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• Anyone w/ a mama will cry (should cry!) RT @jennyerikson Mamas, I dare you to watch this video and not cry link
• Unless Paul Ryan is stopped, Julia gets it. - link
• Ron Paul continues to win delegates. - link
• Gingrich: inconceivable! - link
• More on Romney-Huckabee. - link
• How Grenell boxed Romney in. - link
• Republican crowdsourcing. - link
• The Old Dominion’s swing status. - link
• Democrats plan to dump $25 million in swing states. - link
• SNL cuts anti-Obama sketch. - link
• Buffett backs Obama, but not at the SuperPAC. - link
• Goolsbee: Obama in the fight of his life. - link
• Waking Joe’s comments back. - link
• Did Joe Biden endorse same-sex marriage. - link
• Kaine stands up with Obama at VA launch. - link
• Parsing Obama’s kickoff speech. - link
• WashPost: Obama’s less-than-stellar kickoff via - link
• Ayotte blasts Obama on Iran - link
• VA Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling: President Obama Can’t Run On His Record - link
• Romney has earned the GOP nomination - link
• Bachmann: Romney economic record will win over female voters - link
• Republican poll analysis: The race to November begins - link
• Romney Issues New Video Attacking Economic Numbers - link
• Ross Douthat: The party of Julia. - link
• Boris Johnson: What football (soccer) teaches us about creating a thriving job market. - link
• Paul Krugman: The French are revolting. The Greeks, too. And it’s about time. - link
• Jon Huntsman: How to manage the China relationship. - link
• Robert Samuelson: Battle of the beards: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. - link
• Fred Hiatt: Is democracy still up for the job? - link
• The role that Twitter and microblogs played in the Chen incident. - link
• ICANN is still working on restarting and testing its new domain application system - link
• Hillary Clinton raised concerns over cyber-intrusions - link
• A free online handbook for data journalism. - link
• A middle school student’s petition asking Seventeen magazine to print one unaltered photo - link
• New York City is asking for ideas and feedback on the city’s digital roadmap - link
• A guide to open data for transportation agencies. - link
• Amtrak conductors are going to get iPhones to scan tickets - link
• NYC’s 911 system “sometimes sends firefighters or police officers to the wrong address” - link
• Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s bolo tie has a Twitter feed. - link
• A look at the activism that stopped the Stop Online Piracy Act - link
• @alicemalin That would be cool!”>link
• @catholicmomva I agree… skip the commercials.”>link
• Democrats are expected to make some changes to cybersecurity legislation to attract GOP votes - link
• Cyber attack on the national pipeline - link
• NSA looking to beef up infrastructure security - link
• Romney ads: Obama isn’t working - link
• FBI to companies: give us a backdoor… - link
• NYT looks into the Obama campaign operations - link
• Nike commercial. - link
• Animals will kill you – in many ways. - link
• From the Derby. - link
• How to live unhappily ever after. - link
• Ranking all 62 Stephen King books. - link
• Dish Network drops AMC, because, well, no one really watches Mad Men. - link
• Hollywood is Josh Whedon’s for the taking. - link
• Satire is manna to my soul. RT @jennyerikson: The greatest thing you will read today: link
• Celebrity voices crowd-out voiceover vets. - link
• @malvenue You will click. :)”>link
• pffft. RT @stephenkruiser: Saw this at a bachelor party once…RT @justin_hart: Cigars and the Laffer Curve. - link
• @csmatteson You are correct. He’ll still be here in DC.”>link
• Exactly. RT @daveweigel: Why wouldn’t he? RT @justin_hart: Obama vows close ties with France’’s socialist leader. - link
• Cool iPad cases. - link
• Facebook censorship or spam blocking? - link
• “The Facebook way, Zuckerberg writes, is to ‘move fast and break things.’” - link
• You have been hacked now, seriously. - link
• Cigars and the Laffer Curve. - link
• FDA user fee bill getting pushed through. - link
• Americans control an increasingly shrinking portion of their health care spending. - link
• Feingold v. Pelosi on Social Security. - link
• Fracking rules even with new fracking rules. - link
• Wind lobby tries to adapt to the Tea Party era. - link
• Voters reject same sex marriage over and over. - link
• Senate control cliffhanger. - link
• Liberalism embodies in Elizabeth Warren. - link
• 24 hours left and Dick Lugar may be gone. - link
• Immigration policy meltdown. - link
• Mongolia election snag. - link
• Crocker to NATO: Show us the money. - link
• Feinstein, Rogers: “Taliban is stronger since the surge.” - link
• Chen negotiations. - link
• Election upheaval. Cameron reacts. - link
• The Problem with Intellectuals - link
• Robert Samuelson: Battle of the beards: Paul Krugman vs. Ben Bernanke. - link
• Fred Hiatt: Is democracy still up for the job? - link
• Mike Mullen and Steven A. Cohen: Keeping veterans off of the unemployment rolls. - link
• Peter Hecht: Marijuana market is taking a hit in California’s ‘Emerald Triangle.’ - link
• Jake Tapper, et al.: How Twitter is changing politics. - link
• Peter Boyer and Peter Schweizer: Why can’t Obama bring Wall Street to justice? - link
• Andrew Malcolm: Obama vows close ties with France’s socialist leader. - link
• 2012: Obama-Romney race competitive in swing states. - link
• For Most Graduates, Grueling Job Hunt Awaits link
• Challenge to Austerity, And Germany, Is Sharpened link

