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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 9, 2012
Some post-election number crunching from premier number-cruncher Joe Handrick. Bottom line here tis that he paradox of Wisconsin voting for both Walker and Obama can be explained by 525,000 additional voters.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 8, 2012
Awesome. Please take a couple of minutes to watch this. You made this happen. You are part of this. We will never, ever forget.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 8, 2012
I admit that I should have seen this coming. After all, I wrote the book that essentially predicted that we are rapidly becoming a nation with more takers than makers:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 8, 2012
You're still looking for silver linings, right? Michelle Malkin helpfully compiles a list of things that actually went well Tuesday. There are some surprises in here.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 7, 2012
Via Ron Fournier in the National Journal.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 7, 2012
More than ever.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 7, 2012
It's what's for breakfast today. I was not just wrong about the Wisconsin Pres/Senate results, I was awesomely wrong. I'll be joined at the crow buffet by my good friend the former-gold standard of pundits, Michael Barone.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 7, 2012
Late last night, I received this email from Brian Fraley, our managing editor over at RightWisconsin.com:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 6, 2012
This time around, we weren't subject to the full frontal starry eyed messianic gush of four years ago, but the political media found other ways to beclown itself again this cycle.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 6, 2012
I'm already on record saying that I think Mitt Romney will win both the popular and electoral votes for three reasons: 1. the economy, 2. his edge among independents and 3. turnout of an enthusiastic, motivated conservative base. This analysis seems to be shared by others, including Michael Barone, Jay Cost, and George Will. Here are two more predictions, which I chose because, well, I completely agree. If we're wrong, we're all going down together!
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 6, 2012
I wanted to write this piece before the election, so that it won't look like rationalization in the event of an Obama victory. But this seems like an overlooked story:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 5, 2012
Via Ben Domenech. Some serious number crunching on early voting Wisconsin:
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 5, 2012
Rasmussen daily tracker has Romney up 1... 49% to 48%.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 5, 2012
The president who famously embraced the “Occupy” movement, closed his re-election campaign this weekend by sneering at the Tea Party.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 4, 2012
UPDATED Yes, I know that I have repeatedly derided the importance of newspaper endorsements. So why am I linking to two three of them this morning? Because they both come from papers that backed Obama four years and are now making the case for changing directions. Both make compelling cases for dumping Obama in the heart of Obama country. Monday morning should be, um, interesting at both shops.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 3, 2012
This has tended to get lost in the hyper-focus on the presidential race, but Republican control of the House of representatives is a near certainty, and Wisconsin's two Republican freshman -- Reid Ribble and Sean Duffy -- are favored to hold their seats. Both of them won seats that were won by Democrats in the Obama wave of 2008 and should have been hyper-vulnerable in what was supposed to be the second Obama wave in 2012.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 3, 2012
I've long regarded Michael Barone as the Gold Standard of political analysis; his knowledge is so encyclopedic that he actually edited the Almanac of American Politics.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 1, 2012
This is the ad that appears in newspapers across the state today. It was paid for by conservative businessman and former senate candidate Eric Hovde. Download. Clip. Share.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 1, 2012
Via the Weekly Standard: Senator Ron Johnson joins three other senators --Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) -- in writing a tough letter to the president over his handling of Benghazi. You can read the full letter at this link, but here is the money shot.
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By Charlie Sykes CREATED Nov. 1, 2012
Grim, but inevitable. We're starting to get a glimpse of what Obamacare is going to mean for employees around here. Of course, the president promised us that if we like our insurance we could keep it. If voters believed him, many of them are in for a rude shock. Bonus here: this suggests that the fiscal impact of Obamacare will be much worse than projected as far more businesses make the decision to off-load the costs onto the taxpayers.
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