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Elections matter Oct 25th 2012, 15:46 How different would the United States be today if Al Gore had ... well, if Al Gore had what in 2000? Oh yes, I remember. He won the popular vote and was on a possible (likely) path to victory in the Florida recount (Gore was gaining) when the Supreme Court preempted democracy, stopped the recount and awarded the presidency to Mr. Bush. Read full article >> Jonathan Bernstein: The 'momentum' myth Oct 25th 2012, 15:34 Republicans have been pushing hard this week to convince people that Mitt Romney is wrapping up the presidential election. Since he's not actually, well, leading, Romney partisans have relied on the idea that Romney has momentum: Even if he isn't actually ahead yet, he is certain to take a commanding lead any minute now. Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Obama out of time, out of trust Oct 25th 2012, 14:06 To no one's surprise, Colin Powell is endorsing President Obama, confirming that the stated excuse for his 2008 endorsement (his oh-so-grave disappointment in the selection of Sarah Palin as the VP candidate) was bogus. (It is also ironic that the author of the "Powell Doctrine" urging use of overwhelming force when the Unites States acts militarily should give thumbs up to the "leading from behind" president who has seen Libya turn into an al-Qaeda-ridden state). Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: The unmaking of a president, 2012 Oct 25th 2012, 13:26 There is nothing so revealing or, frankly, pathetic as the president of the United States, who has studiously avoided serious news interview shows, going on the Jay Leno show to tell women that Republicans don't understand that "rape is rape." It is a window into the mindset of a candidate and a campaign that is pulling its hair out over the gender gap and thinks the way to solve it is to treat women like quivering children. Read full article >> Greg Sargent: The Morning Plum: Colin Powell tells Americans they can't trust Romney Oct 25th 2012, 13:04 Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama this morning on CBS News has some obvious high points for the president. Powell strongly defended Obama's economic record, pointing out that Obama inherited an economy in free fall, and noting that we're "starting to gain altitude." That's important, since Obama has now pivoted to a stronger argument that we are in recovery (see the new minute-long ad making that case). Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Clinton brushes off e-mails, Senate staffers start investigation Oct 25th 2012, 12:45 Not surprisingly Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to brush off the discovery of three e-mails sent to the White House on Sept. 11, 2012, identifying the Benghazi, Libya, attack as terrorism. Meanwhile, Right Turn has learned that staffers on the Senate Homeland Security Committee are investigating. Read full article >> Ann Coulter credits non-Fox media (except NBC) Oct 25th 2012, 12:13 This sort of thing doesn't happen every day. In a discussion on "Hannity" last night, talker Ann Coulter and host Sean Hannity go deep on the recent e-mails showing that very early intelligence on Benghazi indicated involvement by an "Islamic militant group." Following such a revelation, you might expect a Coulter-Hannity colloquy to blast the media for having failed to properly hype such a story. Coulter, though, zagged: "I think it's worth saying the e-mail story is a big enough story that even the non-Fox media by and large is doing a pretty good job, not NBC." (H/T Mediaite) Read full article >> Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits Oct 25th 2012, 11:45 Never dare the media to find fault with you. They will. Never has there been a bigger contrast between a once idealistic candidate and a cynical incumbent president. "People are coming together. At the same time, I think in some respects they've diminished the President's campaign because he's now been reduced to talking about, you know, Sesame Street characters and word games and misplaced attacks on me. And he knows they're false, of course. So, you know, with four debates behind us, including the vice presidential debate, the President's been unable to find an agenda and to communicate an agenda and to defend an agenda." Read full article >> Obama couldn't lead Washington to a grand bargain if he wanted to Oct 25th 2012, 11:32 Americans like a bargain. Therefore, what could be better than a "grand" bargain? So in the 11th hour of the presidential campaign, the president says it is time for a grand bargain to tame the national debt. Read full article >> Anything on the Internet? Oct 25th 2012, 11:15 Is the internet becoming a big stupid mess? I think maybe. It certainly started out as a mess, a smallish one, and then got really big really fast. It has stayed a mess, which has always been a significant part of its appeal. But the days when it looked like a mess full of glorious possibilities seem like a fond memory to me. Now it's increasingly just a mess. A stupid one. What happened? Read full article >>

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