Wednesday Open Thread [10.24.12]

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"The truth is both sides are worried -- Team Obama is nowhere near as confident about its map as public statements suggest, and the Romney surge isn't as real (or relevant, given battleground-state polling) as Republicans are spinning. Yet it's that map that governs still -- national polls aside, the Romney surge hasn't spilled into the battlegrounds (particularly Ohio) enough to upend the race in Romney's favor, at least not yet."

Christine O’Donnell Defends Eric Bodenweiser, calls Indictment “Tacky.”

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WGMD has the audio of Christine O'Donnell's reaction to the Eric Bodenweiser indictmenet. Christine O'Donnell, mind you, is the presumptive GOP nominee to run against Sen. Chris Coons in 2014. Here is the transcript:
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL: That’s why these sort of, charges are so, are so, potent as political weapons because they put a seed of doubt in someone’s mind. If you do it as an October surprise there’s not enough time between when they throw the bomb on election day for the truth to really emerge and, um, it’s just, it’s tacky and it’s what happened to our political system.
This is the same woman whose campaign spread rumors about Mike Castle being gay. Seriously, Christine, shut the fuck up. You are the ultimate practitioner of what you call "tacky" politics. You and your tea party has been using lies, rumors, racism and innuedo since your arrival on the political scene. Further, this is not tacky. It is tragic. A Horror. And if these charges are true, Eric Bodenweiser is a monster that needs to be put away forever. Yes, forever. Until he dies in prison. Seriously, it is that freaking serious.

Lest There Be Any Doubt…

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I am not going back to Dover or anywhere else to work for the General Assembly or, for that matter, state government. In the past day, we at DL have had to moderate allegations from one poster that I've cut some sort of secret deal with candidates for me to get a job back in Dover. Not because of the allegations, which are false, but b/c this serial outer once again outs where I work. This person is not affiliated with the Cloutier campaign, the moribund DeLuca campaign, or any other campaign. He simply blames me, along with numerous other people in my community, for his own situation. Which is not true, but that's neither here nor there. He's done this many times before, and he's been moderated for it. My statement should be obvious to anyone who has read my work for the last four years or so. I've held nothing back as far as my opinions regarding what I believe is good and bad in state government.  I am neither delusional enough to believe that what I've written would be forgiven/forgotten, nor masochistic enough to want to work in that environment.

Twice Divorced Trump to make a big deal about an almost divorce?

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So weird-hair cut Birther King and small businessman Donald Trump, who has had numerous adulterous affairs throughout his life and has been thrice married and twice divorced, has a big announcement scheduled for this afternoon, and in his typical lampoonish style, Trump has described what he will announce as "bordering on gigantic," a story so big that it would "possibly" change the state of the election. And what is this annoucement? Well, according to the British tabloid, the Daily Mail, the announcement will concern the discovery by Trump of long lost divorce papers that Michelle Obama had drawn up back in 2000 after Barack lost a U.S. House race to Bobby Rush in 2000.

Monster Downballot Polling Report, with some Presidential numbers too [10.24.12]

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The latest Reuters/Ipsos tracking poll finds President Obama moving slightly ahead of Mitt Romney, as you will see below. However, Obama "maintains a larger advantage in the state-by-state battle that will determine the outcome of the election. Ipsos projects that Obama holds an edge in the most hotly contested states, including Florida, Virginia and Ohio, and is likely to win by a relatively comfortable margin of 322 electoral votes to 206 electoral votes." I wish more tracking polls released this kind of information so we can see where these leads for Romney in the other ones are coming from. We saw last week that Romney's entire lead comes from the South, where he leads Obama by 22%, while Obama lead in every other region with 52 or 53%. We have new state polls in New Hampshire, Florida, Virginia and Nevada, where it is a close race all around.