IMPALIN’ — Stop Sarah Palin for President in 2012

pOn Monday morning, the cast of a href=”http://today.msnbc.msn.com/” target=”_hplink”"TODAY”/a recreated Will and Kate’s royal wedding — donning costumes, wigs and British accents in honor of Halloween./ppThe NBC morning show cast went all out in celebrating the fake nuptials, with Al Roker in uniform as Prince Harry, Natalie Morales as Pippa Middleton, Savannah Guthrie as Prince Charles, and Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb as Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. /ppTODAY co-hosts Ann Curry and Matt Lauer played bride and groom, with Curry wearing a convincing duplicate of a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/sarah-burton-kate-middleton-wedding-dress_n_855299.html” target=”_hplink”Kate’s gown/a on the royal red carpet./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/royal-wedding-recreated-on-today-show-for_n_1067915.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/royal-wedding/”More on Royal Wedding/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nhb4kX3-wVuEQU7lYx8D_UzAemY/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nhb4kX3-wVuEQU7lYx8D_UzAemY/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nhb4kX3-wVuEQU7lYx8D_UzAemY/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/nhb4kX3-wVuEQU7lYx8D_UzAemY/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=2cmEYH7CHrI:JQY7iJZxrhY:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=2cmEYH7CHrI:JQY7iJZxrhY:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=2cmEYH7CHrI:JQY7iJZxrhY:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=2cmEYH7CHrI:JQY7iJZxrhY:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=2cmEYH7CHrI:JQY7iJZxrhY:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/2cmEYH7CHrI” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Royal Wedding Recreated On ‘Today’ Show For Halloween

Those who followed the 2008 presidential campaign will remember Joe the Plumber. He was the man John McCain invited up on stage and attempted to portray as the symbol of America’s “noble working class.”bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-macaray/joe-the-plumber-rides-aga_b_1064381.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-3ngI5QVSVqOxS4Pe2sA4sgz9u4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-3ngI5QVSVqOxS4Pe2sA4sgz9u4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-3ngI5QVSVqOxS4Pe2sA4sgz9u4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-3ngI5QVSVqOxS4Pe2sA4sgz9u4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1XLRY3AtjpY:qD1gZVrItu8:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1XLRY3AtjpY:qD1gZVrItu8:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1XLRY3AtjpY:qD1gZVrItu8:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1XLRY3AtjpY:qD1gZVrItu8:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1XLRY3AtjpY:qD1gZVrItu8:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/1XLRY3AtjpY” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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David Macaray: Joe the Plumber Rides Again!

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_1029.jpg” alt=”" height=”541″ width=”550″ //div psmallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small/p pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ohio-ballot-measure-raises-democrats-hopes-for-2012/2011/10/25/gIQAe3ofPM_story.html?hpid=z2″WaPo/a:/p blockquoteA controversial law sharply curtailing collective-bargaining rights for Ohio’s public employees is sinking in the polls, raising Democratic hopes that the measure’s defeat could boost their prospects in the crucial swing state in 2012. pThe law’s diminishing poll numbers have coincided with a decline in the approval ratings of Republican Gov. John R. Kasich, the measure’s most visible proponent. The drop is coming as the law’s union-led opponents have waged an energetic campaign against a measure that they say represents an overreach by the state’s Republican political leaders.br //p /blockquote Heh. it’s like reading a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/news/Issue%202″Daily Kos/a. pa href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/28/8521202-first-thoughts-a-rough-week-for-romney-and-perry”First Read/a:/p blockquoteTurning the corner on the economy? Or just more of the same? When it comes to the U.S. economy, however, it’s been a rough last six months for President Obama. But yesterday’s news — GDP growth at 2.5% for the quarter — was the best economic news the White House has had in a while, signaling that there probably won’t be a double-dip recession. But as NBC/WSJ co-pollster Bill McInturff (R) likes to remind us, every time it seems the economy has turned a corner, there turns out to be another corner. Still, with the Europe deal, coupled with the fact that the GDP numbers were real (not artificially boosted by delayed inventory replenishing or government stimulus), this is the first time that the phrase “green shoots” might actually apply./blockquote a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/27/1030540/-What-if-economic-news-gets-better”We agree/a. pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/blow-americas-exploding-pipe-dream.html?_r=1amp;ref=opinion”Charles Blow/a:/p blockquoteWe sold ourselves a pipe dream that everyone could get rich and no one would get hurt — a pipe dream that exploded like a pipe bomb when the already-rich grabbed for all the gold; when they used their fortunes to influence government and gain favors and protection; when everyone else was left to scrounge around their ankles in hopes that a few coins would fall./blockquote Now, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Occupy20Street”that sounds familiar/a. pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-pretzel-candidate/2011/10/28/gIQAPEQ8PM_story.html”George Will/a:/p blockquoteThe Republican presidential dynamic — various candidates rise and recede; Mitt Romney remains at about 25 percent support — is peculiar because conservatives correctly believe that it is important to defeat Barack Obama but unimportant that Romney be president. This is not cognitive dissonance… pRomney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate. Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the Tea Party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming./p /blockquote a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/28/1030975/-Another-Mitt-Romney-flip-flop:-Now-hes-a-global-warming-denier-and-wants-to-drill,-baby,-drill?via=search”So does that/a. pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/us/politics/tough-stance-on-immigrants-questioned-by-some-in-gop.html?_r=1amp;hp”NY Times/a:/p blockquoteWhile the Republican presidential campaign trail bristles with talk of moats, militarization and electrified fences when it comes to illegal immigration, the view among some Congressional Republicans has become more nuanced and measured. pNow many Republican freshmen, lacking the scar tissue of previous Congressional attempts to make sweeping changes in immigration law, are advocating that policy be changed in small, bite-size pieces that could help bring order to the system and redefine their party’s increasingly anti-immigration image, even as they maintain a strong push for better federal border security./p /blockquote Good luck with that. Moats, militarization and electrified fences, Jan Brewer and rejection of Texas immigration policy are the face of the GOP. pa href=”http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20127283-503544/rick-perry-im-not-ignorant-on-climate-change/”CBS/a on Rick Perry’s acknowledging he’s losing:/p blockquote”I don’t pay attention to the polls”/blockquote Uh oh. Can “the only poll that counts is election day” be far behind? Well, you’ll love the headline: blockquoteRick Perry: I’m not “ignorant” on climate change/blockquote He is, and not just about climate change. Sarah Palin’s set the bar pretty low for dumb presidential candidates, but Perry clears it. pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/world-series-game-7-st-louis-cardinals-top-texas-rangers-to-cap-improbable-run-to-title/2011/10/28/gIQA5aPuQM_story.html?hpid=z2″And a hat tip to/a:/p blockquoteWorld Series Game 7: St. Louis Cardinals top Texas Rangers to cap improbable run to title/blockquote pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O1mfzo1DhL2eE0mNHLzMpIXTe5E/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O1mfzo1DhL2eE0mNHLzMpIXTe5E/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O1mfzo1DhL2eE0mNHLzMpIXTe5E/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/O1mfzo1DhL2eE0mNHLzMpIXTe5E/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=gWQdm2hAtf8:W3gnHkMRs1k:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/gWQdm2hAtf8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: They sound like us

When you have a gender-nonconforming child, you find yourself making choices you never thought you’d have to make. My husband and I couldn’t have imagined sending our boy to kindergarten wearing a dress — or that he would thrive that way.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-hoffman/keith-ablow-transgender-child_b_1062717.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/transgender/”More on Transgender/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39HphZg_uUTy_w6_8-62hWPNiv8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39HphZg_uUTy_w6_8-62hWPNiv8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39HphZg_uUTy_w6_8-62hWPNiv8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/39HphZg_uUTy_w6_8-62hWPNiv8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cmv7BONI5P8:DM0wEz9xBLM:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cmv7BONI5P8:DM0wEz9xBLM:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cmv7BONI5P8:DM0wEz9xBLM:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cmv7BONI5P8:DM0wEz9xBLM:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cmv7BONI5P8:DM0wEz9xBLM:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/cmv7BONI5P8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Hoffman: Keith Ablow: Until You Have a Gender-Nonconforming Child, Stop Condemning Those Who Do

pParents, beware: your kids may love “The Muppets” next month, but this Jason Segel-Amy Adams film would be a whole lot less family friendly./ppNews broke on Thursday that Jason Segel and writing partner Nick Stoller are closing in on making the comedy “Sex Tape,” their next project. The film, a href=”http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jason-segel-nicholas-stoller-sex-tape-254242″ target=”_hplink”according to The Hollywood Reporter/a, is about a married couple who, with a night off from their kids, decide to make a sex tape. Of course, it somehow gets stolen, leading them on a frantic search to find it (the guess here is that their kids somehow have it)./ppStoller directed Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” which Segel wrote, while they co-wrote the upcoming “Muppets” film, in which Segel and Adams star. According to Variety, there are a number of actresses who could play Segel’s wife — including Adams, his girlfriend in the puppet extravaganza. Also on the list provided by reporter Jeff Sneider are Emily Blunt (who just starred with Segel in “The Five-Year Engagement), Rose Byrne and Jennifer Garner, all of whom would make Segel a very lucky man./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/jason-segels-sex-tape-who_n_1036007.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/video/”More on Video/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/75Gs0nWOk46ci9yS9buKSWVXCo4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/75Gs0nWOk46ci9yS9buKSWVXCo4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/75Gs0nWOk46ci9yS9buKSWVXCo4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/75Gs0nWOk46ci9yS9buKSWVXCo4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=zLLbjwyVqxA:pKVE-z2–so:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=zLLbjwyVqxA:pKVE-z2–so:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=zLLbjwyVqxA:pKVE-z2–so:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=zLLbjwyVqxA:pKVE-z2–so:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=zLLbjwyVqxA:pKVE-z2–so:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/zLLbjwyVqxA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Jason Segel’s ‘Sex Tape’: Who Is The Leading Lady Going To Be?