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• The Internet fight! Where do you fall on the equation? Total subsidized Internet or Big Brother controls? http://ow.ly/a37hq
• A surprising advocate for business in San Francisco. Ur thoughts on Mayor Ed Lee? http://ow.ly/a37CB
• Genealogists bring down servers clamoring for the 1940 census.  Pure geriatric awesomeness or new young trend? http://ow.ly/a37Oe
• Tagg Romney takes on Mad Men - and for good reason - it was an ugly slight. Agreed? http://ow.ly/a37Ul
• So excited… really… I am… no really… Occupy.com - “Huffington Post for #Occupy” - are you? http://ow.ly/a382j
• Groupon problems have people looking at regulations *sigh* - http://ow.ly/a389F
• Tsup! White House 360 yo! Or something like that… http://ow.ly/a38eW
• Anti-hate app on the way! Is it necessary? http://ow.ly/a38jP
• A Rangel challenger emerges: http://ow.ly/a38r0
• MTA opening up real-time train arrivals to developers.  Cool or scary cool? http://ow.ly/a38z0
• Activists on the right can learn from how the Left took down this anti-GW institute funding. http://ow.ly/a38Fm

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Using social media to promote old media
- Using fandom to promote activism. - http://ow.ly/9OvO0
- Hollywood looking to Social Media to drum up buzz -http://t.co/fR0U1dXf

Political SocNet in the news
- Obama goes viral on sign language - http://t.co/k8w19Pkl
- NYTimes looks into the #RomneyToys meme on Twitter. Meh. -http://t.co/DJVQTQpa
- Political sarcasm bombing on Brownback’s Facebook page - http://t.co/aXI3AoMW
- Another sarcasm bomb. -http://t.co/hJFHk8Nk
- The Economist compares Facebook maps to colonial terratories -http://t.co/SXuPvV8U
- If you want free stuff, vote for the other guy? - http://t.co/SHEDSio0

Online metrics and politics
- Cell phone data, Romney, Santorum and Illinois - http://t.co/lnvTa3Ic
- Google search predicting a Romney win in Illinois? - http://t.co/KuUlA6Cz
Oddball topics
- Yikes. Wikipedia turns librarian in to geriatric porn star. -http://t.co/HW97S5ym
- Ummm. So this guy can fly like a bird apparently. #fb http://t.co/Kz31TRF7
- RT @WiredFeed: No, U.S. Mole-Men Are Not Causing Haiti’s Earthquakes: http://t.co/Ll4HEsvG
- Santorum responds to criticism about his stance on porn. - http://t.co/1icueqyE

Rant topics
- The 2011 Code of Federal Regulations in XML format is 100 Megabytes! http://t.co/DbnqNWix
- Faster, please. FAA reexamining device use on planes -http://t.co/Mly7tHKj

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many people say theres a bigfoot  family.but i don’t,there can only be 1 bigfoot.

Let’s take a closer look at the Gingrich implosion since his South Carolina win.  Rasmussen’s latest poll (out this Sunday morning) shows: Romney 44%, Gingrich 28%.

Let’s take a gander at the last three polls to see what’s happening here:

January 23, 2012

This poll was just after Gingrich’s big win in South Carolina.

But days later we see the Romney groundwork and prowess in Florida going to work!

January 25, 2012

The male GOP voter is an interesting bunch (I’m one of them) but they absolutely abandoned Newt in just a few days.  Romney ads were in full force and the tame NBC debate stunted the Gingrich coliseum debate meme.

