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Obama team: It’s time
to get back on the trail

Washington Post, by David Nakamura Original Article

Posted By: bldrrepub- 10/31/2012 2:13:05 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s top advisers said the time is right for the president to return to the campaign trail on Thursday when he will hold rallies in Green Bay, Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo. David Axelrod told reporters that Obama wanted to wait until he was certain that the federal government had a handle on the response to Hurricane Sandy. (Snip) “We’ve passed a threshold here,” Axelrod said during a conference call. “We owe it to folks to make the final arguments.” Of the storm’s effect on the race for the White House, the senior strategist said he was hesitant to offer a political calculation

Shark-Tank: Wasserman Schultz
Involved in Police Altercation
Outside Voting Precinct - Thread Closed

Fox News, by Javier Manjarres Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/31/2012 1:56:41 PM Post Reply

A group of sign-waving campaign ralliers comprised of both Democrat and Republican supporters outside an Aventura, Florida polling location witnessed Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz get involved in a heated altercation with an Aventura policeman after she apparently took issue with his request to not engage in campaign activities in the street which would hold up oncoming traffic. She listened to the police officer’s respectful and reasonable request, but Wasserman Schultz continued to argue with the police officer, according to several people who witnessed the incident.

Coulter: Christie 'hoping to
use Obama to plug a dike'

Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Caroline May Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 1:44:55 PM Post Reply

Conservative pundit and noted Chris Christie fan Ann Coulter weighed in on the New Jersey governor’s praise and welcoming of President Barack Obama to his hurricane ravaged state, Wednesday. “I think he’s hoping to use Obama to plug a dike,” Coulter, the author of the new book “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama,” wrote in a brief email to The Daily Caller. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Christie, a surrogate to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and normally harsh Obama critic, has been heaping praise on the Democratic president for his

Sandy aftermath: How to prolong
battery life and stay connected
without power - Thread Closed

Newsday, by Adam Fusfeld Original Article

Posted By: PageTurner- 10/31/2012 1:38:55 PM Post Reply

If your cell phone battery is hanging on by a thread – and if you’ve made it this far, you’re already pretty fortunate – there are a few steps you can still take to get every last drop out of that baby. Granted, it’s a little bit late at this point (Warp Pipe would have passed along this information sooner -- if only its bloggers had the power to do so), but better late than never. Without further ado, here are 11 steps you can take to make the most out of your battery life and reconnect

Obama Twice Uses MSNBC
Slogan ‘Lean Forward’ While
Addressing Disaster Relief

Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 1:33:42 PM Post Reply

President Obama on Tuesday twice used MSNBC’s slogan “lean forward” while addressing Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., about relief for Sandy victims. First he said this (video follows with transcript and commentary): PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We are going to continue to push as hard as we can to make sure that power is up throughout the region and obviously this is mostly a local responsibility and the private utilities are going to have to lean forward. But we are doing everything we can to provide them additional resources so that we can expedite getting power up

Christie Welcomes Obama
to the Post-Obama Era

Breitbart Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 1:19:33 PM Post Reply

The media have thrilled to the sight of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie offering words of praise for President Barack Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy. The prospect of the president’s tour of the devastation Wednesday has journalists and Obama supporters giddy with glee. Viewing the event--as usual--through a purely political lens, the left’s pundits are celebrating their luck: could this be the October surprise that saves Obama? Conservatives have largely ignored the supposed Christie-Obama bromance, because most understand that this is simply what elected leaders are supposed to do.

