The Election 2012 Mid-Day Thread #2 For 11/6/12: Other Site's Stories (First Version)

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1) One Salon boss Joan Walsh truly has another wonderful race uniting American piece that is certainly worth your time.

2) Richard Brodsky was doing great with this election sports piece until he wrote this paragraph :

But Obama is also a calculating candidate, who understands how sports resonate particularly with white guys, by far his weakest demographic. His careful forays into sports talk radio, Twitter, the Olympics, NCAA basketball and every hot sports controversy are ways of displaying his American birth certificate. He's clearly trying to become more likable, and one-of-the-guys among voters he needs. This was done while he was painting Romney as an out-of-touch, country-club, rich guy. It worked and even when his job approval ratings hit rock bottom, he won the likeability contest hands down. His interest in sports may be genuine. But his political skills are finely tuned, and he knowingly and effectively has used sports to good effect.

Of course he's calculating. Every politician is calculating. And he's not "trying to become more likable" with the NASCAR block. That is how he genuinely feels, no fakeness there whatsoever.

Nevertheless, that's the best sports-politics post for the day by Brodsky, so it is worth a read until that paragraph.

3) Glad that the Washington Post renamed the title of the shenanigans transpiring in Florida. It's not a glitch, it's a problem that is simply unacceptable.

4) The key races at Senate and House Rep level to follow by the way, from terrific David Nir.

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5) Linda McMahon is a really desperate and vile person.

6) E network must be struggling to find news today.

7) The voter fraud story that Fox News is not going to cover one bit of course.

8) And if you see any voter problems, called 1-866-OUR-VOTE or hit them up at least on Twitter.  

More coverage of The Whole Delivery on American Election 2012, the final day of official voting in this nation for 2012, to come. Stay tuned.