Day: August 23, 2012

Economy, economy, economy

Well well well, two U. of Colorado fellows say Romney wins handily in November.  Smart guys!

Using a state-by-state analysis of unemployment and per-capita income, academics Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry of the University of Colorado project that Romney will win 52.9% of the popular vote and 320 electoral votes. The political scientists discuss their findings here.

Their forecast suggests that President Obama will lose in almost all of the swing states, including North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida…

But the polls?

Bickers said much of the polling thus far means relatively little, with much of the electorate still not focused on the race. [He and Berry] said their model focuses on the preeminent issue of the economy. Applied retrospectively, the model [picks] the correct winner in every presidential contest going back to 1980, they said.

NBC’s Chuck-You Todd (R. Limbaugh’s name for him) says the economy’s being underplayed — not by media but by the candidates.  To which Laura Ingraham: What about the major media “obsessing” over the Mo. senatorial candidate and his “legitimate rape”:

Todd: Well, this is a chicken and egg conversation. This is a distraction. I don’t think it’s a distraction you can quote, blame on the media . . .   It’s not media bias, . . . it’s what they’re covering, and the fact is we are under-covering the economy, . . .  but you cover the campaign that is in front of you.

They cover what’s there.  It’s the game they play.  Lemmings don’t go off on their own.  It never enters their minds.  That’s our major media.  It’s their nature.

2016: Obama’s America is in town

This big anti-Obama movie, 2016: Obama’s America, is in the Chi area beginning tomorrow, 8/24. 

Oak Parkers and other west suburbanites and West Siders, it’s at Yorktown Mall. 

Rated PG (!) and starring Obama himself, it “completely surprised” one fan reviewer, who had “thought it would be an emotional exhortation to get out the vote against Obama” but instead was “a factual, unemotional documentary of Obama’s life and cultural influences.”

One might come away from feeling “somewhat empathetic to Obama’s goals and dreams,” even as it presents “objective truths of Obama’s anti-colonialist influences learned first hand from his father and mentors who were card-carrying communists, Weather Underground radicals, and the like.”

The trailer is here.

Vote stealing in Wisconsin

Asked commenter Maggie M. to clarify something a while back, and she did so, offering this which stands by itself and explains itself.  Make it by Maggie and me; I couldn’t resist adding here and there:

 I’d like to know what the real election results are minus the fraud that the Democrats have perfected over the decades.

For instance, Bush lost Wisconsin in 2000 by 10,000 votes — they have same-day registration, where you can present any kind of bill for an address and get registered; it was reported that college kids were being bussed around to vote multiple times.  ACORN had been registering phony names, etc. 
 
2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
 
2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
As we heard and read during the recall, the Racine County vote was filled with enormous discrepancies.
 
Wisconsin passed a Voter ID law in 2010 to go into effect for the 2012 election.  A [Democrat-led] Dane County Circuit Court judge has blocked the law and will not bring it up for judicial review until after the Nov. election.  [italics added]
 
So much for knowing the will of the people.
Thank you, Margaret.