New Hampshire's Nashua
Telegraph Endorses Romney

Breitbart Big Journalism, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 1:15:49 PM Post Reply

The Nashua Telegraph, one of New Hampshire's largest and most influential newspapers, endorsed Mitt Romney for President Wednesday. The paper endorsed Barack Obama in 2008: Four years ago, with little hesitation, we endorsed then-Sen. Barack Obama to become the 44th president of the United States, saying it was a time for “new leadership, a new approach to governing, a new way of conducting the people’s business.” So the basic question facing The Telegraph editorial board when it met last week came down to this: Did the former Illinois senator do enough to live up to

Congressman Calls for
$12 Billion in New Debt to
Pay FEMA for Hurricane Sandy

Cybercast News Service, by Matt Cover Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 1:07:32 PM Post Reply

Representative Chaka Fattah (D-Penn.) is planning to introduce a bill to provide an additional $12 billion in funding to FEMA to help the agency deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Fattah says the money should be provided without any offsets, meaning that the government will have to add the total to its already $16-trillion-plus debt. Fattah plans to introduce the bill when the House of Representatives convenes for a pro-forma session on Friday, although it is not clear he will have a chance to do so because such pro-forma sessions typically last only mere minutes.

New ADP Count Slashes
Job Creation for September

CNBC, by Jeff Cox Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 1:06:14 PM Post Reply

Revisions to the way payroll data firm ADP counts private sector job creation have resulted in a sharp drop in the September employment count. ADP's new calculations put the monthly job creation at just 88,2000, down from the 162,000 the firm originally reported earlier this month. The firm recently has entered into a partnership with Moody's Analytics that will change the way the private payroll count is calculated. ADP will announce its October count on Thursday, with the Labor Department to follow on Friday. ADP is expected to announce a further revision to the September count along

George McGovern, Lance Armstrong
and the meaning of integrity

Miami Herald [FL], by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 10/31/2012 1:01:51 PM Post Reply

One guy was among the greatest losers in the history of politics, the other, one of the biggest winners in all of sports. They were unalike men who shared little except recent headlines. But there was, in that brief juxtaposition, an object lesson for those who cared to see it. The loser — George McGovern — made headlines by dying at age 90. He is famous for having been on the rump end of one of the most thorough election shellackings in history, cobbling together a measly 17 electoral votes in 1972 to Richard Nixon’s 520. But there was more to him than that epic loss.

Obama to leave White House
Thursday, campaign in Wisconsin

Daily Caller, by Neil Munro Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 12:55:29 PM Post Reply

President Barack Obama is leaving the White House Thursday for the campaign trail in Colorado, Nevada and Wisconsin. Colorado and Nevada have long been seen by his campaign as states that can carry him over the 270-vote threshold, but Wisconsin has been viewed as a safe state for his campaign. Yet polls show a narrowing Obama advantage in the state. On Oct. 25, Rasmussen showed a tie with Gov. Mitt Romney at 49 percent. Obama is slated to attend a rally at Green Bay, Wisc. Vice President Joe Biden is also slated to hold is also slated to hold two events in the state Nov. 2.

Obamacare exempts millions--
prisoners, illegals, welfare recipients

Washington Examiner, by Paul Bedard Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 12:43:26 PM Post Reply

In just 14 months, Americans will be required to prove that they have federally "qualified" health insurance or face an Obamacare tax of $695 to $2,085. That is unless you are in prison, below the poverty line, or are an undocumented immigrant, according to the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform. When added together, those three groups total up to one-sixth of the nation's population of 314 million: 218,929 are in federal prisons, 12 million are illegals and 42 million are below the poverty line and eligible for welfare, though some fit into all three categories, according to federal reports.

Christie orders Halloween
in N.J. postponed until Monday

Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by Christopher Baxter Original Article

Posted By: rinohunter- 10/31/2012 12:41:03 PM Post Reply

Trenton — Gov. Chris Christie today signed an executive order to postpone Halloween until Monday because of unsafe conditions throughout New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. “In too many communities in our state, the damage and losses from this storm are still being sorted out, and dangerous conditions abound even as our emergency management and response officials continue their work," Christie said in a statement. The governor has said for a few days he would probably issue the order, even joking that he might reschedule it for Election Day.

