Just three have gone the other direction.

A bunch of newspapers have also gone from endorsing Obama to making no endorsements. This might be a big thing in Wisconsin, as the largest paper, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, went from endorsing Obama to making no endorsement, and now the second-biggest newspaper flips from Obama to Romney.

If you were living in New York City, you might think that the city has gone Republican. In that city, The Post presumably supports Romney as it supported McCain, and three dailies have switched from Obama to Romney -- the Observer, the Daily News, and Newsday. Only the New York Times stands with its 2008 endorsement of Obama.

And, I guess, the Village Voice, if that counts, and I don't see why it should.

If Obama can only lose 3 of his 53% of the vote and still win, newspaper editorial boards are pointing at steeper losses than that.

Romney May Be Outperforming With the Military, Too: Check the endorsements from high-ranking retired military.

It's pretty funny.

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Obama did an interview with CBS' Steve Kroft on the night of September 12th and the first question is about why he didn't call it terrorism in his Rose Garden statement that day.

Do you think CBS, the official network of fake Texas Air National Guard memos, would have sat on this if they could have shown Bush lied his ass off in a debate?

Bias? What media bias?

DMM delenda est!

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• NYC Leaves Marathon Generators In Central Park
  
• Sandy Victims Beg For Help As Obama Ignores Them
  
• National Guardsmen To Be Booted From Manhattan Armory For Victorias Secret Show
  
• Boston Herald Shows Scott Brown Up One Point
  
• Romney Draws Huge Crowd In PA
  
• Pictures And Tweets From Romney's PA Rally
  
• Romney Up Slightly In Latest Michigan Poll
  
• Sportswriter Notes Redskin Rule Bodes Well For Romney, But Decides To Make Up Something Called The World Series Rule For Obama
  
• List Of Newspaper Endorsements
  
• What's Going On With Chris Christie?
  
• After Promising We'll Get To Libya A Little Later In His Show, David Gregory Does...168 Hours Later
  
• Dems On Pace To Lose House Seats
  
• 500 Former Generals and Admirals Endorse Romney In Full Page Ad
  
• The Democrats Clearly Have A Deep Bench
  
• Notable People Predicting Romney Win
  
• Yeah, You Should Probably Homeschool Your Kids
  
• I Feel Like They Stole This From It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
  
• Apparenlty Bill Clinton Actually Said This
  
• What Could Go Wrong?
  

I don't know about you, but I woke up with my heart pounding this morning. I've been waiting for tomorrow since Janaury 20, 2009. I'm not one of those people that held out hope that Obama might govern as a centrist. I did my homework. I knew who he was before he beat McCain. Please, if you can, drive you your local victory center after work today and ask if there is anything you can do to help.

A note on polls. Don't pay attenion to them today. Example, Romey is tied with Obama in a D+11 poll. These polls are beyond ridiculous. There is only one poll that matters. That is tomorrows election. Show up and vote. Tell your other Republican friends to show up and vote. Tell your Republican family members to show up and vote. We will win if we turnout like we did in 2010.

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Happy Monday.

Florida election officials are busy demonstrating once again that they're barely competent. Lawsuits are ensuing.

Here's a noteworthy piece on negative advertising.

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I have very limited bandwidth where I am  so tonight's little shindig will mostly DIY.

Why Wordsmiths Fell For Obama

Here Neo-neocon examines why supposedly conservative writers fell so hard for Obama in 2008 and stayed enamored for so long. It's also a good argument for why we should enjoy speechwriters' work but never trust them politically.

A Bet Is a Tax on Bullshit

After taking a lot of criticism over his model Nate Silver has made a bet on the outcome of his model. But the public editor at the NYT is not happy about this and had a severe case of the tut-tuts. However Alex Tabarok at Marginal Revolution points out that  putting your money where your model is actually results in better predictions. Even the most partisan still don't like losing money or a public wager.

The Long Road to the Majors

One of the good things about professional baseball is that its open to anyone with the skills regardless of background. The downside is that it's a long hard rad to make it to the show.

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A few days ago Kathleen Parker, alleged by the media to be conservative-leaning and alleged by me to be an idiot, cooed at the prospect of Michael Bloomberg running for president.

If nothing else, this year has brought us the end of the long-threatened Michael Bloomberg presidential candidacy, and thankfully (hopefully!) the last term of Mayor for Life.

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz’s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn — arguing that approving the Beep’s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”

You know what's worse than highly-trained, highly-disciplined men with guns? Looters and criminals of opportunity, and citizens getting panicky about looters and criminals of opportunity.

