Month: October 2012

Peopleask me for updates on the race. Here it is in a nutshell: Romney's winning. He's winning big.He's winning the early voting by seven points, even though that was where Obama was supposed to have a huge advantage. He's up in Ohio. He's raising boatloads of cash. National polls have had him above fifty percent ... Read more

Arather uneventful exchange, methinks. This debate was like the last debate, only more so. That is to say, nobody changed any minds. If you liked your guy at the beginning, you liked him even more at the end. It was ultimately pointless.Which means, in the only way that matters, Romney won.I grow weary of people ... Read more

I'mwriting this post in the early AM, but that's not soon enough for one of my friends, who wrote me on Facebook and said, "You know, I hardly slept last night in anticipation of the debate post. I think you just lost my write-in vote!"While I'm flattered that I was ever in contention for the ... Read more

I'vebeen asked by my sons' scoutmaster to watch tomorrow night's debate with my 11-year-old sons and the rest of the Boy Scout troop and provide my expert advice. Should be fun, but I'm on pins and needles, as I'm more anxious about tomorrow night than any other night in the campaign.Tomorrow night is the only ... Read more

This morning, I was recounting what I thought of last night's debate to a woman who became frustrated that I wasn't saying anything about Paul Ryan's performance. Enough about Biden, she kept asking; how did Ryan do? But you couldn't say enough about Biden. The debate was all about Biden.So here's the deal. If ... Read more

Nowthe Obama administration insists that the crude anti-Islamic YouTube trailer had nothing to do with the attack on our embassy in Benghazi. Um, OK. But when the president spoke to the United Nations last month, he once again took occasion to condemn the video and insist that “[t]he future must not belong to those who ... Read more

Look,it's not complicated. America's had a lousy four years, but they still weren't willing to abandon Obama until they were comfortable with the other guy. The debate made them realize Romney's a more-than-acceptable alternative, so now the president finds himself swimming upstream. Simple as that.Romney's new poll numbers aren't a bounce; they're a seismic shift.In ... Read more

1.So let me get this straight. We add 114,000 jobs, which is not enough to keep up with population growth, which is precisely in line with analyst expectations that also presumed the unemployment rate would tick up to 8.3%. But then unemployment plummets by almost half a point to 7.8%, the highest single month drop ... Read more

"Bart'sComet," a season 6 episode of The Simpsons finds the residents of Springfield panicking that a colossal meteor the size of Texas will destroy their town. Homer Simpson, however, is more sanguine. "So there's a comet, big deal," he says. "It'll burn up in our atmosphere, and whatever's left will be no bigger than a ... Read more

SoI'm going to dictate this post via Siri and then edit it later. Should be fun. [Corrections appear in brackets.]Tuning out of politics for just a few days is very good for your personal constitution. I highly recommend it. Looking at all the opinion pieces from the weekend until now, it's clear I didn't miss ... Read more