

Washington Times, by Valerie Richardson Original Article

Posted By: grandpa- 10/31/2012 10:11:43 AM Post Reply

Denver - Ordinarily Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Democrat, enjoys being ahead of the curve — but not when it comes to being the first state to legalize marijuana for nonmedical use. Mr. Hickenlooper, along with a bevy of other top Colorado officeholders, has come out against Amendment 64, which would lift the prohibition on recreational marijuana use and possession for adults 21 and older. Voters in two other states, Oregon and Washington, are also considering statewide measures to legalize recreational marijuana. All three initiatives would direct the state to regulate and tax the

After Botching Libya, War
On Terror Spreads To Mali

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/31/2012 10:10:19 AM Post Reply

Terrorism: The U.S. is pushing for military intervention in Mali to hose out a new al-Qaida enclave. Undoubtedly it needs to be done. But so much for the White House's facile claim to having terrorists on the run. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Algeria Monday, pleading with its government to support a U.S.-France-led military mission to destroy al-Qaida's latest conquest in northern Mali, an impoverished African state along the Sahara. Fine, but this was a preventable crisis that has a lot to do with White House hubris about ending the war on terror before it was actually done.

The Upside of Opportunism

New York Times, by David Brooks Original Article

Posted By: Mike PHX- 10/31/2012 9:58:44 AM Post Reply

Let’s try to imagine what the world would look like if President Obama is re-elected. Washington over the next four years would probably look much as it has over the last two: Obama running the White House, Republicans controlling the House and Democrats managing the Senate. We’d have had a long slog of an election before a change-hungry electorate, and we’d end up with pretty much the same cast of characters as before. Obama would probably try to enact the agenda he laid out most clearly in his recent interview with The Des Moines Register: Obama said he would try to recreate

Sandy May Drive Subway
Rats onto NYC Streets

Live Science, by Tia Ghose Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 10/31/2012 9:41:39 AM Post Reply

New Yorkers may see an unwanted group of refugees in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — the rats that live in the city's subway tunnels. As of Noon on Tuesday (Oct. 30), seven subway tunnels under the East River had flooded due to Hurricane Sandy, and many of the other subterranean lairs the seemingly invincible creatures inhabit were also inundated. That may push the rodent survivors of the deluge onto the New York streets. "Most of the rats that are living there will actually drown," said Herwig Leirs, a rodentologist at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.

Obama visits storm victims
while Romney campaigns

Associated Press, by Charles Babington Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 9:39:36 AM Post Reply

Washington — President Barack Obama, locked in a fierce re-election bid, is emphasizing his incumbent's role for a third straight day, skipping battleground states to visit victims of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey, a state he's confident of winning. The president's actions have forced his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, to walk a careful line and make tough choices. The former Massachusetts governor must show respect for the superstorm's casualties all along the Eastern Seaboard. But Romney can ill afford to waste a minute of campaign time, with the contest virtually deadlocked in

We Air Honest Ads, Black
Detroit Host Gets Outraged

American Thinker, by Lloyd Marcus Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/31/2012 9:34:48 AM Post Reply

Patriots, we are still on the road on the Rebuild America Defeat Obama bus tour. It has been over a month, and Mary really misses Sammy, our greyhound, and Marilyn, her cat. I miss Sammy, but not the cat. Anyway, I was interviewed on the morning drive talk radio show, Inside Detroit with Mildred Gaddis. The liberal black host and her callers were pretty POed at me for being a black man chairing the Campaign To Defeat Barack Obama. They began the interview by airing our Barack Obama's Legacy of Failure ad. The host attacked me, claiming that fact-checkers confirm that our ad is full of lies.

Quietly, Catholic bishops draw
a stark choice for the faithful
between Romney-Obama

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 10/31/2012 9:14:23 AM Post Reply

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney sure looked to be having a swell time at the recent Al Smith Foundation dinner in New York. We wrote about the many laughs and published a video of the charity roast here. But here's another apparent truth: As a result of what Catholic church leaders regard as some blatant double-dealing by the Democrat president on his ObamaCare regulations, the church has quietly launched a massive national information campaign among millions of church faithful. Catholics are famously independent when it comes to their votes. Even if they were

Here comes the landslide

The Hill [Washington DC], by Dick Morris Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 9:02:20 AM Post Reply

Voters have figured out that President Obama has no message, no agenda and not even much of an explanation for what he has done over the past four years. His campaign is based entirely on persuading people that Mitt Romney is a uniquely bad man, entirely dedicated to the rich, ignorant of the problems of the average person. As long as he could run his negative ads, the campaign at least kept voters away from the Romney bandwagon. But once we all met Mitt Romney for three 90-minute debates, we got to know him — and to like him. He was not the monster Obama depicted, but a reasonable

Gingrich: Senator told me networks
may have White House emails
commanding counterterrorism group
to stand down on Benghazi rescue

Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 9:00:59 AM Post Reply

On Tuesday night’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on the Fox News Channel, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that major news networks might have secret emails proving that the White House canceled plans to assist the besieged U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. Gingrich said that the bombshell emails could be revealed within the next two days. “There is a rumor — I want to be clear, it’s a rumor — that at least two networks have emails from the National Security Adviser’s office telling a counterterrorism group to stand down,” Gingrich said. “But they were a group in

Mitt Romney set to
win, maybe by a mile

Boston Herald, by Michael Graham Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 8:58:34 AM Post Reply

