If you want a shocker...watch Illinois....GOP has made some gains there the last two cycles and Obama wasn't polling high enough around Chicago (Cook county) to cancel out the downstate GOP.

TA calling someone else a smarmy dickhead?  That has to be the clearest case of projection I can recall...

When it comes to the size of the Federal government...We're not arguing big vs little...we're arguing about the degree of gargantuan.    The real battle this time around is competence (R) vs proven incompetence (O).

If Sandy washes that out to sea...someone's going to have to file some paperwork with the EPA....

Polls are commissioned by a number of media outlets...should I reflexively ignore polls commissioned by the sources I don't like? Or should I look at the internals...methodology, sample size, MOE, party affiliation of respondents...before passig judgement?

Obama didn't go to Wisconsin because he knew it was a loser and didn't want that loss tied around his neck.  The GOP has volunteers from other states on the ground in Ohio working the phones and going door to door.   The GOP doesn't have to pay people $11 an hour to appear at a rally or go door to door....that in and of itself is an edge.

GOTV has been a strength of the Republican party in most every election except for 2008....with a quality candidate and a hyper-motivated base...It will be again in 2012.

Why is Ras not credible?   What can yo point to specifically to discredit their work?

Why should we give a fuck about Canada's PM?  You rely on us for the bulk of your national defense and GDP. Just sit there and hide behind Lady Liberty's skirt and the STFU...

Again...wtf?   

WTF?  Where did I say that?   

Strawma...Are you fucking kidding ?  If I had a buck for every time someone on the left used the words "white male" in addressing my arguments, I could buy Warren Buffet

Abortion was legal prior to Roe vs Wade....laws varied from state to state.  New York's laws were the most Liberal...by far... and it did lead to a number of people traveling to NY.  That's not really unusual...there have been a number of laws on a number of topics that varied from state to state and shaped behavoir.  I live on the border of OH and MI....for awhile MI was 18+ for all kinds of booze.  Ohio kids went north.  When MI went to 21+ but OH allowed 19+ for beer and wine, MI kids headed south.  For awhile, WV had better welfare than KY....KY was giving welfare recipients $$$ if they promsed to leave the state and move to WV.

The republic survived....

Re the court and abortion.  Abortion could still exist if Roe vs Wade is struck down.  It simply wouldn't be a fed issue any longer.  Would Roe vs Wade be struck down?  History suggests otherwise....in Planned parenthood vsCasey (1992) Three Reagan/Bush appointees voted to uphold abortion rights.   I'm no legal scholar...but I think the principle of Stare Decisis would make overturning Roe vs Wade a tough hill to climb.

240 is right...a plurality of women 39% in a gallup poll list abortion as their top issue.  Having said that...I do think it odd to be spendng so much time on an issue that appeals to a bloc of voters that are supposed to be in your pocket already.   

The % of our popuation vs the % of our naval force is an irrelevant argument.  You have to look at what the needs assessment is from the navy vs what the level of material on hand is.  You can debate the needs assessment...you can debate how long it should take to get there..yoou can debate a number of issues within that topic.  Being a sneering little bitch and dismissing the topic isn't something a serious candidate for President should do.

So...I must conclude that Obama isn't taking his campaign seriously...

A woman doesn't slap you because she's a bitch...she slaps you because you're a bitch.

Who's got the momentum?

An incumbent that's polling at 45% in any state...let alone a group of states deemed crucial to the election...has zero chance of winning.  He's toast....

Technically...I don't think it matters if the bayonets are deployed or not.  The idiot said we have fewer bayonets...so..we have an inventory of over a half a million bayonets.  Is that less than what we had in 1916?

Regardless...it's a stupid point to make.  Genuinely idiotic.  The question isn't how many bayonets...the question is... why is our President such a dumbass?  Romney raised a legit point...the people who run the navy say we need more ships...is Obama saying they don't know what they're talking about?   Isn't that a topic worth discussion?   Isn't the President doing a disservice to the people he's sworn to serve by arrogantly dismissing legitimate questions?

Obama is an incompetent fool....

You cannot reconcile the nonsense that's occured over the past four years with being a Republican.   If anyone is demostrating racism it's Powell.

Seriously?   This is what the left wants to talk about less than two weeks before voting?  Pregnancies from rape?

 Skyrocketing deficeits...  The economy is stuck in neutral...barely growing at all. U-6 Unemployment stuck at 14.6%.  Obamacare forcing employers to add to to that number by taking more workers from full time to part time status.  The American Ambassador to Libya is murdered in Libya...the President ordering forces on the ground and in the air to stand down when a respnse likely would have saved thier lives.  Executing American citizens abroad...one a 16 year-old boy...without a trial.  Establishing a "kill list" of people to be murdered in cold blood without the benefit of a trial.  Exporting terrorism to Mexico via "Fast and Furious"...resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican nationals.

There's so much to discuss...yet you folks want to focus on pregnancies resulting from rape?  

Something that far over the top doesn't work...and when you do literally nothing but sneer at and attack the people you're running against, you turn people off...

In cases like this you need a free, independent media to go after the story and work to expose the truth.  Do we have that today?  Or do we have an amen corner that largely wants to provide cover for their candidate?

There is no way in hell...none whatsoever....that Obama could lose the popular vote in the range gallup is now (5pts) and win the EC.  It just won't happen...

The economy is not showing numbers that are "stronger than usual".   A 2.0% growth in GDP is horrible...particularly three years post recession.  I agree that Obama is toast... he's toast largely because the economy has performed not only below his promised standards, but historic levels as well.

Tied in MI...THE union stronghold...home of the UAW!!!.   

Latest WaPo survey has Romney with 60% of the white vote...a threshold Liberals have said he would need to win but never, ever achieve...

Well this is interesting....

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/

What were they doing in Benghazi any way?  Was this...as some have suggested...a gun running operation to Syria?

I disagree...you don't achieve anything in the long term acting like a tyrant.   At some point..you'll need the people around you to buy into what you're doing.  You won't get that if you're a tyrant.