Oops: NBC Accidentally Publishes Election Results Showing Obama Win
MSNBC* apparently published a test-page for Tuesday’s election results by accident, calling the election for President Barack Obama, Politico’s Dylan Byers reports.While the “Presidential results” show GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning the popular vote 55-43 percent, the chart shows President Obama winning the election with 280 electoral votes to Romney’s 257.
While MSNBC may be excited to proclaim Obama’s victory, the network may want to wait until the votes are counted.
*Update (4:18 p.m. ET): Dylan Byers of Politico issued the following correction to his article: “An earlier version of this post attributed the maps to MSNBC, because NBCNews pages are currently hosted on MSNBC.com. The map belongs to NBC, not MSNBC.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/oops-msnbc-accidentally-publishes-election-results-favoring-obama/
Chicago Source Tells Author Brad Thor: Obama Campaign Planning to Proclaim Early Victory to ‘Demoralize Romney Supporters’
New York Times best-selling author Brad Thor, based in Chicago, tells TheBlaze that the Obama campaign may be planning to preemptively announce victory in the presidential election based on early voting numbers in an attempt to “demoralize Mitt Romney supporters.”
The flip side of the coin, the author explained, is that the Obama campaign is counting on the mainstream media to drive home their narrative should they implement this strategy.
Why would the campaign resort to such a Chicago-style political tactic? According to Thor, it’s because their support is diminished across the board and they know they’re in trouble.
“Their support is down,” he told TheBlaze. “All the polling has been the exact same thing. They have been oversampling Democrats, and they are not getting the 2008 levels of voting.”
Whether or not the Obama campaign will set this plan into motion remains to be seen. As Thor points out, the plot could have been brought up but never considered seriously by the top officials in the campaign. If it is being considered though, the author hopes that all the attention forces the Obama camp to ditch the effort.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chicago-source-tells-author-brad-thor-obama-campaign-planning-to-proclaim-early-victory-to-demoralize-romney-supporters/
To Begin the World Over Again
By Monica CrowleyAs General George Washington’s men were freezing in the snow at Valley Forge, Thomas Paine told his fellow Americans: “We have it in our power to
begin the world over again.”
And so it is with us today.
The conventional wisdom is that the Founding Fathers gave us three branches of government. Not true. They gave us four: the executive, the legislative, the judiciary…and us. The American people. As Thomas Jefferson once said, “Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.”
The founders vested us with the power to change our government and the direction of the nation because they feared that one day, the three other branches would be in the crapper. That day has arrived: the presidency is held by a radical redistributionist, the Congress cannot stop itself from spending us into oblivion, and the courts are legislating left-wing insanity from the bench. All three branches are engaged in social engineering in every part of American life, in violation of the essential freedoms the founders risked their lives to give to us.
It is now up to the founders’ stealth fourth branch to stop it.
And we will. Because we have already taken giant steps to do so. The Great Silent Majority 2.0 is alive and well…and we’ve been actively and passionately working to take our country back from the far-left kooks since the day the far-left kooks assumed power.
Barack Obama became president in January 2009. From that moment on, every single time the American people have had a chance to go to the polls—not talk to a pollster, not have the media interpret what they think we believe—but every time we’ve had a chance to go to the polls and render a verdict on Obama, the kooks, and the direction they’ve been taking the country, we have rejected it…and we have chosen the other path...
...The Republican victories and the defeats of the kooks did not just occur in red states or even just in red and purple states. They happened in the deepest of deep-blue states: New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois and Wisconsin, the very birthplace of progressivism. The American people have had enough of the ravaging of the taxpayer and the nation by the far-left, and every single time we’ve had a chance to reject it, we have done so. Resoundingly. Every single time.
And we will do so again tomorrow. We will “begin the world over again.” We will not let the Founders down. We will be the stealth fourth branch of government: a government of, by, and for the people.
Us.
