Month: October 2012

SECRET ROMNEY CHEAT SHEET REVEALED! MUST CREDIT MOE LANE!

I will admit, when I first saw this superficially insipidly stupid report ‘accusing’ Mitt Romney of being able to fit everything he needed to gut Barack Obama like a fish in Wednesday’s debate on a single sheet of paper (a so-called “cheat sheet”), my first thought was Wow.  That’s incredibly insulting… to Barack Obama; surely you’d need at least an eight-page chapbook.  But, once I saw this… well. Guess it maybe wasn’t a handkerchief* after all?

I’m convinced; how about you?

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: I’ve asked the Romney campaign for comment; I’ll let you know what they say in response.

*Which, by the way, even Reuters admitted was in the video.  Dear God but these people don’t like to admit that they got hornswoggled by Obama, huh?

#rsrh Even the freaking SPAMBOTS aren’t taking Obama’s job creation claims seriously any more.

Hell of a thing when you can be lectured to on fiscal policy by something trying to get its teeth into your credit balance.

The private sector survey number is anemic and Barack Obama has constantly touted those private sector (salaried) numbers saying that he has created over 4mil. in the last 32 months. If he now starts to include the household survey numbers that include non-salaried jobs, independent contractors and self employed then remember that GWB created over 7.2mil of these two survey job numbers during his first term and that was without a huge government infusion of stimulus.

I mean, that’s just embarrassing.

#rsrh Rasmussen begins to see improvement for Romney, post debate.

Today’s result is 49/47 Obama/Romney (identical to yesterday), but read on:

These results are based upon nightly interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. As a result, only about one-third of the interviews for today’s update were conducted after the presidential debate. The single night of polling conducted after the debate did show some improvement for Romney, but it remains to be seen whether that will continue or if it was merely statistical noise. Sunday morning’s update will be the first national polling based entirely upon post-debate interviews.

(Bolding mine) This is why Rasmussen (and Gallup) does rolling averages; to damp out fluctuations.  Personally, I expect to see Thursday’s improvement turn into a bounce, but Rasmussen’s point that one day isn’t a trend is valid.  Good news, in other words, but don’t get complacent.

#rsrh I walked in late for the BLS report…

…but this was the most comprehensible part of it, and it ain’t all that comprehensible:

The unemployment rate decreased to 7.8 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in health care and in transportation and warehousing but changed little in most other major industries.

[pause]

Ah. I’m not the only one who finds this contradictory. To put it mildly. Looks like we had a lot of… well, it’s not really cooking the books. More like finessing them.

Moe Lane

PS: Jim’s got a good point, here.

Hey! Skyrim’s Hearthfire is out for the PC!

Now I can build my doll a new house, and make it just the way I like it, and get her a bunch of other dolls to live there, and we can ADOPT a couple, and then we can have adventures and rescues and FUN!

…Seriously, this is classic “They’re not dolls, they’re action figures!" territory.  Mind, I’ve been saving up iron ingots for a month.