Give Romney a chance; Obama had his

Statesman-Journal [Salem, OR], by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/31/2012 12:36:56 PM Post Reply

Today the Statesman Journal Editorial Board endorses Mitt Romney for president. We do so despite endorsing Barack Obama four years ago. On Oct. 19, 2008, we wrote: “America needs a profound leader — a leader who can rebuild our economy, regain our respect around the world and restore our faith in our future. That person is Barack Obama.” Today our economy is still struggling and our national hopes have faded. We know this is not all President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s fault. Although Obama underestimated the nation’s economic challenges, he inherited that mess.

The Gospel According to Joe

American Spectator, by George Neumayr Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/31/2012 12:19:11 PM Post Reply

Joe Biden said at October's vice-presidential debate that he would never "impose" his Catholic faith on fellow Americans, describing it as "personally" important to him but publicly irrelevant. This stance hasn't stopped him in the finals days of the campaign from imposing his self-serving version of the Catholic faith on voters. In a recent campaign ad, complete with images of the crucifix, a solemn Joe Biden presents himself as a "practicing Catholic" who serves an administration that advances the "values" of "Catholic social doctrine." "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me,"

Liberals to Romney: Only We
Can Politicize Hurricane Sandy

Washington Free Beacon, by Andrew Stiles Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/31/2012 12:16:25 PM Post Reply

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said in November 2008. Democrats and liberal pundits are following Emanuel’s advice and refusing to let Hurricane Sandy, which has left at least 40 dead, distract them from their political mission of preventing Mitt Romney from becoming president. The storm and its aftermath, these liberals argue, illustrate the need for large government agencies funded by historically high levels of federal spending. “A Big Storm Requires Big Government,” read the headline of a New York Times editorial

Dem Early Vote Lead In
Florida Down 70% Over 2008

Breitbart's Big Government, by John Nolte Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 12:07:43 PM Post Reply

There's all kinds of spin out there regarding early voters, especially from Team Obama and their allies in the CorruptMedia, but I don’t believe in tea leaves, I believe in numbers. Gallup provided numbers and those numbers (with a huge 3,300 sample) show Romney winning early voters by a margin of 52-47%. And now we have hard numbers out of Florida showing Democrats well behind their early vote lead when compared to this time last year: But a Republican yesterday noted that at this point in 2008, Democrats held a 134,774-vote lead in Florida. As of yesterday. Democrats led by less

The Get Along to Git-Along
Buoys of New Jersey

Canada Free Press, by Judi McLeod Original Article

Posted By: snowcloud- 10/31/2012 12:07:30 PM Post Reply

We knew even before its landfall that Hurricane Sandy would be fully exploited by election-bound politicians.[Snip]It was only yesterday that Christie had criticized Atlantic City mayor Lorenzo Langford as a “rogue mayor” for supposedly encouraging residents to ride out the storm in designated shelters rather than leave the area entirely (TodayNews.today.com, Oct. 31, 2012). “I feel badly for the folks in Atlantic City who listened to him and sheltered in Atlantic City, and I guess my anger has turned to sympathy for those folks, and we’re in the midst now of trying to go in and save them,”

The Statistical Significance of Sandy
Could Alter Electoral, Popular-Vote Math

National Journal, by Major Garrett Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 10/31/2012 12:04:16 PM Post Reply

One of more absurd notions to crop up in the latter stages of the presidential campaign is that GOP challenger Mitt Romney could win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College vote. Until Hurricane Sandy, this was a cable TV notion in search of historical and mathematical mooring. That it bobbed aimlessly through the occasionally mindless waters of talking heads made it no different from any other might-this-happen adventure in televised banality. But think about it for just two seconds. The concept is built on the theory that Romney could run up the vote in Southern

Roanoke College poll has
Romney up by 5 in Virginia

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: DaddyO- 10/31/2012 12:00:46 PM Post Reply

