Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* It's obviously late in the game for new ads, but the National Jewish Democratic Council released a video the other day featuring Barbra Streisand urging Jewish voters to support President Obama. It comes on the heels of an endorsement from Israel's Haaretz newspaper, who calls Obama "good for Israel."
* PPP's final Ohio poll shows Obama leading Mitt Romney by five, 52% to 47%.
* PPP's final Florida poll shows Obama up by one, 50% to 49%.
* PPP's final Iowa and New Hampshire polls show the president ahead by identical margins, 50% to 48%, though the final WMUR poll shows Obama up by four, 50% to 46%.
* PPP's final Colorado poll shows Obama ahead by six, 52% to 46%.
* PPP's final North Carolina poll shows the candidates tied at 49% each.
* In Connecticut, Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon is using materials that make it appear she and the president are on the same side, hoping voters forget which party's she's in.
* In Missouri, PPP's final poll shows Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) ahead of Todd Akin (R), 48% to 44%.
* In Massachusetts, a Western New England University poll shows Elizabeth Warren (D) leading Sen. Scott Brown (R) by four, 50% to 46%, while PPP finds Warren ahead by six, 52% to 46%.
* In Montana, PPP shows Sen. Jon Tester (D) with a two-point edge, while Mason-Dixon shows Rep. Denny Rehberg (R) ahead by four.
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Colorado -- 52% to 46% for Obama. Way to go Colorado. From my vantage point in Southwest Colorado, a very red part of the state, I can say I think this poll is accurate. Obama may not carry Montezuma County, but the Republican margin is not going to be big enough to offset the big Democratic precincts around Denver and Pueblo. We might even be able to elect a Democrat to Congress.
Yes...Here in the 3rd district we are evenly split...there has been a disconnect by some old time repubs who don't recognize their fathers' party...a good sign...I point out to them that this republican party wants to destroy SSI and so on...they just don't believe it...
I just finished a good article about Mitt and Mormonism...it scares me more than any terrorist...or I should say foreign terrorists....we are now living under economic terrorism by the wealthy, and corporations...I can almost see a day when one of these corporations who own most of our food supply, tells us who to vote for or no food...kinda like...now...
everyone should read this....http://amymacpherson.wordpress.com/
If PPP is correct the big news is going to be more Democrats in the Senate than currently. Totally unexpected and Mitch McConnell's majority leader dream goes a glimmering.
Maybe our Senate will get back to work doing America's business instead of playing politics.
Let's hope Harry Reid makes good on the promised filibuster reform, otherwise as long as there are 41+ Republican traitors, nothing gets done.
I am sure people are getting real tired of me saying this, but the Senate and White house while important have stolen the focus from what will prove to be where the decisive battle was really being fought in 2012.
If serious inroads are not made in the House, There will be no speaker of the house willing to support (either Pelosi or a moderate republican) willing to support any of Obama's legislation.
The right wing is going to feel very much aggrieved and will indulge in the victimhood memes they so excel at. Biden was optimistic about movement in the Senate among moderate republicans but they are irrelevant if the House Tpartiers are unrepentant and just as implacable as 2010. The energy of aggrievement in the far right base could fuel even more extreme obstructionism.
That is, if the GOP does not take a shellacking in the House races.
The crucial battle of this campaign has been almost utterly ignored by the media and the national parties. It is baffling to me the cancellation of ad buys by the DCCC for some of these races. All the gold is being spent in Ohio, and not even pennies can be spared for the tossup House races.
Really really dumb.
No, I'm not tired of you saying it, John.
Not to get too far ahead (i.e VOTE tomorrow) ...
But this election serves as a wake up call that we need to remain an engaged electorate during regular sessions of Congress and not just during the Presidential election season. Yes, an idealistic thought but a necessity to hold obstructionist accountable and remove from office during the next Congressional election cycle.
Perhaps that's the better use of Super PAC funds ... to provide issue updates during regular sessions "shining the light" on non-performing, obstructing Congressional delegations.
The phrase "take back my country" comes to my mind as I watch our American values highjacked by domestic extremists like Ryan et al.
Chris tell me it is a plausible outcome. I want to sleep well tonight and wake up to find a clean sweep of the House races. Tell me the electorate will instruct the drunks to let go of the steering wheel and hand the keys back to Nancy.
