Now, there are three ways in which anyone, anywhere in the country can join the fight. Even if you’re not in a swing state, or a state that has a Romney/Ryan field office at all. Supporters in Texas or California may not be able to knock on doors in Wisconsin or Ohio, but you can still work the phones. Supporters anywhere in the country can now go online to the Mitt Romney “Call from Home” website, and volunteer to phone bank just like they would in a regular field office, but from the comfort of your home.
You can also help get the message out there through social media. The Romney campaign allows supporters to make “My Mitt” accounts, which they can loop in with their Facebook or Twitter accounts, which they can use to distribute Romney news to their friends and followers. Supporters can also raise money for Romney by setting fundraising goals and encouraging donations.
The Republican National Committee has a similar digital volunteer drive, called the GOP Social Victory Center, which helps supporters distribute news about the campaign and organize local events within their own communities. From the GOP Social Victory Center you can tap into and help spread the campaign’s latest messages.
You can also donate to help the campaign through the final push, here.
These efforts may seem small, but look again at those statistics above. It takes a whole lot of small efforts to add up to a big national campaign that can win.
So stop griping. Your country needs you in the campaign. You can campaign in a swing state regardless of where you happen to live.
So get to it.
I need to write a fuller post on this, but note Geraghty’s today.
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/328555/mornings-polls-project-more-heavily-democratic-electorates-2008
Thanks Charlie, for pointing this out. Every day I come by this web site, I see at least 2 or 3 stories that are nothing more than regurgitations of the MSM “Romney can’t win/the election is slipping away” meme and using some heavily-Democrat sample opinion poll as evidence of this. That’s what the damn heavily-Dem opinion polls are for…to get Eeyores to repeat them as fact. Right now, even the polls that actually try to get it right like Rasmusson are worthless…the ones who are blatantly running what amounts to psy-ops for the Obama campaign like Quinnipiac and most of the rest of them are Dem propaganda, period, designed to discourage and suppress the anti-Obama vote. I am damn well sick and tired of PJM rebroadcasting that crap for Obama and the DNC.
The fact is Romney is losing. Look at Real Clear Politics poll composite and it’s obvious. There is no “liberal bias” in these polls and they even include the likes of Rasmussen and Gravis. The whining and hand wringing will only get worse. The last gasp of a dying campaign …
Just like I thought. Romney landslide. 2010 on steroids.
Rasmussen who only polls landlines can only manage a tie of a point or two for Romney. You want to talk about outdated methodology? About half of the population do not use landlines anymore. Also, let us not forget about microtargeting, which is being put to very good use by the Obama team. All the faux confidence in the world won’t save you from being outnumbered. In the end and angry old Obama hater is still just one vote, one that will be canceled out by many more.
One thing to note is that Romney is behind where McCain was at this point in the race, and we know how that turned out.
Hey leftist punk troll, I work the phones here in PA for the Romney campaign and the race is DEAD EVEN. I don’t need RCP to know what is real with regard to actual poll results. Take your spin somewhere else because your idiotic spew is nothing more than an annoyance. And in the mean time go out and look for a job.
Sounds like your Depends Undergarments are a size too small
Cynical Wonder is a Democrat troll.
Don’t get demoralized. It’s what she wants. Work harder, yes. Vote early and vote. Volunteer and donate.
“New polls show that both Florida and Ohio may be slipping away from Mitt Romney.”
Slipping away? Ohio has been gone for some time. It is teetering on leans Obama to likely Obama. The auto workers hate Romney. It’s hard to see how the math adds up for Romney at this point. As far as Florida is concerned, the R/R plan to turn Medicare into Vouchercare, not surprisingly isn’t going over too well with our seniors. I’m guessing they aren’t taking too kindly to the 55 and under plan to throw their kids and grandkids under the bus.
Who ever thought that we would reach the point that Arizona would be in play? If Arizona is in play then the dam is about to burst. What next Georgia? Intrade is at 75% for Obama. While not a scientific poll they are a good gauge on where savvy betters are placing their cash.
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2012/09/25/obama-campaign-has-momentum-_-and-a-case-of-nerves?page=2
So much for Citizens United helping Romney and the gop …
In your dreams, CW! The polls that you are so proud of are oversampling Democrats based on the turnout in 2008, the big Obama love-fest. The Real Clear Politics is just a basket of the same polls, including several new polls just started for this election. If you have been following RCP since the last election, as I have, you already know how they are being gamed (or how they are gaming you!)
Troll on, dude!
Delusion is all you have to hang onto, so I understand. Even Erick Erickson over at RedState doesn’t discount the polls to the degree you are …
You read Red State and seem to believe whatever cherry picking that sounds good. Desperate much….go piss your pointless leftist tripe somewhere else.
One more thing, if all these polls that you are so critical of (because they don’t tell you what you already want to believe), started trending in the other direction towards Romney, I’m guessing that you would all be touting them like they were the tablets that Moses brought down from the mountain.
My only conclusion is that the contemporary conservative movement suffers from a kind of mass Dissociative Disorder. Indeed, I actually have confirmation of this. You can see for yourself. I have seen a pattern between what polls paint a better picture for Romney and what polls Matt Drudge publishes links to on his site. For instance, if Rasmussen shows a tie on one particular day he will publish that poll on his site. If Ras shows an Obama lead the next day that poll will be taken down. Drudge will replace the Ras poll with, say, Gallup showing a tie or Romney lead. Gallup now shows Obama with a 6 point lead, so that poll will be nowhere to be found on Drudge. Same with the state by state polls. Drudge will only publish what corresponds with what his readers already want to believe. I’ve been watching this for about two weeks now and it is worth a good laugh. It just further confirms how dumb the average gop voter is.
What part of your inferior left wing brain don’t you understand about skewed D+9, D+11, D+12 samples of these left biased polls?
You’re getting your ass handed to you in November, by the way … lol.
Well if Obama wins we all lose. Have you taken a look at the national debt lately?
If Romney wins we all lose. We don’t need to give the keys back to the drunks that drove the car into the ditch just because said drunks believe that President Obama isn’t dragging the car out fast enough.