Mitt Romney leads President Obama by 5 points in Virginia, 49 to 44, in a poll conducted by Roanoke College between Oct.23-26. The sample consisted of 638 likely voters. The margin of error is 4 points. Using a more selective screen for identifying likely voters, Roanoke College’s poll found Romney ahead by a comomanding 54-41 margin. Thus, if these results are accurate, Obama will need a strong turnout just to be competitive in Virginia. But this wouldn’t be the 2012 presidential election without countervailing polling news. And, sure enough, Quinnipiac has released a poll of likely

Little change in newspaper
circulation numbers

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/31/2012 11:48:08 AM Post Reply

New York — A media industry group says U.S. newspaper circulation was almost unchanged in the six months ended Sept. 30. The Wall Street Journal kept its position as the No. 1 newspaper. Its average circulation grew 9.4% to 2.3 million. USA Today was second at 1.7 million, followed by The New York Times at 1.6 million. Circulation at the Times grew 40% from a year ago. More than half of the Times' circulation was for digital editions Average daily circulation in the April-September period slid 0.2% for the 613 newspapers included in the semiannual study by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Problem found at board of elections

Marion Star [Marion, OH], by Nick Bechtel Original Article

Posted By: Bubbasuncle- 10/31/2012 11:45:28 AM Post Reply

Marion — Joan Stevens was one of several early voters at the polls on Monday. But when Stevens tried to cast her ballot for president, she noticed a problem. Upon selecting “Mitt Romney” on the electronic touch screen, Barack Obama’s name lit up. It took Stevens three tries before her selection was accurately recorded. “You want to vote for who you want to vote for, and when you can’t it’s irritating,” Stevens said. Stevens said she alerted Jackie Smith, a board of elections member who was present. Smith declined to comment, but Stevens says she mentioned that the machine had been having problems

After Sandy, FEMA
Goes From Goat to Glory

ABC News, by Abby D. Phillip Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 10/31/2012 11:42:34 AM Post Reply

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, usually the favorite whipping boy of politicians during disasters, is basking in unaccustomed glory. FEMA, ridiculed after Hurricane Katrina and the subject of proposed budget cuts after the financial crisis, is being praised by governors and mayors from storm-ravaged states along the East Coast. "I have to say, the administration, the president himself and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate have been outstanding with us so far," said Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. "He worked on that last night with me?

Fires raging in New Jersey shore
town hit hard by Sandy; 14
homes already destroyed

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 10/31/2012 11:40:43 AM Post Reply

Mantoloking, NJ — Fires that destroyed about 14 homes in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Sandy have rekindled, fueled by natural gas. Video from WNBC-TV in New York shows flames reaching over Mantoloking. There's a large cluster of flames and smaller fires spread out from it. An official with the Ocean County Emergency Management Office says authorities believe natural gas lines are fueling the flames. The official says the homes burned down two days ago when Sandy pounded the affluent town. The official, who would not give his name, says firefighters can't reach the scene

Poll: Romney closes gap
on Obama in Michigan

Detroit News [MI], by Marisa Schultz & Kim Kozlowski Original Article

Posted By: barbcrose- 10/31/2012 11:39:13 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney is within striking distance of Barack Obama in Michigan in the final days before the election, buoyed by more who are convinced the Republican is a viable alternative to the president, with the ability to turn around the economy. Obama's lead over Romney has shrunk to just under 3 points, 47.7 percent to 45 percent, with 3.8 percent undecided, according to a new Detroit News/WDIV Local 4 poll of likely voters. Obama's lead was 6.7 points earlier this month and has eroded to within the poll's 3.8 percentage point margin of error. It's the smallest advantage for the Democratic

NASA's Curiosity finds
Martian soil like Hawaiian sand

Computerworld, by Sharon Gaudin Original Article

Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 10/31/2012 11:28:57 AM Post Reply

In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few weeks, analyzing it for its mineralogical makeup. The soil tested appears to be similar to dust and fine soil widespread on Mars, say NASA scientists. And that soil is testing out to be very similar to weathered basaltic soil produced by ancient volcanoes. Similar soil is found in the Hawaiian islands. "Our team is elated with these first results from our instrument,"

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