Lawrence O'Donnell To Obama: Ignore Scolding Media, Go After Romney On FEMA

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MSNBC's host of The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell, advised President Barack Obama's campaign to cut and air ads in swing states featuring Mitt Romney during the primary debates advocating for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to shift some of its responsibilities to the states. O'Donnell worried, though, that the media would accuse the president of exploiting the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy, even though that is the type of message that he feels voters need to hear ahead of next week's presidential election.

RELATED: MSNBC Panel Ponders Whether Hurricane's Political Impact Is Good For Obama, Bad For Romney

Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead said that, in the Republican primary debate in which Romney advocated for FEMA's responsibilities to be shifted to the states, that Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) argued that disaster relief should be the responsibility of local churches.

Winstead said that this clip would make a good pro-Obama argument as well, 'because we're not just talking about Romney, we're talking about the party that Romney would have to come in and wrangle in a Congress that is saying, 'the churches should be helping when all the power's down and the trees are down.''

'Is there enough time left for the Obama campaign to do a commercial with that video that you just showed,' said O'Donnell. 'The problem is there's this whole, kind of, dignity aftermath that you have to maintain so that you don't get accused of exploiting this kind of an event.'

'There is this video gold of Romney saying, if I was president now, my hope is that I'd be supplying you with nothing,' O'Donnell added. 'The idea that we would construct some kind of media notion of what is right that says, 'no, you must not remind people of that. You, the Obama team, must not do a commercial that goes into Virginia and reminds people of that.''

'The fact that he's couching it as a moral argument is perhaps the most distasteful aspect to all of it,' Alex Wagner noted.

'It's exactly the kind of thing that voters should know,' O'Donnell concluded.

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• MSNBC is no longer an actual news network but instead a 24-hour outlet for promoting liberal causes

• The GOP always thinks that government is bad, until they need it (e.g., Paul Ryan asking for stimulus money). For most people that would cause your head to explode, but for the GOP who lie about everything and have created a complete alternative universe to manage these dichotomies its just another day in the office.

• The media will likely rip Obama for whatever he does with Sandy. However if Romney and his many friends in the media are over the top trying to nail Obama on Sandy, then perhaps that is a good response.

  Not sure if that is a good offensive move though. I think both candidates better tread carefully on this.

• For a nation such as America to be without an agency like FEMA would be criminally negligent .

• The investigation of the facts and the dissemination of the truth promotes liberal causes.

• Noah has again chosen to lie.

  What Romney said was that it was 'immoral' to help disaster victims and that FEMA should be privatized so that corporations can profit off of natural disasters.

• True that 24/7 ALL OBAMA,ALL the TIME!
  @MSNBC has an AUDIENCE,but they are all sucking the CORRUPT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S TEEt,
  everyone ELSE turns off their PRO-OBAMA PROPAGANDA.
  I am amazed how SHAMELESSLY they ADVISE the BLOODY Administration.
  aka

  'MSNLSD' aka 'MSNassKISSIN aka @MSNBC Obama's MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA''-DISGUSTING, they will be a footnote in HISTORY related 2 the CORRUPTION of the SAUDI SUNNI ROYAL puppet Barry Obama the MT head.

• That and Romney's most recent lies concerning Jeep's moving its American production to China ought to be hung around his neck like a purulent albatross.

President Obama Addresses Hurricane Sandy, Implores Americans: Listen To Your Local Officials

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President Barack Obama spoke from the White House press room this afternoon to discuss the incoming Hurricane Sandy, pleading with Americans to heed the warnings of state and local officials regarding evacuations and preparations.

'This is going to be a big and powerful storm and all across the eastern seaboard I think everybody is taking the appropriate preparations,' the president said. 'We have prepositioned assets so that FEMA personnel are working closely with state and local governments. We're making sure that food and water and emergency generators are available for those communities that are going to be hardest hit.'

He then pleaded with Americans to heed their local officials' warnings: 'Please listen to what your state and local officials are saying. When they tell you to evacuate, you need to evacuate. Do not delay, do not pause, do not question the instructions that are being given because this is a serious storm and it could potentially have fatal consequences if people haven't acted quickly.'

Echoing similar warnings from east coast state governors, the president then mentioned what can go wrong if people refuse to evacuate: 'If you are not evacuating when you've been asked to evacuate, you're putting first-responders at danger. We'll have to have search-and-rescue teams in and around multiple states all at the same time. Although we've got Coast Guard and Department of Defense all positioned, if the public's not following instructions, that makes it more dangerous for people and it means that we could have fatalities that could have been avoided.'

Following his remarks, a reporter managed to ask the president whether he believes this storm will affect next week's election.

'I am not worried at this point about the impact on the election,' replied Obama. 'I'm worried about the impact on families and I'm worried about the impact on our first responders. I'm worried about the impact on our economy, and on transportation. The election will take care of itself next week. Right now our number one priority is to make sure that we are saving lives.'

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Lindsay Lohan Renames Hurricane Sandy, Advises Everyone To Chill Out And 'Pray For Peace'

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Have no fear because Lindsay Lohan says everything is going to be okay.

As much of the east coast awaits the worst of Hurricane Sandy, Georgia Rule actress LiLo is apparently totally calm, having advised her Twitter followers last night to '[t]hink positive and pray for peace':

After retweeting a New York Daily News tweet about the thousands of flight cancellations Sandy has caused, the celebrity on went on to amend the name to 'Hurricane Sassy':

The New York City subway system shut down Sunday night in preparation of Sandy, and governor Andrew Cuomo said the really bad part is ahead:

'The worst is still coming. Don't be fooled. Don't look out the window and say, 'Well, you know, it doesn't look so bad.' Citizens have a duty. They need to be smart, they need to use common sense. Citizens do not need to be on the road, You really don't. Leave the roads free.'

Meanwhile, certain sections of lower Manhattan are already underwater, thousands have evacuated, many are without power, and Sandy is expected to remain strong through the beginning of the week.

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Andrew Sullivan To ABC: If Romney Wins Florida And VA, It's The 'Confederacy'

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During this Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week, Daily Beast writer Andrew Sullivan claimed that if Republican nominee Mitt Romney wins back Florida and Virginia in the upcoming 2012 presidential election, especially due to the white vote, then the South's electoral map will look exactly like the pro-slavery United States Confederacy during the Civil War.

This observation came in response to host George Stephanopoulos noting that the latest polls show that six out of ten white Americans intend to vote for Romney.

PBS reporter Gwen Ifill said that 'we can't ignore' the possible factor racial animus may play in deciding the election, noting that the poll indicates that, on some level, people are still willing to admit 'racial bias.'

Sullivan then added: 'If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it's the Confederacy. Entirely. You put a map of the Civil War over this electoral map, you've got the Civil War.'

Conservative panelist George Will rolled his eyes. 'I don't know,' said a skeptical Ifill.

Will then posited two possible explanations for Obama's slippage in the white vote since 2008: 'A lot of white people who voted for Obama in 2008 watched him govern for four years and said, 'Not so good. Let's try someone else.' The alternative, the 'Confederacy' hypothesis is that those people somehow, for some reason in the last four years became racist.'

'That's not my argument at all,' replied Sullivan. 'It's the southernization of the Republican Party. [Virginia and Florida] were the only two states in 2008 that violated the Confederacy rule.'

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• 'host George Stephanopoulos noting that the latest polls show that six out of ten white Americans intend to vote for Romney.'
  Yeah, here's a question: Do people need to be taught U.S. Government again? The election is not held as a popular vote but by the Electoral College. How about instead of polling ALL Americans, why not poll the Americans in the swing states? That sounds more productive.

• PBS reporter Gwen Ifill said that 'we can't ignore' the possible factor racial animus may play in deciding the election, noting that the poll indicates that, on some
  level, people are still willing to admit 'racial bias.'

  Of course there is racial bias. On both sides. Over 95% of blacks will vote for Obama. Surely not all have been spurred on by the job he's done.

• Sully has the vapors again. Romney needs a lot more than Virginia and Florida, if that was a point he was alluding to as well. And Sullivan also forgot about North Carolina.

  Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' helped Republicans win the White House the majority of the last 44 years but it will also be the death of that party.

• I believe you meant This Week, Meet the Press is on NBC.

• Truth hurts, huh'. John Sonunu lines of Obama being 'lazy', 'not american', and racial notion behind Colin Powell choosing Obama.

  I am happy finally somebody is saying something about it but I think voters will also sick of this and war on women.

  This might be the last election whites have the majority power because of growing of minority population, increasing growth of women in workplace, and liberal policy acceptance for gays.

• another unhinged liberal

• About the same numbers in which they voted for Clinton

• Blacks began voting overwhelmingly Democratic during FDR's terms in office. The Civil Rights era with Kennedy and Johnson cemented the bond.

• Kentucky and Indiana were never part of the Confederacy, their concern is Obama's neglect of the economy.

• No George '''Whites in those states who didn't vote in 2008 will vote in 2012 . For republicans this election has ALWAYS been about turning out the white vote. It sure as hell wasn't about reaching out to any minority group

• And The Obama Re-Election Campaign Of Fear Rolls On !!
  Forward !!

• Indiana is in there own time machine

• well prove him wrong? These are the 'taker' states with working conditions thats almost Second World in nature.