Now, just 3 days later and after the huge debate win for Romney on Thursday night we see the numbers moving even more:

Notice, Romney lost a little ground with the gentler sex but managed to totally win over the wandering male GOP voter after they left Newt.  Notice Santorum really helped himself in the second debate as well.

These numbers point to a solid win by Romney on Tuesday.

UPDATE:

I need to drill into these cross-tabs a bit more but here’s the breakdown by age.  The middle-aged GOPer, who has been been the thorn in the side of Romney for months, have finally turned their trust to Romney and seem to be the big demo abandoning Gingrich. 17% of them changed their minds about Newt and nearly all went to Romney.

From January 23rd:

From January 25th:

From January 28th

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Today, I’m excited to announce that I have accepted a position as Vice President of ElectionMall Technologies.

Press Release:
ElectionMall Hires Justin Hart as Vice President of Campaign and Business Relations, Launches Political MarketPlace Platform to Integrate Online Campaign Tools

I’ve been privileged to work within two circles of colleagues over the course of my career: leading technology innovators and political movers and shakers. I’ve stood on your shoulders and I thank you for the immense experiences you provided me.

Nothing thrills me more than to bring these two worlds together.

At the outset, when I first moved to the DC area in 1996, I was excited to satisfy my passion for politics and the Internet. I quickly found that this combination was a bit premature. I left the political scene to drive the technology end of the equation and cut my chops doing Internet consulting. I’ve worked for some amazing innovative companies and clients like WordPerfect, Baan, Proxicom, DuPont, Nextel, Comsys, Blue Cross Blue Shield, TrustedEdge and others. It would be a decade later before politicos caught up to the corporate world and realized that the Internet was more than brochure-ware.

Over the past 3 years I’ve worked the drive innovation in the political sector working with great clients like Chuck DeVore (who first convinced me to leave the corporate arena); Joe Miller, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum and many others. Over the years I’ve used ElectionMall as my go-to firm for technology. Now, I’m proud to join their team.

ElectionMall’s vision is to allow voters to engage in democracy through technology. Our extensive offering of products and services allow candidates, organizations, and corporate policy offices to meet their goals by engaging voter, donors and advocates online. Recently, ElectiomMall announced an exclusive partnership with Microsoft to launch the Campaign Cloud, a cloud-service platform to empower our clients with their growing breadth of online needs.

My focus is to drive sales and client relations in the United States and oversee the launch and push for the Campaign Cloud in conjunction with Microsoft.

Please don’t hesitate to call me or find me online:

Email: Justin - at - electionmall.com
Twitter: @justin_hart
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Justin T. Hart
VP, Campaign and Business Relations
ElectionMall Technologies, Inc.

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From the report:

Opinions about President Obama are divided sharply along lines of faith and religious participation. New Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveying of Likely U.S. Voters shows that the president earns a job approval rating of 58% among those who rarely or never attend church or religious services. However, among those who attend services every week or nearly every week, just 38% offer their approval. Among those who attend more than one service a week, approval is even lower at 31%. Looked at from another perspective, Obama earns a 31% approval rating among Evangelical Christians, a 38% rating among Catholics and approval from 44% of other Protestants. Among voters who do not claim a Christian faith, including many who claim no religious faith of any kind, the president’s job approval is substantially higher at 65%. When it comes to intensity, 32% of non-Christians Strongly Approve of the job the president is doing, while 22% Strongly Disapprove. Among Evangelical Christians, just 19% Strongly Approve and 58% Strongly Disapprove. Twenty-three percent (23%) of other Protestants and 17% of Catholics Strongly Approve of the president’s job performance. For other Protestants and Catholics, the Strong Disapproval number is 45%. Overall, among all voters, the president’s total job approval has recently been in the mid-to-upper 40 percent range. The faith gap is also found on the Generic Congressional Ballot

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Rasmussen Reports is out with their latest numbers on the Iowa GOP Presidential race.  The numbers show another lead change with Romney nudging Newt 23% to 20% and Paul creeping up to 18%.

So, who gave Mitt the edge?  It turns out… the women are flocking to him!

While 14% of men abandoned Newt here in December, Romney gained 8 percentage points in the female demographic putting him at 28% with the gentile race.  Men started flocking to Paul but Romney’s numbers have remained consistent throughout.

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This is insane… What are they thinking? How much do we pay to South Korea annually to protect their lives?

And they repay us with this crap?

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Do I have to review this? Do I really have to?

Obama is the biggest Presidential spender in modern times.

With data taken from the White House’s own OMB numbers:

We’ll start with this detail and move on to the real ugly stuff later.

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