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What RedStateVT Saw in SoCal
Loyal readers know that RedStateVT periodically does field research to keep its finger on the pulse of the country. We just returned from a visit to Liberal Land, aka California. What we saw shocked us.

Granted it is not scientific, but we believe it is meaningful nonetheless. What did we see? Romney signs and bumper stickers! Yes, in the land of the Limousine Liberal, where Republicans are largely not welcome, we saw people who were willing to risk ridicule and condemnation by showing their support for the Romney-Ryan ticket. Romney will not win California and the people displaying their support for him surely know this. Notwithstanding, they were emboldened to fly the flag for him. Makes one wonder...

Speaking of California
California Gov. Jerry Brown has been sounding awfully testy lately, and it probably has something to do with the fact that the tax measure that he's counting on to save the state (from necessary budget reforms) is tanking.

A new USC/Los Angeles Times poll finds that support for the initiative, which would raise top rates on those earning more than $250,000 and the sales tax by a quarter-of-a-percent, has fallen by nine points in the past month to 46%. (WSJ. 10/26/2012)

What, even Liberals do not want tax increases? What the haystacks is going on?

Disputable
There is little dispute that for Mr. Obama to at least come close enough to matching his 2008 coalition to win he will need to induce people to vote in a way he did not have to four years ago, before the full impact of the Great Recession was followed by intensive partisan wrangling. (NYT, 10/25/2012)

We delight in educating our readers about the devious ways in which the "fact-resistant media*" twist an otherwise objective news story in order to portray Obama and Liberals in a more favorable light. Here we see that the beleaguered Obama has just got to work that much harder to convince the young 'uns to vote for him because of that darn recession (not his fault!) and those pesky Republicans!

* Hat Tip to Ray Hartwell at the Washington Times for this gem of a description.

Mas Dinero
Any extra money in this tight final phase of the election is being wired to Nevada and Florida for more Spanish-language ads, to Iowa and Ohio for more on-the-ground staff members, and to Google and Facebook for more microtargeted messaging to complacent, maybe even demoralized, young supporters. (NYT, 10/25/2012)

Did we just read that young supporters are demoralized? How can this be? Obama got bin Laden, ended the war in Iraq and saved GM!

Two If By Coulter
Black Democrats apparently can get elected to Congress only from majority black districts, whereas black Republicans are always elected from majority white districts: Gary Franks, J.C. Watts, Tim Scott, Allen West and (we hope!) Mia Love. 

How come white liberals won't vote for a black representative? Why can't a black person represent Nita Lowey's district?  (Ann Coulter, 10/24/2012)

Coulter's genius is in continually educating us with these indisputable and damning (to Liberals) factoids. The proof is that Liberals never refute them because they cannot. Instead they always resort to asking her if she has any regrets for things that she has said in the past. (She doesn't, by the way.)

The trend is set and Obama's voters are moving away from him in droves. People can see that Obama has to go to college campuses, the David Letterman show and "The Daily Show" to get a friendly audience these days. Even Lindsay Lohan is for Romney. 

The media's campaigning for Obama isn't fooling Americans; it's just making Obama's obtuseness worse. If you're behind at halftime, you don't go to the cheerleading squad to ask what you're doing wrong. (Ann Coulter, 10/17/2012)

We will admit that we wondered why Obama is continuing to do the Liberal talk show circuit. Coulter explains: it's the only place he gets a friendly reception...and it is a lot more fun than taking questions from the press corps on Benghazi

Surrounded
And in some utterly new way the president was revealed, exposed. All the people whose job it is to surround and explain him, to act as his buffers and protectors—they weren't there. It was him on the stage, alone with a competitor. He didn't have a teleprompter, and so his failure seemed to underscore the cliché that the prompter is a kind of umbilical cord for him, something that provides nourishment, the thing he needs to sound good. He is not by any means a stupid man but he has become a boring one; he drones, he is predictable, it's never new. The teleprompter adds substance, or at least safety. (Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 10/26/2012)

Obama may still win, but if not, Noonan's column is the best yet on what it is that did him in.