When night falls in the Rockaways, the hoods come out.

Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters.

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“We booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,” said Danielle Harris, 34, rummaging through donated supplies as children rode scooters along half-block chunk of the boardwalk that had marooned into the middle of Beach 91st St.

“We heard gunshots for three nights in a row,” said Harris, who believed they came from the nearby housing projects.

Carly Ruggieri, 27, who lives in water-damaged house on the block, said she barricades her door with a bed frame. “There have been people in power department uniforms knocking on doors and asking if they’re okay, but at midnight.”

And another local surfer said he has knives, a machete and a bow and arrow on the ready. Gunshots and slow-rolling cars have become a common fixture of the night since Hurricane Sandy.

“I would take a looter with a boa [sic]. If I felt threatened I would definitely use it,” said Keone Singlehurst, 42. “Its like the Wild West. A borderline lawless situation.”

I don't mind armed citizens, but panicky armed citizens often produce less-than-optimal outcomes. There might be a little less panic -- and also, a little less crime and looting -- if there were a stronger presence of order in the stricken areas.

Bloomberg is so anti-gun he's afraid of national guardsmen -- citizen-soldiers who have at least a basic-level security clearance -- toting firearms.

City-dwellers may finally be understanding what rural folks say -- when danger is seconds away, it does you little good if the police are 10-15 minutes away.

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Live stream via C-SPAN and some morons in previous thread.. something about click on the home page and watch now.

I don't know. Instructions are, confusing to me.

There's some jazz flute dude on right now. Jazz flute is for little fairy boys.

UPDATE: He's on now

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It's a pretty impressive list.

DLA and other agencies are huge, when they move they can make an impact. And this in addition to other non-governmental agencies, charities, and the sheer goodwill of people trying to help.

Some highlights:

-- New York National Guard distributed meals-ready-to-eat to residents at a staging area in lower Manhattan.

-- More than 500 New York National Guard members are supporting crews to repair an electrical grid in Westchester and Rockland counties.

-- New York National Guard members are currently involved in equipment staging, debris clearance, communications support, transportation, security and traffic control operations, aerial survey and reconnaissance, evacuations, and points of distribution.

-- An aerial port of debarkation for critical power repair assets has been established at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y.

-- The New Jersey National Guard has rescued more than 3,000 people and 200 pets by searching door to door in flooded areas.

-- The New Jersey National Guard has assisted civil authorities with establishing shelters in Vineland, Freehold, West Orange, Glen Gardner and at the Jersey City armory.

-- The New Jersey National Guard has established three fuel distribution points throughout the state and is providing mobile fuel support for first responders and vehicles supporting critical infrastructure.

-- The New Jersey National GuardÂ’s 21st Civil Support Team has deployed to Brick Township to help local law enforcement enhance their communications system.

-- The West Virginia National Guard is rescuing elderly and sick citizens who are without power in remote parts of the state where snow accumulation was more than 18 inches.

-- The West Virginia National Guard is delivering critical supplies across 16 counties.

-- West Virginia National Guard assessment teams continue to identify and assess high risk structures and augment state active duty health and welfare teams.

-- West Virginia National Guard teams conducted roof assessments at ten schools, several private businesses and one senior center.

-- Eight West Virginia National Guard helicopters and crews flew various missions
yesterday to include assessments and welfare checks on people in areas unreachable by vehicle due to snowfall.

-- The West Virginia National Guard has 12 power teams, eight grader teams, six loader dump teams, four chainsaw teams and three search-and-extraction teams working throughout several counties.

In addition to relief efforts from dozens of non-governmental agencies, charities, and the sheer goodwill of Americans.

God bless those who are suffering. And God bless those who are providing aid.

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Here is the original. I swapped out the audio with the greatest victory music evah, "Flying Home" from the movie Kick Ass. The music fit almost perfectly. Just a couple of tweaks to the video. It's below the fold.

@Tmi3rd thought it would be a good idea to put up inspiring music and scenes to get people charged up for the election. So here's a little of both. If anyone has anything uplifting, this might be a good thread for it. If not, open thread. more...

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The footballs, they are happening.

I think commenter Jones in CO* dropped this pic in the college thread yesterday.

Works for me.

Kind of an aside but not really, here's an article that lists Dept. of Defense actions in support of hurricane relief. What caught my attention was millions of meals, millions, being prepared and shipped into the recovery zones.

*oops, Anna Puma. THANKS ANNA!

UPDATE below the fold: Romney ad from Red Rock. Did someone post this already? I don't know, I don't actually read this blog. more...

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