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In case you needed another reason to vote Republican tomorrow – Ed Morrisey notes:

Americans slowed their spending in September to the weakest pace in three months and their incomes fell for the first time in 14 months.

Personal spending rose at an annual rate of 0.2 percent in September, the Commerce Department said Monday. That’s below the 0.5 percent gains recorded in July and August.

Incomes fell 0.1 percent in September, following a 0.4 percent rise in August that had been pushed higher by the return of extended unemployment benefits.

It must be kept in mind that we are rapidly sliding back in to recession – though, of course, a real case can be made that we never left it. While we are all on a high pending our victory tomorrow, the reality we face is rather grim.

We’ve got a President who hasn’t a clue of what to do, a Congress which may end up split between Republicans in the House and Democrats in the Senate and an economy about to take a dive. This is a recipe for disaster and it will take all our efforts – and all our prayers – to both keep things on an even keel, as well as set the stage for the completion of the political revolution in 2012.

We’ve really got our work cut out for us – enjoy tomorrow, but get ready to roll up the sleeves on November 3rd.

This afternoon on my ride home from work, the host of the program I was listening to asked if the elections tomorrow are a referendum on Obama. One point brought up was his dismal poll numbers. One liberal caller in trying to argue against that point said that Obama’s poll numbers are also reflecting liberals who think he hasn’t been liberal enough.

It’s a fair point, but really irrelevant. When Bush’s approval rating were below 50, that number was due in part to conservatives who felt he was abandoning conservative principles. It doesn’t change the numbers. The point here is that Obama was given a chance to live up to the image of himself he gave during the campaign of 2008. He said he’d be a uniter, not a divider. He said he’d be bipartisan. Intelligent people knew it was B.S… and we were proven right.

So now what? What happens after tomorrow. The House is likely turning into a solid Republican majority, and the Senate may see the Democrats majority slip to razor thin, if it doesn’t turn as well. Obama will have to change his governance, or their will be gridlock. He cannot ignore the will of the American people who have seen the direction he has taken this country and said “enough is enough.”  If he does, then 2012 will be another good year for the GOP.

UPDATE: On a separate note… as a freelance logo designer I’d like to say good luck to all my clients who will be on one ballot or another tomorrow.

From Politico:

Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.

Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns…

In my view, the only person who can realistically stop the Palin Express – should she decide to run – is Chris Christie. The other GOP candidates are mostly a fine group, but none of them have the, well, the romance of a Palin candidacy. Our warrior queen, for whom we will do battle – while she has her high negatives among the general electorate, she is dearly beloved by those who back her, and in a crowded GOP field, she’ll consistently score 40% in the early primaries, more than enough to best everyone else…after a few of those, everyone else will fade away.

Christie can stop her because he’s rapidly becoming a grass roots hero for the way he’s taking on the unions and the Ruling Class in general. If he gets in, he soaks up almost all that Palin doesn’t already have in her corner and thus can make a race of it. The Establishment, of course, wants to stop Palin – she’s dangerous to them as she has been completely rejected by them. In other words, she owes them nothing and so, if elected, will completely destroy them. The fun part is that the only person who can stop her is another anti-Establishment candidate.

Be all that as it may, we can expect many efforts to stop Palin. The official word on it will be that she’s un-electable; the only candidate Obama can beat in 2012. The fact is that Obama can beat any of the GOP hopefuls – beating a sitting President is extraordinarily hard and if the economy improves or any of a host of possible events happen, Obama can be right back on top. No matter how well we do in 2010, we have to work on the assumption that Obama gets re-elected in 2012 – only by having such a framework can we hope to craft a strategy to beat him (and, in the end, if he does end up easy to beat, then we won’t have lost anything by being careful). But the Establishment will want to de-rail Palin not because she might lose to Obama, but because she might win.

Keep that in mind: the goal of the Establishment is to keep out of power those who would destroy the Establishment. All that you’ll hear about Palin over the next year will be colored with this – sift things you hear carefully, and always look for the ulterior motive. But also keep this in mind: its going to be enormously fun. Watching a Ruling Class collapsing upon itself will be endlessly entertaining.

Big Journalism has the audio of the CBS affiliate reporters conspiring to slander Joe Miller – its pretty brazen but entirely unsurprising. This is what the MSM does – they are chock full of liberals who simply despise conservatives, and if the facts don’t fit their narrative, they’ll just make them up. The few honorable liberals and conservatives who work in the MSM simply can’t counter-balance the rank, leftist bias of the MSM.