• Not a word about Obama's 'african american's for Obama' campaign though. Go figure!

• Have you been to South Chicago/Cleveland lately?

• research history folks..Those southern states are the old slave states and the same states democrats controlled up until recently'''

  The southern states 'most racist' during slave days. most racist during Jim Crow, Most racist in the 50's and 60's '.

  BUT now all of a sudden since REPUBLICANS control those states they aren't racist anymore ???

  This country elected 43 WHITE MEN in a row for president (with whites as the majority of voters)

  IWe all know that whites are comfortable with one of their own in the White house'

  The GOP'S base are 1950's and 60's democrats'..

• Hey he stole that from me Ive been saying that on mediate for days now. It is true that map does look like a civil war map with the exception of indiana. And if you think about it Virginia being that floater is similar as well. Many Virginias fought for the North. I think anyone who doesn't see race involved in this is foolish. The south hasn't been popular for democrats in many elections. But I can guarantee that any democrat in the the past got more votes from the south than Obama will get.

• Did Stephanopoulos also note, that ten out of ten black Americans, intend to vote for Obama, if they vote at all?

• The south will raise again voters are voting for the WHITE guy

• Kentucky and West Virginia are also the exceptions to this idea.

• Well to be fair, this is a highly divided country, and that's done on purpose. Divide and conquer is one of the most effective ways to wage war, and that's exactly what the Republican and Democratic machine is doing: waging war against the people of the United States.

• It's not an exact match, but Sullivan didn't state that it was. But damn, if you look at a color coded Civil War map (Union/Blue vs Confederacy/Red) next to a 2012 Electoral College map, with Virginia and Florida swinging red, then by golly, you have to look pretty darn close to find the difference.

  Oh, but heh, it's just a coincidence, right Jefferson Da' er ' Mitt Romney?

• Who does the booking for this show?

  Guests on This Week: Van Jones, Maher, Herr Olbermann, this guy?

  This little weirdo says he's a Republican. Sure.

  I can claim to be a kangaroo.

  This does not make me a kangaroo.

• Not that his point isn't valid ' but Andrew Sullivan would have made a much more valid point if he had referred to the GOP as the 'states rights' crowd and brought up the origins of their 'Southern Strategy' ' before using the word 'Confedearcy'.

  It's mostly about race ' but it's not JUST about race. These people strongly believe in local government (where they can control their backwards social customs and discriminatory practices) and are as equally ardent that a strong central government is EEEEVIL ' except during hurricanes.

  He has the right idea, and speaks the truth ' he just didn't express it too well.

• Yes, but a very lame one,

• Hey Andrew, welcome to the southern state of Wisconsin':)

• Not a word about African-Americans against Willard in reaction to the disdain he showed at the NAACP convention.

• Gore Got 95 percent of the black vote, Kerry 93 percent

• Reagan and Bush in 1988 were able to win huge majorities with winning 60% of the white vote. Mitt Romney is struggling to find a way to 270 this year with near the same support among white voters. You'd think that would sober the Republicans up somewhat but it hasn't.

• In 2008 he had an opponent who would shoot down false and ugly claims. In 2012 we have one that appeases the hatred and has people running around stoking it.

• 95% and also note

  Gore Got 95 percent of the black vote, Kerry 93 percent

  open your eyes

• Maybe Andrew Sullivan would like to explain why Obama lied about Benghazi because he was in the White House situation room in real-time and refused back-up help request three times? And thus his decision effected the murder of these four American.

  'Lt. Col. Tony Schafer told Fox News that sources were telling him that the President was watching the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in real-time.

  Schafer told Fox that 'only the President' could have ordered backup for the Americans who were under siege by terrorists so the President was most certainly informed of the situation as it was unfolding.

  'I hate to say this,' Schafer said, 'according to my sources, yes, [the President] was one of those in the White House situation room in real-time watching this.

  And the question becomes, 'What did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling?' He ' only he ' could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something.' '

• Repent sinner!

• Kentucky was a border state. Kansas was actually for the union. Don't know how many people actually lived out there then. But I do know like Missouri there was a lot in fighting going around. West Virginia didn't break away till 1863 correct? Plus for being a blue collar state they never vote democrat anymore anyway. Whoever promises to dig the most coal with the least regulations wins and thats always gonna be the republicans.

• You should have watched the whole show.

• The 'white' population makes up 75 percent of the electorate and as such will be the majority for the lifetimes of most everyone currently alive. Women are the majority sex and that isn't likely to change anytime soon. I have no idea what you are trying to say with your reference to the liberal policy acceptance for gays as it pertains to whites.

• Ignoring Benghazi will not make it go away. The White House stonewall is crumbling, MSM or not.

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  What kind of deviant, miscreant, morally bankrupt cretin tells my teenage daughter that voting for him is the same as losing your virginity?

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  Did any of us realize how perfectly apropos Eastwood's empty chair would turn out to be? No one was in control on 9/11/12. #Benghazi

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  #Benghazi is what happens when you send a community organizer to do a man's job. #tcot #NOBAMA #NoMoreCoverUps

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  On November 7, regardless of the election outcome, the U.S. House needs to begin investigating and considering articles of impeachment

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  Apparently, a hurricane justifies canceling campaign events, but a 9/11 terrorist attack does not.

  Nice Deb '@NiceDeb
  Video: Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer's Sources Say Obama was in the Situation Room Watching Benghazi At' http://wp.me/p4OSU-e0B #tcot

• Sullivan is fairly conservative on many issues including a flat tax, limited government, opposition to a 'welfare state', and he was a supporter of Bush until he totally f*cked things up in Iraq and started torturing people.

• People in the south are more anti Mormon than they are anti black.

• Thank you Ryan Seacrest.

• We're not operating in a vacuum here. Often when talking with friends someone will make the comment that they can't understand how any self-respecting black person/gay person/woman/minority could vote for the Republicans. This is not because the Democrats are so good, but because the Republicans are so bad. It would wear on anybody to be in a party in which people are constantly putting you down in subtle and overt ways. As a Green, I wish some of these people would come over to us, but most people still think along the lines of the two major parties. It's attrition. If Republicans don't want people leaving their party, stop insulting them all the time.

• Oh, God. She's quoting an online poll. Uh-huh.

• I am watching this now so your damn fast in reporting! what was said is true the entire argument I hear from Floridian seniors is totally racially motivated and form the same women who will loose there assisted living center beds when Rmoney cuts medicaid. Blows me away that in importance getting the token out of the white house is paramount! oh and their opinion of the First Lady is pretty bad too! apparently she is uppity! I cant wait to leave this backwoods state!

• Gee it couldn't be because Obama has been a horrible president, the economy sucks, he seems detached, he doesn't work anymore (except campaign), his campaign is totally negative (something he railed against in 2008), he admitted he cant change things in Washington, said if he couldnt turn around the economy by the end of the first term it would be one and done, he doesnt know how to work across the aisle and basically seems like he is out of ideas and has not agenda for the next four years. No instead its racism even though he's half white, was raised by white people, and was elected by a majority white vote in 2008.

• Romney has had Sununu, Palin, Limpballs, Hannity, Trump all out playing the dog whistle to white men'He didn't have to get his hands dirty, while still putting out the message'Whether President Obama wins or not, the disrespect this man has been shown is mind blowing'From the start of his Presidency, the republicans felt like they could say anything about this man, this President, without being challenged'.and they did'.From yelling out, 'you Lie' during the State of the Union, questioning him to death about his birth certificate, him being accused of 'shuckin & jivin''.and stopping any programs they thought might advance the economy, but yet help the President'they chose to go against the economy'.If a man that has flip flopped as much as Romney wins, it says terrible things about our country, not just the economy..It will make me doubt what this country is really about for the future and the people'..Get out and vote if the future means anything to you'..

• Did they talk about Benghazi or did the media cover for Obama again? Carly Fiorina tried to on Meet the Press but Lurch actually cut her off. New youtube video on Obama ignoring Bengazi:

  3AM ' Obama didnt answer the phone.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ROAMVH9JA&feature=youtu.be

  Four years ago American's were asked, 'Who do you want in the White House when the phone rings at 3:00 AM?' On Sept. 11, 2012 the phone rang at 3AM with news that the American consulate in Benghazi Libya was under attack, but President Obama didn't answer it. He flew to Las Vegas for a personal campaign fundraiser. The American ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in the attack, largely the result of the significant reduction in security forces protecting the embassy and staff. The Obama state department had cut these security forces just weeks earlier, despite requests from security officials and the ambassador to increase security leading up the anniversary of 9-11.

  In the days and weeks following the attack, Obama and his people lied about the attackers, the cause of the attack, and their culpability for reducing security. A concerted coverup on the scale of Watergate followed by the administration and even in the main stream media.