Right. We’re all drunks, though Barney Frank and his fellow Democrats caused the housing collapse. We’re drunks, though Romney doesn’t drink at all and Obama is a confessed former coke head.
Get some facts or get banned. You contribute nothing but ad hominems and vitriol.
My dear, do you have any grasp on reality?
Debt-wise, The United States is headed for:
a) train wreck
b) train wreck
c) train wreck
d) all of the above
I am a retired accountant. NO country on earth has ever borrowed an amount so massive as the United States ($16 trillion), and continues to borrow (or print) money at a rate which averages $100 billion per month. The White House Budget anticipates debt of $21 trillion in 2017.
Right now the enemies of the United States are salivating. If, if, if we have a fiscal collapse, then the usual consequences BEGIN: rioting, civic destruction, hunger, confiscation, kidnapping, banditry, etc. I’ve left out hundreds of other very very ugly things because you are probably a lot younger than me and I want you to be able to fall asleep in the dark.
The late great former USA might wind up with a nice little tyranny. Wikipedia has two-minute synopses for six recent utopian tyrants: Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, & Idi Amin. Two minutes x 6 tyrants = 12 minutes. You can enjoy your latte and in the same time read up on self-described Utopians who murdered 100 million people! That’s 83 million dead people per reading minute or 138,000 starved or machine-gunned people per reading second!
Now, you probably think you are going to be part of the “in team”, the new ruling class. Sorry, honey. Just like in the cowboy movies of old, after a successful heist, the robbers schemed to kill each other so there would be more loot per looter. Lenin did this. Ditto Stalin. Hitler too, “Night of the Long Knives”.
You could try concubinage if you are of the right age and have the stomach for it. Eva Peron, Madame Mao, Cristina Kirchner and other ladies slept their way to money, fame, and power. Luckily, no one cares about morality any more, but political wives have very sharp knives, so be careful.
Hey punk, I see you still haven’t gotten a job yet. I bet you’ll come over here for Last word” eh piss-pot?
Well, this American-Israeli is doing all she can from her blogger’s perch – absentee ballot aside. And many want desperately to turn the tide, but are loathe to spare much effort.
Therefore, if patriotic Americans hope to turn the tide they must be willing to do some of the heavy lifting.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/20/americans-hope-to-change-the-occupant-of-the-white-house-an-anti-american-potus-runs-an-un-american-campaign-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
So, get busy!!
I agree with the call to arms Bryan outlines eloquently. No doubt the ground game will be pivotal.
I wish to make one point regarding Mr. Preston’s citation of NYT/CBS/Quinipiac polling because it has the potential to create fear, doom, and dread in the minds of a motivated Republican electorate and its independent counterpart. Most of the polling being performed by media outlets is so hopelessly biased in its sampling as to be meaningless as a reflection of what might happen on November 6. If you look carefully at the underlying numbers you will often see weighting towards Democrat voters that exceeds the enormous Democrat turnout in 2008 in the swing states. This is not going to happen on the upcoming election day.
There is a psychological game that is being played here and it is an old game that goes back to the 1980 presidential election. During the month of October of 1980 the NYT did around a dozen stories about how close the election appeared in the swing states. On election day Reagan was elected in a land slide. This was the NYT’s attempt to manufacture a result in favor of Carter by creating doubt in the minds of voters as to Reagan’s electability. If you want greater detail on the strategy you can read Jeff Lord’s article on it which was published in “The American Spectator” on September 25th, 2012.
We are now seeing a similar scenario play out via the wildly ginned up numbers being used by the national media outlets. They know all too well that Obama is in serious trouble in most of the swing states. They are attempting to manage expectations and turnout by creating a sense of doubt and hopelessness that will suppress republican turnout on November 6th.
Our job is to remain motivated and to ignore the propoganda being spewed by the MSM, which is nothing more than an arm of the Democrat party.
By all means, man the phone banks and knock on doors. Give money to your conservative candidates. Most importantly, make damn sure you register to vote in compliance with local state law and then on election day take yourself and another motivated voter to the polls with you. There is an elderly lady who lives up the street from me who is as conservative as I am. I’ve already told her that I will be more than glad to get her safely to the polls on election day. She told me she is going to take me up on my offer and to let her know what time I will pick her up.
If you can make a similar offer in your neighborhood, good things are going to betide you on the evening of November 6th.
Don’t let the B@stard& get you down!
but why were the MSM polls, (all of the firms showing an expanding Obama lead), willing to show the expanding George W. Bush lead during the election 8 years ago? if they were cooking the books, why didn’t we see John Kerry ahead by this much?The MSM and these polling firms haven’t changed that much since then…
Bush never had a pull away lead at election time. Granted, there was more fluctuation in the back and forth numbers in 2004 than 2012. But for much of the summer and fall of 2004, Bush and Kerry were within 2 points of each other. Kerry even took the lead some weeks.
Your assertion that the 2004 polls showed the media willingness to report Bush pulling away from Kerry is unfounded. If anything, polling history shows Kerry closing the gap in the final 4 weeks.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/obama_vs_romney_compared_to_bush_vs_kerry.html
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/25/how-carter-beat-reagan/print
“After the (1984) election, Ed Rollins ran into the Washington Post’s blunt-speaking editor Ben Bradlee and “harassed” Bradlee “about his paper’s lousy polling methodology.”
Bradlee’s “unrepentant” response?
“Tough sh…t, Rollins, I’m glad it cost you plenty. It’s my in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.” ”
They do it.
THEY DO IT AND THEY BOAST ABOUT IT.
Don’t lead from behind !
My kind of a piece, Bryan.
It is more than just a little good – most excellent, in fact – to discuss issues and strategies, to expose falsehoods and to make points on the net. And here at PJ Media, we are certainly blessed with some truly excellent writers and posters.
But in the end… everything comes down to participation, in one form or another.
And there’s nothing like joining with like-minded people in a cause greater than one’s self… our country and our loved ones.
Make no mistake about it, this is our cross-roads election.
