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The Reelection Of Barack Obama (A Poem)
Sunrise, seven November, the seventh day. Rest. Gumby, pushing sixty, Enters his yoga studio by the glass door, gliding slowly. Pokey, waiting in Corpse Pose, says, I voted Romney. Big Gum: I did too. At the back window A bat leaves its cave, circles tightly, … Continue reading →
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Hysterical (In The Crazed Sense) Election Night Tweets
__________ __________ ____________ Actually worse ones here.
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Catch-22s: Conservative David Frum On Where All The White People Have Gone–And Where They’re Going
One of the big riddles of the 2012 election cycle is lower white voter turnout. Why did it happen? Rush Limbaugh blames lower white voter turnout on Mitt Romney. By Limbaugh’s reckoning, Romney simply wasn’t conservative enough to fire up … Continue reading →
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What’s Next for Mittens?
Who cares? __________ I won’t miss him.
Hercules, Strangled Snakes, Nate Silver, and Karl Rove
In 1860, Thomas Henry Huxley wrote an essay titled, “The Origin of Species,” and a sentence from it seems apt to what happened last night with Barack Obama’s reelection: Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the … Continue reading →
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Twilight of the White Establishment?
Bill O’Reilly was pissed last night, blaming President Obama’s reelection on the old and tired chestnut that the poorer half of the voting public is parasitic on the richer half, and so voted for the guy promising the most free … Continue reading →
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The Inner Lives of Conservatives in Literature
When Mitt Romney loses the election today (as he almost certainly will), where in literature, aside from the Bible, might conservatives go to process that loss? James McGirk sees that processing coming most characteristically from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (1957). … Continue reading →
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Super Atrocious News for Mitt Romney
Oh crap. This comes from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight today: Mr. Obama led in four separate polls of Virginia on Sunday, three of which represented improvement from the prior polls issued by the same polling firms. Virginia has moved out … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michelle Obama, mitt romney, Nate Silver, Nevada, new hampshire, Ohio, paul ryan, Virginia
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Mitt Romney Caught On Tape Talking Honestly About His Mormonism And Jesus Reigning From Missouri
Recently posted on YouTube, the below video seems to be going viral. I actually find it refreshing–the real Mitt Romney, not knowing he’s being recorded, speaking his mind with uncensored combativeness. ___________ When he lets off some steam, Romney appears to … Continue reading →
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Romney Supporters Speak Their Minds
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If Romney Loses Ohio, He Must Win Pennsylvania
At FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver explains why Mitt Romney is making a last-minute play for Pennsylvania: absent Ohio, it’s basically his sole remaining (plausible) route to at least 269 electoral votes. In a nutshell, here’s how Romney, according to Silver, gets … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Colorado, Florida, Michelle Obama, mitt romney, new hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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Psst: Romney May Lose North Carolina
If true, this is a bad piece of late-breaking news for Mitt Romney. Concerning a weekend conference call, Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast reports the following: On a conference call Saturday, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said his team had … Continue reading →
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How You Know Mitt Romney Is Losing
Just have a look at where he’s scheduled to campaign on Monday, the day before the election. This is at the New York Times: Mr. Romney’s campaign officials said they were confident that he would win Florida. But they were … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barack Obama, Colorado, Florida, mitt romney, new hampshire, Ohio, paul ryan, Pennsylvania, rush limbaugh, Virginia
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Is There Method to Romney’s Madness?
In contrast with Barack Obama’s itinerary this weekend, Mitt Romney’s seems rather odd. Here’s the Washington Post this morning: Romney set off on a swing from New Hampshire to Iowa to Colorado and, on Sunday, to Pennsylvania. Romney is making an … Continue reading →
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“I’m Tired of Branco Bama and Mitt Romney”
A four-year-old responds to her mother (apparently a pollster): ___________ Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”: They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had … Continue reading →
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October Jobs Number: 171,000 Jobs Added
More good luck for President Obama with just days to go before the election. The October jobs number is 171,000. Nate Silver now has Obama’s chance of reelection above 80%. Should Romney lose, Marc Ambinder expects these to be among the … Continue reading →
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Obama Has the Luck of the Irish
Daniel Gross, a global business editor at Newsweek, explains: The U.S. economy, with its struggling jobs, housing, and auto sectors, were President Obama’s enemies through most of his term, and were poised to hammer him in the deciding weeks of … Continue reading →
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Errol Morris’s Interview Mini-Film, “Eleven Excellent Reasons Not to Vote?”
Errol Morris surveys attractive and trendy-looking 20-somethings about their voting attitudes.
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Is Hurricane Sandy Another “Let Them Go Bankrupt” Moment For Mitt Romney?
It certainly appears so. This is at the New York Times today: Most Americans have never heard of the National Response Coordination Center, but they’re lucky it exists on days of lethal winds and flood tides. The center is the … Continue reading →
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Romney vs. Obama Among Latinos: A 52-Point Gap
How does Mitt Romney find a route to the presidency if he is losing Latino voters with a 52-point gap? Here’s news on the most recent Latino Decisions tracking poll: 87% of Latino voters say they are almost certain they … Continue reading →
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