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Data Point – A tidbit from the Presidential race – if it means anything at all

FWIW: The Corner: But wait, just in case this wasn’t bad enough, here’s a look at Obama’s vote margin in some key states as of this afternoon (these figures will change a bit as those straggling precincts report in): Virginia: 107,339          Ohio: 100,763           Florida: 47,493          Colorado: 111,094 Nevada: 66,379          Total: 433,068 So for less than … Read more

Email Doodlings – “Who for NH House Minority Leader”

“I have a question for RLCNH legislators. Gene Chandler, or Pam Tucker? What are your thoughts? They seem to be the only two running…” That was the question posed in an email list I’m in.  It was kinda interesting, as I had a phone conversation earlier this afternoon on this very subject and I spoke … Read more

Looks like we’re not the only ones demanding NH GOP Chair Wayne MacDonald’s resignation – or ouster

Given what we’ve posted about this topic (here, here, here and here), this from FaceBook Sounds.Just.About.Right.: Cliff Hurst has worked tirelessly for the Republican Party for decades as a citizen-activist, Chairman of the Manchester Republican Committee, and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. Looks like other folks have the same … Read more

2012 Free Veterans Day Meals – Sunday, November 11

This Sunday, a great number of restaurants wish to say “THANK YOU” to our active duty and veterans by letting them have a meal on the house. The Military Wallet has the news: Veterans Day is soon approaching and there are many restaurants and companies who want to thank our veterans by providing them with … Read more

Chris Christie – Fallen off the Pedestal?

barack_obama_chris_christieFace it, when Chris Christie first burst onto the scene campaigning for the NJ Governorship, he became an instant hit with a lot of Conservatives.  Not that he was all THAT conservative but that he was willing to take on the press, unions, and nay-sayers in a “take-no-prisoner” fashion.  And in that manner, just like Gingrich during the Republican Primaries (and here in NH when I went to events where he was), he refused to play defense; instead he went on full offense.

Nice to see a Republican go toe to toe and not descend into the “don’t rock the boat” mode. Not nice to see him these past two weeks slobbering over Obama and “The Boss” Springsteen (really, cried?).  Conservatives will forgive a lot, over time, but when you are first seen waging war FOR Romney, then playing patty-cake with the opponent (beyond what many believed was needed for a Governor talking with a President during a crisis).  Now this:

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A sign for the times – and for the near future time?

I just don’t know if Obama knows – or considers it a feature: Unemployment at 8%, $16+Trillion in debt, $1 Trillion + annual deficit, GDP growth is the worst recovery is vapid, the Rule of Law being ignored faster and faster…. It’s fine. (H/T: Instapundit)

Speaking of going out of business…

Uh-oh: “…Unemployment at 8%, $16+Trillion in debt, $1 Trillion + annual deficit, GDP growth is the worst recovery is vapid, the Rule of Law being ignored faster and faster….”

And now this:

Harry Reid on Raising Debt Limit to $18.794T: ‘We’ll Raise It’

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Wednesday that if the $16.394 current legal limit on the federal government’s debt must be raised in the next few months by another $2.4 trillion, “We’ll raise it.”

That would set the debt limit at $18.794 trillion.

Fine.  Wonderful.  Let’s have the financial armageddon come faster and harder, shall we?  Not just $16 Trillion (100% of GDP) but let’s start the process of going to twice that.  Gee, I thought that the purpose of our elected leaders was supposed to keep the country safe from enemies from without and within?  How does raising the debt to this level accomplish this, Senator Reid?  Or is this, again, a feature and not a bug?  Would you get even more peevish if I said that this would make us more “susceptible”?

Wonder if that’s why this came up – TODAY (right AFTER the election)?:

 Fitch Ratings threatens to downgrade the US’s credit rating.

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EMail Doodlings – OK, putting this up a couple days late.

But actually, it turned out to be a bit prescient, as in two races here in NH in my mind (Frank Guinta & Bob Burns), what I warned about came true:

This may not sit well….

It seems to me that the full bore / hard core Libertarians (“HCLs”) on this list (which, after all is the REPUBLICAN Liberty Caucus and not the LIBERTARIAN Liberty Caucus – I could not resist) are turning out to be not Libertarians concerning this election but Nihilists.

