It's bad everywhere else. It's worse there.

“There's little doubt that the Midwest is the Democrats' toughest region this year,” Democratic pollster Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling wrote on the firm’s website Friday, adding that the firm is also finding an enthusiasm gap of about 10 points down from what existed in 2008.

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Top GOP pollster Glen Bolger of Public Opinion Strategies wrote in even harsher terms last week: “The Midwest is going to be a killing field for Democrats this year from western [Pennsylvania] through to the Plains, Republicans are going to sweep a LOT of Democrats right out of office.”

Killing field? Ah yeah. Below, CAC's "Best Case Scenario/Democratic Mass Extinction" map for the midwest. Just in the midwest alone, we could pick up 30. more...

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UPDATED: Location chosen. Maybe. Looks good.
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CT Morons are violating natural law crossing state lines to visit with our frosty Northern brethren!

Looking good for November 13th in the Boston area.

Venue to be announced on the CT Moron messageboard later on. If you aren't already a member, please email me for an invite.

If you haven't ever been to one of these, let me assure you that these meetups are always wonderful. Your friends here are just as funny and goofy in real life as they are online. If you can possibly make it, don't miss out!

Interested? Here: ctmorons AT gmail DOOTCOOM, just fix the anti-spambot formatting and drop me an email.

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At Hot Air, Earl Pomeroy, who really should not be one of North Dakota's Representatives let alone its only Representative, is now running ads touting his votes with Bush.

Which vote, particularly? Oh, voting with Bush to expand Medicare.

Original article at ABCNews.

Eight Years Of Failed Bush Policies

Kinda beginning to seem not like failed policies at all, huh?

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Great.

But remember, they can't cheat if it's not close.

Thanks to Intaglio.

More Fraud: In Missouri, and in Texas.

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But Lazio refused to endorse Paladino. This may not be pure sore loserism so much as protecting his own brand, since Paladino's got some heavy baggage.

Sarah Palin tweeted her thanks to Lazio:

Rick Lazio: u r Commonsense Conservatives (& other freedom-loving NY'rs) hero today. Thanks 4 selfless act 2 allow your great state 2 thrive

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Genetically Modified Salmon; Artist's Conception (SluShop&trade

Aquaculture is already a pretty efficient use of land and feed for producing protein. And now through genetic engineering, scientists have developed a farm-raised salmon that grows twice as fast as regular salmon.

There is little risk of the GM salmon escaping to the wild, because they are designed to be grown in fish-farm tanks on land rather than in pens out at sea. Even if they do escape, the fish will not interbreed with wild salmon because the GM eggs have been designed to develop into sterile females, said Ron Stotish, AquaBounty's chief executive.

But there is already fierce opposition to the principle of GM salmon from consumer groups, animal welfare organisations and environmentalists. A coalition of 31 such groups in the US has stated their implacable opposition to a product they believe is potentially dangerous to human health and the environment, as well as cruel and painful for the GM fish, which they say are created to grow unnaturally fast.

Hmmm. Darling Morons, please try this nifty mental experiment.

Imagine you have a scale. One of these.
Now: put 'Fish Growing Pains' on one side of the balance. And then 'Feeding All Of Humanity' on the other.
If your mental scale looks like mine, 'Fish Growing Pains' has been launched into effin' orbit.

Environmentalists can't have it all ways. We can't stop catching so much wild fish AND stop food innovation AND still produce enough high quality protein to serve everyone. Not that I really believe environmentalists care so much about human famine.

I'm a fan of genetically modified food. This is the wave of the future. Old fashioned selective breeding takes too long.

Going forward, GM is the way we are going to feed billions of people, develop medicines and new treatments, grow more beautiful flower gardens, and someday clothe ourselves in durable fabrics derived from spider silk secreted by giant chinchillas the size of cattle.

Monsters. Fffft. It is to laugh. HAH! Piffle. more...

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Here's Katy Perry on Saturday Night Live. more...

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Within five, 50-45, according to Rasmussen. It's doable.

Over in the State that Shall Not Be Named, the Candidate Who Shall Not Be Named is still behind, even with a hypothetical challenge from a Write-In Sore Loser Who Shall Not Be Named, but it's closer -- 49% for the Marxist, 40% for Team Red, 5% for the guy who is butt-hurt that he lost an election.

40% is an important threshold for me, suggesting viability.

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Pardon if this was covered. It's just so... Kerry. Actually it's virtually every Democrat. Vote against them and you're racist or stupid, and they don't mind so branding 55% of the public in that manner.

This year, though, they're not offering recriminations, but precriminations. They want you to know what contempt they hold you in before you even enter the polling booth.

On Friday, Kerry knocked voters as clueless for not paying close enough attention to national issues and being too easily swayed by catchy slogans.

“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry said.

The story is about an attempted save by Clinton over the weekend, actually, claiming that Kerry didn't mean to "disrespect the voters."

You Stupid, Useless Racist Monsters

That unpleasantness out of the way -- Vote Democrat!

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Eric Cartman just tweeted "That's pretty sweet".

...“Obama’s environmental record has been dismal, especially on climate, oil and endangered species,” said Kieran Suckling, executive director at the Tucson, Ariz.-based Center for Biological Diversity. “His early appointment of Ken Salazar as secretary of the interior showed very poor judgment. So yes, a pro-environment Democrat might find a surprising amount of support in a primary battle.”...

...“It pains me to say it, but success will require a new president,” wrote Hurowitz, now a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. “And that means that after the midterm elections, we need to start looking for a primary challenger who has the heart and soul required to save the planet from catastrophe and rescue American [sic] from its economic morass.”...

They were so close to having figured out what we needed. Damn.

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