And keep hitting the blogs, both left and right. You can go on the left-wing web sites and comment on their blogs. You will be shouted down and called names, but chances are your post will stand and people will see it. At least you’ll show the readers that we are out there, that another opinion does exist, and that we have facts to back up our opinions. Who knows, you may even convince some people to change their votes? It’s at least worth a try. It may take a thick skin, but nobody said it would be easy and it’s the cheapest form of advertising there is.
Liberty that’s a great suggestion and one I do regularly. I stopped posting on conservative blogs because it’s all been said before.
I don’t think it takes a thick skin, however. I love it. When you’re able to hook a live one they backpedal pretty quickly, I’m sure you’ve seen that.
One warning though, don’t put affiliation or indicators thereof in your screen name. I was banned at both DailyKos and Democratic Underground within minutes of commenting with names that had ‘Tea Party’-something in them.
What works well is to comment from their perspective in the form of a constructive criticism. Like ‘I wish we looked better on the debt issue’. You’ll be swinging them around like dead rats if they think you’re just another moron kid like them.
Advice from a Liberal, take it however you want. When you go posting comments on blog site, don’t post that Obama is a Muslim, he was born in Kenya, he’s a socialist, Marxist and all the negative stereotype that only reinforce the wackos of your party. This only inflames and rallies up Liberals (which you don’t want a high turnout) but most importantly, you’re going to discourage the Independents to vote Republican and cast the Independents as racist. Stick to the economy, say something like this, “you know I voted for Obama in 2008, I have gave him a honest chance but I don’t know this time. The economy is number #1 for me and I believe Mitt Romney can the job”. or “I’m not too happy with Mitt. I know he’s not a likable person. He reminds me of that A hole boss I had long time ago but I remember that A hole boss turning around the company. I don’t have to like Mitt, I just have to believe he can do the job” Stick to personal story and avoid politics.
On another note – almost the entire comment section is about how polls are not to be believed because of left media bias conspiracy. Sorry to tell you but even from the start Obama was always a slight favorite and now the lead is starting to widen. I’m not saying Obama automatically going to win but Mitt is behind and he has to turn perception around.
It’s not the marketing, its the product. You nominated a flip flop with no conviction. You nominated a Moderate who’s trying to be a Conservative. Just like I really couldn’t fall in love with John Kerry in 2004, Republicans can’t seem to fall in love with Mitt. I always thought, if you wanted to beat Obama you should have nominated either Jon Huntsman or Ron Paul.
You blew some half way decent advice with that totally hare brained idea about who should have been nominated. In my six decades there have been only a handful of Republicans I absolutely would never vote for. Ron Paul is one of them.
Oct 22, 2009 The Obama administration is foolish to believe that only FOX News is guilty of what White House communications director Anita Dunn calls “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hruz5_Euo&list=FLJT4f0vR0X4yjpiKwN_HIgg&index=19&feature=plpp_video
I think it make more sense to dump this land and focus our energies on where else in the world a conservative message might best resonate; for if a party that espouses limited government(rarely acting accordingly)can’t win with these ingredients, then the writing is on the wall. If the GOP wants to retain relevance, it will soon have to embrace a bigger welfare state and more open borders. Then it’s over. I must admit harboring a bit of empathy for those of you who don’t recognize this fact.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Abandon the ONLY land in the world that was funded on principles of liberty. I mean, we have 1/4 hard commies, and the rest of the world has about… 1/2 or more. And of course, it’s not like the rest of the world is ALL various shades of socialism. It’s time to dump the US and head elsewhere because we have some cooked polls. ELEVENTY!
How about you show the patience of the Alinskites and take the instruments of media and state away from them over several years? Is that too much like work and not enough like Fantasy Island TM?
The polls are chaotic. I believe that the vast majority of those commissioned by the MSM are designed to discourage Republican turnout by hinting or stating the race is over and Obama won.
Tell Romney to hire Newt Gingrich as his Communications Director. Convince Newt that it is his patriotic duty to serve the country in the manner best suited to him – ATTACKING THE MEDIA and showing it up for the treasonous, propagandistic, partisan hack machine it has become. Unleash him and listen to the roar of approval you’ll hear from every patriotic American left in this country. That would sure energize me, and a lot of other folks too, I’ll bet.
That’s the best idea this campaign has yet generated. There’s nothing hidden, cute, clever, manipulative, unprincipled, slimy thing about it, either –it is what it is, an historian familiar, whose life and career are already well-understood, coming up to speak for the people who think the answers are already in the Constitution and free market, and that only history can prove it, and that history does prove it.
–and HURRY –so there’s time for the sensation to wear off the notion of a hail mary personnel change.
Indeed. Then we can scare the lefties into turning out! Yeah. That’s what we should do. That way their turnout won’t lag ours, and we can once more be losers.
PLEASE pay attention. Mitt is handling an hostile media the only way he can. Gingrich — besides being an ass who got in with conservative support and then schmoozed the Pelosi, thereby not dancing with the one who brung him (he’s a politician who WON’T stay bought) — did this SO well that he’s the republican nominee, right?
Stop already with the Newt-fetish. And unless Mitt takes leave of his senses, let Newt stay away from the campaign.
The polls are cooked. Mitt wins this walking away. Not saying you shouldn’t work, you should. But stop backseat driving.
So, i’m guessing, you’re NOT for the Gingrich idea?
What Newt-fetish? Did I say I wanted him as the nominee? Thank God he’s not the nominee, because the media vitriol and bias you see on display against Romney would be magnified by several orders of magnitude if Gingrich were the nominee. Every f**king story would start with “former disgraced House Speaker Newt Gingrich, blah, blah, blah…”.
That having been said, Gingrich would do a masterful job dissecting and calling out the press whores for their hackery. It is the job he was born to do. Every candidate needs an attack dog and Gingrich would fill that role beautifully – attacking the Democrats most powerful tool.
