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Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hugh Hewitt is a lawyer, law professor and broadcast journalist whose nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon. Professor Hewitt has been a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News Network, and MSNBC, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. Hewitt writes daily for his blog, HughHewitt.com, which is among the most visited political blogs in the U.S. He is also a weekly columnist for The Washington Examiner and Townhall.com.
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Michael Barone is America’s “one man decision desk,” with credibility on elections far beyond that of anyone else working the field in America today.
Which is why Michael’s bold Washington Examiner column from yesterday cut through all the spin from Chicago and all the blather from MSNBC, and struck President Obama supporters in their gut.
Barone, having...
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The Stretch Run
You want good news about the election? Start with Rove.
You want to scare yourself even though Halloween is over? Read Sons of Cincinnatus.
Nate Silver predicts that there is a 87.342% chance you will read both because people following this election read everything.
The misery in New York and New Jersey is a backdrop that is definitely impacting the election,...
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Glass Jaw O-ba-ma
If Peggy Noonan is correct, and the president’s performance in the first debate revealed him to be “[p]etulant, put upon, above it all, full of himself,” then the two weeks since have shown him to own what they call in the world of boxing, “a glass jaw.”
A glass jaw is the inability of a fighter to take a direct hit, one on the chin, a roundhouse. Once...
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President Obama’s Closing Act: An Epic Collapse
The ongoing collapse of President Obama’s campaign may lead to some extraordinary stunts during Monday’s last debate, but no matter what he tries, it is very unlikely that the president can reverse the enormous momentum behind Mitt Romney’s campaign.
(One data point. Congressman John Campbell, a frequent guest on my radio show, polled his...
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Explaining Romney’s Surge
“Tonight the part of Wile E. Coyote will be played by Vice President Joe Biden.”
Thursday night’s debate between Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan went according to the super-secret plan of Karl Rove to not only defeat but deeply embarrass the Democratic Party.
Rove had previously arranged for President Obama to take two Ambien before the first...
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A Historic Debate Failure
By the time of Thursday night’s debate between Vice President Biden and Congressman Ryan, the polls will reflect the early consequences of President Obama’s disastrous debate performance from Wednesday night.
Mitt Romney had a superb night and the contrast between his calm and in-command performance and that of a flailing, rambling president could...
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Introducing The New Polling Firm of Madoff, Marist, Quinnipiac and Ponzi
After a few weeks spent tracking down and questioning pollsters and the reporters of polls, I can assure the reader that pollsters are the modern-day alchemists. They promise to turn numbers into predictive gold. We’d all like to believe these magical powers exist, but we shouldn’t. The pollsters of 2012 just don’t know who is going to win in...
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The Birds Returns: The Rerelease and The MSM Remake
The Remake of Alfred Hitchcocks’ 1963 classic The Birds is playing everywhere.
The original film was itself in select theaters across the country last night, part of TMC’s special release of old blockbusters, and sure enough it entertained big screen audiences even as it did 49 years ago with the sudden, furious and even deadly attacks of gulls and...
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Which Is Melting Faster: America’s Position in Middle East or MSM’s Position in America?
If an American consulate had been attacked and four Americans including the ambassador slaughtered on George W. Bush’s watch –on 9/11, no less– the outrage broadcast over the nation’s elite media would have been intense and round-the-clock.
Had George W. Bush then responded to those events by jetting to Vegas for a fundraiser and campaign...
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In The Opinion of the Chair: Obama’s Democrats Telegraph Obama’s Campaign
Just as America prepares to hear a plea from Barack Obama for four more years, The Daily Beast arrives with a big leak of Bob Woodward’s latest big book.
Not helpful to the president’s case. Not helpful at all. America does not need for more years of an in-over-his-head whiner; a petulant egomaniac who does not seem to understand the most basic of...
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Romney’s Big Night
His “whole life has prepared him for this moment – to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.”
When Paul Ryan declared this last night he reiterated what Ann Romney had declared the night...
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The Shame of the Manhattan-Beltway Media Elites
When I asked Paul Ryan Wednesday night for his reaction to the news that the major television networks won’t carry a minute of the opening night of the GOP convention, he responded that he wasn’t surprised and that this is just the media terrain the GOP faces in the 2012 election cycle.
(The transcript of my interview is posted at HughHewitt.com)
Ryan is...
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Memo for: Team Romney – Subject: The Candidates and Talk Radio
This is a long memo, born of two decades of frustration with the Beltway sharpies who run campaigns and are clueless about talk radio. There is no hostility here, just frustration with the invincible ignorance of the consulting class that wouldn’t know the difference between a Thursday afternoon drive show in Denver and a late night dollar-a-holler stick...
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Romney on the Record, and On Offense
Mitt Romney came on my radio show yesterday and fielded question after question on the burgeoning controversy over President Obama’s plans to gut the work requirement for welfare.
(The audio and transcript of that interview are here.)
We also covered the president’s assault on Romany Catholic schools and hospitals as well as the president’s general disdain...
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Quality Control Among the Polls: Will RealClearPolitics.com Protect Its Brand?
RealClearPolitics.com was begun in 2000 and in the 12 years that have followed, it has become the gold standard for aggregators of political stories, punditry and polling data.
Almost every newscast of note refers to the “RealClearPolitics average of polls,” which the commentariat has come to rely upon as a way of smoothing out the inevitable differences...
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Hey Texas Voters: Cast Your Early Vote Today For Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz is very close.
The Texas GOP is very close.
The entire Lone Star State is very close and the country is very close to a very big win on Tuesday, July 31.
Early voting is underway in Texas right now and goes on through Friday. If you are a Texas GOP voter, go to TedCruz.org and find out where you can go and cast your vote for Ted Cruz.
If you know anyone...
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