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• Is This the Best Political Commercial of the Year?

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  If Walk and Talk the Vote is not the best political commercial of the year, it’s certainly the best political commercial for judicial office I’ve ever seen.

  Thank you to PW for pointing it out to me.

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• Full Details of Romney Tax Plan Posted Online

  A new — unofficial — website promises all the details on Mitt Romney’s 5 trillion dollar tax plan. I have to admit that at first glance they do seem to have captured the basic idea rather well.

  Further study may be required to grasp all the fine points, though.

  Thanks [...]

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• Mitt Romney Debates Himself

  1.8 million views on YouTube so far for Mitt Romney debates himself:

  Indeed, the scariest thing about the guy is his seeming willingness to say anything, everything, to get elected. It’s far beyond the ordinary politician’s pander level. It’s well beyond Nixonian or Rovian. On the national stage, it is [...]

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• Final Sears Treadmill Delivery Disaster Post

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  If you’re here because of the Running in Place, Before the Treadmill Ever Arrived, by David Segal in the New York Times’s Haggler Column, welcome.

  To read my treadmill posts in order, just start with the first one, Why I Do Not Have A Treadmill (Sears [...]

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• Thoughts on Mr. Obama’s Speech in Miami Today

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  Via Talking Points Memo, here’s a highlight from the talk:
  

  
  

  If that doesn’t work, here’s a direct link.

  As TPM notes, as a rally-the-troops kind of a speech President Obama’s Miami speech was a big success — the President had energy, he got himself going, and he [...]

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• Obama Speaks (2)

  …continued

  - Romney denies tax plan that’s on his website
  - counting on fact that what he’s selling is what “got us into the mess in the first place”
  - his plan will not create jobs, help the economy, help the middle class

  [What's so amazing about this is it's all NEGATIVE [...]

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• Obama Speaks

  Obama works the crowd – mentions Joe Garcia among others.

  “We’ve got some work do Miami: we’ve got an election to win”

  “I need your help to finish what we started. Think about where we’ve been and how far we’ve come.”

  Here’s a paraphrase/ summary of the main points he talks fast) only [...]

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• Obama Speech (3)

  Nelson makes a big pitch for early voting – warns people there is not voting the Sunday immediately before the election. Nelson acts as if he has a pulse; I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him animated before.

  3:05 Nelson’s done. We have in interregnum. Meanwhile the seats are all filled. [...]

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• Obama Speech(2)

  Field organizer asks people to take out their phones. Asks people to Text “GIVE” to 62262 and send $10. Or do a shift as a volunteer – text “FLORIDA” to 62262 to volunteer. Or download the Obama 2012 app.

  The crowd likes it and shouts “Four More Years”.

  Next is Debbie [...]

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• Obama to Speak in About an Hour

  Team Obama came through with a press pass as part of their high-test blogger outreach, so (after a very very circuitous walk around the perimeter of the security cordon, I’m in the Bank United Center. The public is still filing in through the main entrance, but it looks to fill [...]

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