Thursday Open Thread [3.29.12]

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Full Circle from Callum Cooper on Vimeo.

I am going to miss the Republican primary polls when this clown show ends. First Read: “With Mitt Romney holding a sizable delegate lead and with more prominent Republicans (George H.W. Bush and Marco Rubio) formally endorsing the former Massachusetts governor, Tuesday’s GOP primary in Wisconsin is shaping up to be Rick Santorum’s last chance — in math and perception. If Romney wins Wisconsin, Santorum can’t stop him from getting to the magic number of 1,114 delegates, according to our math.”

A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds Mitt Romney trails President Obama by 19 points in popularity. Just 34% hold a favorable opinion of Romney as compared to 53% for Obama. Meanwhile, Romney’s 50% unfavorable score is higher than Obama ever has received; it’s been exceeded by just one other Republican candidate this year, Newt Gingrich, and by only one top candidate in 28 years, Hillary Clinton in 2008.

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Gallup Tracking): Romney 39, Santorum 28, Gingrich 11, Paul 11
NEBRASKA (PPP): Santorum 39, Romney 25, Gingrich 16, Paul 10
PENNSYLVANIA (Franklin and Marshall): Santorum 30, Romney 28, Paul 9, Gingrich 6

GENERAL ELECTION — PRESIDENT
NATIONAL (Suffolk University): Obama d. Romney (47-37).
NATIONAL (CNN/Opinion Research): Obama d. Romney (54-43); Obama d. Santorum (55-42)
NATIONAL (Rasmussen Tracking): Obama d. Romney (45-44); Obama d. Santorum (47-43)
ARKANSAS (Hendrix College/Talk Business): Romney d. Obama (57-33)
FLORIDA (Quinnipiac): Obama d. Romney (49-42); Obama d. Santorum (50-37)
NEBRASKA (PPP): Santorum d. Obama (55-38); Romney d. Obama (51-39); Paul d. Obama (49-37); Gingrich d. Obama (49-40)
OHIO (Quinnipiac): Obama d. Romney (47-41); Obama d. Santorum (47-40)
OHIO (Rasmussen): Obama d. Santorum (47-41); Obama d. Romney (48-40)
PENNSYLVANIA (Quinnipiac): Obama d. Romney (45-42); Obama d. Santorum (48-41)

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — U.S. SENATE
CONNECTICUT (McLaughlin and Associates for McMahon): Linda McMahon 53, Christopher Shays 32
PENNSYLVANIA (Franklin and Marshall): Tom Smith 9, Sam Rohrer 7, David Christian 1, Marc Scaringi 1, Steven Welch 1

GENERAL ELECTION — U.S. SENATE
MICHIGAN (Marketing Resource Group): Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) 45, Pete Hoekstra (R) 40
WISCONSIN (Rasmussen): Tommy Thompson (R) d. Tammy Baldwin (D) (48-44); Baldwin d. Mark Neumann (R) (48-40); Baldwin d. Jeff Fitzgerald (R) (48-40)
OHIO (Quinnipiac): Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) d. Josh Mandel (R) (46-36).
FLORIDA (Quinnipiac): Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) d. Rep. Connie Mack (R) (44-36).

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY — GOVERNOR
NORTH CAROLINA (PPP): Bob Etheridge 26, Walter Dalton 15, Bruce Blackmon 5, Gary Dunn 4, Bill Faison 3, Gardenia Henley 2

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY — GOVERNOR
NORTH CAROLINA (PPP): Pat McCrory 64, Jim Mahan 3, Jim Harney 2, Charles Moss 2, Others 2

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  1. John says:
    March 29, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    this is scary: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/03/hot-crowded-and-running-out-of-fuel-earth-of-2050-a-scary-place.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+Featured+Content%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

  2. Geezer says:
    March 29, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Sucks to be young and American. Glad I”m old.

  3. cassandra m says:
    March 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    Pennsylvania Senate votes to pass a law allowing direct shipments of wine into the state. This will have a tougher time in the PA House, but, c’mon Delaware, we need to legalize direct shipments of wine into the state!

    If you can bail out casinos, you can at least let the rest of us drown our sorrows appropriately. And it wouldn’t cost nearly as much as your casino bailout, either.

  4. SB says:
    March 29, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    its illegal to ship wine into de? oops…

  5. cassandra m says:
    March 29, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    Oops is right! 😉

    And I think NJ just passed a law allowing direct shipments too. Free the grapes!