pOrlando Jones may be best known for his days as a comedic TV pitchman. This latest suggestion, though, is no laughing matter./ppThe former soda slinger who spent years telling people to “Make 7 Up Yours” fired off a series of tweets on October 22nd following the death of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. After discussing Kanye West’s trip to Occupy Wall Street, Jones wrote, “Libyan Rebels kill Gaddafi, if American liberals want respect they better stop listening to Aretha kill Sarah Palin(:”/ppSmiley face or not, Jones received a number of angry tweets in response to his comment, and responded to a number of them a day after his initial remark./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/orlando-jones-liberals-should-kill-sarah-palin_n_1030021.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DLoEXzJXUw084-98-N_vD7TEHhQ/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DLoEXzJXUw084-98-N_vD7TEHhQ/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DLoEXzJXUw084-98-N_vD7TEHhQ/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DLoEXzJXUw084-98-N_vD7TEHhQ/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=406BbvlfhUw:poZvw-pdFws:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=406BbvlfhUw:poZvw-pdFws:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=406BbvlfhUw:poZvw-pdFws:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=406BbvlfhUw:poZvw-pdFws:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=406BbvlfhUw:poZvw-pdFws:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/406BbvlfhUw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Orlando Jones: Liberals Should Kill Sarah Palin

iThe Postmistress/i offers an inimitable blend of World War II era history, stunning heroines and a very different look at the power of how we once communicated versus how we communicate today.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-cococcia/sarah-blake-the-postmistress_b_1027081.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/writing/”More on Writing/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TZhfidS0B0Zo-rZuvqKK9FF11XI/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TZhfidS0B0Zo-rZuvqKK9FF11XI/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TZhfidS0B0Zo-rZuvqKK9FF11XI/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TZhfidS0B0Zo-rZuvqKK9FF11XI/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9iHQmMEm-LY:nkmDBvW5sfA:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9iHQmMEm-LY:nkmDBvW5sfA:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9iHQmMEm-LY:nkmDBvW5sfA:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9iHQmMEm-LY:nkmDBvW5sfA:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9iHQmMEm-LY:nkmDBvW5sfA:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/9iHQmMEm-LY” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Laura Cococcia: On The Postmistress: Interview With Sarah Blake

pUltimately, “Martha Marcy May Marlene” is a film about secrets, both those kept between characters, and the ones kept from the audience. /ppIn his debut film, writer and director Sean Durkin presents only the barest of vital contextual information — about the trauma that leads a teenage girl to run away from home, or about the cult-like commune that she joins, forcing emphasis on every individual word and twitch from his breakout star, Elizabeth Olsen, the 22-year-old sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley. /ppMartha eventually escapes the commune, and out of pure desperation, lands at the home of her estranged sister Lucy, played by Sarah Paulson (”Serenity,” “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”). There is tension between the two upon Martha’s return; the sisters hadn’t seen each other in years. Before filming began, Paulson, Olsen and Durkin met to establish their backstory, but made a point to never clue the audience in on the past. As Paulson told The Huffington Post in a recent phone conversation, that decision created a more realistic film experience./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/martha-marcy-may-marlene-_n_1021084.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/celebrities/”More on Celebrities/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LiAkP5uel3Uoi0MUgFzMPgAAfCw/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LiAkP5uel3Uoi0MUgFzMPgAAfCw/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LiAkP5uel3Uoi0MUgFzMPgAAfCw/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/LiAkP5uel3Uoi0MUgFzMPgAAfCw/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cuhhSb5TK_8:WAvVbJovNDw:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cuhhSb5TK_8:WAvVbJovNDw:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cuhhSb5TK_8:WAvVbJovNDw:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=cuhhSb5TK_8:WAvVbJovNDw:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=cuhhSb5TK_8:WAvVbJovNDw:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/cuhhSb5TK_8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/426/iowa.gif” alt=”" height=”377″ width=”550″ //div pThere’s some good debate about who is really ahead in Iowa right now. In a typically smart article, a href=”http://www.tnr.com/article/the-permanent-campaign/96476/cain-perry-romney-iowa-caucus”Ed Kilgore/a writes:/p blockquoteThe biggest reason why Iowa remains an open ballgame is that the two candidates currently dominating the polls, in Iowa and nationally, haven’t really committed to competing in the state./blockquote So, with a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/are-herman-cains-15-minutes-finally-over/2011/10/20/gIQARIkb0L_blog.html”Herman Cain/a not really being a serious candidate and with Mitt Romney barely competing in a state that doesn’t like him, Kilgore makes a great case that Rick Santorum, Rick Perry or some other dark horse might win. After all, it is an unrepresentative caucus open to the fringy “business-plan candidates,” Sarah Palin being the prototype (in it for the nbsp;boost to book sales and branding.) a href=”http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/perry_survives_craziness_aboun.html”Jonathan Chait/a, writing in the emNew York Magazine/em before this last debate: blockquoteOnce again, large portions of the discussion were given over to a crazy-off among hopeless candidates running as part of a business plan rather than to become president. Michele Bachmann blamed the financial crisis on overregulation. Newt Gingrich seemed to want to throw Chris Dodd and Barney Frank in prison. Gingrich defended the notion that the Affordable Care Act contained death panels. The moderators did not seem to know what to make of this. The most sublime moment of the crazy-off occurred when the moderators called in Bachmann, on her authority as a former tax lawyer (which is virtually nil), to assess Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan (which is beyond crazy)./blockquote But Kilgore’s point is well taken. Iowa is an unprepresentative caucus very much tilted toward the crazy wing of the Republican Party. Though it might be the biggest faction, the fact that they are so crazy would mean a huge discounting of the winner similar to what we saw when Michelle bachmann won the Ames straw poll, or what we see when Ron Paul wins any poll. pa href=”http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96413/gop-primaries-field-business-plan-candidates”Jonathan Bernstein/a makes the case that only Perry and Romney are genuine presidential material candidates, with the process allowing the door to open to the people who want to sell books:/p blockquoteTheir incentive is to stake out the most extreme positions and court controversy in order to get themselves noticed by the most partisan customers of conservative books, talk shows, and other products, instead of developing carefully constructed issue positions designed to build party-wide support; their role model is Ann Coulter, not Ronald Reagan or Bob Dole./blockquote pThe GOP field’s poor quality candidates means the Iowa winner would be a loser. If so, Romney wins Iowa and it’s over. And if, as seems likely, it’s a not-Romney that wins, who will care? An Iowa win won’t make Rick Santorum into a GOP primary winner. And that means in the end, Iowa loses./p pExpect a lot more talk about ending this ‘first in the nation’ nonsense. Iowa is only bringing it on itself./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CZRC9Kq6MYknSBVFEmLl9MzBobw/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CZRC9Kq6MYknSBVFEmLl9MzBobw/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CZRC9Kq6MYknSBVFEmLl9MzBobw/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CZRC9Kq6MYknSBVFEmLl9MzBobw/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=iUDxhawcgls:ajDn-tWk7CA:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/iUDxhawcgls” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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pConservatives would love for you to believe the myth that the traditional media (which they a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/08/15/371725/-MSM-vs-Traditional-Media”pejoratively call/a the MSM) is in the tank for Obama, but you don’t need to look far to find out that they are full of it. a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/30/1011990/-Obamas-half-uncle-busted-for-DUI,-a-presidency-now-imperiled?via=blog_612492″For example:/a/p div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/3/obamaunclescreengrabcnn.jpeg” alt=”CNN screen capture” height=”309″ width=”550″ //div It’s hard to look at that and believe the myth, but if you’re the type that wants hard numbers a href=”http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B35AA0AB-8399-402E-A5DE-ABE6933481BC”Pew has now delivered them/a. Over the last five months: blockquoteObama has received the most unremittingly negative press of any of the presidential candidates by a wide margin, with negative assessments outweighing positive ones by four to one. pPew found that just 9 percent of the president’s coverage was positive, while 34 percent was negative — a stark contrast to the 32 percent positive coverage and 20 percent negative that it found Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the most covered Republican, received./p p“His coverage has been substantially more negative in every one of the last 23 weeks of the last five months — even the week that Bin Laden was killed,” Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said of the president’s treatment in the media compared with that of the GOP field./p /blockquote pNine percent of the coverage about President Obama was rated positive compared with 34% negative and 57% neutral. Meanwhile, Rick Perry was the most favorably covered, with 32% positive and 20% negative. Although his coverage has turned negative over the past nbsp;couple of weeks, over the full five month period the tone of his coverage was positive as was that of his highest profile colleagues./p blockquoteThe top four most favorably covered candidates, the study found, were all tea party favorites: Perry was followed by Palin, with 31 percent positive coverage and 22 percent negative; Michele Bachmann, with 31 percent positive coverage and 23 percent negative; and Herman Cain, with 28 percent positive coverage and 23 percent negative. pMitt Romney’s positive and negative coverage were almost in a dead heat at 26 percent and 27 percent, respectively./p /blockquote pPew’s full report is a href=”http://www.journalism.org/node/26958″here/a and the top line numbers are a href=”http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/topline_2.pdf”here/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3s-QY1MLnqrSO4rcYKyQHGnxnHM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3s-QY1MLnqrSO4rcYKyQHGnxnHM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3s-QY1MLnqrSO4rcYKyQHGnxnHM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/3s-QY1MLnqrSO4rcYKyQHGnxnHM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=kWqz-TNvZZ0:MlB3mGFgngk:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/kWqz-TNvZZ0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Pew study: 2012 Republican candidates getting more favorable coverage than Obama