• Ah yes, the must ballyhooed 'Southern Strategy', or as I like to call it, the 'Complete and Utter Myth'. This 'Southern Strategy' meme is a BS fantasy, a scary story that liberals tell each other around campfires. In 1968 Nixon lost Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Arkansas. All were won by George Wallace. Nixon actually came in third behind Wallace AND Humphrey in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. In 1972 Nixon won every state in the union except Massachusetts, so I guess that year he employed his 'Entire Country Strategy'? In 1976 Jimmah won every state of the Confederacy, so I guess the Republicans botched the 'Southern Strategy' only 8 years after coming up with it. In 1980 we have another landslide so I guess Reagan dusted off Nixon's 'Entire Country Strategy' and decided to use it since the Southern one didn't work so well in the last election. Even so he lost Georgia and barely won Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. 1984, landslide time and Reagan again wasted the laborious efforts of Nixon in coming up with the 'Southern Strategy' and just decided to win the whole damn country. Its only beginning in 1988 that we see some consistent Republican wins in the South, curiously right around the time old, segregationist Democrats began dying off.

• Sullivan is a total moon bat i watched this morning flipping through the channel' Usually stay away from a clinton administration show on ABC that is termed 'objective' and all the questions i saw by snuffalufigas were leaning against Romney , the panel had to conservatives and 4 lefties.. and the show is a joke'. but this guy , the same guy who was suicidal after the first debate' he makes Ed Shultz look like a reporter'

• You guys are really obsessed with this. I really don't think you have any idea what you are setting yourself up for if Romney becomes president and if and when attacks occur on his watch. I think you really don't.

• Three people evidently do not agree with reality.

• He was part of the sane Republican party until the lunatics took over. That's why he's upset as well he should be!

• All those kids that thought it would be cool to have a Black President are now out of College and think it would be cool to have a job in a good economy.

  From April to July 2012, the number of employed youth 16 to 24 years old rose 2.1
  million to 19.5 million, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This
  year, the share of young people employed in July was 50.2 percent. (The month of
  July typically is the summertime peak in youth employment.) Unemployment among youth
  increased by 836,000 from April to July 2012, compared with an increase of 745,000
  for the same period in 2011. (Because this analysis focuses on the seasonal changes
  in youth employment and unemployment that occur each spring and summer, the data are
  not seasonally adjusted.)

• Put your airbrush away Scott. It's already in the history books.

• You do recall the President inherited an economy that was on the brink of total collapse and the worlds economy was worse than ours right? Working with republicans who vetoed everything he did but pee, how much do you think he could really accomplish. I think what he's done boarders on remarkable given all the republican obstruction he's faced. Even Romney said he hoped the President would fail, why aren't republicans for all Americans?

• I love having a British nut talk about the Civil War. That was an ugly, difficult period in our history and to just assert that the 'old confederacy' still exists in FL and VA is silliness. Obama won both states in '08. Further, there has been a great deal of demographic movement in the south. Many have moved form the 'rust belt' down south and from other parts of the country. The confederacy hypothesis is as stupid as it is offensive.

• Not exactly. While it's true 74% of the people who voted in 2008 were white, their share of the overall electorate is somewhat inflated by minority under-voting, particularly among Hispanics and Asians who didn't even vote at a 50% rate. Blacks voted in nearly the same numbers as whites (around 66%).

  If these minority groups start voting more than it could well be the majority of voters aren't white in the very near future, perhaps in as little as 20 years. To give you an idea what kind of change that is, in 1980 nearly 90% of voters were white.

• Clearly Sullivan's meds are affecting his rational thought capabilities. It's sad to see such a formerly brilliant mind become clouded with such drivel. Perhaps it is early dementia.

• If Romney becomes president, cuts security on 9/11 to a highly volatile, strategic middle east location, US heros are slaughtered and then tries to cover it up because it wont look good for his re-election campaign I will be just as critical of him. I dont think you 'guys' realize what a big deal this is, Obama approval ratings down 7pts in a few days. Thank God for Fox and alternative media for keeping us informed about the incompetence and cover up of this story.

• Yes they have always been the most racist part of the country but apparently race has nothing to do with how they vote anymore. Makes complete sense lol. I find it amazing that people like Will can argue that very few people in the south vote based on race. Look who they have down there as senators, congressman and so forth. They have had 6 african american representatives in congress in 90 years.

• Tina Brown has just announced that our boy Andy will star in a new series on BeastTV, called My Favorite Drama Queen! Imagine the laughs, tears and, well, melodrama that Andy can cook up, on the spur of the moment: this Reality Show will break new ground! The new show will premier on November 6th 2012, just in time for the elections. What will Andy say? Oh, the possibility of the Sullivan free association!
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• No you wont. You just wont. I will guarantee you will be on here defending him no matter how many americans get killed. Just as your side defended Bush and Reagan when far more Americans were butchered by terrorist. Im tired of arguing this. If mistakes were made it will come out. Mistakes are made in every administration. Obamas have been far fewer than Bushs or Reagans and he has kept Americans safer. You just cant accept it.

• NOT exactly accurate and Candidate Cain pointed that out~'ten out of ten black Americans, intend to vote for Obama, if they vote at all''its more like'(9-out of 10) 95% of those Black Americans, if they vote at all, and have VOTED for Other White Candiates in the same numbers!

• Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective. Look it up.

  Do you think it's possible that black people vote for democrats because the republiklan party is openly hostile to their interests?

• Why? Where has the most traditionally racist part of the country been since this country began? It was racist during the civil war. It was racist during the civil rights era. It was racist during Jim crow. Now no one down there votes based on race? Your living in fantasy land.

• I wish I could share your post with every low info voter in Ohio so they could know how you really think. No one wants to OPENLY associate with the KKK.

• Hmmm, that may NOT be so accurate'.Romney taking those States, with a Florida/Colorado or Florida Iowa, would just about do it~~or just maybe a 269-269 Split and Romney/Biden Administration!

• Oh yeah, try to rent a house if your accent over the telephone sounds coloured .

• How the hell is this guy given a spot at the table of political discourse. He makes Glenn Beck look sane.

• And Obama's campaign has ALWAYS been about turning out blacks and Latinos. So what's your point?

• Do you mean that West Virginia broke away from the confederacy to join the Union? Because it was part of Virginia during the early part of the civil war. I am not quite sure I would call Kansas as for either side, as the fighting there broke out before the war even started in 'Bleeding Kansas' in the late 1850's.

• Yea west virginia broke away. And yea im not sure you could call Kansas for either side either. But didn't the north have companies of soldiers under the kansas banner?

• Sure MODERATE '.because under WHITE presidents college student have NEVER had to worry about finding a job right ?? ModerateTeaBag'' you come on Mediaite with your Fox Nation, The Blaze talking points and think no one will notice them.

  WTF does having a black president have to do with not being able to find a job after college ???? That logic assumes that UNDER WHITE presidents college students CAN find jobs''.

  Btw'..if you cant find a job in your field clearly you didn't pick a field that was in demand long term'.and you clearly didn't have a backup plan..

  But ohh no '..dont blame your bad choices 'blame the first black president

• And you would think white people leaving the Democrats in droves would sober the Democrats.

• lol you found u another fast andd furious didnt ya ?? DONT LET A DEATH go to waste scumbag

• No one cares '..idiot

• It is stunning that #Benghazi is not getting big coverage. People are raging about President Obama's bungling of the whole affair on Twitter. Good Americans are demanding answers about the murder and aftermath of four Americans from their current leader. But Obama will go on MTV and talk hip hop with Sway. I can't wait until this vile, disgusting, incompetent man is not re-elected. We'll be such a better nation under Mitt Romney.

• what i also tried to say is that Republicans have turned off minorities to the point that 75% to 99% vote for democrats while whites go 50-50 split. On top of that Latinos will become a powerful voting block.

  Get ready for Texas becoming blue soon. That's 40+ electoral votes.

  Now, women issues are becoming a huge voting block as more woman are working than before including making up larger percentage in medschools and law schools

• I hope the media keeps this theme going. People don't like being called racist. There are very few people who feel any conscious, reconizable sense of malice toward people of other races. It just makes people on the fence feel resentful'and whom are these undecided voters likely to hold responsible for this assault on their character? Not Romney.

• It's expected and requires no uncomfortable analysis.

• And Reagan got the highest percentage of white vote in a election ever'' ..against a white opponent ' Funny the only thing Michael Dukakis and Obama have in common are they're both liberal hacks.

  Democrats keep trotting out your favorite boggyman , racism'
  Democrats can try to win dividing up the public into client groups, women, gays, blacks, Hispanic, college kids.. The media doesn't find that destructive to the country, because it helps democrats win.

  Blacks, Hispanics can vote monolithically for one party ,that they think is best for their RACE, but whites have to be divided'. To be conquered, and if whites don't follow the script , liberal hacks on TV will call them racist.

  A actual article on Politico'. 'The white vote still matters''. Who knew that a country 70% white , that their vote would still mattered.

• So Sununu makes a charge that Colin Powell supports Obama merely because he is Black and get lambasted by the press. However if states that went for Obama in '08 go red it is because racism. I mean the media doesn't even bother being fair.

• The Romney/Republican/Tea Party agenda is to crash the economy, setting the
  stage for a genocidal race war of ethnic cleansing of the USA. The ability to
  crash the system was already tested in 2008 ' and shown to be easily doable.
  Given that 4 out of 5 repubs (79%) already 'express racial prejudice', according
  to a study just issued (10/27) by Associated Press & Stanford University '
  and with the legions of stormtropper uneducated teapartyites in tow ' this
  scenario would play out if the repubs win the election, which would also give
  them control of the military.

