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If we lose this one, you'll probably be able to chalk it up to the despicable Citizens United decision. I've seen Smith's ads and he is running as a stealth wingnut. Smith's TV spots are not only frequent, they are very polished. If you didn't keep up with politics, it would be impossible to know who was the Democrat and who was the Republican based on the ads.

Spain is proving that austerity for austerity's sake is the "scab refs" of economic policy. Fixing artificial debt to GOP numbers, then taking away a country's ability to pay down its' debt is working for someone, somewhere. Nobody knows who is winning, but somewhere it is imagined that a banker is looking at a vault full of money and that makes it all worth it.

So this experiment is scab officials seems to be going well for the NFL. Although, I watched the replay of the Packers game and it looked like one of the scab refs lost track of which team had possession of the ball and called a touchdown when it was clearly a safety touchback.

Wow. Just look at the new polls out this morning in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania. Landslide baby. If Obama wins by those margins there, then he will also win in North Carolina, Missouri, Montana, Georgia, Arizona and South Carolina. Yes, I just said that.

Vance Phillips wasn't around to hand off the watermelon of doom, so did the job fall to Christine O'Donnell. The Commander Guy thinks so...

I love Pandora. (The blogger and the internet radio). I just got this email from Pandora (the internet radio) asking for our support.

The cherry on the top of the sundae that was the 2008 election was Obama winning the 2nd Congressional District in Nebraska. Nebraska is one of two states (the other being Maine) that apportions its electoral votes by congressional district winner and state wide winner. The statewide winner gets 2 electoral votes, and then the winner of each of the three congressional districts in Nebraska get one electoral vote each. The 2nd Congressional District in Nebraska encompasses the Omaha area, one of the more Democratic areas of Nebraska, relatively speaking. After the "embarrassment" of having a Democrat win a Nebraska electoral vote for the first time since 1964, Nebraska Republicans first attempted to pass legislation eliminating proportional representation, but that failed. Then through redistricting, they made the 2nd CD more Republican. But a new poll has been released showing a tie in the 2nd CD between Romney and Obama. Wouldn't be something if Obama wins that Nebraska electoral vote again? Indeed, I consider it a canary in a coal mine: a sign of the coming Obama landslide.

I mean, he can't be serious in the following quote, right? Because if he is, then ... whoa. As you may have heard, on Friday, Ann Romney's airplane had to make an emergency landing on Friday in Colorado due to an electrical fire in the plane that did send smoke into the cabin. Gratefully, nobody was hurt. Mitt Romney then decided to comment on it.

We have a more truncated report this morning, which is good because the last few days have been full of polling goodness, but still, pollsters, and those polled, need a break. We have three new state polls out today, all good news for the President.