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Will SCOTUS decide Florida in Romney v. Obama, circa 2000?

Since reading “Romney Can’t Win Without Florida,” a post on the scholarly, non-partisan website TeabaggersOfAmerica.com, I can’t stop thinking about the Sunshine State.

Not the palm trees and manatees and Cubans, but the prospect that Florida voters very well may decide the 2012 election, just like they did in 2000.

Sort of.

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Atwater: Romney Won't Win in November

Master political tactician Lee Atwater once said that “anyone who gets more than a 35-percent negative factor can’t win an election.”
In the 2012 Republican presidential contest, Mitt Romney is that person.
According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 39 percent of adults in America view Romney very or somewhat negatively, compared to 28 percent who view the former Massachusetts governor very or somewhat positively.
“If his negatives are 35 percent and his positives aren’t at least 5 percent higher,” Atwater believed, “it’s politically fatal1.”
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GOP's Junk Food Bill Targets Future Conservative Voters

Cook ’em a free pizza and they will come.

No, it’s not a Herman Cain campaign motto. It’s the Republican Party’s new strategy for molding the next generation of conservative voters. And it begins in elementary school.

Fighting back against the Obama Administration’s increased restrictions on unhealthy, high sodium and fatty foods in school cafeterias, Republicans this week proposed a bill to re-designate pizza sauce, ketchup and fries as “vegetables” and overturn the administration’s push for more whole grain and (actual) vegetable options in schools.

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Are Liberals to Blame?

 

Subtitle: Another stand-alone piece on another subject that isn’t appropriate for dagblog and is of high-school rough-draft quality.

 

A recent poll shows that the now historically low (34 percent) public support of Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act was most affected by a 13-point drop in support from Democrats specifically.

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A liberal Mein Kampf?

A wise man accused of drafting the liberal version of Mein Kampf once wrote:

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New Rule for Radical Lefties: Mottos Don’t Matter

After a year of failures, Republicans have been so desperate to draft a bill that had a chance of becoming law that they chose something they knew wouldn’t be defeated, a bill they knew Americans would support, and a bill that would show the electorate that they actually are quite busy earning their $174,000-a-year salaries.

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It’s not PC to be candid about candidates

Just as Hillary Clinton wasn’t a woman when she ran for president in 2008, neither is Herman Cain black nor Mitt Romney Mormon.

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