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Which Polls Fared Best (and Worst)
in the 2012 Presidential Race

New York Times, by Nate Silver Original Article

Posted By: congaree53- 11/11/2012 9:15:12 AM Post Reply

As Americans’ modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seems to be changing as well. In last Tuesday’s presidential election, a number of polling firms that conduct their surveys online had strong results. Some telephone polls also performed well. But others, especially those that called only landlines or took other methodological shortcuts, performed poorly and showed a more Republican-leaning electorate than the one that actually turned out.

How Conservatives Can Win
in Blue-State America: Lessons
from South Africa´s Opposition

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/11/2012 9:12:28 AM Post Reply

The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the party’s core policies, from immigration to taxation to social issues. The conventional wisdom is wrong. I once worked in South Africa for a centrist

Foodstamps Surge to All Time High

Breitbart´s Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/11/2012 9:08:25 AM Post Reply

The Obama administration has finally released its report on the number of Americans receiving food stamps. This report was released days after the 2012 election, nine days past its traditional release date. The numbers show that Americans on food stamps is at an all time high. Worse, the report shows the highest one month jump ever recorded. You may recall that just before the election, the Obama administration announced that Hurricane Sandy was going to delay the release of October´s jobless numbers. Many watchers of politics were suspicious

Papa John´s CEO to cut worker´s
hours because Obama was re-elected

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:54:24 AM Post Reply

With failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney unable to repeal health care reform, Papa John´s CEO John Schnatter said he plans on taking the costs out of his workers. Schnatter said he will probably cut worker´s hours because President Obama was re-elected, according to the Naples News. [Snip]Though Schnatter has waffled on the Affordable Care Act, alternately agreeing that ´the good news is 100 per cent of the population is going to have health insurance´ and throwing fundraisers for Romney as the then-candidate promised to repeal Obamacare, Still, his announcement should not shock his employees as Schnatter has said he

Denmark to abolish
tax on high-fat foods

BBC News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Not your typical New Yorker- 11/11/2012 8:51:15 AM Post Reply

The Danish government has said it intends to abolish a tax on foods which are high in saturated fats. The measure, introduced a little over a year ago, was believed to be the world´s first so-called "fat tax". Foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fat - including dairy produce, meat and processed foods - were subject to the surcharge. But authorities said the tax had inflated food prices and put Danish jobs at risk. The Danish tax ministry said it was also cancelling its plans to introduce a tax on sugar, the AFP news agency reports.

Why Petraeus Deserved
Better Than This Humiliation

New York Sun, by SHMULEY BOTEACH Original Article

Posted By: FlyRight- 11/11/2012 8:49:02 AM Post Reply

Did General Petraeus have to resign? He opened himself as head of the Central Intelligence Agency to blackmail, which is a security breach. So the argument goes. But surely once he admitted the affair, he presumably couldn’t be blackmailed any more. And yes I know there are many facts as yet unknown, like this mystery second woman who complained about email harassment. But for now, Petraeus seems to have resigned over marital infidelity.

Obama has led US to £338bn
bill - and to the edge of
a financial abyss

Daily Mail [UK], by Simon Heffer Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:46:43 AM Post Reply

On the streets of Manhattan last week, the American public were more concerned about the delay in restoring their public services after Hurricane Sandy than about the entrails of politics following the presidential elections.New York votes Democrat. It took for granted that Barack Obama would get a second term, and did not look much beyond that. Now, though, all America is having to peer into an abyss--or, to use the metaphor of the moment, over a ‘fiscal cliff’.[Snip]The plan is that $136 billion (£85.5 billion) in cuts--0.8 percent of GDP--will come in at the same time as $532 billion of

The Blackpool Glower

Daily Express [UK], by Eugene Henderson Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:31:47 AM Post Reply

The best-loved seaside resort in Britain could put up its “No Vacancies” signs to stop attracting deadbeats, drunks and drug addicts. Councillor Simon Blackburn warns that the popular holiday destination has welcomed the “dependency culture” in recent years. [Snip] Mr Blackburn, 40, told them: “Essentially, we would be saying Blackpool is full and if people are planning on moving here, they need to think long and hard about securing accommodation, a job and means of entertaining themselves which do not negatively impact on the wider community.” The council’s Labour leader said watching an episode of the Channel 4 series

America has become
an Old World country

Telegraph [UK], by Janet Daley Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 8:14:53 AM Post Reply

So Europe got the American president it wanted--the one who would present no threat to its own delusions. The United States is now officially one of us: an Old World country complete with class hatred, ethnic Balkanisation, bourgeois guilt and a paternalist ruling elite. And it is locked into the same death spiral of high public spending and self-defeating wealth redistribution as we are. Welcome to the future, and the beginning of what may turn out to be the terminal decline of the West. It has become clear why it was so easy to misjudge the significance of the apparently

