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The Bidening
Author: BobR    Date: 10/12/2012 12:54:32

There was a lot of pressure on both candidates heading into last night's vice-presidential debate. Ryan need to appear presidential. Biden needed to purge the ghosts of the previous presidential debate. Knowing Joe, it promised to be a lively debate, and it certainly did not disappoint.

It was apparent into Ryan's first answer that Joe wasn't holding anything back. Where Ryan was attempting to maintain a steeley facade, Biden was the definition of animated. From smiles and laughs to exasperated gapes, he was rarely still. He also occassionally interrupted Ryan when Ryan told a particularly aggregious whopper.
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110 comments (Latest Comment: 10/13/2012 04:59:28 by BobR)

Free Isn't Always Freedom
Author: Raine    Date: 10/11/2012 15:02:46

A few days ago, we learned that WikiLeaks decided it wanted to interject itself into the Presidential Election Campaign with something called Vote WikiLeaks.

http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/10/wikileaks_paywall_screenshot-520x393.png


A letter written by Julian Assange and published at Information Clearinghouse states:
WikiLeaks has decided to intervene in the U.S. election campaign. Help WikiLeaks run the United States over the next four years

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127 comments (Latest Comment: 10/12/2012 12:37:01 by BobR)

The Undecider
Author: BobR    Date: 10/10/2012 13:42:10

I've made the joke that Romney changes his policy positions more often than he changes his underwear. I can understand a person slowly evolving in their viewpoints as they absorb more data, but the whiplash is getting tiresome and disturbing. How can anyone truly understand what he stands for?

This was a problem for President Obama during the debates, in that Romney was arguing positions that did not match up with his previous stances. How do you prepare for that? This graphic here (currently making the rounds) shows one example:
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82 comments (Latest Comment: 10/11/2012 00:56:53 by BobR)

Who is 'We Ask America'?
Author: Raine    Date: 10/09/2012 22:11:09

Nate Silver, master statistician, at Five Thirty Eight cites We Ask America, So does Talking Points Memo, Huffington Post, and Real Clear Politics to name a few.

The question is, Who is We ask America?
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9 comments (Latest Comment: 10/10/2012 13:42:42 by BobR)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 10/09/2012 10:24:49

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,020th day in Afghanistan. That is correct; we have entered our twelfth year at war.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,134
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,065

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 380,964,400,000 .00

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72 comments (Latest Comment: 10/09/2012 22:31:15 by Raine)

Brother Romney Opens Up and talks of Death
Author: Raine    Date: 10/08/2012 13:58:41

After 8 years of running for President, this weekend marked a milestone for the perpetually running candidate: he shared with people parts of his personal life.
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76 comments (Latest Comment: 10/09/2012 02:04:42 by BobR)

Really Maine GOP? Really?
Author: Mondobubba    Date: 10/08/2012 13:17:51

Maine GOP attacks Democratic state senate candidate for being an orc in WoW Really? That all you got? Way to write off the gamer vote
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 10/08/2012 14:12:57 by BobR)

Welcome Black People!
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 10/07/2012 14:11:55

Open today, as I've overslept.
Here is an item to discuss or puke over:
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 10/07/2012 20:29:50 by livingonli)

Big Bird and other Stories
Author: TriSec    Date: 10/06/2012 11:51:43

Good Morning.

Perhaps you're vaguely aware of a gentleman named Carroll Spinney. You're almost certainly aware of his two most famous creations....one large, yellow, bird and a rather mean grouch that lives in a trash can. Mr. Spinney is a native of Waltham...and today's blog is dedicated to him.
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7 comments (Latest Comment: 10/06/2012 16:16:09 by livingonli)

CTRL+ALT+DEL
Author: BobR    Date: 10/05/2012 13:31:37

Mitt Romney is known to be a bit of a political windsock. When he was governor of Massachusetts, he was considered fairly liberal for a Republican. He was in favor of abortion access for women. He helped create "Romneycare", which was more progressive than anything occurring at the national level.

When he ran for president in 2008, and especially so in 2012, the old Romney was cast aside, and a new Romney was revealed. The new Romney was "severely conservative", he wanted to end abortions in all cases, including rape and incest. He hedged on Romneycare, saying that was the right thing for MA, but Obamacare was horribly wrong for the country.

As he began winning primaries, and it became clear he was the front-runner and likely candidate, it began to occur to the campaign that his hard-right turn for the primaries needed to be "corrected" for the general election. Romney senior campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom let slip in a March interview that they would be shaking the etch-a-sketch to reset all his policy positions. It was a damning remark, because it put truth to the notion that Romney has no convictions to his positions. He is as comfortable changing his positions as he is changing his expensive suits.

It's unclear whether it's the general malaise and lack of enthusiasm for Romney, or the hangover from the economic crash of 2008 still hurts, or that people have looked at what President Obama has accomplished and blame Congress for what he hasn't gotten done, but Romney's poll numbers have never been very good. He has been struglling to really just pull even with Obama, and it seems pretty clear that unless a major seismic shift occurs, he is headed for defeat.

His solution? Reboot the campaign... which he has tried several times.
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