Archive for November, 2012

Nov 26 2012

How Bengazi Led To The Middle East Flare Up

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The 9-11 Terrorist attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya – which resulted in the murder of our Ambassador and the death of some of his security attachment – are the roots of the unrest we now see in the Palestinian areas surrounding Israel, in Syria and in Egypt. And expect this unrest to expand since the […]

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Nov 21 2012

I Choose: The Fiscal Cliff

Hard to believe this, but after a lot of thought I think the best path forward for this nation is to let Harry Reid and President Obama have their way and let sequestration go into effect. The Tea Party/Libertarian in me has concluded that another round of deficit spending and kicking the can down the […]

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Nov 16 2012

The Disaster That Was GOP GOTV On Election Day

Major Update: More pathetic details here: As the Web traffic from volunteers attempting to connect to Orca mounted, the system crashed repeatedly because of bandwidth constraints. At one point the network connection to the campaign’s data center went down—apparently because the ISP shut it off. “They told us Comcast thought it was a denial of […]

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Nov 07 2012

The Obligatory “You’ll Eat Your Crow And Like It” Post

One of the great things about blogging is when you have an epic face plant moment, you get to post about it the next day – no matter what. /sarcasm Amazingly, President Obama ran the table of swing states – taking all but North Carolina. Color me sadly stunned. I got none right, outside NC. […]

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Nov 06 2012

GOP Is Blowing It: Live Blogging The 2012 Election: 7 PM Eastern – Gut Check Time

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10:58 PM: So, clearly I should stay away from predicting elections. Good night all, better luck next cycle. 10:44 PM: CNN notes it is coming down FL, not Ohio. Not good for Romney Post Final Update: Karl Rove pulled me in off the ledge. I had done a county-by-county analysis of Ohio and Rove is right […]

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Nov 06 2012

Media Body Language

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Dialed in Fox News at 6 PM. Everyone up beat and positive. Dialed into MSNBC, Mathews looks like he is sitting a hemorrhoid. Now MSNBC is talking big, but I am not seeing it in the faces. Update: CNN not looking too perky either…. Update: Trick Or Treat Pollsters: I am hearing on Twitter that […]

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Nov 06 2012

Where Does Ohio Stand Going Into Election Day?

Edited at 3:00 & 3:07 PM Eastern, Updated 3:40 PM OK, I needed to get some confidence that Romney will win this thing, and so I took a look at the county-by-county tallies for Ohio’s early/absentee voting and did some analysis.  Due to the complexity and size of the spreadsheet I am not posting the […]

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Nov 05 2012

AJStrata’s Election Prediction

Major Update: Romney’s internal polls also confirm my predictions: Mitt Romney is ahead by a single percentage point in Ohio, according to internal polling data provided to MailOnline by a Republican party source. Internal campaign polling completed last night by campaign pollster Neil Newhouse has Romney three points up in New Hampshire, two points up […]

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Nov 05 2012

Even In Chicago, Obama Has Performance Issues

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Does anyone really think Obama has the Big Mo’ if he can’t even ignite his home town? According to the numbers, at this point in 2008, there were 260,376 early voters and 304,290 absentee voters. Now, the party maintains, there are 195,064 early voters and 46,232 absentee voters. That’s a loss of 57 percent of […]

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Nov 05 2012

Polling In An Alternate Universe Part Deux: The Acid Trip

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I plan to come out with my  predictions later today. Needless to say I have been waiting because I want to see Gallup’s last hurrah today before jumping in. But to be honest, after seeing the CNN poll today I am about ready to make Michael Barone look cautious: The poll, released earlier tonight, shows […]

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