div class=”dkimg-c”a href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/73/Elections-MorningDigest.jpg” alt=”Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest banner” height=”100″ width=”550″ //a div class=”dkimg-cap”Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. a href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest”Sign up here/a./div /div bLeading Off/b: p• a href=”http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/10/14/bob-barr-contemplating-a-run-against-tom-graves-80%93-and-a-return-to-congress/” name=”bobbarr” id=”bobbarr”GA-14/a: Now here’s a blast from the past: Former Rep. Bob Barr, one of the most notorious of the 13 House impeachment managers from the dark days of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is reportedly considering a comeback bid, according to Joe Galloway. Delightfully, Barr got screwed in redistricting not long after the impeachment saga concluded and then turned into a GOP gadfly by running for president on the Libertarian ticket and hectoring his former party about the Patriot Act and DOMA. But now he supposedly wants to return to the Republican fold and challenge freshman Rep. Tom Graves in the primary. Graves has only held this seat since a special election last year, and redistricting has already given him a bunch of new constituents. What’s more, as you can see from a href=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/73/Georgia_1990s_Congressional_Districts.png”this map/a of Georgia’s 1990s-era congressional districts, Barr’s old 7th CD overlaps considerably a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/15/1015616/-Georgia-Redistricting:-A-view-of-the-new-map?detail=hide”with the new 14th/a. So perhaps ol’ Bob Barr could put a scare into the incumbent, and I’d definitely enjoy watching Graves try to hammer the crap out of him./p pb3Q Fundraising/b:/p pNow that quarterly reports have been filed, we’ll be bringing you our complete House fundraising roundup soon. In the meantime, here are a few other numbers:/p p• a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/HotlineReid/status/124818315960004609″AZ-Sen/a: Wil Cardon (R): $402K raised, in two months (and no self-money)/p p• bCT-Sen/b: a href=”http://www.dailyructions.com/tong-fundraising-stalls-senate-candidates-take-plummets-in-his-second-quarter-in-the-race/”William Tong (D)/a: $155K raised, $350K cash-on-hand (note the burn rate—he’s raised $725K total); Susan Bysiewicz (D) (via email): $322K raised, $844K cash-on-hand, and note the statement included in her press release:/p blockquote”Connecticut is a state where it is not about having the most resources it is about having enough resources to communicate. With nearly $1.3 million total raised so far we are clearly on a path to have enough resources to communicate Susan’s message for the primary election,” said campaign manager Jonathan Ducote./blockquote p• bIN-Sen/b: a href=”http://www.joeforindiana.com/news/release-donnelly-has-raised-more-than-any-lugar-challenger-ever”Rep. Joe Donnelly (D)/a: $355K raised, $874K cash-on-hand (also, props to Donnelly for posting his a href=”http://files.www.joeforindiana.com/Form_3_Q3_2011.pdf”full FEC filing/a in PDF form on his website); a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/shellawish/status/124586478729826304″Richard Mourdock (R)/a: $330K raised (plus $100K of his own money), $301K cash-on-hand/p p• a href=”http://www.politico.com/blogs/davidcatanese/1011/Steelman_loans_herself_400K.html”MO-Sen/a: Sarah Steelman (R): $96K raised, but $56K cash-on-hand thanks to a $400K self-loan/p p• a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/FixAaron/status/124853769862262785″NE-Sen/a: Sen. Ben Nelson (D): $443K raised/p p• a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/FixAaron/status/124943548498980864″NM-Sen/a: Hector Balderas (D): $250K raised; John Sanchez (R): $161K raised/p p• a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/DavidMDrucker/status/124934239669063680″TX-Sen/a: Tom Leppert (R): $640K raised (plus $500K of his own money), $4.14 mil cash-on-hand/p pbSenate/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.politico.com/blogs/davidcatanese/1011/Harry_Mitchell_for_Don_Bivens.html”AZ-Sen/a: Former Rep. Harry Mitchell (who may be plotting a congressional comeback bid of his own) just endorsed former state party chair Don Bivens for the Democratic nomination. Bivens, in fact, is the only guy running so far, but if you’ve been following along recently, you’ll know that a lot of Dems are trying to recruit the (extremely reluctant) former Surgeon General Richard Carmona into the race./p p• a href=”http://www.politicspa.com/welch-joins-crowded-senate-primary/28674/”PA-Sen/a: As expected, businessman Steve Welch went ahead and joined the field of GOP hopefuls aiming to take on Sen. Bob Casey. This gang of Republicans is notable both for its size (we’re up to something like eight candidates now) and for its… shall we say… lack of stature./p p• a href=”http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/07/on-the-4th-dpo/” name=”nytnelson” id=”nytnelson”NE-Sen, OR-Sen/a: So, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/14/1026142/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-Democrats-Republicans-both-plan-more-state-Senate-recalls?detail=hide”that New York Times story last week/a, which proclaimed we were entering a new era of co-ordination on issue ads between candidates and outside groups? Not so new. In fact, back in 2008, now-Sen. Jeff Merkley filmed some issue ads that were paid for by the Democratic Party of Oregon. (You can watch one at the link.) I find it pretty frustrating that the NYT didn’t seem to do sufficient legwork on this piece (though I blame myself for not being more skeptical), but what makes it even odder is that Ben Nelson’s current campaign manager, Paul Johnson, served as a strategist for Merkley when the DPO ads were deployed!/p pSo I don’t know how this didn’t come up when they interviewed Johnson, though the piece did off-handedly mention that Nebraska “party officials financed similar ads for Mr. Nelson in 2006.” I made the mistake of assuming those 2006 ads were of sufficiently different character from the newest spots as to warrant the Times selling this as some kind of novel development, but it sounds like this is all actually rather old news. (And indeed, my understanding is that Merkley borrowed the strategy from Nelson’s 2006 effort.) The only thing really notable is that groups like Crossroads may try to adopt this approach, which would mean lots more money for these kinds of ads. But concept behind the ads themselves is several cycles old./p pbGubernatorial/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.ktvq.com/news/jim-lynch-announces-candidacy-for-governor/”MT-Gov/a: Well that’s odd. I had thought that former Montana Department of Transportation director Jim Lynch was considering a bid for governor as a Democrat. After all, he had been tapped for the DoT job by Dem Gov. Brian Schweitzer, and at least a href=”http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_41527c4c-cdb7-5d95-9c28-cfecd2a7b555.html”one newspaper report/a suggested he was interested in running for Team Blue. But with Schweitzer appointees, you never know—his current Lt. Gov. is (or perhaps was) a Republican. And so, too, with Lynch, who is now the tenth candidate to announce he’ll seek the iGOP/i gubernatorial nod. (You may also recall that Lynch a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/16/1007294/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-8-16?detail=hide”left his transportation job/a abruptly this summer, under a little bit of a cloud.)/p pbHouse/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.pe.com/local-news/politics/politics-headlines-index/20111013-elections-2012-wickman-seeks-congressional-seat.ece”CA-31/a: Nonprofit founder Renea Wickman, who lost a race for the state Assembly last year, says she’ll seek the Democratic nomination in the new 31st CD. This district is probably best thought of as the descendant of Dem Rep. Joe Baca’s 43rd, even though Baca is seeking re-election in the new (and bluer) 35th next door. Democrat Russ Warner, who has made a few unsuccessful congressional bids, is also running for this seat. It’s not clear, though, who will represent the GOP here: Rep. Jerry Lewis may run here or, more likely, in the new 8th—or he could very well retire./p p• a href=”http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_b48598e0-93d4-5db8-bf1d-39d30dfd29d7.html”CA-52/a: Though he’s refusing to confirm anything on the record, Port of San Diego Commission Chairman Scott Peters is apparently gearing up to run against GOP Rep. Brian Bilbray. We first mentioned Peters as a possible candidate a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/15/1006869/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-8-15?detail=hide”back in August/a; things have been quiet since then, but now he’s reportedly staffing up—and tells the North Country Times he’ll “be in touch soon.” Two other Democrats are already running, Assemblywoman Lori Saldana and businessman Bob Nascenzi; if Peters gets in, he and Saldana would probably be the top contenders for the Dem nomination. Meanwhile, John Boehner is hosting a high-dollar fundraiser for Bilbray this weekend in the resort town of Coronado./p p• a href=”http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=242747″GA-09/a: Clifton McDuffie, a former head of the Hall County Chamber of Commerce, says he may join the GOP field seeking Georgia’s brand-new (and incumbent-less) House seat./p p• a href=”http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/02e624f48f744bc8a9161418e79e2838/HI–Police-Union-Endorsement/”HI-02/a: The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers just announced it would back former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann for the 2nd CD, which I think may be the first union endorsement in this open-seat race./p p• a href=”http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/13/2689363/8th-district-gop-field-grows.html”NC-08/a: Richard Hudson, a former district director for ex-Rep. Robin Hayes, is getting into the race to try to defeat the man who beat his old boss, Dem Rep. Larry Kissell. This is interesting because talk surfaced a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/07/1023728/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-The-strange-case-of-the-reluctant-Surgeon-General?detail=hide”just a week ago/a that Hayes himself could seek to return to his former seat. So perhaps Hudson’s entry means Hayes doesn’t have any such plans./p p• a href=”http://ndpolitics.areavoices.com/?p=92136″ND-AL/a: North Dakota Tax Commissioner Cory Fong says he won’t seek the Republican nomination for his state’s open House seat. Meanwhile, Public Service Commissioner a href=”http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/fc0447f671e744c3b0d443fe122579b7/ND–Cramer-Congress/”Kevin Cramer says/a (in the AP’s words) there’s an “even chance” he’ll join the GOP field./p p• a href=”http://twitter.com/#!/greggiroux/statuses/124950914250444800″ name=”wilson6″ id=”wilson6″OH-06/a: Another good catch by Greg Giroux: Former Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson, who’s been talking about making a comeback bid, has paperwork with the FEC to create a new campaign committee. This would set him up for a rematch against GOP freshman Bill Johnson, and, LSAT game-style, it would start to limit the options for other Democrats looking to run next year. Two other 2010 victims, John Boccieri and Zack Space, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/21/1018735/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-9-21?detail=hide”also expressed interest/a in the 6th CD, but unless they want a difficult primary iand/i a difficult general, then I suspect they’ll look elsewhere if Wilson pulls the trigger. Both have other options, though: Boccieri could seek a rematch in the 16th and Space in the 7th./p pbOther Races/b:/p p• a href=”http://weareohio.com/landing/marvid.html” name=”quinn” id=”quinn”OH SB5/a: We Are Ohio is out with a new ad featuring Marlene Quinn, the great-grandmother whose words were now-infamously stolen by the front group Building a Better Ohio to make it appear as though she supports the new anti-collective bargaining bill SB5, on the ballot next month as Issue 2. In this spot, Quinn reiterates her firm “no” vote on Issue 2, and lambastes Better Ohio as “desperate” for twisting her first ad:/p div class=”dkimg-c”iframe width=”550″ height=”309″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/JnUhA9xWfjk” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/div bGrab Bag/b: p• a href=”http://www.scribd.com/doc/68804418/Congressional-District-Maps-106th-Congress”Congressional District Maps/a (PDF): Here’s another useful link from the creative minds at SSP Labs. It’s a PDF of congressional districts for all 50 states as they existed in the late 1990s, taken from a href=”http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/browse-cd-99.html”here/a. The drawings are not so great for dense urban areas, but they do the trick for most CDs and most states—plus, old maps are generally pretty hard to find online. So bookmark and enjoy! (Warning: Large PDF.)/p p• bPPP/b: Public Policy Polling miscellany from three states: a href=”http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/iowa-miscellany-1.html”Iowa/a, a href=”http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/nebraska-miscellany.html”Nebraska/a, and a href=”http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/north-carolinians-on-sports-senators.html”North Carolina/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QEmTKBTydzwQ8TZXvvDX48Kcvvc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QEmTKBTydzwQ8TZXvvDX48Kcvvc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QEmTKBTydzwQ8TZXvvDX48Kcvvc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QEmTKBTydzwQ8TZXvvDX48Kcvvc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=NfmE5Leo_8w:oOcAAcElc24:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/NfmE5Leo_8w” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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SEC Struggles Over How To Shed Light On Companies That Use African ‘Conflict Minerals’

div class=”dkimg-c”object width=”550″ height=”320″ id=”dktv-1″ classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640″ / param name=”FlashVars” value=”launch=44892421amp;width=550amp;height=320″ / param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” / param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” / param name=”wmode” value=”opaque” / embed name=”msnbc225278″ src=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640″ width=”550″ height=”320″ flashvars=”launch=44892421amp;width=550amp;height=320″ allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” wmode=”opaque” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash” //object div class=”dkimg-cap”Rick Perry’s wife Anita delivered a Palin-style woe-is-me speech yesterdaybr / nbsp;/div /div Anita Perry, Rick Perry’s wife, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/13/1026119/-Anita-Perry:-We-are-being-brutalized-by-our-opponents-and-by-our-own-party?via=blog_589703″yesterday/a: blockquoteWe are being brutalized by our opponents, and our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him, because of his faith. He is the only true conservative – well, there are some true conservatives. And they’re there for good reasons. And they may feel like God called them too. But I truly feel like we are here for that purpose. Last week, someone came up to Rick and gave him the scripture. He said Rick, I want to tell you God is testing you./blockquote pRick Perry a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/rick-perry-agrees-with-wife-he-has-been-brutalized-for-christian-faith/”today/a:/p blockquoteI’ll stand by my wife. I think she’s right on both cases. My understanding is that she said I’m the most conservative candidate in the race and ‘he’s a Christian.’ So I haven’t got anything I can add to that and she’s hit me on my mark both times there./blockquote pSpeaking of nasty political attacks on personal faith, here’s what he had to say about Robert Jeffress, the pastor who attacked Mitt Romney’s faith:/p blockquoteI have a lot of people that endorse me but I don’t endorse what they say or what they believe for that matter and that’s the case on this one. I can’t control those individuals who go out and say something who may be for me in a race./blockquote pActually, however, Perry’s campaign a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/07/1024031/-Perry-campaign-approved-speaking-role-of-anti-Mormon-pastor-who-criticized-Romneys-faith?via=blog_589703″approved/a the selection of Jeffress to introduce him at the Values Voters Summit and Perry himself a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/07/1023954/-Perry-camp-plays-the-Mormon-card?detail=hideamp;via=blog_589703″thanked/a Jeffress effusively for his introduction and endorsement, so not only is Perry’s attempt to dismiss Jeffress total bull, so too is his woe-is-me complaint about getting attacked by his party’s establishment because he happens to be a Christian./p pMaybe it’s just because I’m not a fundamentalist Republican, but I really don’t understand why Rick Perry is tearing pages out of Sarah Palin’s failed playbook, especially today. Later today, he’s going to release some sort of jobs and energy plan, but all this nonsense about being persecuted for his faith is a complete distraction from that./p pAnd instead of continuing to make (or at least be complicit in) hamfisted attacks on Romney’s faith, I don’t understand why Perry isn’t going after Romney’s two biggest weaknesses: his flip-flops and Romneycare. Perry hasn’t said word one about a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/11/1025136/-Romney-advisers-helped-Obama-administration-craft-health-reform-law?via=blog_589703″the report/a from earlier this week that Mitt Romney’s advisers helped the Obama administration draft its health care reform law. Maybe there’s some sort of brilliant eleven dimensional chess going on here, but to me, it just seems dumb./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NzV6KURtLpX8ruehOsWjZJehd7s/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NzV6KURtLpX8ruehOsWjZJehd7s/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NzV6KURtLpX8ruehOsWjZJehd7s/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/NzV6KURtLpX8ruehOsWjZJehd7s/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=zYZ5Ky-JWGI:7E3SAZYxzb4:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/zYZ5Ky-JWGI” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Rick Perry defends his wife’s claim that he’s been ‘brutalized’ for his faith

