I felt this way about Bush 'round 2006. Well, I didn't feel this strongly about it.

This woman is pissed.

What makes this clip not so good is the woman's blatant racism is clearly on display. It doesn't help when women like this reinforce the Jeneane Garofalo line that opposition to Obama is "racism straight-up, hatin' on a black man as president."

Her disgust at Obama's race is palpable. This does us no good.

Please: If you have something to say about Obama, do not use "racial code words" like this woman did.

Snicker/Snortle: Why does Obama laugh at this?

Funny exchange in the comments:

Nickless: Does she have any unpaid taxes?

A Balrog of Morgoth: She does now.

Captain Awesome's Response: Is at the bottom of the page.

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Editor had just written to me:

Pretty soon, ace, you'll be full fledged "yeah, this is going to be a tsunami so big that we could run a half gallon of soured milk against [insert preferred Dem candidate] and win handily."

I was going to write, Hey, maybe, but Obama's not that unpopular in Delaware.

But instead of writing that I looked it up. He's not super-unpopular, but he is unpopular.

The Democratic polling firm PPP has released the results of a new survey showing pro-abortion President Barack Obama fares worse in terms of his approval rating in key presidential states than he did in 2008, when he was elected.

Obama's approval rating there is now under water in Delaware at 46% happy with the job he's doing and 48% disapproving.

"That's a pretty amazing drop in a state where he won 62% of the vote," the polling firm said.

"It's just the most dramatic example of something plaguing Democratic candidates in all of this year's most competitive Senate races though," PPP's Tom Jensen said. "There's not much doubt that Barack Obama is the biggest reason why most of these blue state Senate races are looking so competitive and getting 15-20% of the vote from people who disapprove of Obama is going to be critical to the victory chances of many of these Democratic candidates."

As everyone on the Castle side of things says, pretty much, we never disagreed that Castle pretty much sucked or that it would be preferable, if possible, to put O'Donnell into that seat, flaws notwithstanding. (We have a lot of flawed Senators.) The argument was whether it was possible. Well, it was always possible; the argument was over whether it was longshot/darkhorse possible or more like coinflip possible.

If it's coinflip possible, then my caution and pessimism will have been proven wrong, regardless of the outcome of the race, because, I didn't think it was coinflip-possible. I thought it was longshot-possible. If I had known it was coinflip possible, I would have said, "Yeah, flip that coin."

I'm not sure it is coinflip possible or ever will be, but I have to say I thought, incorrectly, that Obama was over 50% in Delaware, like 51 or 52%.

At 46%, with a major enthusiasm gap...? I don't know if it's coinflip possible but it may be better than longshot possible.

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At Hot Air:

arkos Moulitsas tweeted this morning that a PPP poll due out tomorrow will show Feingold trailing by double digits due to a “MASSIVE” enthusiasm gap developing in Wisconsin. Taegan Goddard writes that this will put the Senate back in play for the GOP. Guy Benson wonders when this seat gets moved to a Likely Republican flip.

I don't get the part about the Senate being "back in play" -- I thought to flip the Senate we sort of needed Wisconsin anyway, and that to put it in play we needed like three of the four tough gets (CT, CA, WA, NY). Or, I guess, now four of the five tough gets (adding DE into the pile of tough gets).

Also at the link, Walker has jumped ahead in the Governor race (also in WI), 51-43.

Clarification: Sean Duffy isn't running against Feingold; a businessman named Ron Johnson with a super-cute family is. Duffy is running to be a Representative in David Obey's old seat (WI-7, I believe, the Ashland area).

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My fears that people would reconcile themselves to the President's health care program have fortunately not come to pass. A strong majority of likely voters still oppose ObamaCare and want repeal.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Likely U.S. Voters now at least somewhat favor repeal of the new national health care law, including 50% who Strongly Favor it. ThatÂ’s up eight points from a week ago and the highest level of opposition measured since late May.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely Voters oppose repeal. Since the passage of the bill in late March, a majority of voters have consistently favored repeal of the new law, with support ranging from a low of 53% to a high of 63%.

Only 33% say the health care plan will be good for the country, the lowest level measured since late July. Fifty-six percent (56%) disagree and believe the new law will be bad for the United States.

Part of that, no doubt, is the realization that rising insurance rates are part of the ObamaCare mandates. As more folks and businesses notice the higher rates after October 1, more will come to oppose the Democrats' health care reform and the source.

Related: Bill Clinton on his advice to Democrats that health care reform would help them at the polls: "oops".

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Brand Democrat™ from Slublog.

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Before the DE embargo is official, make sure you check out Patterico (who is a dirty RINO who needs to be purged) who actually does some of the yeoman work that the yellers say needs to be done (but are too busy yelling at Patterico to trouble themselves to do it themselves).

