“We were sold on Mitt as this brilliant manager and turnaround artist,” said John Ekdahl, one of those poll watchers in Florida who used Orca. “But it was a snake-oil kind of program. I say this as a Web developer. This was throwing money at a product that just didn’t work.”

“I will also be very involved in it. We’ll go back and we’ll look at the case notes, we’ll look at the emails, we’ll look at the phone logs, we’ll look at the grand jury testimony, all of it. We’ll read all the police reports, we’ll talk to the police officers…

2. The Ryan Plan. Romney had endorsed Ryan’s plan for Medicare even before he tapped him as a running mate. But by selecting Ryan, he was nailing the odious plan to the masthead of his campaign. Ryan’s plan, which first called for abolishing federal Medicare in 10 years and later for a substitute voucher program, proved to be disastrous for Romney and other Republican candidates.

From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: … And [Neil Oxman, one of Pennsylvania’s top Democratic Party campaign strategists] said if he was Corbett, he’d be nervous right now, alluding to Kane’s promises to look at how the attorney general’s office pursued the child sex abuse investigation of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach.

The editorial in the Lancaster New Era headed “Martin’s plan doesn’t add up” is so self-serving, so divisive, so insulting to the reader’s intelligence, and so self-destructive as to defy excerpting and require almost line by line refutation.

Colorado and Washington vote to legalize marijuana for recreational use(RNN) – It’s not medical marijuana. It’s not decriminalization. It’s completely legal pot – and voters in Colorado and Washington decided they would become the first states in the country to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use, ushering in a huge victory for drug law reform advocates.

Hurricane Sandy and Bill Clinton edge out Mitt Romney

Kathleen Kane trounces Tom Corbett (and David Freed who wasn’ t often named)

For most of the past few months, Gallup’s daily track has been a notable outlier in that it consistently showed much bigger Romney leads than other quality tracking polls were showing. Now, Gallup’s numbers have moved in the direction of the other polls. And the other polls show Obama leading narrowly: NBC/Wall Street Journal (Obama +1), ABC/Washington Post (Obama +1), and Pew Research (Obama +3).

WE CONNECT THE DOTS: Pollsters expect Kathleen Kane to garner more votes than any other candidate on the Pennsylvania ballot. The victory will make the 46-year-old former Lackawanna County prosecutor the first elected Democrat to be state Attorney General. She will also be the first elected female in an office established in 1643.

And nearly two years after the retrofit was supposed to be finished, the plant – once billed as a convenient, reliable and economical waste-disposal solution for Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties – still isn’t fully functional. It has been hemorrhaging an estimated $1 million a month since June 2006…

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