pJoel Schumacher’s emTrespass/em is one of those thrillers - like emThe Panic Room/em or, to go back to the source, strongThe Petrified Forest/strong or emDesperate Hours/em - that’s like a one-way street. There’s only one way out and, in this case, it’s a dead end./ppThe story of a rich couple and their daughter who become the victim of a brutal home invasion, this script by Karl Gajdusek is so by-the-numbers that you can practically see the stencil marks. Sure, there are minor variations that merely reflect the modern world; yet even the inclusion of cell phones and elaborate electronic safes and home-security systems can’t keep this predictable thriller from ending up about where you expect, with pistols and nailguns./ppThe film stars two actors who have come to define contemporary box-office poison: Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage. They play a married couple, Kyle and Sarah Miller, who live in a sprawling modern manse so remote and chilly-looking it could double as a conceptual meat locker. It’s meant to reflect the state of their marriage, with the work-obsessed Kyle (he’s a diamond dealer) ignoring the already ignored-feeling Sarah. They have a teen-age daughter, Avery (Liana Liberato), who sneaks out on the evening in question to go to a party her parents have forbidden her from attending./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marshall-fine/movie-review-itrespassi_b_1008686.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/movies/”More on Movies/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pYywqVZ4C0BG3f4KRvtgwdl-Vc8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pYywqVZ4C0BG3f4KRvtgwdl-Vc8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pYywqVZ4C0BG3f4KRvtgwdl-Vc8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pYywqVZ4C0BG3f4KRvtgwdl-Vc8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=p8IUq2i7RFM:rbsoRRqo9ww:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=p8IUq2i7RFM:rbsoRRqo9ww:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=p8IUq2i7RFM:rbsoRRqo9ww:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=p8IUq2i7RFM:rbsoRRqo9ww:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=p8IUq2i7RFM:rbsoRRqo9ww:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/p8IUq2i7RFM” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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In the “Frontrunners” category, we had four names two months ago: Bachmann, Palin, Perry, and Romney. Two of these are gone, and one has risen to take their place, leaving us with three frontrunners (at least, for now).bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/gop-candidates-2012_b_1008037.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/elections-2012/”More on Elections 2012/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UE89nFvLM-5iprBgTYEsrfmISdM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UE89nFvLM-5iprBgTYEsrfmISdM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UE89nFvLM-5iprBgTYEsrfmISdM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UE89nFvLM-5iprBgTYEsrfmISdM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YAQFIcvmjz8:2hKjSUjMUV8:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YAQFIcvmjz8:2hKjSUjMUV8:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=YAQFIcvmjz8:2hKjSUjMUV8:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=YAQFIcvmjz8:2hKjSUjMUV8:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=YAQFIcvmjz8:2hKjSUjMUV8:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/YAQFIcvmjz8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/GOP-PrimaryDebate.jpg” alt=”GOP 2012 Debate” height=”100″ width=”550″ / div defang_class=”dkimg-capquot;”Talk about it here. Watch it live on Bloomberg TV or a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics?hpid=z1″washingtonpost.com/a.br //div /div pspan class=”update”b5:11 PM PT/b:/span OWS makes it’s debate debut, in the form of a question about OWS from Tumulty to Gingrich. Gingrich says Barney Frank and Chris Dodd should be thrown in jail. And that aside from “a few left wing agitators” OWS protesters are virtually the same thing as the tea party./p pspan class=”update”b5:14 PM PT/b:/span Okay what we’ve learned from Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann is that the government (CRA, Fannie/Freddie, and the Fed) caused the financial crisis, and that Democrats ought to be thrown in jail for what happened during the Bush years./p pspan class=”update”b 5:15 PM PT/b:/span Rick Santorum says his economic plan is much better than 9-9-9 because he wants to eliminate the corporate income tax and get rid of every single regulation put in place since Bush left office./p pspan class=”update”b 5:17 PM PT/b:/span Rick Perry’s facial expressions are priceless. He looks extremely irritated at times. Maybe he’s wondering why Jon Huntsman, currently polling at 0%, is still on the stage./p pspan class=”update”b 5:19 PM PT/b:/span Newt Gingrich is just fondling the GOP base here. I mean he’s got them hot and bothered. He wants Chris Dodd arrested. He wants Barney Frank behind bars. And now he says Sarah Palin got attacked unfairly: Obamacare really was about “death panels.”/p pspan class=”update”b 5:22 PM PT/b:/span Michele Bachmann is following up on Gingrich’s death panels comment, going into detail on what she claims is a panel of 15 people who will make health care decisions for individual Americans. Of course, that’s total bullshit, but like the stuff Newt shoveled, it’s what Republicans want to hear./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PzP4labKhwHmlKnYI29ml1OXe7o/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PzP4labKhwHmlKnYI29ml1OXe7o/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PzP4labKhwHmlKnYI29ml1OXe7o/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PzP4labKhwHmlKnYI29ml1OXe7o/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=BdIP0L8WdBg:o8h3pAalJ7s:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/BdIP0L8WdBg” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Eight more reasons to vote for Obama: Republicans debate the economy #2

pemEven though Sarah Palin isn’t running for president, one Republican candidate is stepping into the void and asking a religious figure to pls refudiate something. After tonight’s Republican debate, America’s long national nightmare of not knowing Michele Bachmann’s thoughts on Slovakian politics will be over. And because retiring senators can’t get back at the president by ripping out the “o”s from their office keyboards and gluing shut the desk drawers, Jim Webb instead chose to vote against the American Jobs Act. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Tuesday, October 11th, 2011/em:/ppstrongJOBS BILL STRUGGLING IN SENATE/STRONG - The American Jobs Act, paid for with a tax on millionaires, is tanking harder than Slovakia’s government tonight, thanks in large part to opposition to moderate-to-conservative Democratic senators. The White House, meanwhile, spent the day tweeting about people’ll who’ll be hurt by the failure to pass this bill. The Senate does know how to pass a bill wagging its finger at China for currency manipulation, a bill the White House opposes. The House will resume its fantasy war against the environment this evening, as well as move forward on three trade deals that are billed as job creators. Yet the pacts come along with assistance for workers whose jobs will lost. But, anyway, yeah, Occupy Wall Street. What a bunch of idiots, iamirite/i?/ppStrongSEN. SHAHEEN NEARLY MISSES JOBS VOTE TO RECEIVE MEANINGLESS AWARD/STRONG - A cheap faux gold plaque affixed to a wood-plastic composite base caused a lot of trouble today. strongNew Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen nearly missed tonight’s vote on the American Jobs Act so she could receive the “New Englander of the Year” award from the New England Council. /strong The organization recognized Shaheen for her work on behalf of New England’s economy (Jeanne Shaheen invented the pink Red Sox hat???). Harry Reid held the jobs bill until Shaheen returned to Washington. [A HREF="http://huff.to/p5cumk" TARGET="_HPLINK"HuffPost's Elise Foley/A] /pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/huffpost-hill—jobs-bill_n_1005968.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/video/”More on Video/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R3pZfg6tYcwrLptDfMSTp0qYcqA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R3pZfg6tYcwrLptDfMSTp0qYcqA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R3pZfg6tYcwrLptDfMSTp0qYcqA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/R3pZfg6tYcwrLptDfMSTp0qYcqA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=kxasfffjtB0:GJzmX_kBX5c:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=kxasfffjtB0:GJzmX_kBX5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=kxasfffjtB0:GJzmX_kBX5c:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=kxasfffjtB0:GJzmX_kBX5c:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=kxasfffjtB0:GJzmX_kBX5c:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/kxasfffjtB0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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HUFFPOST HILL - Jobs Bill Sacked

pNEW YORK mdash; On a busy day of news, the slurred voice of Michael Jackson from beyond the grave is as valuable as “Thriller” for the HLN television network./ppThe day the Jackson tape emerged last week during the manslaughter trial of the late singer’s doctor, Conrad Murray, Steve Jobs died, Sarah Palin ended a presidential candidacy that never began and anti-Wall Street demonstrations exploded in New York./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/hln-thriving-with-laser-f_n_1003464.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/cnn/”More on CNN/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOvhisszEczIDPTmGpp3bkiXBbA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOvhisszEczIDPTmGpp3bkiXBbA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOvhisszEczIDPTmGpp3bkiXBbA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QOvhisszEczIDPTmGpp3bkiXBbA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ao0IAAEzWd4:FpjSuPywRqU:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ao0IAAEzWd4:FpjSuPywRqU:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ao0IAAEzWd4:FpjSuPywRqU:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=ao0IAAEzWd4:FpjSuPywRqU:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=ao0IAAEzWd4:FpjSuPywRqU:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/ao0IAAEzWd4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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HLN Thriving With Laser Focus On Court Cases