Yeah, un-leash Newt. At least include him in the debate prep. Tom Pawlenty being Obama in the prep???? And, please dear God, when Romney is elected, put Newt on the presidential advisory board or liason with congress. Obama has given America a “poison pill” and we’re in for Hell the next 4 to 10 years regardless of whoever is president. At least, Newt has an historian’s perspective to offer.
Vote early, vote often! I’m not talking about stuffing the ballot box, I’m talking about making your opinions loud and known. Everytime you voice an opinion, undo a falsehood, express your self publically, those persuasions are as good as any contribution. Pick up litter, you just voted. The problem is not with the president and his crew, it is with the American public who believe in what they were media fed.
I am just so frustrated I could scream. I am active every single waking hour pushing facts about Obama’s lies throughout my extensive online social networks and to my personal networks. Outside of Twitter and Facebook, EVERYONE I know is voting for Obama. I am losing friends every single week for questioning the greatness of The One. I got accused of being a racist by my own mother. This is affecting my health.
We have an entire country freebasing on stupid and the mainstream media are the unapologetic dealers.
It does not help that Romney is mostly nice-guying his way through the election. I have half a mind he is controlled opposition.
–yep, yep, yep –but but but –still, yorta take two days off inside your mind and do something far removed, we need you on top of your game, not worn to a frazzle.
referring to ”this is affecting my health” –
If you’re losing friends over a political race, they were never really your friends. Remember, a friend is someone who knows all about you but likes you anyway.
This is infinitely more complicated when most of your friends are between 20-30, and over 70% of them are LGBT.
And then there are the other 30%, who have mostly conservative or libertarian views, but still vote Democrat because it makes them feel good, and to do otherwise makes them feel like they’re turning their back on _their_ Democrat friends.
They’re also somehow convinced that “free” healthcare truly is “free”, and could be perfectly feasible.
And they just don’t want to hear otherwise. Even if they acknowledge an opposing argument makes sense, they say something like “Well, yeah, but THAT can’t ever happen!”
I am in the same position.
They better not be crying to me for sympathy when their Feminist and LGBT ideals are challenged by O’s Muslim buddies.
Here’s what they believe about Islam/Muslims:
“They’ll never come after us! They hate Christians and we hate Christians too!”
It doesn’t help these friends were also part of my business network in my industry.
News flash: We do not live in a “pollocracy.” If we did, Dewey really would have defeated Truman.
I’m ready to give up. I’ve actually met an undecided today and it’s a co-worker. This person said they didn’t think they would vote for the other guy (Romney) because they didn’t believe he was for the middle class.
This is a person who is going to lose their job because of obama’s squeeze on the pentagon, who has had to have seen food and gas prices go WAY up and yet Romney isn’t for the middle class.
I give up!
I am wondering how an undecided voter can summon enough neurons to even get out of bed in the morning, let alone hold a job.
At least talk him into not voting at all.
I don’t understan it either, but one less vote for o is still a help.
(excerpt from JR Nyquist’s current column The Road to Serfdom in Venezuela)
“According to reliable polls,” noted Ekvall, “opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is ahead; so we have a very tense situation in Venezuela right now.” Capriles is an attractive, likable candidate – a political “rock star,” according to Ekvall. “Chavez is literally on the ropes.” – So how does Chavez get away with stealing the election this time? Will straightforward electronic vote fraud do the trick?
“This time, this year the government has come up with … a ‘hide in plain sight’ approach to vote fraud,” said Ekvall. “The vote fraud … is right in the polling booth. When you go in and vote in the elections this time, you are going to be confronted by an array of technology the likes of which no voter anywhere in the world has ever seen. First of all, you are going to have to punch into an interactive biometric apparatus, and punch in your national I.D. number, and then put your thumb print over a scanner … and your name will pop up … and you will be told that you can move two feet to the right, where there’s an electronic voting machine, and you can cast your vote with a touch-screen machine.”
And how does this translate into fraud? Ekvall replied: “The not-very-subtle aspect of this system is that the biometric system is visibly hooked up by a cable to the voting machine, giving rise to legitimate concerns that your vote is not going to be secret.”
The significance of secret balloting in a welfare state may be understood from recent Venezuelan history, Ekvall underscored. “During the petition drive in 2004 the government got the names of all five million people who signed the petition. They were immediately placed on a black list. “And five million people found themselves … at a disadvantage when it came to welfare credits, jobs from the government, when it came to loans, student loans, anything. If you had signed the petition to recall the president you were automatically a second class citizen. Some people have called this Venezuela’s ‘Political Apartheid.’”
Here is a slick way of intimidating voters. According to Ekvall, “People have every reason to fear….” Here is a country where the welfare state is used as a carrot, but only for those who consistently support the government. If readers wish to understand what socialism signifies, and whether socialism is consistent with liberty, they should study the Venezuelan election process. Not only have the socialists ruined Venezuela’s economy, the socialists have corrupted the voting system and the voters themselves.
(end excerpt, see the rest at the link. Would like to point out, in the above, the perhaps unintentional but wildly gallows-ish humor of “Will straightforward electronic vote fraud do the trick?”)
I tried to offer my assistance. I had some powerful tools that were possible, I thought.
I was serially ignored.
No harm done.
I do my bit by commenting at PJM. This way, when I’m ignored…I can pretend people are at least reading what I write. LOL
Don’t be disheartened cfb. For whatever it’s worth, I seek out your comments and use them in my attempts to persuade others.
I can’t say anymore without getting despondent myself and my anger is so deep at the betrayal going on in front of my eyes that I better just shut up.
They say that it’s darkest before the dawn. I hope ‘they’ are right.
cfb,
I occasionally copy and paste excellent posts that I read here, for future use as talking points and in other notes I write.
I have more of yours copied than any other poster.
I read the blogs maybe a couple hours a day most days, and often the most original and best-expressed piece i will have seen is a cfb comment.
The polls had Jimmy Carter up 46% to 39% over Reagan on Oct 27 1980. And we all know how well that turned out for Jimmy.
Relax and keep up the fight. No need to panic here. The Tea Party was neck and neck in 2010 and see how that worked out. Rather than panic, let’s just make sure we vote.
