Thursday Open Thread [9.13.12]

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Major Garrett:
"Mitt Romney has picked a big fight fraught with political risks amid an ongoing foreign policy crisis with heartbreaking and murderous consequences for the U.S. diplomatic corps. And by the end of the day on Wednesday he walked straight into a forearm shiver from the commander-in-chief - one that may leave a mark and intensify scrutiny of Romney's foreign policy qualifications."

The Polling Report [9.13.12]

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We have a lot of polls, but nothing in a state changing from Romney to Obama or vice versa. Instead, we have a map that is getting darker in some expected sports and lighter in some unexpected spots. Meanwhile, we have a Fox News poll that is most likely being ignored on their own air. Here is the map.

You Ain’t the Cat’s Pajamas

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If I learned anything over this primary election, when it comes to politics, know one knows nothing. The more one pretends to know, it becomes apparent that they know very little. When politicians, political Insiders or bloggers start thinking their shit don't smell, it's best they remember the line from Shakespeare's As You Like It:
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I think everyone should read Kavips today.

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His piece on the future of New Castle County, with a little recent political history thrown in, is a tour de force and it has performed a miracle: it actually made me feel a little bit better about Tom Gordon. Not enough to vote for him, mind you, but enough to be not apocalytic about what is coming...

The 62 District Strategy: The General Election Preview

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Let's see how each party fared in their efforts to find candidates for every race. Hint: one party failed miserably, and in so doing, severely damaged whatever small chance it had to win control of either chamber of the General Assembly. So come inside for the large chart and my predictions on how the races for the General Assembly will play out.