pThere is a key bloc of Republican voters whose ambivalence has turned the GOP nomination contest into an erratic mix of roller-coaster ride and dating game. They flirted with Donald Trump and then embraced Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) before jumping on and off the Rick Perry bandwagon. At different times they yearned for Govs. Mitch Daniels of Indiana and Chris Christie of New Jersey and, always, some have cast a longing eye in the direction of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin./ppThe one point on which they have been most consistent, however, is their resistance to the candidate who has been making his case the longest: former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/mitt-romney-camaign-gop-voters_n_1003166.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/republican-party/”More on Republican Party/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uQGaQZU72FrIaZ0N_3VyyuYcLp8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uQGaQZU72FrIaZ0N_3VyyuYcLp8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uQGaQZU72FrIaZ0N_3VyyuYcLp8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/uQGaQZU72FrIaZ0N_3VyyuYcLp8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=K7RMpgPzFmw:KFUj2nQwa1c:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=K7RMpgPzFmw:KFUj2nQwa1c:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=K7RMpgPzFmw:KFUj2nQwa1c:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=K7RMpgPzFmw:KFUj2nQwa1c:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=K7RMpgPzFmw:KFUj2nQwa1c:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/K7RMpgPzFmw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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The demonstrations now spreading virally from Wall Street immediately strike a chord: we all know that neither our economy nor our government is working for the benefit of the 99 percent.bra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-van-gelder/we-are-the-99-percent_b_1001435.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/occupy-wall-street/”More on Occupy Wall Street/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DmJoDhNvqovNI_w62SxqO_zaqf4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DmJoDhNvqovNI_w62SxqO_zaqf4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DmJoDhNvqovNI_w62SxqO_zaqf4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/DmJoDhNvqovNI_w62SxqO_zaqf4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=156M9zPesWI:VWuZqLiyh-0:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=156M9zPesWI:VWuZqLiyh-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=156M9zPesWI:VWuZqLiyh-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=156M9zPesWI:VWuZqLiyh-0:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=156M9zPesWI:VWuZqLiyh-0:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/156M9zPesWI” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah van Gelder: Where the 99% Get Their Power

pimg src=”http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/497/palincross.jpg” align=”right” /Wednesday night, as the sun was setting over a href=”http://wonkette.com/454489/hundreds-of-occupations-nationwide-find-one-close-to-you”Occupied/a a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/05/337462/arrests-at-wall-street-protest/”Wall Street/a, word began to spread that one ofnbsp;the most a href=”http://jezebel.com/5846662/lets-crown-the-next-sarah-palin/gallery/1″visionary leaders/a since a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/mitt-romneys-faith-takes-center-stage-at-social-conservative-confab.php”Biblical times/a had passed./p pYes, a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/campaign-in-100-seconds-whatever-happened-to-sarah-palin.php”Sarah Palin/a, the former a href=”http://gawker.com/5846869/fox-news-hired-sarah-palin-for-her-tits”beauty queen/a#47;half-term governor#47;a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/nicole-wallace-sarah-palin_n_996649.html”literary inspiration/a, had a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/palin-i-didnt-want-to-make-a-big-deal-about-dropping-out-like-christie.php”announced/a her a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/10/06/337570/fox-and-friends-deride-sarah-palins-decision-not-to-run-it-was-so-circuitous/”decision/a to a href=”http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20116332-503544.html”forgo running for president/a in favor of a href=”http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/06/the-palin-movement-isnt-retreating-its-reloading/”reloading/a her a href=”http://gawker.com/5847552/jon-stewart-sarah-palins-campaign-was-just-a-money+making-scheme”bank account/a./p pWithin minutes, Palin’s a href=”http://politicalprof.tumblr.com/post/11100261205/on-sarah-palins-facebook-wall”Facebook page/a transformed into a sort of makeshift memorial, where fanboys and fangirls gathered to a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/sarah-palins-most-passionate-supporters-stunned-disappointed-but-will-there-be-backlash/”share their grief/a./p pBut before their a href=”http://gawker.com/5847370/how-sarah-palin-diehards-are-taking-her-decision-not-to-run”tear-soaked pixels/a even had a chance to dry, news of the a href=”http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/”death of Steve Jobs/a engulfed the internet, and Sarah was a href=”http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/rejoice-.html”relegated to a footnote/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xkg8-WHEC_48LI-PjkTr0hXxVHE/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xkg8-WHEC_48LI-PjkTr0hXxVHE/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xkg8-WHEC_48LI-PjkTr0hXxVHE/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/xkg8-WHEC_48LI-PjkTr0hXxVHE/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=85zftQcAHLw:Y5IGzK417LM:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/85zftQcAHLw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sunday Talk: Prophets losses

pWhat big gig did Madonna score this week?/ppIf you know, take the Fark Weird News Quiz./ppHowever, there are nine other tough — and weird — questions./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/08/what-super-gig-did-madonna-score_n_1001167.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-T4YhPP0LlDV5rBotEp6fswOxlY/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-T4YhPP0LlDV5rBotEp6fswOxlY/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-T4YhPP0LlDV5rBotEp6fswOxlY/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-T4YhPP0LlDV5rBotEp6fswOxlY/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9xEJMPeQ2zk:x5TH66mL5e0:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9xEJMPeQ2zk:x5TH66mL5e0:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9xEJMPeQ2zk:x5TH66mL5e0:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=9xEJMPeQ2zk:x5TH66mL5e0:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=9xEJMPeQ2zk:x5TH66mL5e0:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/9xEJMPeQ2zk” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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What Super Gig Did Madonna Score This Week? Take The Fark Weird News Quiz

pimg alt=”2011-10-07-ScannedImage1337.jpg” src=”http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-10-07-ScannedImage1337.jpg” width=”500″ height=”689″ /br //pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-szep/the-daily-szep-sarah-says_b_1000932.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMlO7zCNRT4XvqQSYLpWDkMy6uU/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMlO7zCNRT4XvqQSYLpWDkMy6uU/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMlO7zCNRT4XvqQSYLpWDkMy6uU/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/JMlO7zCNRT4XvqQSYLpWDkMy6uU/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TprU5s9rNXo:tFZokXpxao4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TprU5s9rNXo:tFZokXpxao4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=TprU5s9rNXo:tFZokXpxao4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=TprU5s9rNXo:tFZokXpxao4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=TprU5s9rNXo:tFZokXpxao4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/TprU5s9rNXo” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Paul Szep: The Daily Szep - Sarah Says NO

div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/images/user/191280/palinipalm.jpg” //div Okay, she’s gone and basically irrelevant, but still a href=”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65399.html”quite hilarious/a: blockquoteSarah Palin says Hank Williams Jr. is the victim of the media’s double standard. p“Hank Williams and what he is going through now, I think it’s a very clear illustration of a greater societal problem and that is the hypocrisy on the left — the liberals who can throw these stones at a conservative and they knowing that they’re not going to be held accountable,” Palin said on Sean Hannity’s radio show Thursday./p /blockquote pAnd what does that have to do with Mike Tyson?/p blockquote“It’s a one way street and we’re always walking on eggshells, aren’t we?” she said. “What about mike Tyson and the [Las Vegas radio] station that recently came out talking very crudely and some sick comments made? I don’t care that it was about me but some sick comments made and no apology there, no uh, no nothing,” she said. “The hypocrisy shines very bright in what it is that we deal with everyday, doesn’t it, Sean?”/blockquote pYeah, ESPN totally should have fired Mike Tyson for the a href=”http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/16/mike-tyson-sarah-palin-met-the-wombshifter/”disgusting comments/a he made about Sarah Palin. Except she’s not the president and emhe’s not an employee of ESPN/em./p pAs tempting as it might be to dismiss Sarah Palin’s sense of victimhood as an example of a pathetic and failed national figure, she’s actually expressing a fairly mainstream sentiment on the American right: many if not most conservatives really do believe they are an oppressed minority—a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/06/1023555/-Lindsey-Graham-takes-bold-stance-against-bullying-A0ofA0southernA0whitemen?via=blog_480971″just ask Lindsey Graham/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QRf6u73XfCrCQp35X0lSbokcMQs/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QRf6u73XfCrCQp35X0lSbokcMQs/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QRf6u73XfCrCQp35X0lSbokcMQs/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QRf6u73XfCrCQp35X0lSbokcMQs/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=1ZSAlollbyw:DuHY1qYbhFA:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/1ZSAlollbyw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Palin defends Hank Williams, Jr. by comparing him to Mike Tyson

pWASHINGTON mdash; Rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are furiously scurrying to recruit heartbroken holdouts who had hoped GOP celebrities Chris Christie or Sarah Palin would join the Republican presidential contest./ppWith a slew of donors and activists now up for grabs, the leading two Republican candidates redoubled their efforts ndash; and made personal appeals ndash; this week to win over unaligned high-dollar and high-power GOP players in what’s become largely a two-man nomination fight./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/rick-perry-mitt-romney-sc_n_999314.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/rick-perry/”More on Rick Perry/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFsb3g3zyQDPvDTrm0EXfat2QL8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFsb3g3zyQDPvDTrm0EXfat2QL8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFsb3g3zyQDPvDTrm0EXfat2QL8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFsb3g3zyQDPvDTrm0EXfat2QL8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=sNwaNWDBBu0:Mwuysv4DVj4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=sNwaNWDBBu0:Mwuysv4DVj4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=sNwaNWDBBu0:Mwuysv4DVj4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=sNwaNWDBBu0:Mwuysv4DVj4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=sNwaNWDBBu0:Mwuysv4DVj4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/sNwaNWDBBu0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Rick Perry, Mitt Romney Scurry To Recruit Heartbroken Sarah Palin Chris Christie Fans

pYesterday, when Sarah Palin officially confirmed what most people already knew — that she was not running for president in 2012 prospects — my thoughts turned to a href=”http://wonkette.com/448891/palin-cult-followers-wander-iowa-awaiting-signs-from-mama-grizzly” target=”_hplink”Peter Singleton/a. Singleton is a 58-year-old lawyer from California who took it upon himself to work on the Palin campaign that never materialized in Iowa. Back when we decided a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/08/2012-speculatron-pawlenty_n_893501.html#s303019title=Sarah_Palin” target=”_hplink”the time had come to drop Palin from our weekly round-up/a, on the grounds that it was pointless and actually sort of insulting to the actual people putting forth an actual effort to mount isomething/i that looked like a campaign, Singleton was on our minds. After Palin’s big announcement yesterday, a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/sarah-palins-decision-not-to-run-shocks-supporters/” target=”_hplink”ABC News was quick to reach out to the guy/a:/pblockquotePeter Singleton moved to Iowa almost a year ago to campaign for Palin, setting up a chapter of Organize4Palin in the first caucus state. He told ABCNews.com that he “expected her to run.”p“I’m disappointed, but disappointed for the country because he was the best choice for president at this time,” Singleton said. “I believed she would run, but I understood there was a chance that she didn’t. It was always her choice. And I have enormous respect for Gov. Palin as a leader and I respect her decision.”/blockquote/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/sarah-palin-2012-election_n_998205.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/2012/”More on 2012/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oYrT7wPmt2u0KXZmF4U7JWwDcA4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oYrT7wPmt2u0KXZmF4U7JWwDcA4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oYrT7wPmt2u0KXZmF4U7JWwDcA4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oYrT7wPmt2u0KXZmF4U7JWwDcA4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=4zcPZSUNJNw:6wKBI4kPDok:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=4zcPZSUNJNw:6wKBI4kPDok:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=4zcPZSUNJNw:6wKBI4kPDok:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=4zcPZSUNJNw:6wKBI4kPDok:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=4zcPZSUNJNw:6wKBI4kPDok:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/4zcPZSUNJNw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Palin’s One-Man Iowa Operation Can Finally Stop Spending His Savings On Her Non-Campaign