  6. MJ says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    Allen West wins the asshat of the day award.

    On the “Laura Ingraham Show” on Thursday morning, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) attacked Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) for wearing a hooded sweatshirt on the House floor, calling the act “immature gimmickry…that does not have any place, especially on the House floor and, really, in the United States.”

    But the outspoken conservative congressman had nothing but dismissive words for Rush’s hoodie display. He seemed to agree with Ingraham’s description of the incident as “insanity,” and told her that Rush had alarmed the chamber’s security personnel.

    “Right now, the security folks there on the House floor are laughing about it. But initially, they did not know who it was and they were concerned that someone had just walked off of the street or kind of had broken away from a tour group,” he said.

    West jokingly suggested he would show up in hooded pajamas on the House floor to mock Rush in the future. “I’m thinking about a University of Tennessee big orange colored hoodie-footie,” he said, “and, you know, see if I can sneak by the security and get in there.”

    West must not pay attention to all of the US Capitol Police that are on patrol everyday, including the ones at the screening devices.

  7. John Manifold says:
    March 29, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    I realize we all have lives to live, but has anyone checked to see what kind of advertising [particularly local advertising] Rusty Limbo is attracting to WILM?

    I’d be quite interested in knowing if any local businesses are subsidizing hate speech.

  8. MJ says:
    March 29, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Earl Scruggs died.

  9. heragain says:
    March 29, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    YOUR CHANCE TO SEE CREATIONISM< CLOSE UP.

    http://hslda.org/athome/Home.aspx/event/1005

    Take advantage. Honestly, if you've never seen it in person, you cannot imagine.

  10. anon40 says:
    March 29, 2012 at 9:23 pm

    @heragain–

    “Mike and Patty homeschool their six children and reside in West Virginia.”

    That’s all I need to know about these people & their organization.

  11. Grin says:
    March 29, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    San Diego mayoral candidate leaves the republican party. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhfg9oXlZ0

  12. MJ says:
    March 29, 2012 at 10:29 pm

    Looks like someone is freeping the poll on Wagner.

  13. Jefferson says:
    March 30, 2012 at 7:52 am

    Conservatives losing faith in science; progressive and moderate support unchanged. http://news.yahoo.com/conservatives-losing-trust-science-study-finds-114401347.html

    No surprise here…but it is very disconcerting that the base of one of the two major parties is trending in such an anti-reason direction, not only regarding science, but other issues such as economics/deficit reductions with their fantasy belief that tax cuts increase revenues. Due to that in every cycle every Republican presidential candidate has to propose costly tax cuts that further dig our fiscal hole…

  14. Liberal Elite says:
    March 30, 2012 at 9:14 am

    @J “Conservatives losing faith in science”

    The similarities with the Taliban in Afghanistan is striking. The thinking is all the same, and very damaging to a nation when such people actually start running things.

  15. Jason330 says:
    March 30, 2012 at 9:34 am

    Part of the problem here is that reason based folks are too deferential to the superstition based wackos.

    It would be impossible to be elected to Congresses as a professed atheist. Similarly it should be impossible to be elected to Congress if you don’t believe the facts surrounding man made global warming.

  16. V says:
    March 30, 2012 at 9:40 am

    http://gawker.com/5897725/did-rick-santorum-almost-call-barack-obama-the-n+word

    Watch this tape, what’s happening here?

    Someone help me figure out what he meant to say? I can’t figure it out. It can’t be that. He’s awful and stupid but he’s not THAT awful and stupid.

  17. Jason330 says:
    March 30, 2012 at 9:43 am

    “anti-war, government ni___”

    nitpicker.

  18. Liberal Elite says:
    March 30, 2012 at 10:41 am

    @J “It would be impossible to be elected to Congresses as a professed atheist.”

    And here’s the best explanation that I’ve seen of that strange phenomena:
    “The Real God: An Epiphany”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8ZMMuu7MU

  19. Geezer says:
    March 30, 2012 at 10:56 am

    “Watch this tape, what’s happening here?”

    Paging Dr. Freud…Dr. Sigmund Freud, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

  20. John Manifold says:
    March 30, 2012 at 11:51 am

    Limbaugh offering discounted ad rates:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/limbaugh-sees-heat-over-comments-turn-down-to-a-simmer/2012/03/28/gIQAspEKhS_story.html

  21. V says:
    March 30, 2012 at 11:56 am

    is that a comment on me or santorum geezer?

  22. pandora says:
    March 30, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    I would say that Geezer’s comment is directed at Santorum, V.

  23. V says:
    March 30, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    OOOH i get it now. ugh, my brain’s on Friday Mode.

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