One week from today, the Boston Herald’s front page will either read “Obama Pulls Out Victory” Or “Romney Wins.” (Actually, given that this is the Herald the headline will be something clever like, “He’s Barack In Charge!” or “Sweet Mitt-ory!”) I predict the latter. One week from today, Mitt wins. I’ll even go a step farther. I’ll ask the question poll watchers across America are thinking but afraid to ask: Is this election over? If your source of news is MSNBC or the Boston Globe-Democrat, obviously not. If anything, you think President Obama is on the verge of a massive sweep from North Carolina to

Marriage on the Ballot

New York Times, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 10/31/2012 8:34:36 AM Post Reply

The freedom to marry is a fundamental right that should not have to be won or defended at the ballot box. In fact, ballot initiatives are a bad way to write or rewrite laws of any kind. Unfortunately, that is the reality of American politics, which is why same-sex marriage measures on the Nov. 6 ballot in Maine, Washington, Maryland and Minnesota could turn out to be pivotal in the struggle for marriage equality. Thanks to court rulings and legislative victories, same-sex marriage is now legal in six states and the District of Columbia, and polls show that a majority of Americans support the legalization of

Poll: Obama holds small
Ohio edge; Fla., Va. tight

CBS News, by Sarah Dutton & Jennifer De Pinto* Original Article

Posted By: ohioTom- 10/31/2012 8:26:44 AM Post Reply

President Obama has maintained a five-point lead in the crucial swing state of Ohio, according to a new Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters. The survey found that Mitt Romney has gained ground in Florida and Virginia, where the race is now effectively tied. Mr. Obama now leads Romney 50 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in Ohio - exactly where the race stood on Oct. 22. His lead in Florida, however, has shrunk from nine points in September to just one point in the new survey, which shows Mr. Obama with 48 percent support and Romney with 47

The mysterious media Benghazi bugout

New York Post, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 7:50:41 AM Post Reply

Where is the Benghazi media feeding frenzy? I don’t think there’s a conspiracy at work. Rather, I think journalists tend to act on their instincts. And, collectively, the mainstream media’s instincts run liberal. In 2000, a Democratic operative orchestrated an “October surprise” attack on George W. Bush, revealing that 24 years earlier, he’d been arrested for drunken driving. The media went into a feeding frenzy. “Is all the 24-hour coverage of Bush’s 24-year-old DUI arrest the product of a liberal media almost drunk on the idea of sinking him, or is it a legitimate, indeed unavoidable news story?” asked Howard

Report: Operation Fast and Furious
Part of DOJ 'Deliberate Strategy'

Breitbart's Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 7:46:59 AM Post Reply

The latest congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious revealed that the highest levels of Eric Holder's Justice Department were involved in creating a "deliberate strategy" to take down leaders of Mexican drug cartels. Investigate reporter Matthew Boyle writes that congressional investigators determined the Fast and Furious scandal resulted from a “deliberate strategy created at the highest levels of the Justice Department aimed at identifying the leaders of a major gun trafficking ring.” Investigators believe this "deliberate strategy" began to develop after speeches Holder

Did Obama Write Anti-Semitic Poetry?

American Thinker, by Jack Cashill Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/31/2012 7:35:42 AM Post Reply

As a 19-year-old sophomore, Barack Obama had two poems -- "Underground" and "Pop" -- published under his name in the spring 1981 edition of Occidental College's literary magazine, Feast. If Obama wrote any other poems after that, they have not emerged. (Snip) O'Hagan, however, chose to notice. He points out that both of the poem's most conspicuous symbols, apes and figs, are mentioned in the Qur'an. Middle Eastern scholar Bernard Lewis has argued that although Muslims were relatively tolerant of Jews, there are at least three passages in the Qur'an in which Jews are denounced as

It's Not Over

American Thinker, by William L. Gensert Original Article

Posted By: magnante- 10/31/2012 7:31:50 AM Post Reply

Does anyone believe that when Barack Obama loses on November 6, he will go quietly? This election is shaping up to be a landslide loss for the president, and by the ever-present look of desperation on his face, he knows it. The nation should be preparing for how he might react when it happens -- there is nothing more dangerous than a cornered god. (Snip) He may never have been more than a part-time president, but to expect him to give up the job easily or gracefully is to fall prey to wishful thinking. His monstrous ego will not allow any other course of action but to fight.

Egyptian authorities reportedly
seize 1.7 million documents
proving Jewish ownership
of assets in Cairo

Times of Israel [Jerusalem], by Elhanan Miller Original Article

Posted By: Judy W.- 10/31/2012 7:28:32 AM Post Reply

Egyptian authorities confiscated some 1.7 million documents reportedly proving Jewish ownership of land and assets in Cairo. The documents were reportedly about to be shipped out of the country to Israel, in what the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram is calling “the most dangerous case of security breach in history.” (Snip) Preliminary investigations have revealed that the documents were supposed to be used in an Israeli lawsuit involving Jewish property lost in Egypt’s 1952 revolution, the site reported. According to Elaph, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is personally following the case, which it

Republicans Have Won Every
November 6th Presidential
Election Since 1860

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Sexton Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 10/31/2012 7:18:51 AM Post Reply

Here's one more historical curiosity to observe this election cycle. Since election day was standardized in 1845 there have been 6 presidential elections held on November 6th and Republicans have won all six. That means next Tuesday, the 7th Presidential election held on this date, will either break or uphold a streak that began in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln. Starting in 1792, states had a range of dates on which to conduct presidential elections, but in 1845 Congress standardized the date so it would always be the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Since then presidential elections have

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