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Here Comes the Landslide
31 Oct 2012 12:03 am

Voters have figured out that President Obama has no message, no agenda and not even much of an explanation for what he has done over the past four years. His campaign is entirely based on persuading people that Mitt Romney is a uniquely bad man, entirely dedicated to the rich and ignorant of the problems of the average person. As long as he could run his negative ads, the campaign kept voters away from the Romney bandwagon. But, once we all met Mitt Romney for three ninety-minute debates, we got …

Don’t Count Mourdock Out!
27 Oct 2012 12:02 am

Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, was cruising along with a five point lead over his Democratic opponent, Congressman Joe Donnelly, when he opined during a debate that when a rape happened “it was what God intended.”
His foray into theology almost cost him the election — and the Republicans yet another seat in the Senate. Todd Aiken’s comment that rape did not induce pregnancy has delivered the Missouri seat to Democrat Claire McCaskill.
But not so fast! The polling reflects that Mourdock is alive and kicking and may …

The New Republican Senate Opportunities
26 Oct 2012 12:30 am

As the Mitt Romney wave sweeps through the country and gathers momentum, both inside and outside the swing states, a number of new Senate contests are opening new opportunities for Republican takeaways. In each of these races, the polling indicates that a Republican victory is possible where once it was unthinkable.
The foremost of these new contests is in Pennsylvania, where Republican nominee Tom Smith now leads Democratic incumbent Senator Bob Casey by two points in the latest Susquehanna Poll. Smith’s surge is animated by similar progress on the presidential level …

Obama Loses the Debates Within the Debate
25 Oct 2012 12:02 am

There were at least four separate debates going on Monday night when the candidates met for the last of their presidential matchups.
The foreign policy debate: This was the contest that was advertised. It largely featured agreement between the candidates. If anyone had hoped that a Mitt Romney presidency would represent a sharp break with President Obama’s policies on Iran, Iraq, Libya or Russia, they were disappointed. Only on China was there a real difference of opinion. Romney’s tougher stand on Beijing will win him points in the Midwest.
Particularly during the …

UN Sends Monitors to Prevent Voter Suppression in US Election
24 Oct 2012 12:03 am

As incredible as it sounds, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) — an arm of the United Nations — is sending more than 44 election monitors to observe the U.S. election and report on voter suppression activities at the polls.
The OSCE observers will come from Europe and Central Asia and will be deployed at polling places throughout the United States. The decision to send them came as a result of talks between the OSCE and U.S. civil rights groups. Apparently, these groups do not have sufficient confidence …

Iran Deal: The October Surprise?
23 Oct 2012 12:03 am

Will President Obama announce a deal with Iran for a moratorium on the enrichment of uranium, in return for the dismantling of some international sanctions against the regime? And will the announcement be timed to appear just before the election?
Reza Kahlili (the pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards), the author of “A Time To Betray” (Simon & Schuster, 2010) reports in WND that “U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached an agreement that calls for Iran to halt part of its nuclear program in exchange for the …

Road Map for Monday’s Debate
22 Oct 2012 12:02 am

There is a temptation to get lost in the weeds of when President Obama recognized that the Libya attack was, indeed, an act of terror. But the key point is that Obama treated the anti-Muslim YouTube video as a provocation for the attack as if they had a moral equivalency. Otherwise, why constantly mention the video in the same breath as the attack? Why run an ad apologizing for the video in Pakistan? Why address the video in his U.N. speech? It may be a bridge too far to convince …

Here Come the Other States
21 Oct 2012 12:03 am

While all national attention is focused — indeed riveted — on the seven to nine swing or battleground states, a major shift is taking place in the rest of the country: Voters are turning from President Obama and to Mitt Romney.
In the forty states where the Obama campaign has not spread toxic negative ads against Romney, the Republican is gaining by leaps and bounds and will likely carry a bunch of non-swing, normally blue states. Specifically, Romney is now three points ahead in Pennsylvania, one point behind in Michigan, and …

UN Gun Control is Back
20 Oct 2012 12:03 am

After a wave of outrage stopped President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from signing the proposed UN gun control treaty (called the UN Arms Trade Treaty), the treaty advocates are back with a devilish new strategy.
As we warned in “Here Come the Black Helicopters: UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom,” the gun control advocates won’t stop trying to impose gun controls on the United States through an international treaty to override the Second Amendment.
The plan was to sign the treaty on July 27 in New York. …

Romney Needs to Expand the Map
17 Oct 2012 12:02 am

Originally, the Mitt Romney and Barack Obama campaigns chose which swing states to focus on by comparing election results from previous years and figuring out which were most or least likely to vote for each candidate. The result was a consensus that North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada and Colorado were the most likely to swing one way or the other.
As a result of this analysis, the two campaigns have dumped an unbelievable amount of money into advertising in these “battleground” states and have largely ignored the rest …

Romney, Obama and Biden: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
15 Oct 2012 12:02 am