  Jon Hubbard, a currently elected repub in Arkansas, in his published book (available on Amazon), outlines the need in his view to exterminate, through planned wars, all who are not white and christian. Romney's stated planned policies of tight money by changes at the Fed, ballooning deficits by taxcuts, higher interest rates, trade wars with
  China et al, deregulation of Wall Street so the banks can blow up again but with
  no safeguards, militarism, etc, are designed to orchestrate the collapse and set the stage for race genocide. Once the economy is decimated, melts down and ceases to function, the scapegoating of nonwhites and jews will spiral into high gear to accomplish this objective, and the racial hysteria will boil over just as in 1930s Germany during the depression.

  No new human being has evolved since the numerous cases of mass genocide in the past century and before. If the conditions exist ' as they do now ' it will happen.

  That's the only real Romney platform.

• Yeah but the black voter turnout and approval ratings (95%? Really?) are the smoking gun here. By the way, I don't blame blacks for voting for Obama. I voted for him too in 2008 in no small part because of the historic opportunity and the potentially positive impact of his election on our society.

• I think the Republican Party is wise to disregard the black vote. There's nothing really it can do short of selling its soul to get it. And what would be the point? To pander to key Democratic constituencies that it will never get anyway? To be sure, the GOP sucks in its own special way. But if it wants to win the White House again, it needs to concentrate on the issues of concern to the majority of white voters. Politics is tribal warfare. The Right fails to recognize at the expense of white people.

• Why do idiots like Sullivan get away with pointing to racism when the white vote is close to split on the two candidates, but blacks vote over 95% for the black candidate? How on earth ' beyond the lack of even a modicum of reasoning ability ' can the morons on the left claim that a lot of us don't like Obama just because he's black? Seems clear to me that the race issues come from the left. Cuz that's all they're got. 'Don't look at his record ' nothing to see there ' but if you don't vote for the black guy, you're a bigot'. How incredibly small minded.

• The only raging is by the right wing echo chamber. Nothing new.

• I forgot about the Senate selecting the VP. Wouldn't that be a joy?

• The truth is that when race is a factor in the black vote, it is out of self defense, moreso than racial animus. We never have the votes at 13% of the population to kick white skin out of office, even if we wanted to do so. It's never an issue. We don't talk about taking the country back, because it has never been an option. whites do, for no other reason than the visual.Otherwise white democrats wouldn't pull 90-95% of the black vote either.

  Let's put the shoe on the other foot. How many white Americans would actually vote for a black candidate who believes that the white man is the physical son of satan and cursed by god almighty with white skin? Not many, right? Don't get caught up in seeing equivalence that really isn't there.

• Democrats win the UNMARRIED female vote. I know the media likes to imagine an army of smart, career women in crisp business suits defending the right to control their own bodies but the reality is its a bunch of unwed mothers basically voting for their stand-in husbands'i.e. the government.

• Those are the polls that Fox relys on; where they can conveniently delete unwanted responses.

• Sullivan promoted a book called The Bell Curve which is a defense of race science that states that whites are predetermined to be more intelligent based on genetics, and he has the audacity (of hope) to call people who don't vote for Obama, racists?

  A Readers Guide To Andrew Sullivan's Defense Of Race Science
  http://gawker.com/5863453

  When Obama loses the election next week, I really hope these people go away for awhile.

• You're nit-picking. Kentucky was a slave-owning state and Indianas kkk elected a governor. If their concern was the economy, they wouldn't keep sending people to Washington who helped wreck it in the first place.

• I think the left is saying look at his record. It aint half bad, and far better than the last president. So why aren't you voting for him? Thats why they feel race is involved. Look Kevin I talk to a lot of white guys, im white. Im a cop. When I ask them what they dislike about Obama(and most of them dislike Obama) they cant articulate anything. Some say gas prices(which is crap). Anyone who looks at the last 4 years compared to the Bush years and feels Obama has done a poor job compared to that mess is not being realistic and is voting against Obama for other reasons. I don't know if its Race, or they just don't like him personally or what but most of the guys I talk to cant really articulate anything.

• I wonder why? The way the GOP is going it will soon be 10 out of 10 Women.

• Devon I swear you change your prediction for the election every day:)

• The Grand Wizard Limbaugh and Beck say no, they love them some black peoples, just not as equals or Americans. Same story, different day; the GOP is a cult of hate and fear ' and idiocy. I wish the former moderate Republicans all the luck, they're pal'ing around with idiots for party sake, they need to jump ship for the country's sake!

• This is different. Moderate people are truly upset by Obama's failings regarding Benghazi. There is a simmering rage. There should be. Obama doesn't believe it, but American people across the political spectrum will hold him accountable in 9 days.

• The Republicans do.

WATCH LIVE: 'Frankenstorm' Hurricane Sandy Approaches East Coast

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Hurricane Sandy is currently barreling towards the east coast. Expected to make landfall somewhere between Southern New Jersey and Maryland, experts estimate the storm will bring millions of dollars worth of damage.

While everyone is shacked up in their homes, hopefully staying safe and dry, here are several live feeds of video as the storm affectionately known as 'Frankenstorm' (except at CNN).

Via U-Stream comes this live stream of hurricane coverage:

And below is the official LiveStream NYC camera from atop the company's HQ:

And from WUSA in DC, a live feed from the nation's capital:

Newt Gingrich Says To 'Get Over' Mourdock's Rape Comment: Something Every Catholic Believes

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During his Sunday interview on ABC's This Week, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich defended GOP senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock's controversial comment that pregnancies resulting from rape is 'something that God intended' and thus no abortion exceptions for rape should be made.

When asked about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's endorsement of Mourdock and the relative lack of Republicans condemning the rape remarks, Gingrich said: 'If you listen to what Mourdock actually said, he said what virtually every Catholic and every fundamentalist in the country believes: Life begins at conception.'

Host George Stephanopoulos pushed back, clarifying that Mourdock's comments implied that 'as horrible as it may be,' the rape and the resulting conception were part of God's plan. 'Do you agree with that?' he asked.

'[Mourdock] also immediately issued a clarification saying that he was referring to the act of conception and he condemned rape,' Gingrich shot back.

'This is nonsense. Every candidate I know, every decent American i know condemns rape, okay?' an irritated Gingrich continued. 'So why can't people like [Obama adviser] Stephanie Cutter get over it? We all condemn rape.'

Watch below, via ABC:

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• The Liberal Democrats have intentionally smeared and distorted Mourdock. It's the life of the child to which he was referring. It would be nice if the life of the child was discussed in these instances. Newt is right, everyone condemns rape.

• An old white guy telling a younger white woman on national tv to 'get over it' regarding a controversial statement about rape. Yeah, that plays well.

  Newt Gingrich is an effective campaign surrogate. For Barack Obama.

• WOW misleading headline of the year

• well Mr Newt '.if that baby is a product of RAPE or incest do u wanna force the woman to give birth to that baby or can she abort it ???

  God gave us free will '. With that free will we can do something as bad as kill the baby inside of us in the 8th month '

  Did GOD make a mistake giving us free will ?? Clearly republicans think he did

• The GOP just keeps wanting to give Obama more fodder, it seems. Huh.

• Gingrich is an arrogant, sanctimonious, hypocritical, self-serving, condescending, race-baiting, misogynistic, hyperbole-spewing, morally-bankrupt and ethically-barren scam artist and master lobbyist ' making him the ideal spokesperson to represent the principles, values, and political agenda of the modern Republican Party.

• We are sooooooooooooo over you Newt''''.but you know that.

• Here's the problem: No one's trying to say Mourdock likes rape. But maybe, just maybe, people are offended by the idea that a woman should be required to carry the child of their rapist.

• Newt hasn't talked to the Catholics in the pews. The overwhelming sentiment is 'I myself would not have an abortion EXCEPT for rape , incest or life of the mother. AND I would never tell anyone else what to do.

• Wow, double down Mitt and Gingrich! Are there any women that seriously think so little of themselves to vote for these morons? Once again, the Republicans act as though they speak for God ' once again, they're using hate and fear to do it.

• How do you smear what the moron said? You people are the dumbest group of Americans in our history ' and you just deny, deny, deny and lie, and lie, and lie'Willingly ignorant.
  What kind of visitation does your rapist parent get?

• You mean the child who after it is born will be a part of Romney's 47 %.
  According to Romney.

• I am a family values guy.I left my wife for another woman,and I was banging my secretary while my wife was dying of cancer.I asked for a divorce while she was in sick bed.It's what every catholics believe,get over it.

• God sends the rapist to deliver the child. A child by a single mother which every teabagger condemns. A child who will be dependent on the government for support, education, health and welfare, everything teabaggers condemn. Hypocrites all.

Melissa Harris-Perry's Open Letter To Richard Mourdock: Rape Survivors 'Are The Gift To Ourselves'

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On Saturday, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry presented an open letter to GOP senate candidate Richard Mourdock, drawing on her own experience with sexual assault. In this highly personal response to Mourdock's statement about pregnancy resulting from rape being something that 'God intended to happen,' Harris-Perry shared that she flinches sometimes at others' touch and that some times of year can be harder because of associated memories. These, she explained, are 'triggers' for her and for other survivors, and she spends her life trying to either avoid or manage these. A political race, she added, shouldn't have to come with a trigger warning.

