Tea Party congressman Rep. Allen West demanded a recount today in his nail-bitingly close re-election race with Patrick Murphy. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Murphy has a lead of less than 3,000 votes. West’s campaign issued a statement: Late
President Barack Obama’s supporters and the mainstream media have been perpetuating two pieces of false conventional wisdom heading into Election Day — that demographics alone will power Obama to victory on Election Day and Democrats are assured of a long-term
UPDATE: New exit polls show Obama picking up an edge in Florida and Pennsylvania. Keep in mind these exit poll internals do shift throughout the night. Below information is based on exit polls. So ASSUME THIS INFORMATION IS
The Presidential race is essentially tied, by all metrics. The topline number is even. Internal crosstabs favor Romney demographically. State polls slightly favor Obama. Net outcome? A tie. This makes a prediction nearly impossible. Indeed, as of last night, I was baffled. OBAMA PICKUP
Dan Rather, whose liberal bona fides have been documented for years, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he suspects Mitt Romney will win the presidential election. “Something in my gut tells me that it’s going to be a good day for
The final poll from Politico/George Washington University shows a national deadlock between Mitt Romney and incumbent President Barack Obama, each garnering 47% of the vote nationally. Independents, as in all other polls, break heavily for Romney – he clocks in
President Obama has not talked about ObamaCare much during the campaign, understandably because most Americans want the health care law repealed. But just wait. We’ll be hearing a lot more about the president’s signature legislation, because a “flood” of ObamaCare
Two of the major Obama sycophants are panicking without admitting it, and one has turned on the other in an attempt to jockey for position as Obama’s mouthpiece. Media Matters has been Obama’s mouthpiece for years, but then Politico moved
The media is all kinds of happy to dig into the backgrounds of everyday citizens who appear in Romney campaign commercials, but this kind of research has to be done by New Media: Also from the 5/21/1995 appearance — Axelrod thinks
The various sound stages, sets and recording studios must be rather quiet these days. A crush of entertainers, including Sheryl Crow, Danny DeVito, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen and John Legend all stopped what they were doing to offer some last-minute
Declaring it “one of the most tantalizing subplots of the 2012 campaign,” Politico offers up the claims of anonymous “campaign insiders” as proof that Mitt Romney was leaning heavily in favor of Gov. Christie for his VP pick. Ever since
Here in the waning days of this campaign for the White House, Politico reports that many journalists, editors, and news personnel have donated thousands to Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. Politico gives us a long list of Obama supporters in the
The predicate for Obama winning reelection on Tuesday is that he replicates the strong Dem turnout that swept him into office in 2008. That election saw a greater percentage of young, minority and Hispanic voters than previous elections. It also
F.H. Buckley wrote the book on the social meaning of humor. The Morality of Laughter, published in 2003, was his attempt to collate and systematize not only what makes us laugh but why it makes us laugh. Last week, I
Vice President Joe Biden on Friday told Obama campaign volunteers they had the best ground game operation in the history of presidential politics, even though Democrats are trailing Republicans by 2.6 points in early voting, which is nearly a five-point
After failing to mention the Tea Party by name on the stump in 2012, President Barack Obama mentioned the movement during at least five stump speeches on Thursday and Friday. Running against the Tea Party movement that successfully stymied his
If you want to understand why voters no longer trust pollsters, look no further than the latest CNN poll of Ohio voters, showing President Barack Obama with a 50%-47% lead over Gov. Mitt Romney–a result that is within the poll’s
The Obama White House has never been reticent about inserting itself into state and local issues. President Obama famously criticized the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department for the arrest of Henry Louis Gates; the federal government sued the State of Arizona
Actor Edward Norton greeted the new Obama administration with a puff piece documentary capturing his ascension to the White House. Now, Norton has served up a new campaign video hoping to keep the president in power. At David Axelrod’s request,
Today, pollsters are rushing forward a slew of new swing state polls ahead of the campaign’s final weekend. Its an attempt to set a final narrative ahead of voting on Tuesday. PPP is out today with a new poll of
While Politico and the rest of the CorruptMedia have been happy to spread Team Obama’s propaganda about how they’re stomping Mitt Romney in early voting, Breitbart News was reporting actual early vote counts. What we discovered, naturally, is that the Obama
The 2012 Presidential campaign will be decided in the tree-lined cul-de-sacs that dominate the American landscape. Rural voters are reliably Republican and urban voters are reliably Democrat. But, suburban voters are the swingy-est of voters. In many states, they decide
One says he’s voting for Barack Obama because he’s the first black president. The other promised to stay out of this year’s election fracas but changed his mind after presumably looking at the polls. Now, hip hop star Jay-Z and
Jonathan Chait has made his choice for 2012, and it is Obama. Chait decided to tell us exactly why he chose Obama in a recent column for New York Magazine, and his reasons make his endorsement one of the great
