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He also used public dollars to take the trip, he paid it back, but that fact of the matter he shouldn't have used it in the first place.

West Virginia is incredibly ancestrally Democratic and heavily union, plus Manchin is very popular. I said Colbert Busch "might" win, I never said she actually would, "might" is the operative word. The only reason the DCCC spent there was because of Sanford, nothing else. In a small state like Utah, family name does help and Matheson has been able to establish himself because of it, plus he's a multi-term incumbent. Sanford is not going to be defeated in 2014, this is a fiscal conservative, wealthy district, those don't fall even to conservative Democrats.

Jim Matheson's family name is gold in Utah and he's an incumbent. plus Romney got a huge boost there. McIntyre and Rahall are incumbents in rural ancestrally Democratic areas. Incumbency played a role in Massachusetts, too, Brown was never going to lose by double digits. SC-1 is a wealthy, Republican gerrymander, Democrats don't win those sort of districts. If North Charleston wasn't gerrymandered into SC-6, Colbert Busch would have won. What saved Sanford was the heavily partisan tilt of the seat, which is R+11. Colbert Busch overperformed Obama by 5%, which wasn't that bad, but it wasn't enough. It really was a long shot if you factor in the demographics and history of the seat.

It's supposed to be in the vein of Downton Abbey, at least that's what I read in an article awhile back that was describing it.

Some of what I've been listening to lately. http://youtu.be/6smX2E5GduI http://youtu.be/SFK-Q45zL_o http://youtu.be/mpgjuhJiUbs

Vesta appeared on the Monique Show shortly before she passed and talked about how the sort of heartbreak in the song Congratulations actually ended up happening to her. When she was singing the song, she was trying to cry and looked as if she was in a very sad place. For those interested, you can watch many of the Unsung episodes on soultracks.com

Millie Jackson, her story didn't really include any drama, but it was interesting because she is so real. Her commentary was hilarious.

That just adds more of a compelling argument for gun control. There are so many gun owners who are looking for any excuse to kill somebody.

Inouye wanted Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, but that would have opened up her House seat and because of Hawaii's all party special election system, Republicans could have picked it up with a plurality. Besides that, Inouye encouraged another candidate to run for Governor in 2010 rather than back Abercrombie, which ticked off Abercrombie. The last thing he was going to do was appoint who Inouye wanted. Schatz is qualified, though, having served multiple terms in the legislature and having been Lt. Governor for the past couple of years. In the case of Tim Scott, he was elected to one state House term before he ran for Congress and before that had only served one city council term. If he wasn't black, he'd have never been on the list at all.

Brown's first win was a fluke, because Martha Coakley didn't campaign. This time around, he's already lost once and would lose again to a credible candidate. He's also shown himself to be as nasty as any other politician, he ran a borderline racist campaign against Elizabeth Warren questioning her Native American heritage.

I wasn't talking about any of that, but of course you segue into something completely different in typical right-wing fashion. You posted about Obama mispronouncing names and that was what I was responding to, you know that. There was no cover up in Libya and I don't subscribe to the theory that Obama set that whole thing up, because that is just insanity. After the entire hilarious screed about how all the polls were lying and Obama was really down double digits, I wouldn't accuse anyone of having their head buried in the sand, but that's water under the bridge. Unemployment is headed downward and will continue to go that way, this recovery was never going to be an easy one, but it is happening. I didn't call you a racist and honestly I don't care if you are one or not. It seems like many right-wingers like to holler "I'm not racist" or accuse the left of calling them racist even in situations when there have been no accusations of such. Whatever you are, plenty in your party do have racial hangups and that can't be disputed. Romney lost, Obama won. The world is not going to freaking end because of that.

Obama is President for four more years, so some people are going to have to get over their anger and learn to accept it, because complaining about everything little thing is not going to change that. 332-206 hurts really bad, but it is reality, so it's time for these right-wingers to get over.

Apparently, Petraeus kept pursuing the woman after she broke off the affair, he sent her thousands of emails. That calls into question good judgment overall. Affairs are looked at as a problem with officials with high security clearance.

Romney completely underestimated the electorate, his campaign was counting on it being more white than 2008, but that didn't happen. Obama's campaign was anticipating this and allocated resources to getting out the minority vote.

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This crap about sampling is a completely non-factor, yet the right-wing loves to push it, because they need a reason to dismiss the polls and because they are completely crazy with fear that Romney could lose. Party ID is fluid, which means polls should not weighted by it and are not weighted by it (except the ultra-Republican Rasmussen, which gives 2% weighting to Republicans in their polls). A whole lot of extremist Republican who don't believe the Republican Party is far right enough have switched to independent, which makes the sample of independents fairly right leaning. Not all independents are swing voters and they certainly aren't all moderates. A different set of independents tends to show up every election. Plus, the state polls are consistent with a +2% Obama lead nationally. At this point, Obama is in the driver's seat.

I've been working for a congressional campaign and a state senate campaign for months, and right now it's all about getting out the vote. When I phone banked today, it was about checking in with people to see if they had mailed in their ballot yet and if they didn't, inform them to walk it into the polling station on Tuesday.

Romney staged a "relief" event for Hurricane Sandy. Can he get any more fake?

A new Washington Post poll has Obama up 4 in Virginia. If that holds and it certainly could hold up with a only a week to go, Romney's chances of reaching 270 are infinitesimal.

Romney was out of his element on foreign policy, everything he said was generic and devoid of substance. It was clear that he was not comfortable discussing foreign policy when he tried to shift the discussion to the economy.

When his opponent does well, Mitt Romney falters, it happened in the primary debates and it happened last night. I don't recall any Presidential candidate ever getting fact checked real time by the moderator. Obama showed up in force last night and that is what he needed to do. He more than redeemed himself from that last debate.

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Like Ted Kennedy said all those years ago when he ran against Romney for Senate, Romney is multiple choice. Romney changes positions to fit whatever he's running for.

The next debate is a town hall, which is better for Obama, since it's at least partially interactive with people. What happened is that Obama tried to just get through the debate without screwing up by playing it low key, but that doesn't always work and clearly it did not work.

The only people I've seen question it are right-wingers who want to win the election, that hardly constitutes everyone. It doesn't see like the right-wing gets how crazy some of their insinuations are? That is a scary thing.