Quote Unquote: Obama's Secret Hope

Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp on the secret desperate hope of President Barack Obama…

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"I have to imagine that some small part of Obama is actually hoping to lose… [T]he next four years seem like a nightmare. For us and him."

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Say what you will about Cupp's tele-empathic skills, she is the sole member of National Review's prognosticative symposium who is predicting an Obama win, giving him 270 electoral votes — the very bare minimum for victory. She is quite the iconoclast.

Quote Unquote: Going Nuts

Sen. Lindsey Graham on the presumed Republican response to a possible Romney loss…

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"If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasn’t conservative enough I'm going to go nuts. We're not losing 95 percent of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because we're not being hard-ass enough."

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If I were him, I'd beat the rush and get myself fitted for a straight jacket today. I'm not really all that sure that Romney will win, but I'm a million percent sure that that will be the excuse.

Then, if Romney does win, he'll be able to sell it at a profit to pretty much any Democrat in D.C.

Quote Unquote: Get a Grip

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Thomas E. Mann on the somewhat unlikely possibility of Michele Bachmann losing her congressional seat this Tuesday…

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"A Bachmann loss would help the Republican Party get a grip on reality and start on the path back from ideological zealotry to problem solving."

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Luckily for fans of insane conservative zealotry and political satire alike, that's really not a huge concern this time around.

Quote Unquote: The Economist's Un-dorsement

The Economist endorses Barack Obama anti-endorses Mitt Romney…

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"For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says."

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I wouldn't pay this much heed. From what I understand, that publication is… European.

Quote Unquote: Hurricane Update

New York State Assembly member Phillip Goldfeder gives an update on his district…

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"In Breezy Point, whatever is not flooded is on fire."

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From this, I think we can extrapolate that anything that is neither flooded nor on fire is not in Breezy Point. That's got to have some useful application, right?