If she won't run for President, I'd like her to have at least one more glorious run of progressive legislation.
Tied in North Carolina? Wow.
Any new polling on the Indiana senate race?
Donnelly was leading Mourdoch 45.5%/42% as of Thursday but I haven't been able to find out if there is anything new
One from Friday shows a much bigger advantage for Donnelly http://thestatehousefile.com/howeydepauw-poll-finds-donnelly-up-big-over-mourdock-while-gap-closes-in-governors-race/7908/
thanks much
I've been reading how pastors and clergy are endorsing political candidates. If they are going to break the law of separation of church and state, then I believe they should lose their tax exempt status and have to pay taxes. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/04/14703656-pulpit-politics-pastors-endorse-candidates-thumbing-noses-at-the-irs?lite
I had to endure that (endorsement) in church this Sunday. I'm having a big problem with it.
In an earlier headline it said that Romney was seeking Glen Beck's support. He may have Beck but we have Springsteen. Springsteen has seen his share of steel companies being shuttered and the jobs shipped off to China. He knows that this is what Romney did for a living while at Bain Capital and would make it even easier to ship jobs to China should he be elected. This is why he supports the President and why I do to.
This is funny because in 2004 Springsteen and John Kerry (who served in Vietnam), played to 80,000 people in Madison, WI. Today, with Obama, they played to 18,000 people in Madison, WI. I see a huge landslide for Romney tomorrow!
Is the news true that Romney paid no taxes for ten years? Was Harry Reid right?
Bloomberg News has it - scamming the charitable contributions laws. Surprise surprise - ripping off his own cult, er, I mean church.
All of this is significantly better news than the panel on MSNBC discussed last hour. I do not know what to believe.
Please take the time to read this...it has put all of the last ten years in perspective for me at least...
http://amymacpherson.wordpress.com/
I already voted for POB and every other D. on the ballot. I am convinced Mitt is slime. I am confused about which polls are accurate. Thanks for the history. It reads like a good L Ron Howard novel.
Drive around your neighborhood, who's campaign signs and stickers do you see? These polls are the most ridiculous numbers out there. Romney has all of the momentum going into tomorrow. Republican turnout is predicted to be plus 6 over Democrats, and many Democrats are jumping ship as well. How can you look at the last four years as anything but a complete failure for Obama. Romney gets over 300 electoral votes and MSNBC implodes!
If you consider the last four years a failure - you need look no further than the obstructionist Republican party. How can anyone of any faith and good conscious state as they did that they would do whatever they could to insure that the President of the United States failed!
The last four years have not, however, been a failure. I shudder to think where we would be economically without the herculean effort of the Obama Administration to pull us back from the cliff edge that the economy was at thanks to Bush/Cheney et al.
Additionally, I, as a woman and many other things, can only give my thanks to President Obama for signing fair wage legislation (along with the Health Care Act) -- something that Romney can't even say! let alone do. Yes, Romney might have hired one or two of the women in those binders but he didn't say that he paid them the same as their male coworkers!
I am really tired of the irresponsible Republicans wrecking the economy, environment, public education, and general social well-being of America and then turning it over to the Democrats to fix; to then only want it back to wreck it again. The Repub's extractive approach to our national resources (economy, ecology, and people) is reprehensible!
And when I drive around my neighborhood -- your predictions are (thankfully) very wrong.
Linda McMahon is this election's Eunetta Perkins.
Yo Maddow Staff! If you haven't seen this yet, ENJOY! Most awesome thing ever.
Les Mis "One Term More" parody on YouTube..
Definitely worth watching
Absolutely worth watching and passing on to all you know! Thanks, Chris.
Just do NOT believe any polls. They are skewed to the pollster's leaning, sample sizes are way to small, they never show the complete demographics of the people they poll. Most of all don't ever believe a NBC poll as NBC admitted they do not know how to conduct polls.
On thing is sure whomever wins tomorrow is going to face a very rough road - unless cross aisle cooperation is obtained. That is where we come in to play, we need to pressure our federal senators and house reps to act like grown ups and do what their constituents have mandated them to do.
