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19 Sep 2012

Sell Your Trash for Obama

First, the Obama campaign came for your birthday presents. Then, they wanted your wedding gifts. Now, they’re scouting yard sales for any old waffle irons or board games, especially Twister, which is a personal favorite of Vice President Joe Biden.

What’s next? Before Nov. 6, look for them to be busting into kids’ piggy banks and shaking down lemonade stands. Republicans should counter with empty chair auctions on eBay.

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If Biden gets good at Twister, wonder if he can match Bill and Ted, and get the better of the Grim Reaper?

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17 Sep 2012

Romney’s Financial Advantage

Mitt Romney has a huge financial advantage going into the final two months of the election. He not only has raised more money than President Obama, but Romney also has been more judicious in hoarding his cash, while Obama burned through a lot of his resources in the spring and summer. Dick Morris says this should give Romney a quantitative edge in swing state advertising as the election draws closer.

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31 Aug 2012

The Incredible Shrinking Man

As the election approaches, President Kardashian — er, Obama — keeps looking smaller all the time. He no longer grants interviews with the mainstream media, but only exchanges gossip with the celebrity rags — People, Entertainment Tonight, Glamour. Says Bill Whittle in his latest installment of Afterburner, “He’s shown himself to be a base, petty, small, little man — the President of the United States, reduced to C-list venues and desperate tactics — ‘Thank you for your wedding gift money.'” H/T PJTV

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30 Aug 2012

Show Respect for Dead Voters

With the election deadlocked between Mitt Romney and President Obama, time for dead voters to rise from their graves and claim their rights. Satirist Jack West takes up their cause in a song inspired by Randy Newman’s “Short People.”

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27 Aug 2012

How Elections Get Stolen

How serious a problem is voter fraud? Without voter fraud, we wouldn’t have Obamacare, says John Fund. He explains that the Democrats acquired the 60th Senate vote they needed to end a filibuster and pass Obamacare after Al Franken was declared the winner of a Senate race in Minnesota by a slim 312-vote margin. But a subsequent examination of the voting rolls showed that at least 1,100 felons had illegally cast ballots in Minnesota.

The Franken election is but one of about 100 cases of voter fraud enumerated by Fund in his new book Who’s Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk. Another serious source for risk: Some 2 million dead people still appear on voting rolls nationwide. “I believe we should honor the dead,” says Fund, “but I don’t believe in representation without respiration.”

Fund touches on voter fraud, as well as proposed ID laws and other efforts to increase ballot security, in a talk with Glenn Reynolds for PJTV’s InstaVision.

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26 Aug 2012

Democratic Registration Craters

Democratic Party voter registration numbers have plummeted over the four years of the Obama Presidency. Dick Morris says the party has lost 1 million voters in the eight key battleground states alone. Meanwhile, Republican registration has remained static, while far more citizens are registering as independents and declining to state a preference for either one of the major parties.

Morris promises daily, even hourly, updates over the next two weeks as the Republicans and Democrats hold their national conventions.

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25 Aug 2012

How FDR Got Nominated

Dick Morris rolls back the calendar to the year 1932 and goes behind the scenes to re-create the dramatic deal-making that helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt to nail down his first presidential nomination from the Democratic National Convention. Other protagonists in this scenario include Al Smith, a longtime FDR ally turned arch-foe; media kingmaker William Randolph Hearst and John Nance Garner, a lanky Texan statesman who famously declared that the office of vice president was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”

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20 Aug 2012

Parsing the Polls

The Rasmussen and Gallup polls show Mitt Romney nursing a narrow lead over President Obama, but other polls have the incumbent up by anywhere from 7 to 9 percent. With the competing polls projecting different outcomes, which ones can you really trust?

Glenn Reynolds poses that question to Michael Barone in the latest edition of InstaVision. Barone is a veteran expert on the subject, serving as senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner and co-editor of the Almanac of American Politics. H/T PJTV

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18 Aug 2012

Obama’s Strategic Blunder

Dick Morris asserts that President Obama has made a fundamental miscalculation by “moving to the left ideologically” and “waging a fierce negative campaign against Mitt Romney based on class warfare.” As a result, Obama’s personal approval rating is dropping, declining from 59 percent to a scant 36 percent in the most recent New York Times/CBS poll.

Even so, Morris warns that neither the president nor Romney has yet attracted a majority of voters, so “it’s clear this is going to be a turnout battle. This is going to be a battle to see who can get their voters to the polls.”

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15 Aug 2012

Positively Voltaic

Reporting from the War for the Whitehouse Bunker, Andrea Bennett and Jason Copland from The Onion News Network put up a voltaic front as they struggle to maintain their excitement while a copter circles overhead, marking the countdown to the 2012 election. Knocking back rumors that Ann Romney once had a lesbian affair, the Onion crew nevertheless drops a bombshell, finding that “The average American voter is a 36-year-old Hispanic man obsessed with trivia and filled with deep shame.”

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