– over, Man. Game over. DEMedia dropped the Big One.
Moon River, wider than a mile…
Here is the upside of a Romney loss, though it may be little solace–it should definitively discredit the Establishment, and their style of never truly challenging the MSM narrative across the board, for good (as far as Presidential-level campaigns go).
As way of a proof—in the post-Cold War era:
1992 G. Bush loses to candidate who only got a plurality.
1996 Dole loses.
2000 Bush the second barely wins, in an election requiring Al Gore sighing, Bill Clinton “sighing” with Monica, and Ralph Nader (one and all) to do so.
2004 Bush wins, but it’s close (smallest margin sitting President, etc), and in my opinion the country would have voted him out if John Kerry had been someone other than himself. Because I think the nation already was starting to get antsy about Iraq.
2008 McCain goes down in flames.
2012 Race is neck and neck. If economy is stronger, Obama wins in a landslide.
So, in twenty years we have only one genuine win that was not a nailbiter (with a condition of wartime not guaranteed to be a factor again) and each candidate was basically an “establishment” candidate. The “Establishment” is composed of two sets–the pols who don’t challenge the MSM narratives enough, and the staid church-going folks who keep voting for the guy that ran the last cycle and came in second in the primary.
Both groups need to start pulling their heads from their rear-ends, because what they are doing is not workng that great now and shows absolutely no sign of doing even this well in the future. A little humility would be in order from both sets.
Naturally, they’ll want to talk about Angle and O’Donnell instead.
I’m from Ohio, and know Ohioans pretty well – if this is true, then the US as we know it is gone – if Ohioans believe the O is the better choice, then something seriously wrong has happened in the state, and the country. my old hometown is a ghost town – jobs gone, people too….unless of course the polls are all manipulated by someone to discourage Repubs??nah!
You said…”my old hometown is a ghost town – jobs gone, people too”…
And I think that is the explanation for the polling numbers. If people want to work, they have to go where the jobs are, and for a long time Ohio wasn’t it. A lot of people have not only left your town, they left Ohio altogether. It has happened all over the state. So much so that based on the last census we lost two congressional representatives.
Not me. I have completely given up. Thankfully I have a job overseas and have been able to move my funds along as well. I gave my six years of military service and frankly, the idea of throwing anymore of my hard work and effort into a sinking ship is pointless. Let the leeches suck the country dry. I am certain that I am not the only engineer or equivalent that is going Galt. I’m done with paying into medicare and social security, knowing that it will never exist for me. Keep acting like you can out vote the vast majority of morons who refuse to accept reality. Good luck…
Trouble is, locusts always go where the crops are planted. There is no escaping them, not really. Broad application of insecticide is the only real option.
In the 2008 & 2010 elections, Intrade was right on the money with their predictions. As of this moment, the mormon has only a 24.3% chance winning.
Obama is at 75.6%.
“The Mormon”? What’s up with that description? Is Harry Reid running for president?
This country is definitely circling the drain if the moron beats the Mormon.
The New York Times, in collaboration with Quinnipiac University and CBS News, is tracking the presidential race with recurring polls in six states. In Ohio — which no Republican has won the presidency without — Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney 53 percent to 43 percent in the poll. In Florida, the president leads Mr. Romney 53 to 44 percent in the poll.
The surveys, which had margins of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for each candidate, also included a Pennsylvania poll, where Mr. Obama is leading Mr. Romney by 12 percentage points.
I haven’t looked at the internals of these polls, but they are reported as D+9. With Republicans having a +4 Voter Identification Advantage and a lead in voter enthusiasm, these polls are garbage push polls, like those described by Bernie Goldberg in his book BIAS.
But with the extremely weak and timid conservative/Republican punditry failing to stand up and call out the MSM on this garbage,t these push polls are now pushing the needle – slightly.
BTW, Romney gave a brilliant speech yesterday before the Clinton Global Initiative and our preciously incompetent conservative blogosphere ignored it.
Re BTW, I agree. He is really getting better. The more people see him the more they will like him. But time is so short. I am praying he does well in the debate. He looks healthy and strong, whereas Mr. O is looking haggard….
Yeah, I’m scared too. And I find making calls from home pretty uncomfortable on a social-anxiety level. But I do it anyway. Everyone that wants Obama out of office should do it too.
PS — it is easy to sign up. just go to GOP website and click to the call center/volunteer area. It is free. It is anonmymous. They give you a script to read and a way to enter data. And you reach people in the important states.
Do it! It’s not that hard. The evil media wants you to think it’s hopeless, don’t give in!
Anyone else see Diane Sawyer lead with Romney’s 47% comments again!? This is unreal!
Where is Ralph Nader? We need him to enter the race!! Someone needs to re-invigorate THE LEFTISTS. Yeah! Why, wasn’t it just the other day Nader was calling the prez a “war criminal?” We need lots, lots more of that.
The Dems will use every trick in the book (and some not in it) to keep Nader off the ballot, as they did in 2000 and 2004.
A Corporatist Chief Justice: The Role of John Roberts in Citzens United [Part 1] JOHN ROBERTS JULY 30, 2012 BY: AARON PHILLIPS
http://www.examiner.com/article/a-corporatist-chief-justice-the-role-of-john-roberts-citzens-united-part-1
I use my facebook page to change the world. It’s simple, write what you believe in. Christopher S. Rolbiecki
For crying out loud! I guess 24/7 propaganda really does work?! Sounds like a lot of you posting here are buying into the total BS polls that are oversampling the D’s by even higher numbers than the ’08 election?? Really??
Hold your heads up and rest assured that guy will be defeated handily, if he’s kicking butt so well in Ohio then why in the he11 is he campaigning there??
….then the real battle will begin. Remember Bushitler, a senile Reagan with his finger on the nuclear trigger? Not to mention the “dumb masses” being riled up to wreak havoc. Time to get real, time to get mean. Screw those “friends” who get their feelings hurt, (yep, has happened to me several times), somebody said earlier they weren’t friends in the first place and that’s so right. We are in the fight of our lives and despite the efforts of the destructive on the left telling us Christians are hated, whites are hated, we’re racists, the tea party is dead, don’t offend the independents,etc. ad nauseum ,we WILL win the day.
