Does this put Nebraska in play?

In an email, CAC says he doubts it.

It will go R by a smaller margin is all. Kerrey now looks like an indecisive dolt, and he hasn't been there for 18 years. State is redder since 1994 and the Rs are very, very heavily favored, regardless.

Democrats get elected in Red states by vowing on a stack of Bibles that they do not take their orders from Nancy Pelosi.

But in close votes, in votes crucial to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, they do just that.

As Ben Nelson -- who was once a supposedly "conservative" Democratic -- voted for ObamaCare against his constituents wishes, and against his general message that he weren't no damn San Francisco liberal, isn't the mask now off?

How stupid would Nebraska have to be to believe Bob Kerrey's similar claims?

Alas, I do think people are pretty frigging stupid.

I Realize My Previous Forecasts About What Would Or Would Not Transpire In Your Mouth Turned Out To Be Wildly Erroneous

But it's different this time! I've got a good feeling!

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Rasmussen had good news.

The bipartisan Battleground Poll has bad news.

President Barack ObamaÂ’s approval rating is 53 percent, up 9 percentage points in four months. Matched up against his Republican opponents, he leads Mitt Romney by 10 points (53-43) and Rick Santorum by 11 (53-42). Even against a generic, unnamed Republican untarnished by attacks, Obama is up 5 percentage points. In November, he was tied.

“We’ve not been talking about which would do a better job of running against Obama. We’ve been talking about who is the most or who is the least conservative,” said Republican pollster Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group, who helped conduct the bipartisan poll. “That is a problem for Republicans.”

Click through to the Politico story to see fuller results, including Romney's poor showing with independents.

Romney is bloodied after nine contests, five of which he has lost. Only 33 percent of independents view him favorably, compared with 51 percent who see him in an unfavorable light. In a head-to-head match-up against Obama among independents, Romney now trails 49 percent to 27 percent.

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SantorumÂ’s slight advantage is striking because Romney holds significant leads over the former Pennsylvania senator among likely primary voters on which of the four remaining candidates would best handle jobs (14 percentage points), the economy (19) and balancing the budget (21). Of five areas tested, Santorum leads Romney only on social issues.

My argument against Santorum is based on this:

Among independents, Santorum fares better than Romney: He is viewed favorably by 40 percent and unfavorably by 32 percent. But he remains largely undefined: 28 percent of independents either have no opinion of the ex-senator or have never heard of him. Even among Republicans, that number is 17 percent.

Romney's flaws are discussed constantly. Obama's team has been attacking him for months, too.

But Santorum only recently began to get the negative coverage that is part of any coverage of a Republican contender.

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Honestly, we have to stop with this nonsense of preserving the integrity of stupid map-lines drawn 100 years ago.

Why is the north of the country forced to live under the yolk of the Pashtun minority which comprises most of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan?

What the hell are we doing? Split the North off from the south. Give them their freedom. If you can't fix a country, at least fix 40% of it. Or rather, let 40% fix itself.

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I assume this guy is a rotten bastard. Blackmailers are awful.

But what information is worth $850,000 to a man who is not rich but merely quite comfortable?

Media Matters chief David Brock paid a former domestic partner $850,000 after being threatened with damaging information involving the organization’s donors and the IRS – a deal that Brock later characterized as a blackmail payment, according to legal documents obtained by FoxNews.com.

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Grey threatened to go public about Brock and Media Matters' finances after he accused Brock in a civil suit filed in Washington of taking $170,000 in possessions, including an $8,000 Louis Vuitton suit bag, paintings, a rug, a chandelier, a painted bust of a Roman soldier and a pair of carved wooden chairs upholstered with purple fabric. Those possessions were displayed in the Washington townhouse where the couple entertained liberal movers and shakers in happier times.

Good Lord.

The onetime ladamour began emailing threats to divulge embarrassing information about MMFA's finances.

Please finish this today so I don’t have to waste my time emailing anyone – Biden, Coulter, Carlson, Huffington, Drudge, Ingraham," Grey wrote in a 2008 email.

Nearly two years later, Grey accused Brock of "financial malfeasance" and threatened to undermine BrockÂ’s fundraising efforts.

"Next step is I contact all your donors and the IRS," Grey wrote in an email dated May 19, 2010. "This is going to stink for you if you do not resolve this now."

Brock paid $850,000 in what he himself termed "blackmail" in legal filings. He had to take out multiple mortgages to raise the sum. Later, he attempted to sue the ex-boyfriend to get the money back, accusing him of blackmail, and seeking total compensation of over four million dollars.

But they settled this fooferall under undisclosed terms.

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The funny thing is that Team Obama would view this as an opportunity.

The state would have to come in and take over, right? I mean, they'd have to. Something Must Be Done, and ergo the state gains new powers, somehow. To fix its previous mistakes.

