SuperPAC Billionaire asks: What the F’ happened to all my money?
I see from this morning’s news that Republicans are now moving into the Mondale/Dukakis ‘we just need better candidates’ phase of the process. Please proceed, Republicans. Read More
Two Republicans in separate states were arrested this week for allegedly trying to vote twice — to test the system they’ve undoubtedly been conditioned to believe is riddled with fraud.
One of them was a Republican poll watcher.
“From what we understand, he was trained by the Republican Party,” the local police chief in the New Mexico case tells TPM.
Ryan Reilly reports.
Say what you want about our spending while running the RNC, at least we won elections. THAT’S what I call an ROI. dailycaller.com/2012/11/08/rnc…
— Michael Steele (@Steele_Michael) November 8, 2012
A reader just sent me this video from Heritage Action, the PAC of the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. On one level it’s just a call for conservatives to keep up the fight, stay involved, despite Obama’s reelection victory. Nothing too surprising about that. But it has this sort of Wagnerian, Leni Riefenstahl quality to it that seems a tad jarring, at least a day or two after the election. (Notably, it was posted on Tuesday.) It has the feel of that fortitude against the bleak tomorrow futurism that I associate with the Terminator series.
Watch it after the jump … Read More
CBS has a piece up reporting that Romney and his whole team were “shellshocked”, as a Romney advisor put it, by Tuesday night’s results. The time to say you’re supremely confident of victory is before the election. That’s when it matters in terms of keeping supporters pumped and getting them to the polls. The need to keep up the facade isn’t nearly as great after the election, win or less. And the piece is so graphic and stark in its detail that I’m half convinced that they really were that shocked and unprepared for defeat. Read More
Franklin Graham: Fine Obama won. But now God will destroy America.
Dean Chambers, founder of Unskewed Poll Movement, talks to TPM about how things panned out.
Give Chambers credit. He’s not making any excuses. He had a theory. Turned out to be wrong.