Crips, reminds me of the ’70′s watching people drop acid..
One simple thing we opponents of Obama can do is to be a little more public in showing support for Romney. For example, I bought a Romney Ryan t-shirt to wear to the gym. After noticing that several attractive female friends of mine had already chose to “like” Mitt Romney on Facebook, I decided that there wasn’t much dating downside to clicking “like” for Romney too. Babe Theory of Political Movements! I also put a “Mitt” window sticker on my car. The purpose of these actions is to let other people who lean toward the Republican to know that they are not alone. Glenn Reynolds wrote about the concept of a preference cascade in a 2002 article titled Patriotism and Preference.
http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2002/03/patriotism-and-preferences.html
Maybe we can help trigger a preference cascade toward public support for Mitt Romney that contradicts the media narrative.
For those who can’t stomach showing support for Mitt Romney, public support of the NRA or displaying the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden Flag also helps send the message that you will be be voting against Obama. Be somewhat subtle and positive. The goal is to give people on the fence permission to join us. It does us no good to rile up Obama supporters.
The Gadsden flag is great. I often display it on the front of my car (fortunately my state doesn’t require a front license plate).
Bad: well, we still have the debates –tho how obama could be over 20% what with we all already know, doesn’t auger well for the debates as a game-changer, no matter how badly MR may outdo the dude.
Good: that the 2010 election decisiveness has disappeared so completely, indicates that these polls may well be highly cooked.
Bad: the anagram for “Republic of Texas” is ‘RoT’.
Good: but ‘rot’ is English and by Revolution 2016, it’ll probably be outlawed in favor of Chinee and Rooskie, and ‘RoT’ is not a silly anagram in them two lingos.
What Ron Paul Might Have Said About That 47% By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
http://chrisinmaryville.net/what-ron-paul-might-have-said-about-that-47.html
When the election dust settles and Romney emerges the winner, all the blogs and TV whores will be asking the same question: How could the polls have been so wrong?
Hope springs eternal …
Imagine the level of head-scratching by the punditocracy in 1948 (see my post #13).
Similar head-scratching happened in Brevard County (Fla.) in 1995 following a school bond referendum. The county’s leftist rag ran a poll ~10 days prior showing solid support (48%-40%). The actual vote: 3-to-1 against. That poll was either rigged or totally fabricated.
Look gang – to be demoralized is as stupid as being liberal. Are you kidding me? You mean to tell me PJMedia has suddenly gone sissified and going to cower besides these feckless cynical wonder types? Come on. Gird your fricking loins.
We’ve got three debates where Obama can’t hide behind a media, can’t hide behind a teleprompter, can’t blabbler a quip, or a cliche, or a platitude. Obama can run but he can’t hide for 90 minutes.
Gang, Barack Obama is a sitting duck getting ready for a 15 round heavyweight fight. The rotten ringside referees can’t cheat if you knock you opponent out.
If Romney can’t hit this target, then you should elect me to be your next Republican candidate in 2016.
Because this is a balloon head with a limp jab and skinny legs.
Ladies and gentlemen what should we do if Barack Obama is reelected in November? The Liberal, socialist Left has for decades been trying to force this country and its citizens into becoming a welfare state with the vast majority of us being dependent on the federal government for food, shelter, money, health et al. They do this so they can control us. The intellectual elite on the Left believe that they are somehow endowed with superhuman abilities to direct the lives of We the People and believe us too stupid and ignorant to manage our own lives.“They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.” – Frederic Bastiat
Is this who we’ve become? Is this who we want to be? Have we lost that great spirit of independence and defiance that made this nation the greatest power on earth? Do we want to substituterepresentatives for rulers? Given the current partisan divide and bewildering, in my opinion, support for Obama it appears as though almost half of the population does in fact want to live at the expense of the other half and live in a form of slavery. “The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.” – Frederic Bastiat
We know what Obama has done and suspect what he will do when unrestrained by the need to be reelected. He will continue to issue EO’s that override the will of the people and Congress. He will continue to use the bureaucracy to force his vision of socialist Utopia upon an unwilling populace; Obamacare was only a first step. “People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.” – Edmund Burke. Obama, at the behest of earth worshipping environmental extremists, will continue to deprive us of access to domestic energy and as a result drive up the cost of just about everything as everything is dependent on energy. This course of action all but guarantees an increase in poverty as people spend increasing percentages of their incomes on energy.
So do we conservatives just accept our fates and agree to become part of the collective? Do we accept defeat and acknowledge that resistance is indeed futile? Do we lie down and agree to become subjects begging our new masters for bread? Or do we come together and develop strategies and plans to fight back against the state and restore our liberties? How far should we be willing to go to restore and then selfishly guard our liberties? What are our options?
One option I’ve considered, and that will likely never actually happen, is that the Left and Right peacefully agree that the differences between our visions of America are so vast that we can no longer live together in a single country. We would then agree to physically divide the country in half with the Left to one side and the Right to the other. The alternative is a continuation of our cold civil war which may at some point turn hot as conservatives decide against subjugation. As we should all know by now the Left will never give up its efforts to enslave us all to the state and we will never give up our resistance to it. Do we want to spend the rest of our lives fighting against the Left for our freedoms?
Perhaps an Obama reelection will bring the worst as he aggressively continues to push us down the road to full blown socialism and enough Americans get fed up that talk of a second American Revolution or Red state secession starts. I for one am armed and ready and I urge everyone of like mind to purchase weapons, ammunition, food, water, and medical supplies, and to start coordinating your activities with other patriots.
As Americans we have the right to dissolve our federal government if we tire of its abuses and believe it incapable of reform.
“…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.” – Declaration of Independence
“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves. … whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoevertherefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society, and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the People, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty.” – John Locke
Will you take a stand for liberty or will you submit to tyranny?
Restoring federalism so that we can thwart the socialist’s agenda is a must if we are to remain free.