Given that their more favored candidates absolutely bombed out during the primary and have gotten no traction since, you folks are all deciding to go home and pout. Given that the expected Home Run At Bat (perhaps expected given the tremendous gains that Libertarians had here in NH in 2010) has turned out in THIS election to be the Biggest Whiff since Casey in Mudville in actual candidate attraction to the general electorate (as opposed to other Libertarians), all I am hearing is a massive hissy fit. Instead of treating it as a double or triple in 2010 and knowing that sometimes that only singles or strikeouts happen, if you can’t get that four bagger, then the game is rigged, the umps stink, and the ball has lard on it. So effectively, you all are going to throw your votes away. Period. That is how you all are coming across (and that means you Jane – I saw some of the NHTEAParty tweets and retweets during the debates you sent and utterly cringed).

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Voting – 11/6/2012 Results compendium

Fox News calls it: President Obama has been re-elected

Romney does not have a mathematical road to victory

My unexpected guests have left, the ‘Grok dogs have had some attention paid to them, hopefully the laptop problems have gone to sleep.  Long nite ahead, so time to see what polls are doing.  Pretty much will just update this post with observations, pithy words, and anything else considered “election kitchen sink”.

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NH Exec Council – 3 to 2 R to D thus far

Fox announces US House to remain in Republican hands

NH Kuster is leading almost 2-1 over Bass

NH Constitution: Banning income tax is leading

NH Constitution: Legislation to have oversight over Judiciary losing

No Constitutional Convention is winning

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WMUR, Associated Press has just called the race for Maggie Hassan

Governor
NH Ovide Hassan Babiarz
WMUR 08:22 PM 575 1,862 85

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Interesting way to think about it:

One of the claims was that he had a “first-class temperament.” And I was thinking, yesterday, “That’s possibly the thing I like least about Obama — his temperament.” His big-government policies are bad enough. But the temperament? “Mitt Romney: Not one of us,” and all that? I think he’s a nasty and divisive figure.

Mitt Romney — there’s a first-class temperament, come of think of it. At least I have that impression. If he has four years in the White House, we’ll see.

I believe that Obama hates the likes of us — Reagan conservatives. I believed the same about Al Gore. I remember saying during the 2000 campaign, “I’d rather be stranded on a desert island with Bill Clinton for a year than have a brief, delicious lunch at the Four Seasons with Al Gore.” You could tell that Al Gore hated you: It was on his face and in his tongue. Joe Lieberman, I felt, did not hate you. Hillary did. Kerry did. John Edwards loved himself, mainly, I thought.

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Humor – A wish to understand women (small bit of humor (sorta sideways))

Look, all of we political junkies are on the veritable edge – worse than a druggie looking for that next fix or the gambler looking for that elusive royal flush.  It is both the best of times (“NOW it all comes to an end”) and the worst of times (“NOW it all comes to an end”) for this (here in NH) two year process.  So, time for a bit of a joke – so, since we at the ‘Grok have now riled up the Democrat Socialists / Progressives, always have the Establishment RINOS ticked off, and now have torqued off a lot of the Libertarians, who else can we get mad at us?

Oh yeah – Feminists!  From Maggie’s Farm:

A man on his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, God said, ‘because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.’

The biker pulled over and said, ‘Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want.’

God replied, ‘Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind.’

The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, ‘God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women; I want to know how she feels inside, what she’s thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing’s wrong, why she snaps and complains when I try to help, and how I can make a woman truly happy.

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Libertarians – some might be the “Cloward-Pivens of the Right this election”?

This may not sit well…. Actually, what I wrote below I did before stumbling on this: “The Cloward – Pivens of the Right” where the topic is about a Libertarian that will be voting for Johnson and will not even consider a vote against Obama:

The fact that his vote might end up causing Romney to lose and Obama to win is irrelevant to this man. He and others of his ilk, who might be addressed by Bill Whittle’s video [here -Skip] but who close themselves to its message and who look instead to the imminent arrival of an economic apocalypse, have more in common with the far left than they think they do. They are the Cloward-Pivenistas [who willingly almost drove New York City into bankruptcy; more here   -Skip] of the right. They believe that, if things get bad enough, the system will break down and enough people will see the light and then the true conservative dawn will break.