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_10062011.jpg” //p psmallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small/p pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/democrats-are-playing-politics-on-jobs-and-thats-a-good-thing/2011/03/28/gIQAOp3wNL_blog.html”Jonathan Bernstein/a:/p blockquoteBarack Obama’s jobs bill is getting a new shot of energy today as Senate Democrats rolled out a millionaire’s surtax to finance it. Early reporting suggests that the very popular idea may be enough to unify Senate Democrats, even while making it even less likely that tax-phobic Republicans will drop their opposition. Republicans might say that the Democrats are playing politics by pushing things they know will never pass. And Republicans would be right. But Democrats should play politics in this manner — it’s in their interests to do so. And Republicans are the ones who pushed Dems in this direction in the first place./blockquote pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2011/10/05/gIQAjPVKOL_story.html”Dana Milbank/a:/p blockquoteBy most of the usual measures, President Obama has no business being reelected. Here’s why he might be anyway. pOn Wednesday morning, as Senate Democratic leaders were scrambling to find a way to enact part of Obama’s jobs bill, a dozen Republican lawmakers assembled outside the Capitol to complain about . . . health-care reform./p /blockquote a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-week-that-transformed-the-2012-story-line/2011/10/05/gIQAM2K1NL_story.html”EJ Dionne/a: blockquoteIn the meantime, Republicans in Congress find themselves defending a series of unpopular positions. Voters don’t like tax increases in general, but they do think the wealthy should bear a bigger share of the tax burden. Regulation may be an easy target, but Americans are in no mood to let Wall Street off the regulatory hook. And government may be scorned in the abstract, but the specifics of what Obama wants government to do through his jobs bill have wide appeal. pObama is a long way from being able to sing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” But for conservatives, the days of wine and roses are over./p /blockquote a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/a-tipping-point-for-occupy-wall-street/2011/08/25/gIQAUk9AOL_blog.html?hpid=z4″Ezra Klein/a: blockquoteThere is not, in other words, all that much you can say with confidence about what Occupy Wall Street is or isn’t. At the moment, it’s different things to different people. And, depending on your perspective, that may be the nascent movement’s biggest strength or its fatal weakness. pRight now, the protests are at a tipping point. The unions and MoveOn.org are mounting a sympathy march this afternoon. Van Jones’s Rebuild the Dream and Russ Feingold’s Progressives United are blasting messages of support. Prominent elected Democrats such as Rep. John Larson, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus; Rep. Louise Slaughter, ranking member on the House Rules Committee; and Sen. Jeff Merkley have all applauded the movement./p pWhat these Democrats and liberal-activist groups are looking for is something similar to what conservatives found in the tea party: an opportunity to recharge and rebrand./p /blockquote a href=”http://www.politico.com/arena/archive/did-palin-make-the-right-call-on-2012.html”Politico’s Arena/a on the sundry and varied pundits a href=”http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Greg_Dworkin_2C435555-A99E-4B70-8411-0D4F91E115CF.html”bored/a with Palin’s schtick: blockquoteIt’s been evident for months that Sarah Palin was not running. She didn’t do any of the hard work building a campaign infrastructure. She will do what she can to stay in the spotlight - she is in it for the money - but we’ll see if anyone really cares./blockquote That one was mine. pa href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20116469-248/an-apple-without-steve-jobs/”CNET/a:/p blockquoteWhen Apple co-founder Steve Jobs stepped down from his role as CEO two months ago, the immediate question “was what happens to Apple next?” With Jobs’ passing yesterday, the company now faces that scenario.br //blockquote a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/crisis-pregnancy-centers-and-propaganda.html?_r=1amp;ref=opinion”Katie Stack/a: blockquoteParading babies around as props is only a stunt. While Republicans have made their concern for the unborn clear, the fact that many of them proposed cutting nutrition programs for infants by about 10 percent earlier this year suggests that their concern for babies may end once they’re born. And if they truly want to support women, they should focus on transparent, nonpartisan, fact-based education for those who are facing what is likely to be the most difficult decision of their lives. nbsp;/blockquote pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5_m47DNLjg3-s67PwHfvXBiAD_U/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5_m47DNLjg3-s67PwHfvXBiAD_U/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5_m47DNLjg3-s67PwHfvXBiAD_U/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/5_m47DNLjg3-s67PwHfvXBiAD_U/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=CPNPbIffTjY:OZ9ZPhAQ3g0:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/CPNPbIffTjY” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/191280/palingoodbye_reuters.jpg” alt=”Goodbye ya’ll” height=”364″ width=”550″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Palin’s swan song (Reuters)br / nbsp;/div /div Sarah Palin’s finally announced a href=”http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/105741/”her decision/a. Not that anyone cares. blockquoteAfter much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order./blockquote pSo she’s not running. Whoop-de-doo. Next thing you’re going to tell me is that Chris Christie isn’t running either./p pExciting./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFSfYP2S8MXJqMYrwXh7_udRGdM/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFSfYP2S8MXJqMYrwXh7_udRGdM/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFSfYP2S8MXJqMYrwXh7_udRGdM/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/QFSfYP2S8MXJqMYrwXh7_udRGdM/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=lNA1tFfZWe0:DdWQ0H1qbFs:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/lNA1tFfZWe0″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sarah Palin ends the fever pitch of speculation swirling around her presidential ambitions

pA former McCain campaign adviser has a href=”http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2096190,00.html” target=”_hplink”some choice words/a for Sarah Palin./ppa href=”http://gop12.thehill.com/2011/10/nicolle-wallace-mentally-ill-character.html” target=”_hplink”Nicolle Wallace/a, who was also an aide for George W. Bush, told emTime/em that Palin inspired the mentally-ill vice-presidential character in a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Its-Classified-Novel-Nicolle-Wallace/dp/1451610963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1317837702sr=8-1″ target=”_hplink”her new novel, “It’s Classified.”br //a/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/nicole-wallace-sarah-palin_n_996649.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/republicans/”More on Republicans/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn1Kg2nKqOjENVdq5VRLR1mfev4/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn1Kg2nKqOjENVdq5VRLR1mfev4/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn1Kg2nKqOjENVdq5VRLR1mfev4/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn1Kg2nKqOjENVdq5VRLR1mfev4/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=-OYvuwXuN4k:BRVQ9yDTCEg:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=-OYvuwXuN4k:BRVQ9yDTCEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=-OYvuwXuN4k:BRVQ9yDTCEg:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=-OYvuwXuN4k:BRVQ9yDTCEg:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=-OYvuwXuN4k:BRVQ9yDTCEg:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/-OYvuwXuN4k” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Nicole Wallace: Sarah Palin Inspired Mentally Ill VP Character In New Book

pWASHINGTON — Chris Christie could’ve been a contender. That’s the message of the latest HuffPost-Patch a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/power-outsiders” target=”_hplink”Power Outsiders/a survey of politically engaged Republican activists conducted on the eve of the New Jersey governor’s a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/chris-christie-2012-decision-_n_993910.html” target=”_hplink”announcement that he would not run for president/a./ppWe asked 156 Republican political activists, party officials and officeholders in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina about their initial impressions of Christie, using the same four questions we’ve asked in previous weeks about a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/mitt-romney-presidential-electable-power-outsiders_n_962167.html” target=”_hplink”Mitt Romney/a, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/07/rick-perry-polls-huffpost-patch-gop-power-outsiders_n_952823.html” target=”_hplink”Rick Perry/a, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/michele-bachmann-polls_n_973995.html” target=”_hplink”Michele Bachmann/a and a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/sarah-palin-polls_n_943615.html” target=”_hplink”Sarah Palin/a. /ppThe Power Outsiders poll is an attempt to listen in on the “a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/17/gop-power-outsiders-bachmann-perry_n_929398.html” target=”_hplink”invisible primary/a” under way among influential local activists and political insiders that has historically driven the outcome of party nomination campaigns. This week, we heard from 37 Power Outsiders in Iowa, 53 in New Hampshire and 66 in South Carolina./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/04/chris-christie-polls-gop-power-outsiders_n_995076.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/rick-perry/”More on Rick Perry/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/skXRkR0xzIuD7W-i00bszABWQto/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/skXRkR0xzIuD7W-i00bszABWQto/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/skXRkR0xzIuD7W-i00bszABWQto/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/skXRkR0xzIuD7W-i00bszABWQto/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1qCOtUOmrfk:YnIMBTr4P24:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1qCOtUOmrfk:YnIMBTr4P24:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1qCOtUOmrfk:YnIMBTr4P24:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=1qCOtUOmrfk:YnIMBTr4P24:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=1qCOtUOmrfk:YnIMBTr4P24:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/1qCOtUOmrfk” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Chris Christie Could’ve Been A Contender, GOP Power Outsiders Say

