Mark Steyn;

No dictator will ever need to declare martial law in America. All he’ll need to do is issue a “severe weather advisory” and everyone will stay indoors until they’re told it’s safe to come out.

Let’s check in tonight at how ABC News is covering the presidential election:

Main story: Good King Obama is focused on helping the people, not dwelling on politics.
Second story: Bad, Evil Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan wanted to hurt the people by cutting funding to FEMA.
Third story: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are now tied in the latest poll.
Based on this, dear peasants, who are you going to vote for?!?

The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said it hasn’t made a decision yet on whether to delay Friday’s October jobs report, the final reading on the labor market before next week’s federal elections.
h/t Drudge

Here’s the latest ad from the “brain trust” that is the Obama for America campaign:

Full lyrics:
Update: One can only wonder if the young singers realize that they’re currently being indoctrinated for a future akin to this. Happy Little Drones All 🙁

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h/t @Dkrupski

Emphasis, mine.

The lines snake through neighbourhoods and people leave hoarse and buoyant. It used to be that his crowds were most excited when he said mean things about Barack Obama. Now that’s not what is getting most of the cheers. They cheer for Romney, the guy up there on stage.

Say what you will, that’s a lovely play on words.

Think on this – after the media wanting you to think that the most important issue this election is whether Big Bird will keep his government subsidied welfare check, a local reporter taking question suggestions from twitter forced Obama to face a real question about Benghazi.
Ed: Link fixed. Apparently everyone crashed his server or something

MN hasn’t gone for a presidential Republican in decades.

As of Friday, the Obama campaign had placed a $511,000 television ad buy on broadcast stations in Minneapolis for twelve days — Oct. 27 through Nov. 6 — according to a source tracking spending on the airwaves.

Read into this what you will, but if I were to put it in IT parlance, someone has cracked the firewall.
More info at HotAir with a ‘virtual tie’ in MN.
I enjoy playing strategic games, think Civilization or the Total War series.Nothing feels worse than spending a pile of time building up your civilization and then being attacked on multiple fronts. You know you’re going to lose a lot of ground and if you’re playing against a human, that’s usually it for the game.
Romney may have a shot in MN, but if not, he just opened up another front that will tie up Democratic resources.

What enthusiasm gap?

Romney in Ohio tonight. UNREAL. twitter.com/PoliticsBlonde…

— BlondePolitics (@PoliticsBlonde) October 26, 2012

RT @keder This pic is AWESOME –> MT @zacmoffatt: HUGE crowd for @mittromney in Ohiotwitter.com/ZacMoffatt/sta…

— Rhonda Koenig(@Rhondako) October 26, 2012

Ugh.

2012-08-22 – Team Obama won’t come out and say it, but it believes the race is in the bag
2012-10-22 – The Face of Desperation

NRO’s Yural Levin had a comprehensive take on the debate. Here’s a key snippet:

Even more astonishing, to me, was Obama’s ignorant and gratuitous insult to the U.S. Navy, describing Navy ships as the equivalent of horses and bayonets. It seemed like a prepared line, and it was appalling. Are the hundreds of thousands of sailors bearing arms under our flag (on the president’s orders) defending America’s security around the world tonight merely riders in some quixotic cavalry brigade chasing make-believe Indian chiefs? How exactly does a “pivot to Asia” work without those old fashioned ships? How does a global superpower project force abroad with fewer ships than it had when it wasn’t a global superpower? How does the advent of aircraft carriers make the Navy less rather than more significant? Is the sitting president really this confused about defense strategy? That line seems like a Romney ad in Virginia just waiting to happen.

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Barack Obama;

Marine Corps Boot Camp;

Update;

Contrary to the president’s assertion, the creation of aircraft carriers and submarines did not mean that we needed fewer ships. Quite the contrary. Aircraft carriers need just as many if not more supporting vessels than the obsolete battleships that no are no longer under commission. So do subs. The decline in naval strength compromises America’s ability to project power abroad. That is particularly true in places like the Persian Gulf, where President Obama is trying to sound as tough with Iran as Romney.
Even more foolish is the president’s attempt to portray contemporary naval vessels with cavalry horses. That says more about his own lack of understanding of the military than Romney’s. It also may cost him some votes in a state that he still hopes to win: Virginia, home of the largest U.S. Naval base in the country and hotbed of support for a stronger military.

The third and final presidential debate occurs tonight and you can watch it live here.

Your real-time comments throughout the event are much appreciated!
Update – great photo, courtesy Drudge.

Earlier this month, Dennis Prager had several interesting things to say at a political rally in Los Angeles:

Oops. He did it again.

Did the MSM have a secret meeting and not tell us?!

More here

Obama Campaign, October 14th;

According to our records associated with this email address — hopefully it’s yours if you’re reading this! — here’s your online giving history for this organization…

Washington Free Beacon, October 20th;

Obama Campaign Borrows $15M from Bank of America

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