Cloward and Piven thought the breakdown would lead people towards the leftist light. People like Susanamantha’s friend think it will be the light on the right. But the idea is similar: endure (or even cause) pain now for future gain….Both sides are idealists, Don Quixotes if you will (although perhaps that’s being unfair to the Don) against the rest of us plodding Sancho Panzas. It’s an old story, isn’t it? A perfectionistic idealism is where the Don Quixotes on the right meet those on the left, in a dangerous no man’s land. The ones on the right could well end up encouraging the triumph of what they most hate.

It seems to me that the full bore / hard core Libertarians (“HCLs”) on this list (which, after all is the REPUBLICAN Liberty Caucus and not the LIBERTARIAN Liberty Caucus – I could not resist) are turning out to be not Libertarians concerning this election but Nihilists.

Given that their more favored candidates absolutely bombed out during the primary and have gotten no traction since, you folks are all deciding to go home and pout.  Given that the expected Home Run At Bat (perhaps expected given the tremendous gains that Libertarians had here in NH in 2010) has turned out in THIS election to be the Biggest Whiff since Casey in Mudville in actual candidate attraction to the general electorate (as opposed to other Libertarians), all I am hearing is a massive hissy fit.  Instead of treating it as a double or triple in 2010 and knowing that sometimes that only singles or strikeouts happen, if you can’t get that four bagger, then the game is rigged, the umps stink, and the ball has lard on it.  So effectively, you all are going to throw your votes away.  Period.  That is how you all are coming across (and that means you Jane – I saw some of the NHTEAParty tweets and retweets during the debates you sent and utterly cringed).

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Guest Post by Lee Schalk – “Question 1: Live Free or Tax Harder”

Question 1: Live Free or Tax Harder

By Lee Schalk, National Taxpayers Union State Affairs Manager

Whichever way they identify themselves politically, Granite State citizens who abide by the “Live Free or Die” motto tend to agree that government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. For New Hampshire, one of the State’s trademark features is its lack of a personal state income tax, and Question 1 is an opportunity to enshrine that freedom in the constitution.

Positioned in the Northeast amongst largely liberal leaning, tax-and-spend states, New Hampshire has remained one of the most attractive states for businesses and individuals, thanks to the absence of punitive state income and sales taxes. In fact, New Hampshire was recently ranked seventh in the Tax Foundation’s 2013 State Business Tax Climate report, while the rest of the Northeast failed to crack the top twenty.

For the sake of economic competition, neighbors Vermont (47th), Maine (30th), and Massachusetts (22nd) would be wise to follow New Hampshire’s lead on the state income tax, and get rid of it. Though, it’s likelier they’ll seek more money from taxpayers than reform their governments, and breathe a sigh of relief if Question 1 fails.

For their part, New Hampshirites seem to be divided into three camps on a constitutional income tax ban: for and against, and those who are on the fence because they’re hesitant to alter the State Constitution in any way.

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Blogline of the Day: The TEA Party

From Instapundit: They will crawl over broken glass to unseat Obama, whose actions over the past 4 years have consistently demonstrated that he neither loves this country nor its Constitution. Yep, that about sums it up!  As I have told many over these last couple of years (as that is how long the Prez campaign … Read more

Historic Voting in Gilford, NH?

Just returned from voting  – in my little hamlet in Central New Hampsha, it seems like this may be a record setting vote. We have 5,454 registered voter (excluding new registrations today) – as of 12:30pm when I left, there were 2,093 votes today and 600 absentee ballots to be counted. That’s almost 50% – … Read more

RightWingNews Right of Center Poll: Result of Tuesday Night?

Updated and bumped:  The results are in at RightWingNews:

1) Who do you think is going to win the election?

  •  Mitt Romney 87.9% (58 votes)
  • Barack Obama 12.1% (8 votes)

 2) Whom are you voting for?

  •  Mitt Romney 92.6% (63 votes)
  • Gary Johnson 2.9% (2 votes)
  • I’m not voting 2.9% (2 votes)
  • Won’t say 1.5% (1 votes)

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