NY Times: Another Recount in Florida?

(A) new poll from Mason-Dixon, released on Saturday, that shows President Obama with a nominal 1-percentage-point lead there over Mitt Romney.

Nate Silver's model shows Florida as close as can be. It projects the Nov. 6 result as Mr. Obama 49.5 percent, Mr. Romney 49.4 percent — an outcome that would be close enough to trigger another recount.

It is clear why Gov. Rick Scott is trying to purge the voter rolls of "undocumented workers" in such a close race.

However, Organizing for Obama (OFO) just geared up two weeks ago. The Major has talked to 100s of FL Democrats who are very enthusiastic about the president's reelection.

see July 14: Another Recount in Florida? - NYTimes.com

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Buzz 60: Republican Nominee Indecision As Obama Looks Stronger

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Republicans have been struggling for a year to find the best man or woman to beat Barack Obama but still have no consensus about a nominee. Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum? Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul? And now the indecision comes as Obama's approval rating rises and the economy improves.

Rightardia agrees with Jay DeDapper's analyses. Mittens doesn't really bring anything to the table that makes a convincing case for changing the presidency. The surly approach of the GOP toward the president for the last three years will probably lead to the loss of the US Congress as well. 

The best thing that could happen to the GOP would be a massive defeat in November.It would force them to take their ideological blinders off and to return to the middle. They would also be forced to deal with a popular Democratic president for the next four years. 

The US is no longer fighting a cold war with Russia and economic issues are far more important about social issues like religion and abortion. 

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New York Times: Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?

By FRANK RICH Published: November 13, 2010

"In the aftermath of the Great Democratic Shellacking of 2010, one election night subplot quickly receded into the footnotes: the drubbing received by very wealthy Americans, most of them Republican, who tried to buy Senate seats and governor’s mansions. Americans don’t hate rich people.

They admire and often idolize success. But Californians took a hearty dislike to Meg Whitman, who sacrificed $143 million of her eBay fortune — not to mention her undocumented former housekeeper — to a gubernatorial race she lost by double digits.

Connecticut voters K.O.’d the World Wrestling groin-kicker, Linda McMahon, and West Virginians did likewise to the limestone-and-steel magnate John Raese, the senatorial hopeful who told an interviewer without apparent irony, “I made my money the old-fashioned way — I inherited it.”

To my mind, these losers deserve a salute nonetheless. They all had run businesses that actually created jobs (Raese included). They all wanted to enter public service to give back to the country that allowed them to prosper. And by losing so decisively, they gave us a ray of hope in dark times.

Their defeats reminded us that despite much recent evidence to the contrary the inmates don’t always end up running the asylum of American politics."

Not all of the billionaires were defeated in the general elections. Rick Scott, the grifter billionaire, became the governor of Florida promising 700,000 new jobs. He narrowly  defeated an excellent Democratic candidate, Alex Sink.


Will Scott be able to create 700,000 new jobs in Florida? Rightardia doubts it. The Florida economy runs on retiree incomes and related services as well as tourism. The latter collapsed when gasoline prices went to $4.00 a gallon during the Bush administration and never recovered. 

Florida lacks the technical-scientific-industrial base as that a state like North Carolina has. Florida doesn't just need more jobs, it needs the right kind of jobs.


Creating more job in the services, healthcare or tourism will provide a short term fix at best for Florida.

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Ben Stein Loses New York Times Column

First Posted: 08- 7-09 10:35 AM | Updated: 08- 7-09 10:40 AM

Conservative columnist Ben Stein has lost his Sunday New York Times column over his appearance in commercials for FreeScore.com, a company Reuters' Felix Salmon described as "a sleazy company which exists only to extract large sums of money from those who can least afford it."

The company offers customers a free credit score but charges them substantially to actually review their credit report.

NYT spokesperson Catherine Mathis released the following statement to Gawker:

Ben Stein's fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company

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