Virgina – Mitt Romney will win this state simply because Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the only two on the ballot.

Is Virginia intentionally misspelled up above?

The 2010 midterms, which, like all the historical midterms, 20% of the voting age population doesn’t show up.

I like the fact that Gingrich is ahead. It means that the Republican Party is morphing into its throwback base.

It reminds me of the episode of Star Trek, where Captain Kirk is split into two personalities.

The Gingrich-style wing should be laid bare, full bore. The 60-somethings who are still fighting the Culture Wars of the last century can support him, and everyone else can support the Democrats.

I know some posters here don’t care for the contemporary Democrats, either. But they are better than the Republicans.

Ronald Reagan actually did about 250 recess appointments. (Over 30 a year on average.)

Barack Obama probably isn’t even up to 30 for the three years. There are about 60 federal judges who should get recess appointed, just to keep it even.

I think if Obama loses in 2012, he will be renominated in 2016, and win. This is because most of the mess we are in is the fault of Bush’s policies.

I definitely like what I’m seeing this past week. The President is finally acting like a president.

Too bad if the chattering classes don’t like that fact. Nobody among the everyday people of America is talking about how they want to change social security–they like it just the way it is! And, we CAN afford it! Same with Medicare.

All I hear is that the well off in America are sitting on unproductive, cash money piles. The Japanese have been doing this for 20 years, and their economy has been stagnant all along. I know. I lived there.

Better to hike taxes on that money pile and put the money where it’s most needed, which is to support the vast demand of middle income people.

OK I see your point, but no one would ever do that in municipal court.

If I hired Obama to defend me in court on a speeding charge, I’m afraid he’d plead me guilty to murder.

I don’t think this is accurate.

What it’s more like is if you hired Obama to defend you on the speeding charge, it would go like this:

You say you were doing 50 in a 55.

The law says you were doing 70 in a 55.

The compromise would be that you plead guilty to going 67 in a 55. Additionally, you would do community service and agree to meet the cop for a beer, that you would pay for.

Has anyone bothered (like I have) to go out on Zillow, and see what Florida property actually got sold for $170,000. (The news article said that the owner was able to sell the property for $20,000 over what JPMorgan reduced the mortgage to.)

Since the name is out there, and Google is out there, it should be easy to put two and two together. But Zillow does not have a property in the mix that fits the story.

Is the story accurate? Did the writer actually see the offer from Chase?

I don’t understand why Democrats aren’t screaming that this is a backdoor tax increase!

What is the difference between taking a $1500 check and surtaxing it 10% ($150) or cutting the check to $1350 with no tax on it. It’s the same thing!

If they can’t cut the oil companies’ tax breaks, the corporate jet tax breaks, and the horse breeder tax breaks, why are the seniors so ripe for plucking?

AP called for Hochul at 10:02

Wow. She won!

I think it’s great that Dave is emphasizing that the antics of Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker are having an impact on the Republican Party’s national standing.

It makes no sense why law enforcement and the firefighters were such die-hards for the GOP in the last 30 or 40 years. The only thing that makes sense is that the GOP took a hands-off approach to their working conditions and benefits.

Now, see how long that lasted. Once everyone else was gutted, they start coming for the cops and firefighters.

If more men and women in the unionized, gritty, public service jobs stop and think about about who is watching their back, it’s a good development for the progressives.

The GOP ain’t the party of even a relative moderate like Gerald Ford anymore. It’s way over to the right. The more the message gets out, the better off the everyday people of America are.