Survivors of sexual assault, she said, learn not to judge one another's responses to their respective experiences. She then shared that, as a descendant of American slaves, some of her foremothers were women whose children ' conceived through rape ' increased the wealth of their rapists. And even these children, as complicated and painful and harrowing as their births may have been, were loved.

RELATED: GOP Senate Candidate: Conception From Rape 'Is Something That God Intended'

She continued:

I do not doubt the compassion or judge the choice of a survivor who carries a rape pregnancy to term. But the whole point is choice, consent. You see, Mr. Mourdock, the violation of rape is more than physical. Rapists strip women of our right to choose, of our right to say no, of our right to control what is happening to our bodies. And most of our assailants tell us it's our fault. And they tell us to be silent. And sometimes they even tell us it's God's will. That is the core violation of rape. it takes away choice.

Now, Richard, you believe it's fine to ignore a woman's right to choose because of your interpretation of divinity. Does that sound familiar? So let me explain something to you. When we survive sexual assault, we are the gift. When we survive and we go on to love and to work and to speak out and to have fun and to laugh and dance and to cry and to live, when we do that, we defeat our attackers. For a moment they strip us of our choices and we heal when we take our choices back. We are the gift to ourselves and our families and our communities and our nation when we survive. So let me say this very clearly to you, Mr. Mourdock, and to all of your shameless endorsers: We did not survive an attack on our consent just to turn around and give up our right to choose to you. Not without a fight.

Are you sure you want to have that fight?

Sincerely, Melissa.

Have a listen, via MSNBC:

• She should send a copy to Bill Clinton.

• Here come the racist-wingers to proclaim how offended they are at black woman speaking on TV.

• Bada-dum-tiss!
  Good one Gloves. She also forgets that one side of her family didn't descend from slaves. This racist broad needs to get the chip off her shoulder.

• they will show up in a matter of 3'2'1

• Just something about this women I really like , she is the complete package of beauty and smarts .

  Down south , behind closed doors this young lady would be known as a 'Jefferson Nigg##'.

  and is never meant to be CONDESCENDING , in it's twisted Southern fashion the term is indeed '' every way a compliment.

• WE HAVE ALL BEEN SLAVES to SOMETHING or SOMEBODY !
  ALL OF US

• That was a touching letter from someone I highly respect'

• HAHA

  You guys are hilarious.

  Defy racism with this?

  racist broad?

  broad?

  HAHAHAHA

  You're a joke.

• The Bible was very clear about rape and slaves. In Exodus 21:4 God says that if a man gives a wife to his slave, the wife and children belong to the master. In Deuteronomy 22:28-29 God says that if a man lays hold of and lies with a virgin and it becomes known, he has to pay the father 50 shekels of silver and marry her.

• You are a repulsive racist pig. Go crawl back under your rock, you creep.

• You are a repulsive racist pig. Go crawl back under your rock, you jerk. Who the hell do you think you are? Sounds to me like you have a lot of guilt.

• I understand, appreciate and at the same time abhor your message. The statement that might be made behind closed doors is in and of itself racist. Granted, many people will disagree with me because in Southern fashion, the thoughts that describe an intelligent, attractive Black person has been taught to whites in the South throughout their life. It has become a way of life and in their minds it is indeed a compliment. The compliment though is an insult. Why should there be any difference between the way a smart white and a smart Black person be described or looked upon for their intelligence and beauty? Why are they both not just purely humans who have brains and beauty?

• Very powerful testimony there, Dr. Harris-Perry. Thank you and stay strong.

• I don't know where you are from or whether you are black or white, but I do know that I have never heard that expression behind closed doors or anywhere else (I am from SC.)

• BEAUTY???
  I would suggest an eye exam before you get behind the wheel of
  a car again!

• ROTFLMAO!

Great, Chris Hayes Panel Also Missing The Point Of The Lena Dunham Virginity Ad

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Girls creator and star Lena Dunham's voting virginity ad caused a ridiculous freak-out on the right, with equal parts prudish fanning and triumphant over-reading of its significance fueled by the prudish standard that makes people think this ad is edgy, and hence, desperate. Surely, the hepcats at Up With Chris Hayes will put the whole thing in perspective, and in record time, no less. Let's see how Up panelists Richard Kim of The Nation, The Guardian's Ana Marie Cox, The New Yorker's George Packer, and TheGrio.com's Sophia Nelson handled it:

Sorry, that was the wrong video, but more concise and to the point than the two-plus segments the Up crew spent on this. George Packer found the ad familiarly 'insulting to women,' Ana Marie Cox didn't find it insulting, but it made her 'uncomfortable' (come on, Ana Marie, your name is Cox!), Sophia Nelson agreed with Packer that the ad misfired by emphasizing 'social issues,' and Richard Kim questioned the 'hyper emotional response' to President Obama that they all feel this ad relies upon.

In fairness, host Chris Hayes tried to break up the tightly-puckered narrative by pointing out, repeatedly, that the ad is actually awash in substance (not that substance), but even he posed the substantive points in the ad as peripheral, and introduced the second(!) segment on the ad with the premise that it is analogous to the 'God, guns, and gays' political erogenous zones of the right.

'I actually thought the video was good and funny, cheeky, it's not the biggest deal in the world,' Hayes said in that second segment. 'What was interesting to me about the video is the decision to make it and put it out there, as opposed to the video itself.'

That's a decent point that could have led to a short, productive discussion, but instead, continued a too-long conversation about the ad's 'appropriateness.' Hayes is right, there is a measure of 'edge' to the ad, but not one that merited the ensuing conservative freakout, the exaggerated political significance given to it, or the poor over-analysis of his panel.

First of all, it's not as though Lena filmed the ad at a 'specialty' piercing shop while swinging from a furry trapeze in a leotard of melted wax. It wasn't that fricking edgy (unless your idea of hardcore is Ronald Reagan), so it's not some monumental act of desperation, nor is it some sociopolitical milestone. It is, as Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell each noted, an appeal to a portion of the President's base, but a very natural one.

As a matter of figgity-fact, the Lea Dunham ad is chock-full of substantive policy issues like health care (which, trust me, is an economic issue), national security, pay equity, and civil rights, cleverly wrapped in a package that cannily threads the needle between substantive Trojan horse and canny satire. The setup to the ad uses virginity to draw the viewer in, to create the expectation of an emotional appeal, only to subvert that expectation by discussing policies. The message of the ad isn't that voting is like sex, it's that voting is more important than sex. Dunham executes the premise so well that it works both as mockery of shallow perceptions about women, and as a challenge to the shallowness itself. Hell, if his base weren't so prone to gay panic and sex-fainting, Mitt Romney could use the technique himself. 'What's long and hard, and full of seamen? Three nuclear submarines, which we really, really need!'

At least Hayes and company eventually got around to the dirtiest joke of this campaign, the cruel one that has placed the forcible delivery of rape babies on the ballot, a heartbeat away from the presidency, at most. Maybe we can all lighten the f**k up on Lena Dunham one time.

Here's the clip, from Up with Chris Hayes:

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• Creepiest ad of the political season.

• 'virginity has been used for a lot of things. hanging a sheet on the political balcony
  may or may not put the ballot in the box. so what?

• Without a doubt the dumbest ad ever.

• Terribly written article about an incredibly stupid ad. It reads like Tommy Christopher in second grade posting this from class with his iPhone. After both Tommy and Lena doused themselves with brain repellent.

• What's the fuzz about. There is absolutely nothing bad about it. It's funny, it ridicules hypocritical repubs and points out important issues. What more do you want. Get a life you all.

• Don't look now, Lena.

  Tweet:

  Jim Treacher '
  Obama tells MTV he won't push gay marriage in second term: http://abcnews.go.com ' @LenaDunham would be crushed, if she followed the news.

• great ad! the gop bubbleheads could never get it, because it's humor!

• Tommy, maybe you can run a story on the Denver local newscaster who asks Obama the tough questions the White House press corps refuses to ask.

  http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/26/local-news-reporter-grills-president-obama-on-libya-bullshitter-remark/

  Oh, I forgot, you're worrying about more important issues than the murder of US ambassador in Libya. You're on a fast breaking story on Ronald Reagan's jokes from the last century.

• haha

• Right wing retards are freaking out because they know they are losing the election. Desperation disguised as outrage. What until the Brooks Brothers II riots after the election when we keep black in the White House.

• Someone is having a temper tantrum because others dont share his opinion'.lol

• the president demurred, saying he viewed it as an issue for the states to decide.

  'For us to try to legislate federally into this area is probably the
  wrong way to go,' Obama told MTV presenter Sway Calloway, who asked
  questions submitted by youth voters.

  DIM WIT REPUBLICANS ONCE AGAIN FOR SOMETHING (STATES RIGHTS) BEFORE THEY WERE AGAINST IT.

Red Eye Panel Pretty Much Hated Lena Dunham's 'Stupid' 'First Time' Ad

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On too late Friday / too early Saturday's edition of Red Eye, host Greg Gutfeld and his panel discussed Girls creator Lena Dunham's new ad for Obama, which has stirred up a fair amount of controversy and outrage (our favorite!) over its comparison of voting to having sex for the first time.