div class=”dkimg-c”a href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/73/Elections-MorningDigest.jpg” alt=”Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest banner” height=”100″ width=”550″ //a div class=”dkimg-cap”Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. a href=”http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/electionsdigest”Sign up here/a./div /div bLeading Off/b: p• a href=”http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/mcmahon-romney-murphy-lead-ct-primaries.html”CT-Sen/a: Just as you’d have suspected, Linda McMahon has a commanding lead in the GOP primary over Chris Shays, in the follow-on section to the a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1021031/-CT-Sen:-Electability-advantage-goes-to-Murphy,-Shays?detail=hide”general election poll/a PPP released last week. The wrestling mogul leads the ex-congressman by a crushing 60-27 margin, with Vernon Mayor Jason McCoy at 3. In a test with ex-Rep. Rob Simmons in the mix as well, things barely change: McMahon is still dominant at 54, with Shays at 19 and Simmons at 15. This is good news for Team Blue, since Shays is the most electable Republican option./p pMeanwhile, the Democratic primary looks a lot more interesting, with Rep. Chris Murphy leading ex-SoS Susan Bysiewicz by 39-33 margin, while state Rep. William Tong is back at 8. That’s an improvement for Murphy from a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/polling/2011/3/17/CT-DEM/29/3Uiwv”PPP’s March numbers/a (in a poll conducted on behalf of Daily Kos), which had him up just 40-38. (Tong hadn’t yet entered the race.) Murphy has by far the best profile among Democrats, who view him favorably at a 49-19 clip. That’s down a bit from the 51-14 mark he posted in the earlier survey, but Bysiewicz dropped further, to 38-30 from 45-27. Tong is at just 6-25./p pbSenate/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/03/1022359/-MA-Sen:-Second-poll-shows-a-tight-race-between-Warren-and-Brown?detail=hide”MA-Sen/a: The second poll in a row, this one by Princeton Survey Research, shows an extremely tight race in Massachusetts in the general election — and another blowout by Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary. Click the link for our full post at Daily Kos Elections. Meanwhile, Rep. Niki Tsongas a href=”http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/10/elizabeth-warren-for-u-s-senate/”became the first member/a of the state’s congressional delegation to endorse Elizabeth Warren’s Senate bid. I’ll be curious to see how the rest of the gang proceeds from here./p p• a href=”http://www.rollcall.com/news/John-Brunner-MIssouri-Senate-2012-announce-McCaskill-209115-1.html”MO-Sen/a: Three’s company: Businessman John Brunner, who first mooted a run a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/21/968878/-DK-Elections-Daily-Digest:-4-21?detail=hide”all the way back in April/a (sheesh), finally decided to get into the race to challenge Sen. Claire McCaskill. But first he’ll have to get past Rep. Todd Akin and ex-Treasurer Sarah Steelman in the Republican primary — no small task, even if he is capable of at least some self-funding./p pbGubernatorial/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/09/scotts-numbers-on-the-rise-would-still-lose-though.html”FL-Gov/a: Sayeth Tom: Rick Scott “no longer holds the dubious distinction as the most unpopular Governor PPP has polled on in 2011 — Ohio’s John Kasich edges him out for that with a 53% disapproval rating.” That’s because Scott has soared from a 33-59 job approval rating to 36-52./p p• a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/03/1022450/-KY-Gov:-Steve-Beshears-lead-up-to-31?detail=hide”KY-Gov/a: Dem Gov. Steve Beshear’s already improbably lead has managed to grow improbably larger in SurveyUSA’s newest poll. Click the link for the full details at Daily Kos Elections./p p• a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/us/for-politics-in-south-race-divide-is-defining.html?pagewanted=all”MS-Gov/a: Using next month’s gubernatorial race as a hook, where Democrats have nominated African-American Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, this interesting New York Times piece delves into the extremely racially polarized voting that has become the norm in Mississippi. Thanks to the state’s black population (proportionally the largest of any in the union), Dems these days generally start out with a floor of about 40%… and a ceiling not much higher. The article also suggests that the few remaining strongholds of white Democrats (mostly in northeast Miss.) are soon to disappear, with Republicans making persistent appeals to conservative local officeholders to switch sides./p p• a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/03/1022350/-WV-Gov:-Final-PPP-poll-shows-Bill-Maloney-jumping,-making-race-a-tossup?detail=hide”WV-Gov/a: Yow. In case you missed it, PPP’s final poll of today’s special gubernatorial election shows Republican Bill Maloney catching up on Dem Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and turning the race into a last-minute tossup. Click the link for the full numbers at Daily Kos Elections./p pbHouse/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.jewishjournal.com/bill_boyarsky/article/obamas_numbers_could_swing_30th_district_race_20110928/”CA-30, CA-26/a: Rep. Henry Waxman is trying to head off the looming primary battle in the 30th CD between fellow Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman. Waxman wants Sherman to run in the incumbentless 26th District instead, but it doesn’t sound like a winning move. The seat is much redder than the 30th and would mostly be new faces for Sherman. He’d wind up facing either GOP Rep. Elton Gallegly or if Gallegly retires (a very good possibility), another strong Republican. While an intra-party duel with Berman isn’t a pleasant prospect either, Sherman needs to win that fight just once; even if he won the 26th next year, he’d always have to worry about GOP challenges in the future./p p• a href=”http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092711/new_891021660.shtml”GA-10/a: Former Republican Rep. Mac Collins, who used to represent the 8th CD, says he’s thinking about a comeback — in the form of a primary challenge to Paul Broun in the redrawn 10th. The 10th now includes Collins’ home, and according to the linked article, about half of it is new to Broun. I also think the outsider Broun, who doesn’t seem to have cultivated strong establishment ties, is a pretty good target for this kind of venture. Collins left Congress in 2004 after losing the GOP Senate primary that year; he attempted to return in 2006, narrowly losing to then-Rep. Jim Marshall. Interestingly, Collins beat Broun once before, in the Republican primary for what was then the 3rd CD in 1992./p p• a href=”http://www.politico.com/blogs/davidcatanese/0911/Duckworths_big_haul.html”IL-08/a: Tammy Duckworth just announced that she raised $386K in the third quarter of the year, though no word on her cash-on-hand. I’ll be really curious to see what Raja Krishnamoorthi, her rival for the Democratic nomination, pulls in./p p• a href=”http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/elections/boland-says-he-s-focused-on-congressional-race-not-possible/article_1e1f8e52-eb14-11e0-bbfa-001cc4c03286.html”IL-17/a: Former state Rep. Mike Boland, who has been running for the redrawn 17th District, has also picked up petitions for a state Senate bid. Boland apparently isn’t circulating these petitions, and has been weirdly cagey about what he’s even doing with them, but given how crowded the congressional field is, dropping down would make sense. The problem is that the Senate seat he’d run for (the 36th District) is already occupied by fellow Democrat Mike Jacobs. But that may not be an obstacle, since Boland and Jacobs are described as “political rivals.”/p p• a href=”http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/oct/03/former-ellsworth-aide-patrick-scates-will-run-cong/”IN-08/a: Patrick Scates, a one-time staffer for Brad Ellsworth who had been a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/07/1014164/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-9-7?detail=hide”considering the race/a, says he will indeed join what is becoming a fairly crowded Democratic field. In addition to Scates, Warrick County Democratic Chairman Terry White and former state Rep. Dave Crooks are all looking to take on GOP freshman Larry Buchson, who succeeded Ellsworth last year./p p• a href=”http://www.cityhallnews.com/2011/10/democrats-prod-grimm-challengers-dont-wait-for-redistricting/”NY-13/a: According to Jon Lentz at City Hall News, national Democrats are pushing would-be challengers to GOP freshman Mike Grimm to get in the race now, and not to wait for redistricting. That makes sense, since the election is only thirteen months away, and only the Lord of Maps knows when we might see new congressional lines for New York state. It sounds like the DCCC in particular wants to see some warm bodies in time for the candidate training session it’s apparently conducing in DC later this month./p pAlso, in addition to the names known to be weighing a run, Lentz adds that Assemblyman Michael Cusick is considering the race, even though he said a href=”http://www.cityhallnews.com/2011/09/heard-around-town-sept-30-2011/”earlier this year/a that he wasn’t interested. Cusick looked at this seat back in 2008, after Vito Fossella announced he’d retire, but a href=”http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/2105/ny13-cusick-wont-run”declined to make a bid/a./p p• a href=”http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/10/cornilles-bring.php”OR-01/a: Republican Rob Cornilles said he raised upwards of $500K over the last two months, since entering the special election to replace ex-Rep. David Wu. No word on his cash-on-hand, or any totals from any of the three Democrats seeking the seat. Reminder: The primary is on Nov. 8 and the general election is Jan. 31 of next year./p p• a href=”http://jasonaltmire.com/release_details.asp?id=130″PA-04/a: Rep. Jason Altmire just announced that he raised $375K in the third quarter and has about $700K cash-on-hand. It’ll be very interesting to see what fellow Dem Rep. Mark Critz raises, since the two men are widely expected to get thrown together in redistricting./p pbRedistricting Roundup/b:/p p• a href=”http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2011/10/02/2011-10-02_mapmaking_for_dummies.html”NY Redistricting/a: I always like seeing the work of DKos Electioneers recognized in other outlets, especially when it comes to redistricting. So it’s cool that our own twohundertseventy (aka Rasmus Pianowski) got some column inches in the New York Daily News for his vision of what a court-drawn state Senate map might look like. You can check out a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/29/1000473/-Fair-New-York-State-Senate-Redistricting-proposal?detail=hide”his proposal here/a. Nicely done./p p• a href=”http://www.chron.com/news/article/Ohio-Democrats-take-policy-gripes-to-court-polls-2198184.php”OH Redistricting/a: Ohio Democrats filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court last week, asking for a determination as to whether they can seek to have the new congressional redistricting map placed on the ballot for a referendum. If you’ve been following this whole saga, you’ll recall that Republicans attached a budgetary appropriation to the bill, in an a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/22/1019077/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-9-22?detail=hide”attempt to immunize it/a from going before voters. At least one legal expert thinks that these a href=”http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20110923/NEWS01/109230304/Experts-Ohio-redistricting-repeal-proof-tactic-likely-isn-t”GOP shenanigans won’t succeed/a, pointing to a 2009 high court ruling which said that in the case of “mixed” bills like this one, only the appropriations parts are safe from repeal./p p• a href=”http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home2/52662086-183/committee-congressional-democrats-districts.html.csp”UT Redistricting/a: Even though Gov. Gary Herbert is reportedly unhappy with the congressional plan his fellow Republicans in the legislature have settled on, state Senate President Michael Waddoups says: “I think’s there’s about a 98 percent chance that what you see now will be the near to the final maps.” Meanwhile, the chair of Utah’s Democratic Party is pledging a lawsuit over the maps for an interesting reasons. Jim Dabakis says that Waddoups has argued that the last set of redistricting plans from a decade ago must have been fair because no one ever sued — so Dabakis wants to make sure he can rob Waddoups of that talking point in the future. As to the merits, it sounds like there’s nothing beyond a hopeless partisan gerrymander claim./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UcQif8nSodjEgwi7OVYvYEN9A64/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UcQif8nSodjEgwi7OVYvYEN9A64/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UcQif8nSodjEgwi7OVYvYEN9A64/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UcQif8nSodjEgwi7OVYvYEN9A64/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=KatTde9wlHA:TM9iLpWzwLw:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/KatTde9wlHA” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: CT Republicans ready to spurn their most electable candidate

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Sarah O’Leary: Knowing When to Be Anti-Social

pA humans… we’re just so fallible. We’re so susceptible to all kinds of ridiculous ideas that seem good on paper. Whether we’re talking about the lasers that China is using to blind our satellites, pepper-spraying some peaceful protesters, or believing that porn is a pretty good way to advance a socially-conscious agenda, we just can’t seem to get our act together./ppFortunately, until we do, we have The Psychometer, which shines a light on all the dumb-to-border-line-straight-jacket-worthy things we said and did last week. Take a look at who made the list, scroll over their picture to read why, and let us know who we missed in the comments./ppBut more importantly, let’s try to keep it together this week. Ok, folks?/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/the-psychometer-who-went-too-far_n_991962.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/sarah-palin/”More on Sarah Palin/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jIbMFfiRFm1nmGsuGqMhh6aoG5c/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jIbMFfiRFm1nmGsuGqMhh6aoG5c/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jIbMFfiRFm1nmGsuGqMhh6aoG5c/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jIbMFfiRFm1nmGsuGqMhh6aoG5c/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=jkm9qCiI0jQ:Wh1Z7SvPBg4:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=jkm9qCiI0jQ:Wh1Z7SvPBg4:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=jkm9qCiI0jQ:Wh1Z7SvPBg4:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=jkm9qCiI0jQ:Wh1Z7SvPBg4:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=jkm9qCiI0jQ:Wh1Z7SvPBg4:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/jkm9qCiI0jQ” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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The Psychometer: Who Went Too Far Last Week?

