Morning Briefing: Paging the Empty Chair

Morning Briefing For October 4, 2012 Forward Morning Briefing to a Friend. 1. Bam! Slam! Pow! Crash! BOOM! There was a surreal moment after the debate last night. On CNN, the polling went overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney among debate watchers. Basically two-thirds of the American public who watched the debate claimed Romney won. A majority claimed Romney was with them on taxes, the economy, healthcare, their views of government, etc. He dominated. A CBS poll of undecided voters who watched the debate mirrored the CNN poll. Suddenly the Democrats took to the airwaves and twitter to rail against the polls oversampling Republicans and being too heavily skewed, too instant to be meaningful, and clearly not an accurate statistical sample of anything. About the same time Barack Obama's campaign team was melting down on television, the campaign sent out an email that did not even mention the Presidential debate. It just wanted more money. The debate was so bad for Barack Obama I expect Eric Holder to send Jim Lehrer to GTMO. Barack Obama suddenly agrees with Republicans on defunding PBS. Without his precious TelePrompTer to feed his Gollumesque addiction to its illuminated, precious words, the President fell flat. Instead of John Kerry for a debate partner, the President should have just gone through airport security a few times or embraced BOHICA as a debate preparation strategy. Put it to you this way, within ten minutes of the debate ending, Jessica Yellin of CNN spoke with Stephanie Cutter of the Obama campaign. Ms. Cutter conceded up front that Mitt Romney won on both debate preparation and debate style. It went downhill from there. She began parroting talking points about the debate she herself released to Obama surrogate at sun up yesterday morning. She had nothing new to add. Mitt Romney had substance, counterarguments for Barack Obama's points, rebuttals, and a friendly manner. Barack Obama kept his head down at the podium and refused to make eye contact with Mitt Romney. This too is what Barack Obama did with  . . . please click here for the rest of the post → >> sponsored content 2. Classified US Documents Still Unsecured In Libya It is becoming increasingly difficult to explain the criminal ineptness of the Obama regime. This just breaking from the Washington Post . . . please click here for the rest of the post → 3. High-School Teacher Threatens To Assault Student For Wearing Romney T-Shirt, Likens It To KKK Sheet Racism has again raised its ugly head in this presidential election and it has filtered all the way down to the classroom level where, in Philadelphia, a high school student was threatened with assault by her geometry teacher last Friday for wearing a Mitt Romney t-shirt. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, last Friday was dress-down day for students at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond. One female student decided  . . . please click here for the rest of the post → >> sponsored content Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor,RedState.com Forward This Email to a Friend

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