The real genius of socialism is that it is filled with mistakes and poor decisions, and those very mistakes and poor decisions then supply the justification for additional assertions of power, to fix problems their last power-grab created.

What will happen if the HHS regulations are not rescinded? A Catholic institution, so far as I can see right now, will have one of four choices: 1) secularize itself, breaking its connection to the Church, her moral and social teachings and the oversight of its ministry by the local bishop. This is a form of theft. It means the Church will not be permitted to have an institutional voice in public life. 2) Pay exorbitant annual fines to avoid paying for insurance policies that cover abortifacient drugs, artificial contraception and sterilization. This is not economically sustainable. 3) Sell the institution to a non-Catholic group or to a local government. 4) Close down Â…

The strangest accusation in this manipulated public discussion has the bishops not respecting the separation between church and state. The bishops would love to have the separation between church and state we thought we enjoyed just a few months ago, when we were free to run Catholic institutions in conformity with the demands of the Catholic faith, when the government couldnÂ’t tell us which of our ministries are Catholic and which not, when the law protected rather than crushed conscience. The state is making itself into a church.

There can be no separation of church and state when the state has its fingers in every pie.

There can also be no separation of business and state, economy and state, free speech and state, sex and state, parenting and state, education and state, or health and state. Because there is no separation, fundamentally, of citizen and state.

The state is all. Individuals only matter to the extent they serve the state and the state's agenda.

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John Galliano, if you've forgotten, is that idiot French designer who said he dug Nazis. more...

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Remember when the Clintons shut down LAX for an hour so that Christophe could give Bill Clinton a hair cut?

Two of Los Angeles International Airport's four runways were shut down for nearly an hour on Tuesday, some incoming flights were delayed and Air Force One sat on the tarmac with engines running -- all so that President Clinton's Beverly Hills hairstylist, Chistophe, could come aboard and give Mr. Clinton a high-price trim before he took off for Washington.

Questions about Mr. Clinton's runway razor cut dominated the White House news briefing today, with the communications director, George Stephanopoulos, scrambling to explain why the populist President tied up one of the country's busiest airports to have his hair trimmed. Everybody Does It

Apparently everybody does do it. Well, Democrats. Who have little fear of exposure in the media. It appears Obama puttered around in Air Force One an extra 30 minutes last week so he could catch more of the Knicks game. While the country is going to hell. While people are dying for work. And can't pay for gas.

U.S. President Barack Obama and the First Lady, Michelle Obama, have a 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude toward the citizenry of America.

They use tax dollars to fund a lifestyle worthy of the wealthy 1%, yet they preach a redistributionist view of America that makes the far left Occupy Wall Street mob proud. The laundry list of activities where the President and First Lady have taken actions inconsistent with what the are preaching to America is long.

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This Administration seems to have a "Let Them Eat Cake - but make it a Diet Low Carb Cake" mentality.

President Obama flew to Florida this past week to explain high gas prices. According to the Washington Post, on his way to Florida this past Thursday, reporters were "perplexed" at the President's 41 minute flight from Washington, DC to Orlando, Florida taking 1 hour and 15 minutes. The flight was in the air an extra 30 minutes, burning precious fossil fuels.

It does not seem a coincidence that the President landed right at half time of an NBA basketball game between the star studded Miami Heat and New York Knicks. Some theorized that the President delayed his flight in the air to watch more of the basketball game.

Much more at the link. I recall Bush catching hell from the media for his yearly visits to that playground of the rich, Crawford, Texas.

Added: Commenter "Garret" says he used to deliver pizzas on a regular basis to Westchester Co. Airport for the Clinton White House where Air Force One would pick them up. Nice.

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Follow 'The Daily DOOM' on Twitter: @AoSHQDOOM.

PSA: I'm going to have to into silent-running mode for the next week or so, my groovy babies. I have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada. This means no DOOM, no Sunday book thread, and less traffic on the Twitter feed.

Think of this hiatus as a way to reconnect to your inner optimist, without the constant drum-beat of DOOM to distract you.
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Happy Monday.

Gallup: Even a majority of Democrats (56%), and a majority of those who think that ObamaCare is a good thing (54%), say the individual mandate is unconstitutional. Overall, 72% of Americans think the mandate is unconstitutional.

Afghanistan suicide bomber kills eight or nine Muslims in Koran-rage attack against NATO base. I'm sure they'll find that just outrageous.

Act of Valor was tops at the box office this weekend. WashTimes says it's the culmination of a media strategy that started with embedded reporters.

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Sadly, Maet couldn't do his thang tonight so I'm fillin' in. I figure free beer wi-fi should bump up the participation on the ONT. It has been lacking the past few nights. So get a cold one and jump right in to the ONT.

Tough TV viewing tonight. The Oscars or The Walking Dead? C'mon SMOD! Hurry up already! more...

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