We can expect more of this and worse as the MSM gears up to try and save Obama’s Presidency. I know we’ve all heard recent carping from the MSM about Obama’s faiures, but make no mistake about it – when push comes to shove, most of the MSM will revert to slavish devotion to Obama’s cause…and they will just make stuff up about conservatives, if they can’t find anything real to slander with.

UPDATE: New poll shows Miller with 37%, Murkowski and McAdams with 30%, each. Looks like Miller will pull out the win, in the end.

How to scare the bejabbers out of Democrats…

Barack Milhouse Obama?

Will Obama face the press after Tuesday?

On the Rally to Restore Fatwas…

Kerry figures we’re insane ’cause we’re voting TEA Party. That’s ok – Kerry’s an a**, so what he says is entirely unimportant.

Yest, we can, but…

From NRO’s The Corner:

…Republicans will make significant gains in state legislatures on November 2nd, according to our election projections.

The Republican Party is poised to gain control of up to 18 state legislative chambers on election night. Going into the elections,Democrats control 28 state senates while Republicans control 20…

The crucial aspect of this is the re-districting which will follow upon the 2010 census. If these projections hold true (and I strongly suspect they will – if not being even more of a crushing loss to the Democrats) then the Republican party will be in charge of drawing most of the legislative districts for the next 10 years. The last time we re-districted, the Democrats had had a pretty good year in 2000; the time before that (1990), the Democrats were in pretty solid control of the process. This will be the first time in a very long time where the Republican party will have such a large advantage in this process.

What is means is that a large number of districts which have been drawn to help Democrats will now be re-drawn – and that means the Democrats will have a much harder time recapturing what they are about to lose. We Republicans should take the very high road on this and draw the districts as fairly as possible – but given the realities of politics and human nature, there will probably be a scramble to pay Democrats back in their own Gerrymandering coin. But the effort should be made to reform the process with fairness in mind – this doesn’t worry me because I believe in fair contests, we’ll continue to do well.

Be that as it may, the Democrats look to be in quite a lot of trouble not just now, but for at least the next ten years. If the Republican party can deliver on the demands of the people, then we might (at very long last) genuinely get that re-alignment we’ve been working and hoping for since 1980.

From Life News:

A prominent dissident Catholic priest has launched an assault against Catholic bishops are who are saying pro-life issues are the most important in the upcoming election.

But new polling data of Catholics makes it appear they’re not listening to him, as a New York Times/CBS poll shows a shocking 34 point swing of Catholic voters switching from pro-abortion Barack Obama to pro-life Republican candidates…

The priest in question is Father Curran – one of those sad specimens who figures that the Church has to get with it and be ok with married priests, divorce, birth control and homosexuality and, most alarming, that we shouldn’t fret too much about that silly, old abortion issue and concentrate on getting socialized medicine as that is more important than the lives of the unborn. It is people like Curran who have provided a bit of cover for those allegedly Catholic politicians who vote in favor of abortion, as well as those lay Catholics who wish to ignore crucial moral teachings in favor of backing Democrats.

The very harsh truth is that no Catholic can in good conscience vote for a Democrat right now. Even voting for a pro-life Democrat merely adds power to the pro-abortion Democrats who will then advance the Culture of Death in our country. Until the Democrat party gives up its support for a federally funded right to abortion, they are simply outside the realm of possibility for a Catholic voter. This huge swing to the GOP may well be, finally!, the realization of Catholics that this is the case.

Don’t get me wrong here – in a lot of ways, Catholics can be very liberal and still be good Catholics. There is nothing immoral in advocating for high taxes and big government spending on social issues. There is nothing immoral in being opposed to large defense budgets. There is nothing immoral in being opposed to the death penalty (as I am). There is nothing immoral in being in favor of comprehensive immigration reform. But the most crucial issue of our times – an issue which simply outweighs all others as a lead brick outweighs a feather – is the issue of life. If we do not have a right to life, then we have no rights, at all…and, furthermore, an adherence to a Culture of Death which advances abortion means the nation is on the path to utter destruction, moral and physical.

This doesn’t mean there are no other important issues – nor that there aren’t issues which, at the moment, preempt others. Right now, for instance, we must concentrate on getting our financial house in order lest the whole nation fall apart via bankruptcy. But the issue of the day is abortion – and until elective abortion is banned in the United States, it will remain the issue. To be a good nation – to be a nation in accordance with our Declaration of Independence – we must be a pro-life nation.

People like Curran will continue to try and muddy the waters – sad, twilight creatures who seem to think that a bit of fame in the dying MSM is more important than their immortal souls. But the indicators are that fewer and fewer people are listening to them – and that America’s moral health is reviving.