Stick to conservative principles

Morning Journal [Lorain, OH], by Tom Skoch Original Article

Posted By: Harlowe- 11/11/2012 8:12:16 AM Post Reply

The results of the presidential election were certainly a sharp disappointment for those on the right, but conservatives shouldn’t be looking for any non-fiscal cliffs to throw themselves from. Nor should Dems see any grand mandate for President Obama’s policies. Obama won small, and the nation and Congress remain as divided as before the election. A Republican comeback in 2014, taking control of the U.S. Senate, would change the picture greatly. By 2014, Americans will have had a much bigger taste of what a second Obama term means in their daily lives

Lest we forget: Queen lays wreath
at Cenotaph in memory of war
dead as Remembrance Sunday
events are held across Britain

Daily Mail [UK], by Mark Duell Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/11/2012 7:56:46 AM Post Reply

Remembrance Sunday events were today held across the country in tribute to members of Britain and the Commonwealth’s Armed Forces who have died during conflicts. The Queen attended a service at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where she laid a wreath in memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. She was joined by senior royals, Prime Minister David Cameron and leaders of opposition parties for the service, a focal point of the nation’s ceremonies. The first stroke of Big Ben at 11am and the firing of a gun from Horse Guards Parade by The King’s Troop

At least two killed in southeast side
explosion, four others injured

WXIN-TV [Indianapolis, IN], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: corndoggies- 11/11/2012 7:45:05 AM Post Reply

At least two people were killed and four others were injured following an explosion on the city´s southeast side. It happened near Stop 11 and Sherman Drive just after 11 p.m. Saturday.At least two homes were destroyed in the initial explosion. Two others were also directly impacted. Flames quickly spread to several other surrounding homes. Extensive damage was reported blocks away from the initial explosion. Nearly three dozen homes were damaged.
Source corrected by Staff

New York readies for Veterans
Day as region struggles

Reuters, by Edward Krudy Original Article

Posted By: JackBurton- 11/11/2012 6:24:21 AM Post Reply

New York City was preparing to stage its first major event since cancelling its annual marathon as thousands of victims of Superstorm Sandy continued to struggle with power outages, gasoline shortages and freezing weather conditions.Sunday's annual Veterans Day Parade is expected to attract crowds of over 600,000 people to central Manhattan and will be a test for a city still struggling to clean up after one of the worst natural disasters in the region's history.Thousands were in temporary shelters, and in New Jersey a tent city on the edge of Monmouth Park racetrack was home to hundreds.

The Disappointment of Living
in an Electoral Republic

American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 11/11/2012 6:16:53 AM Post Reply

Tuesday´s returns seem inexplicable. (a) Logic Took a Powder Jeff Dobbs, a regular at Just One Minute, did some work and shows why the election results this week seem inexplicable and unpredictable: (snip) This compendium of voter illogic is not complete without acknowledging, as Breitbart has, that voters expressed great concern over federal government corruption and, yet in the face of all the scandals including the trillions wasted in the Stimulus and failed and failing green energy programs, they believed the Republicans less capable of rooting it out.

Diplomats still in Benghazi
say they had long questioned
U.S. reliance on local militia

McClatchy Newspapers, by Nancy A. Youssef Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/11/2012 5:58:35 AM Post Reply

BENGHAZI, Libya — Even before the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, diplomats from other nations and Libyan security officials had questioned the wisdom of a U.S. decision to rely primarily on members of a local militia to protect its compound here. Diplomats here told McClatchy that while it’s customary to depend on local forces to protect diplomatic missions, only the United States of the 10 or so foreign missions here allowed the local militia to be the first line of defense.

Holly Petraeus: The
Woman Behind the General

Daily Beast, by Nina Strochlic Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:52:36 AM Post Reply

Earlier this year, Gen. David Petraeus praised his wife Holly, calling her “the greatest source of support, wise counsel, and love that any soldier could have.” And two days ago, he apologized to his former colleagues at the CIA for “engaging in an extramarital affair.” Such behavior, he wrote, “is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours.” It has since become clear that the other woman was Paula Broadwell, Petraeus’s biographer. But who is the woman whose forgiveness matters most in the coming weeks?

Florida officials order partial
recount in tight House race between
Rep. West and Democratic challenger Murphy

Fox News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:41:42 AM Post Reply

Election officials in St. Lucie County will recount early votes cast in the hotly contested race for Florida´s 18th district´s House seat between Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West and his challenger, Democrat Patrick Murphy. The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board announced late Saturday it had set an “emergency meeting” to start at 7 a.m. Sunday at its headquarters, to “recount all ballots cast during early voting.” The number of early ballots is estimated by officials to be roughly 37,000. West, who has refused to concede the race, is currently trailing Murphy by 2,442 votes,

Military timeline from night of
Benghazi attack begs more questions

Fox News, by Jennifer Griffin & Adam Housley Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:39:07 AM Post Reply

After more than nine weeks of trying to reconcile their story line with that of the State Department and the CIA, the Pentagon finally released its timeline of the Libya terror attack during a Friday afternoon, off-camera briefing with an official who could only be quoted anonymously. The news was overtaken almost immediately by the announcement that Gen. David Petraeus had resigned, purportedly due to an extramarital affair. He was slated to testify in closed-door hearings on Capitol Hill this coming week before the Senate and House intelligence committees. Petraeus no longer plans to testify.