Restoring federalism will not only require courageous and determined state elected officials it will also require states to enact legislation that severs the coercive funding relationship they all have with the federal government.
For decades the federal government has used the carrot and stick of federal funding to force states to bend to its will. The federal government now collects and then redistributes money to states for infrastructure, education, health care, and countless pet projects in the form of earmarks. These federal funds often come with strings attached and states with limited ability to raise their own tax rates more often than not meekly comply. The states have thus allowed themselves to become subservient to the federal government through their dependency on federal funding.
The sad irony is that much of the revenue the federal government doles out to the states is collected from the state’s residents to start with so the entire exercise is a money recycling scheme with DC skimming off the top for administrative costs and redistribution to other states.
So how to strike the first blow for independence? The Federal Funds Act.
From the 10th Amendment Center:
Already introduced in Georgia (HB877), Oklahoma (HB2810), and Washington (HB2712), such laws would require that all federal taxes come first to the states Department of Revenue. A panel of legislators would assay the Constitutional appropriateness of the Federal Budget, and then forward to the federal government a percentage of the federal tax dollars that are delineated as legal and constitutionally justified. The remainder of those dollars would be assigned to budgetary items that are currently funded through federal allocations and grants or returned to the people.
Once states are able to keep the tax dollars that otherwise would have been returned to them after a trip through the bureaucracy they will have much greater freedom to defy the diktats of the federal government and restore the liberties of their citizens.
The Federal Funds Act sounds a lot like the state escrow law Walter Williams advocated way back in 1999. Under Williams’ proposal, all federal taxes owed by a state’s residents would be put in escrow and periodically sent to Washington (the state, of course, would keep the interest earned). If for any reason the feds tried to take away money owed to the state, that money would be withheld from the next escrow payment. For example, if the Transportation Dept. tried to cut off $5 billion in highway funding for failure to comply with some inane federal mandate, the state’s next escrow check would be reduced by that same $5 billion. Ultimately, the state could if needed refuse to send any escrow money to DC.
Restoring federalism, part two.
Restoring Federalism – Step Two
DECEMBER 31, 2011
tags: 10th Amendment, Federalism, Nullification
Previously I have recommended that the first step in reestablishing federalism is the implementation of the Federal Funds Act so that states can extricate themselves from the financial relationship with the federal government that promotes the bullying, bribery, and extortion of the states.
The second step is for states to pass legislation, the Constitutional Review Act, which explicitly expresses their right to declare acts of the federal government unconstitutional and of no force within their borders.
From the very beginning of our history states have maintained that they have the right to disregard legislation that they deemed to be unconstitutional, the first instance being the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in 1798. The Resolutions, which were in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, were written respectively by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the author of the US Constitution.
The Resolutions were very controversial at the time and threatened to tear our new nation apart. Ten other states declared their opposition to the Resolutions and stated their belief that states did not in fact have the right to nullify federal legislation and that the right to do so was the exclusive domain of the courts.
New Hampshire’s resolution for example stated:
That the state legislatures are not the proper tribunals to determine the constitutionality of the laws of the general government; that the duty of such decision is properly and exclusively confided to the judicial department.
The idea that it was the sole province of the courts to determine the constitutionality of federal legislation evolved into the doctrine or judicial review and was particularly influenced and institutionalized after Marbury vs. Madison.
Although today we take judicial review as established and indisputable, it is not a power explicitly delegated to the judicial branch by the Constitution and it is from this silence on the part of the Constitution that is the basis for the Constitutional Review Act.
My task here is not to cover the full history of the Acts, Resolutions, and talks of secession and war they engendered but rather to provide some background information for my recommendation of nullification.
Although Jefferson and Madison later distanced themselves from their respective Resolutions and stated that the states in fact did not have the right to nullify federal legislation, we cannot fully know why they did so. Perhaps they feared tearing apart the new nation or exposing it to danger from abroad through its disunity. Perhaps they feared more civil strife and bloodshed with the Revolution still fresh in the minds of many. Perhaps they feared how history would remember them if blood was spilled because of their efforts.
Whatever their reasons, I believe they were correct when they asserted that the states did in fact have the right to nullify federal legislation because as was stated in the Kentucky Resolution:
That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party; that this government, created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
In summary, the federal government was a creation of the states, the states created a government of limited authority, and the states retained all authority unto themselves not specifically given to the new federal government therefore the states retained the right to decide issues of constitutionality.
There are those who would argue that the courts are indeed the proper place to resolve issues of constitutionality and I largely agree, however, as Newt Gingrich and many others have pointed out, we can no longer trust the courts. The Left has worked for decades to install Leftists to the federal court who don’t interpret the Constitution, rather, they legislate from the bench and cite “penumbras and emanations” as their basis for the discovery of new rights.
The Left has been very successful in seeding the courts with their fellow travelers and we are all familiar with their strategy of trying to win in the courts what they cannot win in the legislature, Proposition 8 in CA, the various illegal immigration bills, et al.
A specific example is Roe v. Wade. Regardless of your position on abortion the Constitution does not grant the right to abortion or the right to privacy from which the right to an abortion was derived. Roe is perhaps the most famous case of judicial activism and one that continues to divide us to this day.
So, what are we to do? Do we submit to an increasingly activist court regardless of the plain and obvious examples of unconstitutional rulings? Or do we pursue another path?
I believe the path is via the Constitutional Review Act and the seizing of power back from the federal government.
Using, again, the example of Obamacare consider two outcomes in which Obamacare is upheld:
The legislation is upheld in the Supreme Court and the states accede to federal power. In the event the GOP fails to rid us of this unconstitutional abomination we are now more subjects than citizens and are forever more to be dependent on the federal government for our health. The federal government is now free to mandate our behavior because the precedent has been established that they have that right via the Commerce Clause. Where does it end? Are we still a free people?
