Evidence surfaces suggesting Iranian missile
Photoshoppers could be on Romney campaign payroll

post from Daily Kos on 26 October 2012 04:30:04 PM. © Daily Kos

Well this is hilarious: BuzzFeed just caught the Romney campaign exaggerating the size of one its campaign rallies with an altered image. You can view BuzzFeed's full analysis of the image here, but in short the Romney campaign simply duplicated several sections of the crowd, making the audience seem much bigger than it was. And they did a terrible job of it.

For example, take a look at Romney banner hanging in the rafters?if you flip it around, you'll see several letters are duplicated:

After flipping the letters in the Romney banner hanging from the rafters, the altered image because obvious to the naked eye.

Zooming in on and flipping the Romney banner illustrates one of the several alterations to the image. In this case, the letters M and N are repeated, so the banner reads "ROMNMNEY"It's such a bad photoshop that it kind of reminds you of this spoof of the Iran missile Photoshop, doesn't it?
Iran missile photoshop spoof

What a perfect metaphor for the Romney campaign. Sorry, Romnmney campaign.

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The Very Interesting Eric Cantor Power Point on
Bowles-Simpson

post from Firedoglake on 26 October 2012 04:12:05 PM. © Firedoglake

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has created a Power Point presentation about Bowles-Simpson, the recommendations of the two leaders of the deficit commission. And this offers a window into Tea Party preferences for the fiscal slope and deficit deals. [...]

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National Right to Life: 'Vote like life depends
on it' for Scott Brown

post from Daily Kos on 26 October 2012 04:10:46 PM. © Daily Kos

On Thursday, Massachusetts media were reporting the $45,000 the National Right to Life Committee was spending on mailers in support of Sen. Scott Brown, who calls himself pro-choice. Huffington Post has obtained a copy of the mailer.

NRLC bills itself as "the nation's oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization." It is spending $45,000 to send out a Massachusetts mailer that reads, "Vote like life depends on it...because it does. Scott Brown for U.S. Senate." It compares the positions of Brown and his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, on health care, abortion and "religious freedom." [...]

Why are they spending on a candidate who calls himself pro-choice when there are so many other candidates they could focus on?

"We consider him a senator who votes pro-life," Anne Fox, president of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life, said in August. "We have to take his word for it when he says he is pro-choice. But what we're looking for is someone who votes pro-life, and he does."
As The Boston Globe noted, Brown has an 80 percent approval rating from NRLC, siding with the group on four of its five key votes since being elected.

When it comes down to it, they can count on Brown's vote, something the women of Massachusetts can't be so sure of.

What's unclear right now is whether and how much this is going to hurt Brown in blue Massachusetts. There are a lot of Catholics in the state, but are they staunch enough to be swayed by this, and in numbers that will overcome the inevitable backlash?

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Tennessee Appeals Court Upholds Most Of Voter ID
Law, Saying Burden Is Not Impossible Or Oppressive

post from ThinkProgress on 26 October 2012 04:10:23 PM. © ThinkProgress

A Tennessee appeals court upheld the state?s voter ID law Thursday, with the caveat that the state must accept Memphis library identification cards. In a unanimous ruling, the state?s intermediate court held that the photo ID requirement did not impose burdens akin to a poll tax, and that the state?s justification for the law — alleged [...]

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Mourdock

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Best sign that Richard Mourdock is in a world of trouble in Indiana? His own campaign today released a poll today showing him tied. [...]

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Fresh Out Of The Oven

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Indulge yourself with today's update to Polltracker's top races.[...]

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Missing Issues in the Duopoly Presidential
Campaigns (VIDEO)

post from Taylor Marsh on 26 October 2012 04:00:53 PM. © Taylor Marsh

There?s been a lot of conversation about what?s missing from the Democratic / Republican presidential campaigns, usually with some analysis about why the identified issues are, if not completely left out, clearly not a primary focus of either Obama or[...]

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Fox News Hypes “Exclusive” and
“Death and Deceit in Benghazi” with Bret Baier [Video]

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comBut ? but the basic principle here ? basic principle is that you don?t deploy forces into harm?s way without knowing what?s going on; without having some real-time information about what?s taking place. –[...]

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About Today’s GDP Report

IT’S GOOD political news for President Obama, who is now trailing Mitt Romney on the economy, who has a 20-point lead among independents in today’s daily tracking poll from Washington Post/ABC News.Real gross domestic product — the[...]

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Four Years Ago Today...Ohio Was a 'Dead Heat'

President Obama arrives at Cleveland Airport; 12,000 people roar

All of the pearl-clutching over the close polls was beginning to give me a nervous twitch last night. Then I caught this video of the president arriving at his final stop in his 48-hour, 8-state tour - Cleveland, Ohio.

The roar of the crowd as Air Force One rolled up on the tarmac was amazing, and their energy didn't abate for the entire rally. It reminded me of 2008, when crowds gathered in epic numbers to get a glimpse of him on the stump, and the electricity that seemed to follow him wherever he went.

But I do recall being nervous in 2008, even though the polls were clearly pointing toward an easy win. Why? Because of Ohio. It's always Ohio, it seems. So let's have a look at what the pundits and papers were saying back 4 years ago today, on October 26, 2008, about Ohio:

Toledo Blade headline: McCain goes for broke to keep Ohio 'red'

This weekend s Ohio Newspaper Poll shows the race for Ohio to be a statistical dead heat with a slight edge for Mr. Obama in a state that Mr. McCain characterizes as a must-win for himself if he is to capture the White House.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Poll gives Obama slight lead in Ohio

Ohio voters, wrong only twice when picking the president in the last 108 years, remain nearly split over their choice for the White House, according to a new Ohio Newspaper Poll.
But while the race remains a statistical dead heat, more voters are siding with Democrat Barack Obama, who has erased Republican John McCain's previous lead in Ohio and now holds a 3-point advantage, 49 percent to 46 percent.

TimesofMalta.com: Battleground States

Herb Asher, a political science professor at Ohio State University in Columbus, and an expert on Ohio politics, believes that although the polls are pointing to an Obama victory in Ohio, it is still up for grabs.
"It will be a close election here," Prof. Asher says.

Obama's ground operation and push for early voting was credited with keeping him in play in Ohio. Patrick Gaspard, executive director of the DNC, released some numbers in a memo Thursday pointing at key statistics for Ohio:

There is no party registration in Ohio, but counties and precincts that Obama won in 2008 are voting early at a higher rate than GOP counties and precincts
In counties that Obama won in 2008, 10% of registered voters have already cast ballots. In GOP counties, only 7% of registered voters have cast ballots
Voters from precincts that voted for Obama in 2008 have cast 408,788 ballots (53%) in 2012 compared with just 355,388 ballots (47%) from GOP precincts
The difference (D +53,400) is 80% higher than the difference at this time four years ago (D +29,706)

And how did Ohio turn out in 2008? Barack Obama won it 51/47, with less voters voting early.

But this is 2012, you say, and Barack Obama has been beaten up by recalcitrant Republicans and evil tea partiers? Yes, it is. But the numbers and the reports are there for anyone to see. What it tells me is what I've been saying all along: If turnout is high, we win. If we win, he wins.