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Mourdock Could Still Win
Weekly Standard, by Michael Warren
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Posted By:Maryland_Patriot, 11/5/2012 12:12:01 AM
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| The last several weeks have not been good for Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock of Indiana. The two-term state treasurer, who beat six-term incumbent Senator Dick Lugar in the GOP primary in May, has fallen back in the polls against his Democratic opponent, Congressman Joe Donnelly. A recent poll, from Brian Howey and Depauw University, showed an 11-point lead for Donnelly. (snip) But despite the media narrative and the Howey/DePauw poll, Mourdock still has a chance of winning the seat, for a few of reasons: 1. Joe Donnelly does not actually lead by 11 points.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Grant Hodges, 11/5/2012 12:17:30 AM (No. 8988445)
I don't believe an 11 point poll advantage for Donnelly over Mourdock. DePauw is as doctrinaire liberal institution as you can find in Indiana and hardly representative. Come election day I think Mourdock will have won solidly.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Deedo, 11/5/2012 12:45:19 AM (No. 8988472)
This Depauw University poll is probably the shabbiest and most suspect that I've seen in years. Their tally of 47% to 36% only accounts for 83% of the electorate! They acknowledge 11% undecided, but still; 6% for some third party candidate is also ridiculously inflated.
I searched for a while but I could not find the sampling breakdown used in the poll. I wouldn't be surprised if they assumed a heavy Democrat turnout advantage in a state that is going to be quite red this election.
As they say in Indiana, "this poll is hogwash!".
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday questioned how the Republican Party lost the black vote after a century with the GOP - from the Civil War to the civil rights movement - during a speech at the historically black college of Howard University in Washington, D.C. “How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?” Paul asked.
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Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, based on a new analysis, said ABC, CBS, and NBC “are deliberately censoring news and information” that is negative about Obamacare, an assertion that Stuart Varney, host of Fox’s Varney & Co., said was true, adding, “There is deliberate censorship of information about Obamacare.” On the Apr. 11 edition of Varney & Co., Bozell said the network new outlets – ABC, CBS, and NBC – “are deliberately censoring news and information from the American people” that reveals some of the negative and unpopular aspects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
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Only one of my six children has left New York for economic reasons but the strain of living in this expensive nanny state is weighing heavy on my other five and their families. As a native New Yorker, I´ve seen its middle class population decline over the years due to its neglect of blue collar families which is ironic since this is a Democrat city. With the recent arrests of several local politicians for corruption perhaps New Yorkers will pay more attention to those they put in office. Given their past indifference in local elections this is highly unlikely.
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Remember little Anthony Freemont, played by cute little Billy Mumy, in one of the "Twilight Zone´s" most famous episodes? In the opening sequence Rod Serling informs us: "A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines -- because they displeased him -- and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages -- just by using his mind. . . . and the people there have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield
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Thatcher thought Britain
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Orange County Register (Ca), by Mark Steyn
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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