Eh, it's something.
It still bothers me that all the while Blumenthal was questioning her individual business decisions, McMahon never went *really* negative on Blumenthal and brought up the livelihoods he has wrongfully destroyed over the course of his career. Now it's too late for that.

Negativity is poisonous and probably not a good idea this close to Election Day. A lot of people don't want to wind up their campaigns on a negative note.

But never, Linda? Not even once?

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If you're unfortunate enough to be watching today's Rally for Hipsterism in D.C., feel free to talk about it here.

Comedy Central is "strictly prohibiting" filming on the Mall, something not remotely legal:

PJTV’s Washington Bureau chief Richard Pollock inquired with the Comedy Central’s senior vice president of corporate communications Steve Albani about receiving credentials. Albani claimed that Pollock would not be given credentials because of limited supply, and as such there would be no room on the “press riser” for PJTV’s camera and crew. When Pollock said that he’d be fine with filming not on the press riser, Albani said that filming would be “strictly prohibited” between 3rd and 7th streets on the National Mall (ground zero for the event).

Off to a great start, Jon.

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It's funny because it's true.

This, along with the notion that there was every really a period of pure objective journalism, is one of my personal pet peeves. When people (usually liberals) say stuff like this what they really mean is, "it's so mean and unfair when you conservatives fight back. Why can't you be "a good conservative"? You know, like Gerry Ford?"

Added bonus....Jake Tapper is getting drilled by liberals on Twitter over ABC News' decision to have Breitbart do commentary on Tuesday night. Their tears are like a lovely appetizer for Tuesday's main course!

*If you're new and don't get the reference, well, just ask in the comments (or read this)

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Now with 100% less "The Warriors" content!

Here be some Jimmeh (The Page, not the Carter kind. Even I'm not that cruel) crooning about Skiffles, which were presumably a precursor to modern-day Skittles:

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And Obama falls to a new low on a Fox poll (I think), at 41/50.

Good poll.

We'll see about those four scenarios. If the country really is in this much of a mood to punish Obama and the Democrats, then we really might be looking at possible victories for McMahon, O'Donnell, DioGuardi, Fiorina, and, hell, even Len Britton in Vermont (challenging the vile weasel Pat Leahy).

Thanks to JE.

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Is the wave traveling north? New polling suggests that the two Maine congressional races are much closer than anyone imagined. Let's begin with Maine's first congressional district:

Republican challenger Dean Scontras has moved slightly ahead of incumbent U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, although they remain in a statistical dead heat in their 1st Congressional District race, according to the fourth and final wave of The Maine Poll.

Scontras, an alternative-energy entrepreneur from Eliot, received 45 percent of respondents' support compared to 41 percent for Pingree, in the poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday for MaineToday Media by the Portland research firm Critical Insights.

A few weeks ago, Republican Jason Levesque was 13 points behind incumbent Democrat Mike Michaud. Not any more.

Republican challenger Jason Levesque has overcome a double-digit deficit and pulled to within striking distance of Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, according to the latest results of The Maine Poll.

The poll of the race for Maine's 2nd Congressional District shows Michaud with the support of 44 percent of respondents and Levesque with 40 percent. That left about 14 percent of respondents who were still undecided.

In the past two days, four polls have been released in the race for Maine's governor, and the numbers have been pretty consistent:

Rasmussen: LePage 40%, Mitchell 26%, Cutler 26%

PPP: LePage 40%, Cutler 28%, Mitchell 24%

Pan Atlantic SMS: LePage 37%, Cutler 31%, Mitchell 22%.

Critical Insights: LePage 40%, Mitchell 21%, Cutler 21%.

What could help Levesque is that, according to the Pan Atlantic poll (a well-regarded Maine pollster) LePage is well ahead of his opponents in the second district. He's also ahead in the first. The Maine GOP also has a great get out the vote operation this year, which may help Levesque as well.

The latest polls have given Cutler supporters a little surge of hope that their guy can pull ahead. Nate Silver isn't so sure, and I agree with his analysis. If Cutler had started to move a couple of weeks ago, he would be in a position to win this race. Now, though, he simply has too much ground to make up in too short a time. There just aren't enough undecideds out there and there's no guarantee they would all break his way next Tuesday.

Maine's polls close at 8 p.m. If one of the two congressional districts goes red in this deeply blue state, it could suggest the Democrats are going to have a long, difficult night. (Yes, I changed it...you sickos)

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Rasmussen has Rubio at the Big Five-Oh:

Rubio: 50

Crist: 30

Meek: 16

As Wesley W. Wolf, 1932 champion Olympic javelin-thrower, observed, "Gentlemen, let's not start chucking each other's sticks just yet."

That said-- here's Nigella Lawson in a clingy dress making pudding. more...

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Laura is giddy with schadenfreude and recalled this old psychiatric diagnosis.

Are you ready for PESTS 2?

The symptoms vary region to region and person to person, but the general diagnosis is the same: severe disorientation, melancholy, a need to be around like-minded others and a lingering fear that the country is going to hell in a handbasket.

Howard Menger, a film technician in New York, woke up with PESTS on the Wednesday after the election. He called his old friend Jerry in Ohio, who'd been the best man at his wedding, and left this message:

"Just calling to make sure, for the sake of me and my family and people around the world, that you didn't vote for Bush yesterday. Give me a call and reassure me."

By Sunday, he hadn't heard back. "I have a gut feeling," he says, "that it might be the end of a 10-year friendship."

Thanks to rdbrewer and I think someone, here's another sydrome we should be aware of:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[2]

That's kind of half the problem with liberals in both office and the media, right there.

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The Religion of Peace strikes again.

President Barack Obama declared Friday that authorities had uncovered a "credible terrorist threat" against the United States following the overseas discovery of U.S.-bound packages containing explosives aboard cargo jets. Obama said both had been addressed to Jewish organizations in the Chicago area.

The disclosures triggered a worldwide alert amid fears that al-Qaida was attempting to carry out fresh terror attacks.

The events "underscore the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism," the president said. The packages both originated in Yemen, but Obama did not explicitly assign blame to al-Qaida, which is active in the Arab nation and long has made clear its goal of attacking the United States.

The Christmas Day Bomber, the Time Square bombing and now this. Depending on your enemy to be incompetent is not a winning strategy for the long term.

BTW-According to Gibbsy, Obama won't be altering his schedule tonight or over the weekend, so the campaign stops are still on.

Priorities.

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That chicken could not be reached for comment.

“Crist is going to caucus with the Democrats,” Mr. Morgan said. “I don’t think there’s any ifs, ands or buts about it. It would be, in a very tight year, almost like a Democratic pickup in a solid Republican state.”

Crist and Linza Mussarky really, really are afraid of updating their resumes, aren't they?

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