Panelist Tom Shillue felt that the ad, which is aimed at young voters, perfectly depicted young people's relationship to Obama. 'They say that it's a metaphor for sex,' he said. 'It's not. It's a metaphor for bragging about sex.'

Remi Spencer, meanwhile, while not offended by the ad, did find it to be, well. 'Stupid.' It seems, she added, to just dumb down the discourse instead of elevating it. Matt Welch, for one, was uncomfortable with the 'hero worship' that goes on where politicians are concerned.

Gutfeld felt the ad was geared towards those 'Williamsburg hipsters' [Greg! They're all in Bushwick now. There's a Duane Reade in Williamsburg and smoothie shop in Wburg now, for crying out loud.] who are 'actually acting as propagandists.'

Bill Schulz joked that the ad made him happy to still be a virgin. He also said people only watch Girls as catharsis because they're glad they're not young 20-somethings making all sorts of terrible mistakes [Which: Yes? Isn't that exactly the point?] and referred to Dunham as a 'tattooed potato.'

Gutfeld defended Dunham against the potato comment, but did admit the only watches the show for Brian Williams' daughter who is, in the parlance of our youth, 'fine.'

Later, during the show's Halftime Report, Andy Levy wanted to know why Shillue thought Dunham's video (or, rather, Dunham herself) was gross. We learned that Gutfeld and Levy found her 'adorable,' and that Levy thinks that, while the actress/writer/director/producer is smart and funny, this ad was a dud. Plus, Gutfeld made an excellent point: Would Shillue look any better in tattoos and a tank top?

Levy later said the oddest part of the ad is when Dunham says your first time should be with 'a guy who drone kills the crap out of a bunch of brown people.'

Check it out, via Fox News:

And here's the halftime report, for your enjoyment:

S.E. Cupp: Media's Priorities Off When Mourdock's Comments Get More Coverage Than Libya

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Two of the four co-hosts of The Cycle, S.E. Cupp and Krystal Ball, joined MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts on Friday morning to discuss the impact that inflammatory comments made by Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock could have on the presidential race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Cupp said that 'war on women' theme that Democrats promoted over the summer and early fall had little effect on the national race. Futhermore, Cupp chastised the national media for focusing more on his comments than the unfolding scandal surrounding President Barack Obama's handling of the September attack on the American consulate in Libya.

Roberts asked Cupp for her opinion on Mourdock's comments, as well as those by other prominent Republicans like Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, which he said constitutes 'really crazy stuff.'

'The whole year, the narrative of the war on women has been effective as a talking point, and it certainly set the scene for a great DNC, but if you look at the numbers it really didn't work effectively on the ground,' Cupp said.

She said that former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been gaining in the polls over the course of this month, even as Democrats promoted anti-abortion comments by Republicans as a major election issue.

'I don't really know that it's going to cut through the clutter ' and the clutter is the economy,' Cupp added.

Roberts challenged Cupp's point that these comments are merely Democratic talking points, claiming that these and other comments by Republicans have created a firestorm.

'Well, the media creates the firestorm,' Cupp interjected.

'The media didn't say these things,' Roberts countered.

'When the media devotes more attention to a story like Mourdock than it does to a story like Libya, than you know that our priorities are a little backwards,' Cupp concluded.

Ball disagreed, saying that these comments by Republicans have reminded women voters that Republican politicians are extreme about women's health issues, and women may have forgotten that fact during the debates which did not focus on those issues as much as the economy.

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

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• Cupp works on cable news but is clueless about how the 24/7 news grinder works? Maybe she should go to Fox where her talents will be appreciated.

• 'except that Libya happened over a month ago and is continuously being beaten into the ground. Particularly since the full story has been muddled by the eagerness of people all over, in and out of media, scrambling to respond to the event.

  Whereas Mourdock's comments are recent and deal with a domestic issue that, frankly, is a bit close to home for a lot of Americans. I'd say around 51% of Americans are potentially affected by comments dealing with rape pregnancies.

  Domestic policy: It's pretty fraggin' important. And since Mourdock has direct ties to Romney'

• Are we done pretending anyone on earth cares what S.E. Cupp says?

• Mourdock's comments deserve attention because they shine a light on how the Republican Party will act policy-wise. They hold opinions about abortion that are offensive to many women. That should be known.

  Libya is, unfortunately, only one in a long line of embassy attacks, in which U.S. personnel get killed. It happened multiple times in the GWB administration, even as late as Sept 2008. The difference here is that Fox and the right-wing shock jocks chose to cover it ad nauseum. I'm for an investigation, but there is a strong element of politicization here. Cupp either hasn't done her reading or is playing dumb.

• No. It's Mediaite. If someone dumb appears on television and says something dumb about either candidate, a story is written about it and then a handful of commenters lay out why the other side is full of idiots.

• What little 'Sarah Eleizabeth' fails to understand is that the GOP Platform of 'Suppresiing Women' is an 'Economic Issue'.

  When women are denied access to basic health care, to include contraceptive which are used for far more than the mere prevention of pregnacy, they have to pay more out of pocket to access said health care.

  'Sarah Eleizebeth' is just spewing the standard issue GOP 'Talking Points' as usaul' Without a Single Clue as to How Things Really Work When It Comes to Women's Health Care etc.

• Really S.E.? You really think it's more important for voters to keep getting pounded with some GOP conspiracy theory than to think about the ramifications of having the GOP Taliban take control of these social issues in America that will affect ALL voters and their families ' possibly taking them back 50-100 years?

  Next I suppose you'll be whining about the media not making more of the 'birther' issue.

  Things are getting desperate and S.E. is jumping on board with her marching orders to 'keep this Libya thing going' until the election.

• Social Media is taking away the FOX EFFECT in a fast way , even FOX KNOWS IT :)
  ASK ABRAMS :) , he will tell ya , social media is crushing the FOX EFFECT
  People overlook FOX because they CRY WOLF TOOOOOO MUCH

• what wrong with these people, dont they know being able to kill babies is more important to liberals

• I disagree. We're discussing comments made by a person who could very well be in the position to make choices that would affect every woman in our country.

• Cupp should pay more attention to what is important to women in America.

  Libya will be handled in due time.
  We as Americans can do something now about people like Mourdock trying to weasel their way into a position of power.

• A very ignorant comment.

• What's sadder:

  That the Right is so empty in its integrity that it actually makes the argument that women are willing to trade away their reproductive rights away because 'the number 1 issue for women is the economy,' like they're this single-issue, one-sided idiot group

  OR

  That there are actually Republican women that bought it, and ARE IN FACT willing to trade away their rights, because they're apparently too stupid to think of anything else other than the economy?

  We have some really brilliant 'people' in this country, but as a collective electorate, this country is collectively stupid.

  If you are a woman, and you've sided with the GOP on the economy' over what they WILL do to your rights as a woman, you have major, major soul searching to do.

• What's the big deal? The Republican Party wants the government to force pregnant women to bear their rapist's babies. Which way did they think this party was going?

• lol

• Nah, you're implying he doesn't know better. I think he does.

• The Benghazi coverup is worse than anyone thought.

  Tweets:

  Jim Treacher
  BREAKING: CIA Requested Help During Benghazi Battle, Were Denied Three Times http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/26/report-cia-requested-help-during-benghazi-battle-were-denied-three-times/

  Monica Crowley '
  A 7 hour attack. Americans in mortal danger. 3 requests for help. All denied by Team Obama. Left to die. #ObamaDenied #AmericansDied

  Brad Thor '
  Special Operations Teams were in Italy and could have flown to #Benghazi in less than two hours. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/ ' #Obama #Disgrace

  Brad Thor '@BradThor
  Part of the team at the CIA annex/safe house in #Benghazi had a laser on the mortar position & was still denied air support. #Disgrace

• Jim Treacher tweeting pjmedia?

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

• But' The Right IS full of idiots'.

  ' Beck
  ' Sunnunu
  ' Cupp (sometimes)
  ' All of the 'Rape-Babies are God's Plan' GOP candidates
  ' Hannity
  ' Eric Bolling
  ' Kimberley Guilfoyle
  ' Andrea Tantaros

  I mean, this list goes on and on.

• how so?

• You are right.
  I wonder whose vagina he is speaking for.

• what did the baby do to deserve death? It's not politcal, it's a basic humanity thing.

• It's undeniably the case that LIbya is more important than Mourdock'

  But if it took getting your partisan shorts in a knot to figure out that the media likes simple, shiny things that gin up outrage and easy, well-worn narratives'

  You're not much of a media analyst.

• It seems like everybody's forgetting Sarah Palin these days.

• The media can only talk about one thing at a time! It's not like there are a handful of 24 hour news networks. If they're not talking about Libya, they're actively not talking about it.

• yet its true

• Ehhh'. no its not'.

  Mourdock represents a movement within the GOP the is LED by the VP nominee, the idea that government has the right to dictate what women can and cannot do with their bodies'

  including bearing the children of their rapists'..