Vice president Joe Biden showed last night that he is not qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. There was no dignity, circumspection, courtesy, civility or presidentiality in his performance in the debate with the GOP contender, Congressman Paul Ryan
Biden came across as a windbag and a demagogue with his constant interruptions and his phony and appropriate laughter and his grimace of a smile framed his bombast and looked like a schoolboy making faces at a rival. He had the manners and affect of a longshoreman at a …

The UN Tries to Become a Global Government
14 Oct 2012 12:02 am

The United Nations was founded to provide a forum for the world’s nations to negotiate differences and avoid armed conflict. Its administrative role was restricted to policing peace agreements after they were concluded and providing humanitarian assistance.
But now, the U.N. is trying to become the world’s government, superseding national sovereignty and making of the world, one nation. And who is to run this global government? The unelected bureaucrats who staff the United Nations. And who will set policy for them? The corrupt, undemocratic nations that comprise the U.N. General Assembly.
In …

Stop UN Regulation of the Internet
13 Oct 2012 12:02 am

Behind closed doors, the nations of the world are negotiating a treaty — initiated by Russia and China — to regulate the Internet through the United Nations. There are only two reasons we know about these talks in the first place. One is through a WikiLeaks anonymous posting by a participant in the talks and the other is that a signing ceremony has been scheduled in Dubai in December of this year.
The Russian and Chinese play to get control of the Internet is one of the major themes in our …

Romney Outspending Obama on TV in Swing States
12 Oct 2012 12:03 am

Mitt Romney turned the tables on the president this week and is now spending more on television advertising in the swing states.
Buoyed by a 64 percent increase in his television spending (vs. only 2 percent for Obama) Romney is spending $22.4 million on ads in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa and Nevada compared to $17.5 million for President Obama. In the previous week — and for several weeks before that — Obama had a spending edge. In the week of Oct. 1st, Obama outspent Romney $17.2million to $14.8 million.
This emerging …

Ryan: Romney’s Best Spokesman
11 Oct 2012 12:02 am

The vice presidential debate gives Paul Ryan a unique opportunity to explain Mitt Romney’s economic programs and ideas in front of a massive national audience. We will see Paul Ryan at his best. And that is very, very good.
He is not just a vice presidential candidate. He is the author and intellectual founder of the modern Republican agenda. There can be no more profound and articulate a spokesman to defend and elaborate the Romney agenda to America.
It is rare that the ideological and substantive creator of a public policy agenda …

Foreign Money Scandal Threatens Obama
10 Oct 2012 12:09 am

In September, President Obama’s campaign received 1.8 million donations from small contributors who did not break the $200 threshold requiring that their information be reported to the Federal Elections Commission. They gave the campaign 98 percent of the $181 million it raised that month, a figure vastly higher than its take in any previous month.
Is the Obama campaign financing itself through foreign money funneled by a website owned by a private businessman, living in China, that uses the name Obama.com?
In 1997, we learned — too late — that the Bill …

How the Media is Trying to Spin the Debate
7 Oct 2012 12:03 am

Did Mitt Romney win the debate or did President Obama lose it? To those who watched, the answer is obvious: both. But in the media we hear endless explanations of why Obama lost and few comments on how effective and articulate Mitt Romney was.
Bob Woodward hypothesizes that Obama was, somehow, distracted — perhaps by some personal issues or maybe by a big international crisis we don’t know about yet. Al Gore, ever focused on climate issues, posited that the high altitude in Denver had enervated the president, as his handlers …

Bipartisanship: A New Winning Issue
6 Oct 2012 12:02 am

I was surprised when Frank Luntz’ focus group showed that the best line of the evening’s debate was Governor Romney’s rendition of working with Democrats in Massachusetts and will continue to do so as president. However, it makes a great deal of sense that this line would resonate.
While we professionals are trying to win the war of Democrats vs Republicans and blue vs red, the voters just want the war to end and the parties to come to an agreement, guided by the verdict they will deliver on election day. …

Swing State Polls are Rigged
5 Oct 2012 12:11 am

After Wednesday night’s smashing debate victory for Mitt Romney, we may expect the national and swing state polls to change in the Republican’s direction. But not by as much as they should. These polls are biased in favor of President Obama and here’s the data to prove it:
From noted Republican pollster John McLaughlin comes a clear and convincing exposŽ of the bias of media polls in the swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia.
McLaughlin reviewed exit polls in each state for the past four elections. From this data about who …

Romney’s Real Debate Victories
5 Oct 2012 12:02 am

Obviously, Mitt Romney won last night’s debate. His passion, charisma, energy, eye contact, personality, force of argument and earnest compassion contrasted with a washed out, tired, hesitant President Obama.
But seeing the debate from a professional’s eye, Romney scored a number of key victories in the turf wars that underlie this campaign. These victories are likely to last and will shape the final month of this race long after the glow from Romney’s performance has faded.
1. Romney got out from under Obama’s character assassination negative ads. By failing to discuss the …

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