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/to-begin-the-world-over-again/
Monday Morning By Peggy Noonan
We begin with the three words everyone writing about the election must say: Nobody knows anything. Everyone’s guessing. I spent Sunday morning in Washington with journalists and political hands, one of whom said she feels it’s Obama, the rest of whom said they don’t know. I think it’s Romney. I think he’s stealing in “like a thief with good tools,” in Walker Percy’s old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney’s slipping into the presidency. He’s quietly rising, and he’s been rising for a while.
Obama and the storm, it was like a wave that lifted him and then moved on, leaving him where he’d been. Parts of Jersey and New York are a cold Katrina. The exact dimensions of the disaster will become clearer when the election is over. One word: infrastructure. Officials knew the storm was coming and everyone knew it would be bad, but the people of the tristate area were not aware, until now, just how vulnerable to deep damage their physical system was. The people in charge of that system are the politicians. Mayor Bloomberg wanted to have the Marathon, to show New York’s spirit. In Staten Island last week they were bitterly calling it “the race through the ruins.” There is a disconnect.
But to the election. Who knows what to make of the weighting of the polls and the assumptions as to who will vote? Who knows the depth and breadth of each party’s turnout efforts? Among the wisest words spoken this cycle were by John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate, who said, in a conversation the night before the last presidential debate, that he thought maybe the American people were quietly cooking something up, something we don’t know about.
I think they are and I think it’s this: a Romney win.
Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.
All the vibrations are right. A person who is helping him who is not a longtime Romneyite told me, yesterday: “I joined because I was anti Obama—I’m a patriot, I’ll join up But now I am pro-Romney.” Why? “I’ve spent time with him and I care about him and admire him. He’s a genuinely good man.” Looking at the crowds on TV, hearing them chant “Three more days” and “Two more days”—it feels like a lot of Republicans have gone from anti-Obama to pro-Romney.
Something old is roaring back. One of the Romney campaign’s surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd “I worked the rope line, people wouldn’t let go of my hand.” It startled him. A former political figure who’s been in Ohio told me this morning something is moving with evangelicals, other church-going Protestants and religious Catholics. He said what’s happening with them is quiet, unreported and spreading: They really want Romney now, they’ll go out and vote, the election has taken on a new importance to them.
There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney. And there’s the thing about the yard signs. In Florida a few weeks ago I saw Romney signs, not Obama ones. From Ohio I hear the same. From tony Northwest Washington, D.C., I hear the same.
Is it possible this whole thing is playing out before our eyes and we’re not really noticing because we’re too busy looking at data on paper instead of what’s in front of us? Maybe that’s the real distortion of the polls this year: They left us discounting the world around us.
And there is Obama, out there seeming tired and wan, showing up through sheer self discipline. A few weeks ago I saw the president and the governor at the Al Smith dinner, and both were beautiful specimens in their white ties and tails, and both worked the dais. But sitting there listening to the jokes and speeches, the archbishop of New York sitting between them, Obama looked like a young challenger—flinty, not so comfortable. He was distracted, and his smiles seemed forced. He looked like a man who’d just seen some bad internal polling. Romney? Expansive, hilarious, self-spoofing, with a few jokes of finely calibrated meanness that were just perfect for the crowd. He looked like a president. He looked like someone who’d just seen good internals.
Of all people, Obama would know if he is in trouble. When it comes to national presidential races, he is a finely tuned political instrument: He read the field perfectly in 2008. He would know if he’s losing now, and it would explain his joylessness on the stump. He is out there doing what he has to to fight the fight. But he’s still trying to fire up the base when he ought to be wooing the center and speaking their calm centrist talk. His crowds haven’t been big. His people have struggled to fill various venues. This must hurt the president after the trememdous, stupendous crowds of ’08. “Voting’s the best revenge”—revenge against who, and for what? This is not a man who feels himself on the verge of a grand victory. His campaign doesn’t seem president-sized. It is small and sad and lost, driven by formidable will and zero joy.
I suspect both Romney and Obama have a sense of what’s coming, and it’s part of why Romney looks so peaceful and Obama so roiled.