pimg src=”http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/640/plan9.jpg” align=”right” width=”220″ /Faced with the a href=”http://gawker.com/5844453/lip+readers-transcribe-rick-perrys-disturbing-psychobabble”spectacular/a a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/27/329398/scarborough-rick-perry-complete-sentence/”implosion/a of a href=”http://wonkette.com/453779/richard-cohen-admits-giant-gay-crush-on-rick-perry”Rick Perry’s campaign/a, a href=”http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/29/whos-unhappy-with-gop-field-only-elites/”GOP elites/a have been searching far and a href=”http://wonkette.com/454114/is-monstrously-obese-chris-christie-even-too-fat-for-republican-voters”wide/a for a new “a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chris-christie-cant-save-us/2011/09/30/gIQARnRv9K_story.html”savior/a of a href=”http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/chris-christie-2011-10/”the moment/a.”/p pa href=”http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/09/29/herman-cain-will-insult-black-voters-into-supporting-him.html”Herman Cain/a, having convinced a href=”http://www.thenation.com/blog/163616/herman-cain-wins-absurd-florida-straw-poll”996 Floridians/a to a href=”http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/22/7905356-how-saturdays-fl-straw-poll-differs-from-ames”pay $175/a to vote for him in a straw poll, thought that he might be “a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/cain-promises-to-sharply-decrease-inaugural-night-balls.php”The One/a”—especially after receiving the a href=”http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0911/Trump_endorsement_more_trouble_than_its_worth.html”coveted/a Donald Trump a href=”http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64376.html”dinner/a a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/trump-doesnt-want-to-eat-with-huntsman-huntsman-denies-asking.php”invitation/a./p pBut Cain’s ascent has done nothing to stop people from a href=”http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/after-speech-christie-revels-in-pleas-to-run/”literally begging/a Chris Christie to a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWbt3DSje0″suit up/a and a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chris-christies-big-problem/2011/09/29/gIQAAL7J8K_story.html”run/a./p pShould he a href=”http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/28/chris_christie_president/singleton/”choose/a to a href=”http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/10/01/christie_assessing_campaign_logistics.html”enter the race/a, there’s no guarantee that Christie won’t a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS0m9A3iQCI”flounder/a like a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/09/27/329976/rick-perry-doesnt-know-what-the-original-tea-party-was/”Perry/a has; and so, with that in mind, a href=”http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/mike_huckabee_is_now_maybe_kin.html”Mike Huckabee/a, a href=”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/28/giuliani-still-flirting-with-2012-bid/”Rudy Giuliani/a and a href=”http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/red-state-reminds-the-world-that-palin-said-shed-make-a-potus-announcement-by-today.php”Sarah Palin/a have been drawing up a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iesXUFOlWC0″contingency plans/a./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxkayElzmMGnLyg5lLjAHbmj5zw/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxkayElzmMGnLyg5lLjAHbmj5zw/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxkayElzmMGnLyg5lLjAHbmj5zw/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UxkayElzmMGnLyg5lLjAHbmj5zw/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=a7DJSjgZTf8:nOQCsoiLDds:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/a7DJSjgZTf8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Sunday Talk: Bring out the heavy artillery!

div class=”dkimg-c”a href=”http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/30/clair-de-mercury/”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/admin/Debussy.jpg” alt=”Mercury” height=”435″ width=”546″ title=”Mercury” //a div class=”dkimg-cap”The fresh crater Debussy, about 50 miles wide. Click image for more info at Bad Astronomy. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/div /div Research into human aging has found many potential causes. One of the most exciting is in the field of stem cells. It looks like as adult stem cell populations age and become depleted, the traditional signs of aging nbsp;accelerate. There’s a lot of promise there: learning how to manipulate all kinds of stem cells could even ipotentially/i result in the first scientific version of the a href=”http://www.healthenclave.com/news/scientist-could-reverse-aging-stem-cells-1283.html”fountain of youth/a for adult stem cells and by proxy, us adults: blockquoteScientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and Georgia Institute of Technology demonstrated how the aging process for human adult stem cells can be reversed. This breakthrough will open many new avenues for innovative therapies that could impact a wide range of disease, including anything requiring the repair of damaged tissues./blockquote That would be one giant leap for mankind. Of course there are people intent on taking one giant step backward for womenkind. Like this a href=”http://freethoughtblogs.com/zingularity/2011/09/30/love-dominionist-style/”simmering wingnut obsession/a which could cripple stem cell research and comes with other horrifying consequences. ul liFor all you former radio control model builders and operators (I’m included!), a href=”http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/09/heres_what_they_look_like.php?ref=fpblg”TPM has posted/a two really cool videos of where the hobby has gone with modern electronics and old-fashioned craftsmanship./li liNASA’s a href=”http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/main/index.html”Messenger/a and a href=”http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/”Dawn Mission/a to Vesta amp; Beyond are competing with each other this week to return the most interesting images of a href=”http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/Telecon20110929_image2.html”Mercury’s baked wastelands/a and a href=”http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/imageoftheday/image.asp?date=20110930″Vesta’s frozen surface/a./li liWill we ever conquer — for lack of a better word — the solar system? I took a shot at reviewing one proposed method in a href=”http://freethoughtblogs.com/zingularity/2011/10/01/traintracks-in-space/”Train tracks in space/a./li liThe video reportedly shows 29 year-old Sarah Churman hearing with the benefit of a newly installed implant for the very first time:br / iframe width=”350″ height=”208″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/LsOo3jzkhYA” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/li /ul pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9CE3FE_W1qQYtE8qdIrEdTY9_J0/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9CE3FE_W1qQYtE8qdIrEdTY9_J0/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9CE3FE_W1qQYtE8qdIrEdTY9_J0/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9CE3FE_W1qQYtE8qdIrEdTY9_J0/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=y90-TQslFYY:n5thWADgahQ:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/y90-TQslFYY” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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This week in science: One step forward, one step back

pimg src=”http://images.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_10_1.jpg” //p psmallVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/small/p pa href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/pollwatch-perry-down-gop-excited-for-2012-but-not-for-christie-economic-confidence-on-the-brink/2011/09/07/gIQAjMkq7K_blog.html”Behind the numbers/a:/p blockquoteDespite the media hubbub over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), the aforementioned Fox News poll finds lukewarm reaction to a presidential bid from the New Jersey governor outside the Beltway. While 32 percent of registered voters say he should run, 39 percent say he shouldn’t (28 percent don’t know). Republicans are more hopeful than others – four in 10 say he should run – but 33 percent of GOP loyalists prefer that Christie sit out the race./blockquote a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chris-christie-cant-save-us/2011/09/30/gIQARnRv9K_story.html?hpid=z2″Dana Milbank:/a blockquote“I really implore you,” said the woman, after listening to Christie speak at the Reagan Library, “as a citizen of this country to, please, sir, to reconsider. . . Go home and really think about it, please. Do it — do it for my daughter. Do it for our grandchildren. Do it for our sons. Please, sir, don’t — we need you. Your country needs you to run for president.” pI feel sorry for this woman, because she will, inevitably, be disappointed – even if Christie runs, even if Christie wins. This is because it is not Christie that she and so many other Republicans want but what Christie represents: a political superman who can, in a single-bound, transform the whole mess our political system has become.br //p /blockquote The media’s sad role in covering politics as if both parties are at fault when the GOP Senate is obstructionist and the GOP House is insane continues to be neglected in favor of the Republican flavor of the month, such a huge story because strikeDonald Trump/strike strikeSarah Palin/strike strikeMitch Daniels/strike strikeRick Perry/strike strikeFred Thompson/strike Chris Christie will be the next President. pa href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576602891727126466.html”WSJ/a:/p blockquote”I knew when I got into this race that I’d have my hands full fighting President [Barack] Obama’s big-government agenda. I just didn’t think it would be in the Republican primary,” Mr. Perry told a crowd of business leaders and Republican politicians at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank. pMr. Perry and other Republican candidates have been criticizing Mr. Romney on health-care policy, saying the broad overhaul he signed in Massachusetts paved the way for Mr. Obama’s federal law, which is widely disliked among conservatives. On Friday, Mr. Perry broadened his critique of Mr. Romney to include environmental policy./p /blockquote it is unfortunate, albeit predictable, that environmental policy is hostage to GOP primary politics. pa href=”http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-obama-as-bush-20110928″Charlie Cook/a:/p blockquoteA plethora of articles in recent days have noted President Obama’s sudden shift in emphasis back to his party’s liberal base, following his largely unrewarded dalliance with independents. What has gone unnoticed, however, is that this move could mimic the strategy that Karl Rove pursued in President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign. When faced with a bloc of independent voters who viewed Bush with skepticism, the campaign began focusing more on expanding its base than on throwing huge amounts of resources at independent and undecided voters./blockquote a href=”http://www.nationaljournal.com/member/energy/retired-republicans-quietly-try-to-shift-gop-climate-change-focus-20110930?page=1″National Journal/a [subscription]: blockquoteTo hear GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry and some tea party-backed lawmakers tell it, the Republican position on global warming is that it’s a problem that doesn’t even exist. pThat wasn’t always the case. And if prominent Republican elder statesmen have their way, it won’t continue to be./p /blockquote Just goes to show you the only sane Republican is a retired Republican. pa href=”http://chronicle.com/article/10-Ig-Nobels-Awarded-/129224/?sid=atamp;utm_source=atamp;utm_medium=en”Chronicle of Higher Education/a:/p blockquote15 Years After an Essay on Procrastination, a Philosopher Wins an Ig Nobel pohn R. Perry is a prolific philosopher, with at least eight scholarly books and scores of journal articles to his credit./p pHe is also a self-diagnosed procrastinator and a self-help author of sorts, having written an essay called “How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done.” First published in 1996 in The Chronicle, the article established the principle of “structured procrastination,” which holds that “the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.”/p pMr. Perry, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Stanford University and an active professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, won the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for the ideas set forth in that essay./p /blockquote I love that guy! I’ll email him congratulations, in a few years. PS I spelled his name wrong. I’ll fix it later. pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lwBS3lVeAWpKz_ywwWj0-pH6eu0/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lwBS3lVeAWpKz_ywwWj0-pH6eu0/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lwBS3lVeAWpKz_ywwWj0-pH6eu0/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lwBS3lVeAWpKz_ywwWj0-pH6eu0/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=oCoveRxCJs8:C93TbEMUtjU:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/oCoveRxCJs8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Who cares about Chris Christie? edition

pGOP presidential candidate Herman Cain sat down for a talk with Jay Leno Friday night on NBC’s “The Tonight Show.”/ppstrongemSCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO/em/strong/ppCain addressed a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/sarah-palin-herman-cain_n_984868.html” target=”_hplink”statements made by Sarah Palin/a in which the former Alaska governor mistakenly called Cain “Herb Cain” and referred to him as the “flavor of the week.” Palin’s comments were made during an appearance Tuesday night on Fox News’ “On The Record” with Greta Van Susteren. On Wednesday morning, a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/herman-cain-sarah-palin_n_984864.html” target=”_hplink”Cain appeared on CBS’ “Early Show”/a and characterized Palin’s “flavor of the week” comment as “not true.”/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/01/herman-cain-tonight-show_n_989982.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/herman-cain/”More on Herman Cain/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kTIp7022hHuNn_s5p3_uaGN2ZA8/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kTIp7022hHuNn_s5p3_uaGN2ZA8/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kTIp7022hHuNn_s5p3_uaGN2ZA8/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kTIp7022hHuNn_s5p3_uaGN2ZA8/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=z7g4h84e4y8:AEmUMeu10W0:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=z7g4h84e4y8:AEmUMeu10W0:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=z7g4h84e4y8:AEmUMeu10W0:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=z7g4h84e4y8:AEmUMeu10W0:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=z7g4h84e4y8:AEmUMeu10W0:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/z7g4h84e4y8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Herman Cain ‘Tonight Show’ Appearance: GOP Presidential Candidate Talks To Jay Leno About Sarah Palin, Muslims In Cabinet (VIDEO)