Starkey’s thin reporting includes a few quotes

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If Jonathan Starkey's candidate forum report from the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville was any thinner it could be measured in microns. Here are the reported facts:
- Carper, Markell, Cragg, Pires, Kovach, Mobley, Wade and some other people who didn't say anything quotable took part in a "mostly friendly event" hosted by the Jewish Federation of Delaware at the Siegel Jewish Community Center in Talleyville.....

BOOM goes The Polling Report [9.14.12]

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Three new NBC/Marist polls came out yesterday in Ohio, Virginia and Florida, giving the President 5 point leads in Virginia and Florida and a 7 point lead in Ohio. Mitt Romney must win all three states or there is no conceivable mathematical way he can be elected President. The President can win without these three. And that really is the story of this election. In Mitt Romney's best case scenario where he wins all his swing state targets, his ceiling in the Electoral College is 291. The President's best case scenario is 399 (winning all the usual suspects plus Montana, Arizona, Missouri, Indiana, Georgia and Nebraska's 1 congressional district). Here is the map:

Delaware Political Weekly: Sept. 8-14, 2012

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What we learned from the Primary: 1. The Gordon machine was the single most effective game-changer during the primary; 2. For once, Wilmington really made the difference this year; 3. Grassroots campaigns work, and they cost a lot less than the alternative; 4. Jack Markell is in danger of becoming a Drawbridge Democrat; 5. Tons of lit cannot compensate for personal unpopularity; and 6. Primaries are GOOD;

Losing When Only Winning Was Possible

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Mitt Romney has had another self-inflicted, tough week/ So as Romney's campaign begins it's Goodbye Tour, we're looking for titles for the upcoming HBO movie about the plummeting 2012 Romney Campaign. We will take the best titles from the comments and vote on them next week.

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."