Romney ends most rallies with his story of the Colorado scout troop that in 1986 had an American flag put in the space shuttle Challenger, saw the Challenger blow up as they watched on TV, and then found, through the persistence of their scoutmaster, that the flag had survived the explosion. It was returned to them by NASA officials. When Romney, afterward, was shown the flag, he touched it, and an electric jolt went up his arm. It’s a nice story. He doesn’t make its meaning fully clear. But maybe he means it as a metaphor for America: It can go through a terrible time, a catastrophe, as it has economically the past five years, and still emerge whole, intact, enduring.
Maybe that’s what the coming Romney moment is about: independents, conservatives, Republicans, even some Democrats, thinking: We can turn it around, we can work together, we can right this thing, and he can help.
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/11/05/monday-morning/
Shock Report: Valerie Jarrett Leading Secret Talks With Iran
The face of the Obama administration’s outreach to Iran may have just been unmasked, and it’s allegedly Valerie Jarrett. Obama confidante and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. From the article:A Chicago lawyer is the key player behind the secret talks between the US and Iran, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. A close friend of Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett is assisting the US government communicate behind the scenes with the representatives of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.If true, Maariv’s report provides another example of Obama’s long-held belief that negotiations can stop Iran’s nuclear march.
Jarret, who was born in the Iranian city of Shiraz, is a senior advisor to US President Barack Obama.
Jarrett’s status as a White House confidante and major figure has been well-known for some time, but this bit of news marks her first foray into being an official foreign policy surrogate. If Obama is reelected tomorrow, however, it certainly might not be the last.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-report-valerie-jarrett-leading-secret-talks-with-iran/
Generators, supplies sit unused after New York City marathon canceled
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/05/generators-supplies-sit-unused-after-new-york-city-marathon-canceled/
September 11: Obama, Missing in Action By William Kristol
What did or didn't the president do on the evening of September 11?
The
White House has chosen not to answer
questions. One has to presume we'd have answers by now if those answers
showed a president engaged in managing the crisis. If President Obama had
convened meetings, if he had called senior State Department or Defense
Department or CIA officials to the White House, if he had held a teleconference
from the situation room, one has to assume we would know about it.
One
therefore has to assume he did none of these things.
Here's
what we know the president did on the evening of September. After returning to
the White House, he seems to have presided over a previously scheduled
5:00 p.m. meeting with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff
chairman Martin Dempsey. Apparently the ongoing situation in Benghazi was one topic discussed. It was at
this meeting, one assumes—"the minute I found out what was
happening," as Obama has said—that the president gave his
"directive" to "make sure that we are securing our personnel and
doing whatever we need to." There seems to be no actual written record of
this directive, so it was presumably a spoken directive to Secretary Panetta
and national security adviser Tom Donilon (who, one assumes, was at that
meeting as well).
That
meeting went until about 6:00 p.m. About an hour later, President Obama placed
a call to Prime Minister Netanyahu designed to dampen down the political flap
over his refusal to meet with the prime minister at the upcoming U.N. General
Assembly meeting. That call went from about 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., and was followed
by a press release giving a read-out of the call. So the president was
presumably doing nothing about Benghazi
during that stretch.
After
that … nothing. There's no evidence the president did anything more than get
occasional updates from Tom Donilon or other White House staff. On Fox
News Sunday, David Axelrod said of the president, "Every conversation
that needed to be had was being had between him and his top security
officials" and "he was talking to them well into the night." The
formulation suggests the president was talking on the phone with White House
staffers rather than meeting with them in person, and it suggest a president
who was being updated rather than a president in charge.
That
suggestion is reinforced by the failure of the White House and of Axelrod to
provide any evidence to back up Axelrod's
apparently fanciful claim on Fox News Sunday that "The
president convened the top military officials that evening." In fact,
there's no evidence of such a convening. There's no evidence the president even
spoke directly that evening with Panetta, or any military official, or
Secretary Clinton, or CIA head David Petraeus. Panetta's later account of the
decision-making at the Pentagon suggests no presidential involvement at all:
"And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who
was on the ground in that area, General Ham, General Dempsey and I felt very
strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation." He
doesn't suggest that President Obama was even consulted about the decision.