The legislation is upheld but the twenty-six states that have gone to the Supreme Court to fight it do not accede to federal supremacy and instead reject Obamacare and do not allow its implementation within their borders. What then can the federal government do to compel compliance? Nothing. Can the legislation survive without half of the states participating and funding it? What would be the reaction of the other twenty-four states? What would be the reaction of the citizens and businesses of those states? Would they join their fellow “26ers” in their newly asserted freedom?
I believe that we are well past the times when such an approach would have led to bloodshed and secession, as Jefferson and Madison no doubt feared, and believe that such a reassertion of state power would lead to the reestablishment of a truly constitutionally limited government as the Founders intended. I believe that if the states were to stand up and simply say “no more” that the federal government would have little recourse to make states submit. In a nation such as ours, governmental power is dependent upon the willing submission to it by the people. Without cooperative submission that power evaporates.
Unlike the federal government, the state governments have to take care not to oppress their citizens; otherwise people can exercise one of their basic freedoms, the freedom of movement, and simply leave for another state.
Liberalism cannot survive the decentralization of power and we cannot survive additional centralization. Who will win this battle for freedom?
Prepare for a new war for secession. The Left can’t survive without us going to work to pay the bills. A Leftist nation would quickly descend into a totalitarian nightmare. In a Democrat nation you will be one of two types of slave, a parasite dependent on the government for your daily bread OR you will be the host on which the parasites feeds via an out of control government. Do you want to be subjects or citizens?
You aren’t going to save this country with an election or even politics at any level. As a whole its already gone. But large parts of it can be saved. Perhaps the whole eventually. We have to expel New England. They can rot in their own leftist filth.
Wow, the demoralization trolls are out in force, are they not? Busy little evil beavers, blocking the flow.
You have to hand it to them. They really want to win.
Holy Faith and Holy Prayer.
I don’t pray for ‘this’ nation any longer. To do that would be to pray for a land that has institutionalized abortion, sexual perversion and leftist totalitarianism.
I pray the Lord’s prayer. I pray for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. That probably means His Wrath descending upon this land with holy fire and conflagration. I don’t know … its HIS will.
I would pray for a New United States that went back to The Constitution of the United States, reinstituted a righteous system of law and once again prayed to The One Holy God of all creation.
To do that would be to pray for a land that has institutionalized abortion, sexual perversion and leftist totalitarianism.
The land hasn’t, some elements within the land that call themselves Progressives (Marxists in sheep’s clothing) are trying to institutionalize the abhorrent and the abnormal in the name of normalizing themselves.
A PJM poster described their impetus better…”…try to change the consensus to something closer to the way they live their lives.”
Totalitarianism has been the opiate of intellectuals (self-proclaimed élites, like the current US President) since an angry, disgruntled Karl Marx first put pen to paper.
I disagree. The nation, the whole nation, is guilty. Those who knew better than to let their land be so corrupted did little to fight the corruption and debauchery that has now saturated this nation. Huge portions of our cities are crime infested slums. We have spent our money on toys and the ‘good life’ as all around us went to $hit. Pure $hit.
I don’t blame those under 30. They were heavily brainwashed and are not much responsible for the evil that ore takes. I greatly blame the ‘greatest generation and the boomers ( me ). It was my experience of my midwestern average middle class upbringing that the ‘greatest generation’ must have shot their wad on the war because they didn’t do much in the way of child rearing. They spent more time and energy on the TV than they did their children. Then the boomers went nuts and the marxists slid in and took over.
We let it happen and we were in on it in our younger days. Now we pay.
you’re right.
I’m sure polling is being manipulated to further demoralize the American people relative to unseating Obama.
Reportedly, his administration is paying out some bribes to women and Hispanic farmers (vote buying with your tax dollars) under the Pigford ? settlement. There has been corruption in payouts of “reparations” to black farmers.
Here is a brief video of an Obama voter which should help “sway” your vote
THANK YOU FOR THIS PIECE!!!
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EVERYONE needs to be taking action:
1. Donate like crazy. Sacrifice.
2. Make calls for the campaign. You may not be inspired to do so, but it’s a necessary task and we all need to be doing it. You can call from home and the campaign picks up the tab. Just do it!
3. Light a fire under others to get involved and do more than just voting on Election Day. The left is highly organized in this arena and we are playing catch up, so let’s catch up!
4. Get involved with organizations that are taking action. One great one is American Majority Action Liberty Headquarters. They have organized boots on the ground operations in key swing states. If you live in a swing state or can travel to one, you are desperately needed. For those who can’t physically help in swing states, making calls for the campaign is one way you can, long distance.
5. Make a list of every person you know, especially those in swing states and contact them. Tailor your talking point(s) to who they are and what their situation is. Use the Socratic method, if possible.
6. Make very interaction with every person between now and Election Day be about the election and make it count!
7. Be creative and get going. There is no time to lose. We must over compensate for the media, whether we like it or not.
Let none of us wake up the day after the election and kick ourselves that we could have done more. Now is the time to do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE!
(Sorry in advance for any typos. No time to proof read…….)
Just go around hitting the Tweet Button / Plus 1 / Facebook button on Conservative Pro- Romney
News Stories around the web at Fox News / Drudge / etc etc etc
That’s what I do all the time
I do much the same thing. I know quite a few ‘friends’ who don’t have cable access. So I tend to link to news of the day, articles that highlight waste or misuse of tax money, articles about Obamacare taxes and the war on coal. Mainly pocketbook issues, but the current news about the Libya timeline and the ramifications of the video meme have gotten the attention of some of the older veterans. I try to choose articles with headers that don’t outright bash Obama.
The Romney articles are mainly about how he has used his own time and money to help people, quietly without fanfare, because they interest me. I know those who support him do their own research, and those who don’t won’t read it anyway.
I admit, it is hard to compete with Farmville.
Published on Jun 9, 2012 Lecture 1, “Themes and Lessons from Colonial America” by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., a senior fellow in history at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, presents this fifteen-lecture course covering the material in his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Presented to the Auburn University Academy for Lifelong Learners, and recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama between September 2006 and March 2007. 36:49 in length
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dtTHZaG_pE&list=SP7891A55C8C33659F&index=1&feature=plpp_video