Hmmm... Old timers may remember AndrewR., one of the funniest posters on the site (and, really, the funniest poster, but I'm obviously loathe to give him that tip of the hat).

He composed this flamewar entry for me:

Roses are red
violets are blue
Last night the AV squad
fucked Ace in the mouth.

Anyway, today he wrote a funny piece on Christine O'Donnell's "Witchcraft" thing, and asked me to link it.

I wrote back, hey, dude, that's awesome, and it's great to hear from you, and I'd love to link your blog, but, in case you didn't notice, there's a bit of drama goin' down, and I would sooner stick my hand into piranha's vagina than link anything that even seems to be poking fun of Christine O'Donnell.

However, since several O'Donnell supporters suggested ridicule as the proper response to the story, and this story takes it into the realm of the ridiculous, I guess maybe it's sort of passable after all.

It is pretty funny.

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[See update at end]

For whatever reason blog posts with anything negative about Christine O'Donnell seem to be bringing out the vitriol and accusations of being a RINO and assisting Coons.

Even if the stories in question have been extensively covered by Fox, CNN, and pretty much every other political blog on the right and left. So at this point I'm genuinely curious if this is a widespread feeling or just a vocal minority of commenters.

For the record I have no particular dog in this fight. I don't live in Delaware and hadn't even heard of O'Donnell , Castle, or Coons three weeks ago. I haven't given or received money from any of these campaigns and I've never attended a DC (or Tea Party) cocktail party. Nor do I have the prospect of anything like this happening anytime soon dammit. So pretty much there's no upside whatsoever for me to post this. Yet strangely I'm compelled to anyway. :-)

Apart from being a smart military blog we also cover the news and give readers a place to talk about the news and current events. But if a majority of readers truly don't want to hear anything bad about O'Donnell, well we're not out to make our loyal morons more disgruntled than they already are. The current lawsuits are quite enough thank you very much.

But we may find like Howard Stern that readers who hate our guts make up a substantial portion of our readership, so in that case pissing them off more is just good audience-building strategery. Cause angry traffic is still traffic. And once you're having the interns start your cars, what's a few more threats anyway?

Update

Well after 2500 votes here are the results:

Should this blog cover any negative news about Christine O'Donnell?

Yes 41.73%
Yes, but only if it's matched by equally negative news about Coons 36.23%
No 22.04%

So I read this as a strong majority support for continuing to cover news about O'Donnell even if it's negative. Albeit with more negative coverage of Coons which is fair enough. So if you find something on Coons, do pass it on to us.

And those who wanted a total blackout on any bad O'Donnell news seem to be a vocal minority. Which to be honest was my suspicion. And well I'm afraid I have bad news for you - there's probably going to be more coverage of newsworthy O'Donnell stories even negative ones.

So if that's going to freak you out or piss you off, then let me suggest something in a nice way: This may not be the blog for you. At least for a few weeks, so maybe take a break for a while. But of course everyone is always welcome at the Nov. 2nd evening pudding party.

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*_{Open except for the Forbidden Topic. You know the one I'm talking about.}

Ahoy ye mateys and welcome to tonight's ONT on the foredeck. Arggghh.

How About A Science Fiction Sunday?

Okay I figure a lot of you already read science fiction at least occasionally so tonight's topic is mostly oriented towards those who don't but might consider it if they had an idea of which books and authors to start with.

So why read Sci-Fi?

Walter Russell Read: Science Fiction is a Genre That Everyone Should Read
And he gives the case for why it's good to read even if you don't like 'science'. And I have to also agree that some of the early giants in Sci-Fi were better at creative ideas and big concepts than characters and writing good prose. Another reason you may want to start with more modern books and work your way back according to your interests.

So here's a list of books for novice students of Science Fiction literature as compiled at io9 and Wired. [Note it's not my list]

And all in all it's pretty good list although in my opinion it's more oriented toward the 'literature' side of sci-fi and not as much the fun or enjoyable side. I would have included some of the more modern sci-fi classics but it's a decent enough list to start with. Also don't feel compelled to read the early writings of the genre - sure they're historical but the writing style and science are often offputting to a lot of modern readers. So start with things you're more likely to enjoy. more...

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In a day of frivolous posts, what's one more, especially with the commenters talking football in every. freakin. post.

In about thirty minutes, it's Indianapolis facing the Giants and New Orleans at San Francisco. Knock yourselves out.

Oh, yeah, the picture: more...

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I meant to put this up yesterday, but got distracted. If you're into podcasts, Carly Fiorina was on the John Batchelor show on Wednesday and did a great job talking about how she wants to turn Barabara Boxer's hellish economic policies around. Get the mp3 here.

On that note: more...

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