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Election 2012: North Dakota Senate

North Dakota Senate: Berg (R) 50%, Heitkamp (D) 45%

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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 50% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns the vote from 46%. One percent (1%) prefers some other candidate, and two percent (2%) are undecided.

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Election 2012: North Dakota President Romney 54%, Obama 40%

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Pundits Proclaim: Romney Passes ‘Commander-in-Chief Test’

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may have exchanged a tactical defeat for a strategic victory in Monday’s foreign policy debate, losing on points to the president by most accounts but scoring a solid performance that left major pundits declaring he had passed “the commander in chief test” in resounding fashion. “I think Mitt Romney did something very important to his campaign tonight,” former presidential adviser David Gergen told CNN. “He passed the commander-in-chief test.  Newsmax contributor, foreign-policy expert, and Pulitzer Prize winner Judith Miller concurred.

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Report: Obama Has Support of Putin, Chavez, Castro

Three world leaders known for their anti-American views are endorsing President Barack Obama’s re-election, Fox News reports.  Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, the socialist-leaning leader who won a fourth term this month, reportedly said that Obama was a “good guy.” Meanwhile, the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, in June told CNN that, “As a citizen of the world, I would like (Obama) to win.”  She had been speaking in Spanish. The Castro family has ruled Cuba under Communism for over 50 years. And in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has said Obama’s re-election could improve relations between the nations. Putin, the former prime minister, also reportedly said the president was a “genuine person" who "really wants to change much for the better."

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Fact Checkers Try to Deny Obama Apology Tour

During Monday night’s third and final presidential debate, President Barack Obama denied the charge by Republican nominee Mitt Romney that Obama had gone on a global “apology tour” after assuming office. But a collection of clips of the president, assembled by the nonpartisan conservative group Young America’s Foundation, undercuts Obama’s denial.  Watch Here

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Fact-check: Text of 2008 Romney op-ed debunks Obama’s auto-bailout attack

Toward the end of the debate, Republican nominee Mitt Romney hit back against Obama’s auto bailout statements.  “I just want to take one of those points, again, attacking me as not talking about an agenda for, for getting more trade and opening up more jobs in this country,” Romney said. “But the president mentioned the auto industry and that somehow I would be in favor of jobs being elsewhere. Nothing could be further from the truth.” “I’m a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company,” Romney added. “I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry. My plan to get the industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks. It was President [George W.] Bush that wrote the first checks. I disagree with that. I said they need – these companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy. And in that process, they can get government help and government guarantees, but they need to go through bankruptcy to get rid of excess cost and the debt burden that they’d – they’d built up.” As Romney was starting his next sentence, Obama cut across him, saying, “Gov. Romney, that’s not what you said.” “You can take a look at the op-ed,” Romney replied. Still unsatisfied with Romney’s answer, Obama told Romney and Schiffer, “Let’s check the record.”  The Romney op-ed both candidates were referring to ran in The New York Times on Nov. 18, 2008 under the headline “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” and appears to support Romney’s position. In the op-ed, Romney said he thought the government should play a role in handling a managed bankruptcy. “The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing,” Romney wrote in the op-ed. “A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. It would permit the companies to shed excess labor, pension and real estate costs. The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.” “In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check,” Romney added. Under the Obama administration, Detroit still went bankrupt. General Motors and Chrysler sank into bankruptcy, but instead of having open bankruptcy proceedings in a court, the Obama White House ran the proceedings. Many people won as a result of the bailout, but many others lost, too. Perhaps the biggest loss was that of the 20,000 non-union Delphi salaried retirees, who lost their pensions and benefits programs as they were headed into retirement as a result of a Treasury Department and White House decision.

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The Educated Voter

We typically feel that we understand how complex systems work even when our true understanding is superficial.  And it is not until we are asked to explain how such a system works that we realize how little we actually know. -Steven Sloman

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American Patriots to Obama

We Built It..... You Broke It...... We'll Fix It..... You're Fired!

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NoBama

"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." --Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775

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Neurosurgeon calls Mark Levin about Obamacare

Listen in Dismay>>>>

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If you watched the debate last night like I did, you've got to be shaking your head in disgust at President Obama's vision for America's future.
It wasn't just the debate. The truth is that the last four years have been a foreign policy disaster:

• Obama's lies surrounding Libya have put America is a position of extraordinary weakness.
• The New York Times reports that the administration has agreed to negotiations with Iran, a dangerous nation whose stated purpose is to rid the world of Israel.
• Just months ago, Obama was overheard telling Russia's president that he would have more "flexibility" on nuclear weapons if he were re-elected.

As you and I both heard last night and have seen for the past four years, a second term for President Obama and his liberal colleagues means a fundamentally weaker America. Keeping the Senate, particularly, it means the destruction of American sovereignty as a hyper-liberal Senate paired with a lame-duck President pursue dangerous policies like the Law of the Sea and UN Arms Trade treaties that make America subservient to international law and violate our constitutional liberties. You should not stand for this.

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"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775