The radical/extreme ends of BOTH parties need to be silenced as they serve only a small interest group . The issue is the economy - period.
In the US Constitution I believe not allowing people to vote meets the standard of high Treason! Defending Freedom and Democracy is why many have sacrificed their lives.
In the US Constitution I believe not allowing people to vote meets the standard of high Treason! Defending Freedom and Democracy is why many have sacrificed their lives.
Today's Limerick: Mon., Nov. 5, 2012:
Twas a time when women could not vote,
But the men, the men, they'd showboat, J
ust do as we say, E
ven if you say, "nay,"
And we'll buy you a beautiful fur coat
Today's Limerick: Mon., Nov. 5, 2012:
Twas a time when women could not vote,
But the men, the men, they'd showboat,
Just do as we say, E
ven if you say, "nay,"
And we'll buy you a beautiful fur coat
As an Ohio voter who actually resides in the battle ground region of Hamilton County (i.e. southwest Ohio, Cincinnati area) - I can tell you that the zeal that I saw for Obama 4 years ago has certainly lost a lot of its luster this time around. Will that necessarily mean that Obama will not win - even the professional pollsters dont seem to be able to coherently respond to that one. That being said, from what I am seeing every day here at ground zero, if Obama does actually pull this one off - it will likely be without the votes from Hamilton county (and the surrounding ones in the southwest Ohio area) - a region that he won in 2008, but I seriously doubt he will get this time around.
I'm really wondering how accurate any of the polls are anymore. I've never gotten a call on my cell phone, only the land-line. If they aren't polling cell phone users they're missing all the people who can't afford or have land-lines which could be a significant portion of the population, especially younger and poorer voters.
#10 -- Chris -- that is a great video. The first time I saw it I got goosebumps and shed a few tears. It it just wonderful and should be on all TV shows today. I've sent it to everyone I know and I a few I really don't know.
It's just that good . . . and says it all . . .
Why are Republicans so confident? Do they have some internal polling that tells them something different than we are being told? I'm getting very nervous about this election. I've been hearing predictions of Romney getting 336 electoral votes in a sweep. Can that possibly be true?
Montana. Seven of nine polls in October show Tester leading. One has the race tied. Only the Mason-Dixon poll shows him behind. Details at flatheadmemo dot com, which calculates the odds that Tester is leading at 3:2.
I am amazed that when polled, 54% of the country thinks we are headed in the wrong direction and 41% think we are on the right track. With those numbers, I don't understand why those that believe we are on the wrong track would reup for another 4 years of the same. Sad when just because you are affiliated with the democrats you would vote as such even when you think it is all wrong.Vote American, not partiy affiliation.
I'm surprised the election is as close as it is. If the Republican party had anyone who stood out as a clear leader, I don't think the President would have had a chance right from the start, given the state of the economy over the course of his term. Talk about having to choose the lesser of several evils... the Republican primary was full of flakes who didn't have an original idea amongst them. I think most on the Right just held their noses and chose the guy with the coolest hair.
Polls aren't what they used to be. Not everyone has a landline and people don't answer the phone when unknown numbers show up on caller ID. This election is anyone's guess.
While I'm hoping to see the end of Romney for good tomorrow night, it might be useful to link to other polls so that people can get a more nuanced view of how things stand. Several polls still have Romney either tied, or leading slightly in the popular vote, and others tell different stories about the battlegrounds. This is a blog on MSNBC, so you're essentially preaching to the choir (of which I'm a member), but if you choose to report on only the data which supports your own view, then you're no better than the cretins at Fox News who are always being criticized around these parts.
Personally, I don't care what the polls say. I won't be able to relax until I hear Romney concede.
And I'm quite convinced that Paul Ryan eats babies. Raw.
Seriously, what is an Ayn Rand "Objectivist" doing pretending they're interested in Public Service? I think they're reading "Public Service" the wrong way around.
Tom Brokaw just said on The Cycle, "the Tea Party, they're not going anywhere, I've talked to them and no matter who wins the White House, they're going to be in their face..."
My question is, why is ol Tom reluctant to admit the Tea Party is predominantly conservative? Why is he pretending that they're some third party of independents to be dealt with?
CALL HIM OUT!