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“Come Together,” The Beatles

Darned if I know what it means, but it sounds cool.

I would normally come up with a ponderous parody response to the parody that is the Zombie Rights Campaign (ZRC), but I’d thought that I’d spare everybody that for once.  Besides, people know where I stand when it comes to the Undead Menace: I don’t have to spell it out.

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PS: It really does get the general tone right of the sites that it’s parodying, though.  Down to the ever-so-slightly smug hectoring.  One wonders…

It’s that time again.  Short version: RNC beat DNC, but DSCC & DCCC significantly outraised their counterparts – sufficiently so that the Democrats raised more overall for the month.  When debt is factored in, the Democrats also went from being significantly behind on cash-on-hand to being slightly ahead.  That being said: the RNC and NRCC are both reporting significant increases in small-person donors.

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[UPDATE] Welcome, Instapundit readers. And Big Government readers, too.

(Via Atlas Shrugs) For the next time somebody tells you that Democrat/ACORN/WFP election registration fraud does not equal election fraud, feel free to point this story coming from Troy, New York, where the one led seamlessly to the other.  Feel free to also point out that it doesn’t take all that much to flip some races:

Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out — enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats the general election.

A special prosecutor is investigating the case and criminal charges are possible. New York State Supreme Court Judge Michael Lynch ruled that there were “significant election law violations that have compromised the rights of numerous voters and the integrity of the election process.”

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[UPDATE] Welcome, AoSHQ readers. And Instapundit readers.  And Jules Crittenden readers, too.  And Hot Air readers, of course.  I cover this every month, you know.

Rasmussen hasn’t written the article yet – but they put the new numbers on their BY THE NUMBERS page.  And it’s not pretty for Democrats:

Note the dives on… everything, really, except immigration issues: the GOP increased its lead in 9 out of 10 categories since last month. But particularly note the Health Care, Social Security, Economy, and Taxes numbers. Does the Democratic Party feel like demonizing their opponents on health care rationing some more? – because I think that the GOP can somehow manage to find the strength to keep bearing up under the Democrats’ scorn.

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Crossposted to RedState.

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Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo.

More here.

(pause)

Whoa.

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PS: My only problem with this is that it won’t support AAD&D, as currently configured.

Via The Belmont Club, and it’s somehow vaguely soothing to watch. If oddly surreal.

The drag race with the M3 Stuart starts around 7 minutes or so.

(Via Instapundit) Contra Michael Barone (who I both like and respect), there’s a simpler answer to the question of why Speaker Pelosi hasn’t cut Charlie Rangel loose yet: by Democratic standards, he’s not particularly corrupt. We are after all talking about a political party whose collective inability to pay their taxes became the first national political joke of 2009.

That being said, Barone’s point that Rangel’s replacement would be problematical for the Democrats is well-taken. Just imagine Pete Stark as Ways & Means Chair, for example. It’d be like Christmas had come early.

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*The albatross was only a problem after they shot it, remember?

Crossposted to RedState.

I would like to crunch the numbers for September, except that the DNC hasn’t released their monthly totals yet.  Given that the Democrats had great months for both their Senatorial and Congressional campaigns, it’s going to take exceedingly little for the Democrats to have both more money raised and more cash on hand this month.  The DNC had over 15 million in the bank last month; even assuming no change in that it’s enough to make for a significant COH advantage.

On the bright side – and it is a significant bright side – small-donor contributions are up for both the RNC and NRCC.

They didn’t even rate ‘Nixonian.’

Another for the ‘media’s starting to get just a bit tired of the administration’s crusade against Fox News’ file.  From Ruth Marcus:

Obama’s dumb war with Fox News

There’s only one thing dumber than picking a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel — picking a fight with people who don’t even have to buy ink. The Obama administration’s war on Fox News is dumb on multiple levels. It makes the White House look weak, unable to take Harry Truman’s advice and just deal with the heat. It makes the White House look small, dragged down to the level of Glenn Beck. It makes the White House look childish and petty at best, and it has a distinct Nixonian — Agnewesque? — aroma at worst. It is a self-defeating trifecta: it distracts attention from the Obama administration’s substantive message; it serves to help Fox, not punish it, by driving up ratings; and it deprives the White House, to the extent it refuses to provide administration officials to appear on the cable network, of access to an audience that is, in fact, broader than hard-core Obama haters.

A colleague of mine wondered privately what could be the reason for what is fairly clearly a counter-productive effort on the administration’s part – and when you’re getting this kind of push-back from what is generally conceded to be a core constituency of the Democratic party, you’re engaged in a counter-productive effort. My response was one word:

Pique.

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Crossposted to RedState.

Free Fallin’, Tom Petty

Soothing, oddly enough.

Head’s up via The Anchoress: a traditionalist faction of the Anglican Church may be coming back into full communion with Rome tomorrow.  This news has gotten a lot of play among folks who blog on religious issues; there are going to be simultaneous press conferences (5 AM EST), which suggests that the main Anglican church is hoping to minimize the impact of a hypothetical reunion.

Outside my usual field, but interesting stuff.