Thursday Open Thread [8.2.12]

Stat comparison of the Day, via Mother Jones: Between 2000 and 2010, there were 649 million votes cast in general elections, 47,000 UFO sightings, 441 Americans killed by lightning and 13 credible cases of in-person voter impersonation.

Fab has some great political posters designed to look like vintage prints from the mid-1900s.

Nate Cohn thinks the GOP must be giving up on PA as there has been a marked decline in GOP ads on PA’s airwaves. I can confirm that, since I used to see ads from Rove’s Super PAC all time. Now all I see is Obama’s ads.