Did Anyone Notice…

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... How Romney got away without releasing his tax returns? Nice work from our free press. The question now is... is this just special Romney treatment, or are the days of politicians releasing tax returns gone forever. Also, too, I'm expecting politicians to start "not letting their campaigns be dictated by fact-checkers." Mitt Romney probably won't win tomorrow, but he may have actually brought "real change" to American politics.

Some Votes Count More Than Others

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Here's Politico yesterday:
If President Barack Obama wins, he will be the popular choice of Hispanics, African-Americans, single women and highly educated urban whites. That’s what the polling has consistently shown in the final days of the campaign. It looks more likely than not that he will lose independents, and it’s possible he will get a lower percentage of white voters than George W. Bush got of Hispanic voters in 2000. A broad mandate this is not.
So, if you don't win with non-urban, uneducated white men and married white women... No mandate for you.  Because some votes are more 'merican than others.  Josh Marshall says it best:  Or to be more specific, Obama’s winning but not with the best votes. I mean really, if you can’t win with a broad cross-section of white people, can you really be said to represent the country?

This Can’t Be True, Can It?

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Richard Williamson is Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy advisor, the guy who orchestrated Romney’s original effort to exploit the attack in Libya before it was even clear the US Ambassador had died. Now he’s saying that Romney will insist Obama “man up” and take responsibility for the Ambassador’s death at tonight’s debate.
There are two reasons why I think Mitt Romney wouldn’t dare try and pull this off. First, reports from people who were actually in Libya are citing the video as the initial reason they heard for the attack, and second… Mitt uttering the words man up? Yeah, that would sound natural. If I were Romney I’d tread carefully here. He already has parents of fallen embassy officials calling him out for politicizing this tragedy.

Not The Behavior Of A Winning Team

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Watch the video inside and tell me what Sununu hopes to accomplish. Seriously, what's the point?  Oh, I get the big ol' dog whistle, but what I don't get is why Sununu would go down this path after a supposed victory?  These are not the words of winners. Maybe, he just didn't want to be outdone by his buddy Newt.
“[Obama] really is like the substitute [National Football League] referees in the sense that he’s not a real president,” Gingrich told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Tuesday night. “He doesn’t do anything that presidents do, he doesn’t worry about any of the things the presidents do, but he has the White House, he has enormous power, and he’ll go down in history as the president, and I suspect that he’s pretty contemptuous of the rest of us.”

Tucker Carlson Is An Embarrassment

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"All that Carlson did is clip it to get an "angry black man" in the minds of Americans. It's at once one of the most desperate and lame and vile plays of the race card I can remember - an obvious recognition that the 47 percent tape can only really be countered emotionally with race-baiting. [...] Carlson used to be a brilliant writer. He's now a racist demagogue. He's a story in one person of how degenerate and disgusting much of American "conservatism" has become." This is all they've got left, folks.  Expect more of this: Breaking News!  Obama is an angry black man! I had actually hoped we'd moved beyond this crap.  Silly me.

Romney Relying On… Zingers?

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First, I have trouble envisioning Mitt Romney delivering a zinger.  Zingers work when they flow naturally.  Zingers work when your opponent plays the straight man/woman and gives you the opening. …

Romney Feeds His Own Negative Narrative On A Daily Basis

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I really have never seen anything like the Romney campaign.  Disaster is too mild a word.  If there's a misstep to be made, Romney makes it. And every single error, misstep, gaffe Romney makes confirms what the Obama Campaign has been saying all along. That's why the attacks/criticisms against Romney are resonating. Romney's hopelessly out of touch with average people - his social awkwardness (if you haven't seen Romney trying to get the crowd to chant his name here it is) isn't the least bit endearing; it's jaw-droppingly shocking.  Romney's compassion for people resembles a profit/loss analysis - there are simply groups (a whopping 47%) of people he's willing to write off.  And it's funny that a man who lacks compassion for the poor is resolute about humanizing corporations.