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Interesting day if you like polling analysis, which as it happens I do. Here are some final items crossing the transom:
* Buzzfeed reports Boca Moment made front pages of 41 battleground state newspapers. If it doesn’t affect the race, it won’t be for lack of exposure.
* Scott Brown’s campaign has to put out statement reasserting his support for Romney after unhappy remarks about Boca Moment.
* Director of National Counterterrorism Center confirms deadly assault on Benghazi consulate was “a terrorist attack” with al-Qaeda involvement.
* At Ten Miles Square, Joshua Tucker provides hilarious Ted McCagg cartoon on what “the 53%” depend on.
* At College Guide, Daniel Luzer discusses the abolition of the journalism program at my alma mater, Emory University. They didn’t have one when I was there, which helps explain why I entered the profession very late.
And in non-political news:
* School lunches getting a makeover this year thanks to new USDA guidelines.
Time to end my laptop-hogging ways. Back bright and early tomorrow.
Selah.
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Self-inflicted wound, indeed on September 19, 2012 5:43 PM:
Business Insider notes the Romney video leaker is talking about releasing his tax returns: I suspect this is a *real* insider...
http://www.businessinsider.com/romney-fundraising-video-leak-2012-9
finally the cell phones on September 19, 2012 6:03 PM:
September 19, 2012, 5:24 pm
Obama’s Lead Looks Stronger in Polls That Include Cellphones
--excerpts from NATE SILVER
"As I observed on Tuesday, and as The New Republic’s Nate Cohn also found, Barack Obama seems to have received a much clearer bounce in some types of polls than others.
Although there are exceptions on either side, like the Gallup national tracking poll, for the most part Mr. Obama seems to be getting stronger results in polls that use live interviewers and that include cellphones in their samples — enough to suggest that he has a clear advantage in the race.
In the polls that use an automated dialing method (“robopolls”) or which exclude cellphones, Mr. Obama’s bounce has been much harder to discern, and the race looks considerably closer.
The difference seems especially pronounced at the state level. Mr. Obama got very strong results in a series of NBC News/Marist College polls last week in Ohio, Florida and Virginia, which included cellphones and used live interviewers. Likewise, Tuesday morning’s series of New York Times / CBS News / Quinnipiac polls had reasonably good news for Mr. Obama in Virginia and Wisconsin..."
Mudge on September 19, 2012 6:09 PM:
An Emory grad, huh. They are probably using you as an example of someone who succeeded in journalism without a degree to provide evidence for dropping it.
streetsmart on September 19, 2012 6:20 PM:
If issues of the president take hold regarding his discussions from years ago, remember this:
Context is always important. Here are the complete remarks by then-State Sen. Barack Obama:
"I think what we're going to have to do is resuscitate the notion that government can be effective at all. There has been a systematic—I don't think it's too strong to call it a propaganda campaign—against the possibility of government action and its efficacy. And I think some of it's been deserved: Chicago housing authority has not been a model of good policy making and neither have been necessarily the Chicago public schools.
"What this means, then, is that we try to resuscitate this notion that we're all in this together, leave nobody behind, we do have to be innovative in thinking what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live? And my suggestion, I guess, would be that the trick—and this is one of the few areas I think that there are technical issues that need to be dealt with as opposed to just political issues—I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody has got a shot."
Decatur Dem on September 19, 2012 7:12 PM:
I'm another Emory grad, and if my child were contemplating a career in journalism, I'd steer him up the road to the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at Athens. Emory tuition & fees total $43,000 this year. UGA tuition & fees, $9842. Unless you're pretty sure you're the next Bob Woodward, Athens is a smarter investment. Even if journalists weren't facing a future built on quicksand.
Greg L on September 19, 2012 8:17 PM:
And in non-political news:
You don't really believe that, do you?
Joe Friday on September 19, 2012 10:28 PM:
Willard now claiming that only HE can help the Poor & the Middle-class.
Isn't this where Rod Serling steps forward and says:
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind"
James E. Powell on September 19, 2012 10:53 PM:
Some SuperPAC needs to run an ad that features ordinary, average Americans asking the camera, "If cutting taxes for the rich and deregulating business bring prosperity, how come it hasn't worked once in the last thirty years? What we got instead is one financial disaster after another, wages that don't go up, and fewer good-paying jobs. Why should we listen to it anymore?"
Or something to that effect. Some one, and I gather it won't be the president or the DNC, has to puncture that balloon of bullshit that so many people take as established truth.
Question for Mitt on September 20, 2012 12:25 AM:
Isn't raiding the pension plans of working people and keeping it for yourself and your family redistributing wealth, Mitt? Ann? Ayn Rand?
~~~~~~~~what you and Bain Capital did to help build your considerable personal wealth is absolute redistribution of money to yourself~~~~~~~`
Quit using orwellian crap to change the subject.
As the president said, Robin Hood in Reverse.
Show us your tax returns