Similarly, I don't believe Secretary Clinton has ever said the president spoke
directly with her that evening, and the CIA timeline put out late last week
gives no indication that the president spoke directly with Petraeus.
During
the 2008 primary campaign, Hillary Clinton famously put up an ad—the 3:00 a.m.
phone call ad—in which the narrator says, "Inevitably, another national
security crisis will occur. And when it does, voters shouldn't have to wonder
whether their president will be ready." Almost four years into his
presidency, President Obama wasn't ready. He didn't act swiftly and decisively.
He didn't really act at all—with the predictable consequence that the actions
of the Defense Department, the CIA, and the State weren't well coordinated, and
that the crisis became a debacle. There's a reason the Constitution sets up a
unitary executive, with the president as commander in chief. On September 11,
the president was missing in action.
And
Hillary Clinton knows it. David Petraeus knows it. Leon Panetta knows it. One
of the most striking aspects of the last eight weeks has been the failure of
senior members of the president's national security team to defend his actions,
or inaction, on September 11. They've each tried to defend what their own
agencies did. But have any of them said a word in defense of the president?
What President Obama really said in that '60 Minutes' interview about Benghazi by Bret Baier
Remember this is from a president who has been saying he was calling Benghazi a terrorist attack from the very first moment in the Rose Garden. Also, remember what he said in the debate and notice the new part -- underlined in bold.KROFT: Mr. President, this morning you went out of your way to avoid the use of the word terrorism in connection with the Libya Attack, do you believe that this was a terrorism attack?
OBAMA: Well it’s too early to tell exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. And we are going to be working with the Libyan government to make sure that we bring these folks to justice, one way or the other.
KROFT: It’s been described as a mob action, but there are reports that they were very heavily armed with grenades, that doesn’t sound like your normal demonstration.
OBAMA: As I said, we’re still investigating exactly what happened, I don’t want to jump the gun on this. But your right that this is not a situation that was exactly the same as what happened in Egypt. And my suspicion is there are folks involved in this. Who were looking to target Americans from the start. So we’re gonna make sure that our first priority is to get our folks out safe, make sure our embassies are secured around the world and then we are going to go after those folks who carried this out.
KROFT: There have been reports, obviously this isn’t the first time…there have been attacks on the consulate before. There was an attack against the British ambassador. Do you…this occurred on Sept. 11. Can you tell me why the ambassador was in Benghazi yesterday? Was it to evaluate security at the consulate?
OBAMA: Well keep in mind Chris Stevens is somebody that was one of the first Americans on the ground when we were in the process of saving Benghazi and providing the opportunity for Libyans to create their own democracy. So this is somebody who had been courageous, had been on the ground, had helped to advise me and Secretary Clinton when we were taking our actions against Muammar Qaddafi. And is somebody who is very familiar with the train. He was doing the work that he does as a diplomat helping to shape our policies in the region at a time when things are still fairly fragile. But I think it’s important to note that we have a Libyan government in place that is fully cooperative, that sees the United States as a friend that recognizes we played an important role in liberating Libya and providing the Libyan people an opportunity to forge their own destiny. And in fact we had Libyans who helped protect our diplomats when they were under attack. But this is a country that is still rebuilding in the aftermath of Qaddafi. They don’t necessarily always have the same capabilities that countries with more established governments might have in helping to provide protection to our folks. But beyond that, what I want to do is make sure that we know exactly what happened, how it happened, who perpetrated this action, then we’ll act accordingly."
These are two crucial answers in the big picture. Right after getting out of the Rose Garden, where, according to the second debate and other accounts he definitively called the attack terrorism, Obama is asked point blank about not calling it terrorism. He blinks and does not push back.
Understand that this interview is just hours after he gets out of the Rose Garden.
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