  The Embassy/Consulate attacks happen' They happened under Bush'. ALOT

  22 January 2002 ' Calcutta, India ' Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami gunmen attack Consulate

  14 June 2002 ' Karachi, Pakistan ' al-Qaeda truck bomb detonates outside Consulate

  12 October 2002 ' Denpasar, IndonesiaConsular Office bombed by Jemaah Islamiyah

  28 February 2003 ' Islamabad, Pakistan ' Unknown gunmen attack Embassy

  30 June 2004 ' Tashkent, Uzbekistan ' Uzbekistan suicide bomber attacks Embassy

  6 December 2004 ' Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ' al-Qaeda gunmen raid diplomatic compound

  2 March 2006 ' Karachi, Pakistan ' Car bomb explodes outside Embassy unknown

  12 September 2006 ' Demascuc, Syria ' Gunmen raid US Embassy

  12 January 2007 ' Athens, Greece ' RPG Fired at Embassy by Revolutionary Struggle

  18 March 2008 ' Sana'a, Yemen ' Mortar attack against US Embassy

  9 July 2008 ' Istanbul, Turkey ' Armed attack against Consulate

  17 September 2008 ' Sana'a, Yemen ' 2 car bombs outside US embassy in Yemeni capital

• It's now been a month and a half since the Lybia attacks, whereas it's been 2-3 days after Mourdocks comment. I challenge anyone to find another story that lasts that long ' it's not typically the way the media works and therefore can really only be seen as partisan politicking before the election.

• true' the zero-sum game is always a good straw man 'media critics' play ('if you're talking about x, you're not talking about y! (outrage!!)')

  clearly they are talking about both' if you go over the memeorandum there are a bunch of posts on libya and there have been for weeks.

  still some stories get too much oxygen' LIbya (ironically) is also probably one of them

• 15 members of the GOP congress do not support abortion in the case of rape

  I think that's as important as Libya (if not more so)

• Stevens: 'Help Us ' We are under attack!'

  CIA: 'Please let us protect our assets!'

  Obama: :'Stand Down.'

  Media: 'Look squirrel!'

• Besides, let's do an analysis, rather than spout out false claims, Ms. Cupp.

  Libya happened, what, a month ago?

  And Mourdock's comments happened, what, 3 days ago?

  I think Libya has gotten far more coverage.

• 'Ball disagreed, saying that these comments by Republicans have reminded women voters that Republican politicians are extreme about women's health issues, and women may have forgotten that fact during the debates which did not focus on those issues as much as the economy.'

  Wow, Ball thinks women are so stupid, EVEN THOUGH the OFA campaign has been discussing 'extreme' republican stances throughout the entire exaggerated campaign process ' they would FORGET that fact during the debates because it wasn't prominently discussed. Women are stupid?

  Female loathing feminist. Classic.

• you're conflating a policy with a gaffe by a local pol.

  embassy attacks leading to the death of an ambassador are actually rare and deserve more serious attention than some crank putting his foot in his mouth.

• Aborting a baby is a women's 'health' issue? I guess that's true if the fetus is a female. Wow! How far off the moral high ground have we fallen as a society when people are pilloried for thinking that innocent children in the womb should be protected. That said, I agree w/ S.E. Cupp as far as the media's priorities are concerned. However, when they feel it is their moral duty to re-elect Obama, I guess they do what they have too.

• I'll bet Libya has gotten more attention than any issue this fall. By far.

• Obama is a pathological liar, as we all know.

  Right now, he is in Washington frantically looking for someone to take the fall for Benghazi.

  He is in serious trouble and he'd better learn how to tell the truth, for once in his life.
  Tweet:

  Greta Van Susteren '
  IT IS TIME (actually past time) FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA TO TELL US WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN LIBYA (and why he and his' http://bit.ly/Y3P0zy

• I thought all of those unnamed sources were telling FAUX News exactly what happened.

  Why are the sources unnamed?

• Obama: Big Bird, Rape, Romnesia'distractions and lies.

• Nice try'

  It wasn't a gaffe. It was actual BELIEF and desired policy. It represents a MAJOR shift in social policy in this country, a REAL reduction of women's rights and a REAL expansion of government power.

  Way to minimize it'

  And while Embassy attacks are truly important and need attention, the current Fox attention on it has nothing to do with the attack and everything to do with sifting through the garbage in search from spin that lays a 'cover-up' in the President's lap, which is disingenuous, and nothing more than a Fox-attempted assist for Romney.

• Who's denying women access to basic health care?

• On your final point, we agree.

• Every post you make'distractions and lies.

• Really?

  You just asked that?

  Are you knew to current events?

• The media may simply not care about the safety of our military, diplomats and intelligence operatives. They covered a massacre in a movie theater non-stop, so when it's civilian the media cares, when soldiers, diplomats and military the MSM just moves on. For some of us, it's heart-wrenching, but so many programs just act like it's no big deal. Such a disconnect.

• The Benghazi Coverup.
  The coverup gets you, every time.

• Yeah, pointing out that 15 members of the GOP congress support forcing women to carry their rapist's baby to term is a 'distraction'

• State Department emails trasmitting what was going on in Banghazi WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING is not a 'GOP conspiracy theory' it's a fact that this administration tried to cover up. GOP Taliban? Seriously?!!!!!

• I understand the discomfort you and the insufferable SE have is discussing Mourdock, Akin, Lyin' Paul Ryan and the other Republican misanthropes . I would want to run from them, too. Just like Willard ran from answering questions yesterday about why he was allowing Mourdock to continue to run his endorsement ad. Boy, did he rush out of the restaurant quickly, or what? Of course, he's use to running, what with his dash away from service for his country in Vietnam. And, look how he's been running from Lyin' Ryan! 'Hey, Paulie, go to the swing states of Alabama and Texas. I'll take care of the Midwest.' Yes, I understand why you're all trying to run from these guys.

• It's 'Big Bird. Binders. Bayonets.'

• Well, I know people don't like to quibble, but it's not a baby so I can't really answer that question. But if you believe that the fertilized egg, zygote, blastocyst, embryo or fetus has a soul or its equipment I say more power to you. Don't have an abortion.

  But the Republican Party's platform, well over a dozen Republican Senators, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, all believe that if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant as a result of that rape, the government should force the rape-victim to carry that pregnancy to term against the woman's will and have that rapist's baby. Also, they have tried (and will again) for a 'right to life' amendment to the Constitution which would effectively outlaw the most popular forms of contraceptives (what year is this?) and in vitro fertilization.

  You're allowed to believe as you please, and act accordingly. The problem, in my estimation, with the modern Republican Party is that if you don't like gay marriage, you don't have to have one. If you don't like abortion, you don't have to have one. If you don't like drugs, you don't have to do them. If you don't like porn, you don't have to watch it. And if you don't want your rights taken away, you shouldn't take away the rights of others.

  Not to go on too much of a tangent, but that's what rings so hollow about gun rights. President Obama has expanded them whereas Governor Romney has restricted them, and yet the NRA has endorsed him. They hem and haw that if you don't want guns, don't buy one, but don't apply this thinking to policies they don't like. It's freedom for what they believe in, not for what others believe.

• c-cupp is a partisan hack who cowtows to fox talking points. this site sux since rothman appeared!

• Have you ever cited, like, a REAL journalist?

  Greta? lol!

• so much we don't know. Why did it go on for seven hours and many of the deaths happened much later. Why were so many requests to both add security and even just keep what they had were denied repeatedly. Why was the video mentioned in the UN speech repeatedly, on View, on Letterman when a those points they knew the speech was un-related.

  You have many embassies, if you don't figure out what went wrong and why VERY quickly, other targets won't be able to ensure safety. Lives matter.

• It's what Planned Parenthood does (even more than that other thing).

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/what-planned-parenthood-actually-does/2011/04/06/AFhBPa2C_blog.html

• yes, how dare the government tell people its illegal to kill innocent babies

• Yeah! We need more unbiased, straight news people like Tommy Christopher '' not.

• For the record''

  You, then, believe that women that are brutally raped, have their dignity taken away from them, should then for 9 months be forced by a government to carry the baby of the man that most likely ruined them for life?

  Just making sure we get you on the record on that one.

• yes, we get you want to kill innocent babies darla

• All of this is real purdy' but while don't you elighten us on what the cover-up actually was?

• So Cupp essentially admits there is a war on women, but since it hasn't had an effect on the presidential race, it's not worth talking about.

• Republicans, how did you not know that?

• Requests for security came from Tripoli, not Benghazi, and the CIA apparently told the White House that the video was likely involved. I would argue that it probably didn't help.

• Ok so we'll get @freespeechcd2:disqus on the record to'

  In believing that women that are raped should be forced to bear the child of their rapists.

  Good, that makes 2 people on here that at least have the balls to come out and support the GOP platform for women.

• Decorating for Halloween?

  Secret Service Visits Man Who Hung Obama Effigy From Tree As 'Spooky' Halloween Decoration

• you're obviously an idiot

• so in your mind denying access=not providing for free

• She is counted in a special category of Idiot Imbeciles who went to 4 colleges for five consecutive years to get a four year degree.

Gallup, Rasmussen Forecast More Republican Voters In 2012 Than 2004

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Two pollsters, Gallup and Rasmussen Reports, are projecting Republican voters to have a slight advantage on November 6 over Democratic voters. When they add likely voters leaning towards one party or another, they find an electorate that is marginally more Republican than in 2004, when voters narrowly reelected incumbent President George W. Bush. Gallup projects that the demographics of the electorate will nearly mirror 2008, but party support favors Republicans more than the last two presidential election cycles.