Invalid boy’s diary focus of
Library of Congress Civil War exhibit

Washington Post, by Michael E. Ruane Original Article

Posted By: MissMolly- 11/11/2012 5:34:09 AM Post Reply

On a blazing Wednesday in July 1862, an invalid teenager from Macon, Ga., opened the journal he was keeping to make his daily entry. “Terribly hot,” he wrote. It was so hot that beads of his sweat fell onto the page. He tried to rub them off, but they smeared the ink. Mindful of his readers, he explained, “notwithstanding we have just eaten a nice melon .?.?. perspiration pours off me and drops on the book.” A century and a half later, LeRoy Wiley Gresham’s smudges still mark the page, in a kind of communion

Mitt Romney sends note
of thanks to supporters

CNN, by Kevin Bohn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:31:00 AM Post Reply

Washington - Mitt Romney sent a note Saturday to his campaign backers saying he and his wife "cannot thank you enough for supporting and believing in our cause." "This was more than just a campaign - this was a national movement," he said. "Thank you for the work that you did - going across neighborhoods to knock on doors and put up yard signs. Thanks for making phone calls, coming to rallies, donating funds, and convincing friends and family to join our team."

America still honors her heroes

Washington Times, by Sen. James M. Inhofe Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:26:38 AM Post Reply

Honor Flights bring veterans from around the country to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorials of the wars in which they fought. The current focus is on World War II veterans and any veteran who has a terminal illness. Without these fitting tributes, many of them would never get to see their memorial. When these flights come from Oklahoma, I am honored with the privilege of meeting the veterans at their memorial and thanking them for their service. From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to our current combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,

The Ethicist Letter Wasn´t
About Patraeus After All

Atlantic, by Connor Simpson Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:22:11 AM Post Reply

The conspiracy theory that thought the husband of CIA Director David Petraeus´ mistress wrote to Chuck Klosterman, the New York Times Magazine´s Ethicist, asking whether or not he should expose the affair has been debunked. Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren confirmed on Twitter the letter was not related to the Patraeus affair. Which government official it was about remains unknown. Original: There´s a conspiracy theory gaining traction on Twitter that alleges the husband of CIA Director David Petraeus´ mistress wrote to Chuck Klosterman, the New York Times Magazine´s Ethicist, asking whether or not he should expose the affair.

The City That Doesn’t Sleep

National Review Online, by Mark Steyn Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:16:21 AM Post Reply

The Great Leader in the awesome bomber jacket has moved on, but in New York your “Federal” “Emergency” “Management” tax dollars are hard at work: A major disaster occurs on the outskirts of one of the most advanced civilizations on earth, and 10 days later there are victims walking 6 miles to find food? Likewise: Does this look like a photo from a first world nation? Good thing Nanny Bloomberg resigned from the Republican Party or there might be some bad press over this.

He betrayed us on two fronts

New York Post, by Michael Goodwin Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/11/2012 5:11:06 AM Post Reply

Mother always said the bigger they are, the harder they fall. If ever there was any doubt, the stunning case of CIA boss David Petraeus dispels it. The most important and celebrated military leader of our time has fallen from the sky with a thud that is shaking all of Washington. His personal life and career are in tatters, but that is not the whole story. Not by a long shot. Petraeus, once talked about as presidential timber, played a big part in the administration’s misleading narrative surrounding the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

Obama’s Full In-Tray

Weekly Standard, by Irwin M. Stelzer Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 5:03:56 AM Post Reply

The robocalls have stopped. Television ads have gone from attacks on candidates to the usual pitches for medications and exercises that will enable you to live forever. Political post-mortems are under way. And the 2016 wannabees are lining up financing and staffs for their runs at the Democratic and Republican nominations. This will be a relatively easy task for the Clintons should Hillary decide to make a run, but might be more difficult for New Jersey governor Chris Christie, whose embrace of the president during their televised tour of the damage from Sandy helped Obama to dispel the notion

6 lingering questions about
the exit of Gen. David Petraeus

Politico, by Edward-Isaac Dovere & Josh Gerstein Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/11/2012 4:58:06 AM Post Reply

Resignations over scandals often raise more questions than they answer, and that’s true of Gen. David Petraeus’s abrupt exit from the Central Intelligence Agency. Some have already been put to rest: Paula Broadwell, the author of “All In: The Education of David Petraeus,” has been identified as the woman at the center of the FBI email probe that ultimately toppled him. But many questions remain. Here are POLITICO’s six most important: 1. Why resign now? The Obama administration’s first sex scandal exploded just three days after the president was reelected at the end of a hard-fought campaign and just days before Petraeus was scheduled

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