In 2008, Gallup projected that self-identified Democrats would outnumber Republicans by 39 to 35 percent. When voters who leaned Democratic were included, they projected an 12 point advantage for Democrats. This slightly overestimated the final national electorate, in which Democrats enjoyed wide but slightly smaller advantage over Republicans. In 2004, Gallup found party identification favoring Republicans by 2 points, which virtually mirrored the final national vote in which Bush won by just over 2 percent.

This year, Gallup finds a one point Republican advantage over Democrats, at 36 to 35 percent. They also find that self-identified independent voters will make up 29 percent of the electorate. However, when leaners are included, Republican voters will outnumber Democratic voters by 49 to 46 percent.

This finding is close to what Rasmussen Reports saw in their August/September average of party identification. Their surveys found Republicans dominating the electorate with Democrats trailing their 2004 and 2008 turnout totals. Independent voters, which most national polls show favoring Mitt Romney by wide margins but backed President Barack Obama in 2008, approximately mirror their 2008 turnout totals (the Washington Post/ABC News tracking poll on Thursday showed Romney with a 19-point advantage over Obama among independent voters).

Rasmussen's August/September averages in 2004 and 2008 were relatively close to the actual electorate. In 2004, Rasmussen predicted slightly fewer Republicans would turnout than actually showed up and, in 2008, they slightly overestimated GOP turnout, but the electorate they projected would show up was close enough to the final total that their 2012 projection merits consideration.

Given the closeness of these pollsters' findings to the actual electorates in 2004 and 2008, they should be taken seriously. If their projections hold up on Election Day, it is not just probable but likely that Mitt Romney will win the national popular vote. Given the persistent closeness of the race in the battleground states, an Electoral College/popular vote split is no longer an outside possibility.

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• Ahh, the conservative mantra ' 'All polls are BS ' except Rasmussen.' We'll see how that works out for them on election day. :-)

• If 2010, Scott Walker, and Chickfila didnt show you libbies living under rocks Republican enthusiasm is WAY up, just wait til 11.6.12!

• Battleground states are not as close as you think. Romney is surging. States once firmly in Obama's control are now toss-up. No stopping Romney at this point. He'll get over 300 in the Electoral College.

• I can't stop laughing! You'd better prepare for Romney's loss on November 6th. Living in that bubble turned out to be a disaster for Romney. (See his Benghazi response in the second debate) I can't get that look he had on his face out of my head as the President stated 'Please proceed govenor'. Ha!

• Um, do you know what the voters in Wisconsin told pollsters upon exiting the voting booths? They said that while they hated Walker, they didn't want to set a precedent of recalling an elected official, less it be used against their elected candidate. Why do you think Mitt isn't leading in Wisconsin?

• #spinspinspin continue to be ignorant to the fact that Libbie enthusiam is lowest level in a decade while Republicans is at a peak. Itll make it that much more fun watching you all lose your minds in 11 days.

• Today, more polls have Romney leading than Obama.
  More polls also have Romney at 50% or above than Obama.
  Still laughing?

• Wave your pompoms harder. It'll help make your fantasy come true.

• Gallup and Rasmussen? Wow, Obama's toast.

• And yet Obama is still selling at over 60 on Intrade and Nate Silver ' whose accuracy is undisputed (except in Wingnutland) ' has raised Obama's chances of reelection to 73.1%.

  We wouldn't trade places with you folks on a bet.

• You must be very young. Your naivete shows through every single post. It's not just that your comments are woefully misinformed; it's that you repeatedly make statements that are simply not supportable by any credible evidence. You pretend to KNOW with metaphysical certitude what's going to happen on election day. And so far the only substantiation you've provided is that Mitt has a lot of followers on Facebook.

  Forgive us for not taking a thing you write seriously ever.

• You think it's impossible? BS, you are. It is entirely possible. With the massive surge ' which started before Mitt's huge win in the first debate ' it is starting to become probable. You want to wave something? Wave O-bye-bye.

• Thanks for the info Noah.

• Gallop has been wildly off in the past and has been criticized for over-estimating the white vote.

  http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/obama-campaign-criticizes-gallup-for-swing-state-poll-20121015

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/gallup-poll-race-barack-obama_n_1589937.html?utm_hp_ref=@pollster

  http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/108816/whats-going-the-gallup-poll

  http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/re-obama-v-gallup.html

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/19/about-that-gallup-poll-is-romney-really-up-by-7-and-will-obama-win-the-election-anyway/

  I would put all this argumentation into the blender. It's probably not a great idea to adhere to one poll or poll firm too strongly and it's also probably not a great idea to take polling criticisms too much to heart'

  but the various objections ought to be noted.

• You've missed the Facebook point entirely. You must be very old. The point is that Mitt is surging. He has the momentum. Not only does he have a growing number of people who LIKE him on Facebook, my friends are starting to LIKE him too. My friends are overwhelmingly NY/NJ Registered Dems. People are coming out of their digital closets and supporting Romney. On Twitter, if you aren't on Twitter maybe it is because you are very old, there is tremendous chatter for Romney. Are there metrics which will prove that? Probably. I'll go with my gut, though. I wouldn't see all the pro-Romney chatter if it wasn't happening. If you want to see studies, Google 'Colorado Professors' or visit the major pollsters. They offer the hard evidence you desire. Lastly, Check your html, pops.

• They are either living under rocks or are dishonest. Romney is surging. It's palpable.

• The probability, based on current polling, that Mitt Romney gets 300 electoral votes approaches 1%. But if you like those odds you're welcome to them.

• The analysis is inherently flawed, it fails to take into account household pets, dead people and illegal aliens in the Democrat voter count.

• All that matters is Nov 6th. Romney/Ryan 2012

• I just saw on Twitter Wisconsin was 49-49. Minnesota is now in play. PA is in play. Mitt is surging and there is a lot of time left. Mitt will win Wisconsin.

• And yet a sober, thoughtful analysis of the data shows that your interpretation is simply out of step with the reality. I'll put much more faith in the careful data-driven analysis of Nate Silver ' who puts Obama's odds of victory at over 73 percent ' than whether your little circle of chums is suddenly finding a reason to 'like' Romney. It's very easy to sit inside a bubble and not see what's going on outside.

  At any rate, anyone who makes certain predictions like 'No stopping Romney at this point. He'll get over 300 in the Electoral College' is either incredibly young or incredibly naive. Based on a review of your comments, I'd guess you're both.

• You can find Vegas oddsmakers who predicted 6 months ago Romney would win standing by their policy today.

• Who are you gonna believe ' the careful, data-driven analysis of polling experts or Art's Facebook friends?

• 'Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then
  are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.'-
  William F. Buckley, Jr.

• You do have to wonder what Art and his friends will do when Obama wins with these numbers staring them in the face. Romney could conceivably win, I suppose, but he's going to have to turn a number of states around in the final week.

• Views are fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, just not their own facts.

• Rass WAY overestimated GOP turnout in 2010, which I suspect is why Noah doesn't mention their track record in 2010 at all. They were way off that year.

• What are you dense? Are you sure you're sober? The reality is what I wrote. There is massive chatter and support for a surging Mitt Romney, bubble man. Keep believing in Obama. Less and less people do. Demonstratively. Go Google 'Colorado Professors Election' if you want careful data-driven analysis to step to.

• Gallop too' by 9 points in 2010.

• And a story about a Facebook surge only days after information that 1 person was responsible for purchasing enough shares at intrade to show a romney surge.

  Give me a break.

  Much ado like the 'surging' idea in general.

• There's no arguing with trolls like Art. He is exactly the sort of person Colbert was talking about when he first introduced the word TRUTHINESS:

  http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/24039/october-17-2005/the-word'truthiness

  'That's the difference between those who think with their heads and KNOW with their hearts.' LOL.

• Didn't Gallup say there would be +15 for the Republicans in 2010 when the actual number turned out to be +7? Yeeeeeah

• I wonder what the faces of Glen Doherty and Ty Woods looked like when they realized we were not going to send them help?

• Don't be a moron. That study was debunked months ago. But here's what they're still saying:

  * The model predicts that Romney will carry New Mexico, North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. Obama is predicted to win Michigan and Nevada, according to the university.

  http://news.yahoo.com/university-colorado-professors-continue-predict-romney-win-165000060.html

• haha

• Well bookies are in it for the money not ideology. Name an oddmaker who is offering even money on a Romney win. You can't. You may want to fantasize about Romney winning California or something but the gamblers are not foolish.

• WHERE? Oh you mean the Vegas Oddsmakers who predicted the McCain win in 2008 and that Gingrich would be the nominee and that Jesus would return before August to anoint the republican nominees Perry/Santorum, and who predicted Palin would run.

• Your starting to sound pornographic with so many comments filled with surging republicans and palpable things.

  You got it wrong by petting the sweaty things instead of sweating the the petty things.

• Art stole that 300 prediction from the winner of the republican primaries Lizard Gettinrich the high lord of Moonbat Base Callista.

• Your to late with that advice for Art, he is a moron.

• They looked incredulous that as mercenaries for hire the US Government was ignoring them like their employer who should have been ready to back up his mercenaries, did the private mercenary corporation who had the contract to guard the Ambassador when he was away from the EMBASSY give back the money they were paid?

• Suuuuuuuuure he is.