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By Elvin Lim
How quickly fortunes change. For the first time this election season, the Republicans look poised not only to match Obama's fundraising ability, but to beat him at it. There is certainly no way that Obama is going to enjoy the 3 to 1 advantage he had over McCain four years ago. All this is also to say, then, that for the first time this year, Mitt Romney could be the frontrunner in the presidential race.
The worst month for the Dow Jones this year has also been the worst for Obama. Republicans are perking up because with the economy taking a turn for the worse, Obama's electoral college advantage appears to be weakening. Having won an important victory in the Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin, the GOP now believes that it has a shot at bleeding Democratic resources there, and possibly even in Michigan and Pennsylvania. If Obama is forced to spend valuable time and resources in these three weakly Democratic-leaning states, he will have less time to spend in Ohio, Virginia, and Colorado.
Just as Obama looks like he is defending the electoral fort, he is also in defense mode on the ideas. This is the fundamental difference between '08 and '12. Obama had it easier in 2008, when he was up against a highly unpopular president waging a highly unpopular war. Not so in 2012, when this not so popular president, defending an even more unpopular health-care law, is up against the same atavistic contempt for incumbents that he had used to upend McCain in '08. This is why Obama surrogates keep going on about the mess they inherited. The longer they can claim Obama to be the Washington outsider besieged by the legacy of Bush, the less he can be stained by his own incumbency.
Yet the more he gripes about the past, the more Obama looks like a rookie overwhelmed by the complexities of governance, and the more Mitt Romney looks like the man for the job. Obama's campaign slogan, "Forward," subtly implies that the Republicans are "backwards." But the president should be mindful that he can hardly appear to be leaning forward if his eyes are continually cast backwards to the previous administration for comparison. That strategy worked once in 2008, but the past cannot be prologue twice.
To top it off, the president made his "the private sector is doing fine" comment. You would expect this from Joe Biden, not Barack Obama. The president isn't out of touch, but out of it. Even the best campaigners crack when reality bites. Hit hard by a slew of bad news, Obama is running to his base, rhetorically and literally, for comfort and coddling. But neither partisan sound-bites nor standing ovations by the LGBT community are going to get him reelected.
The dynamics of 2012 are nothing like that of 2008. Americans are done with hope; they want jobs. They are done with bickering about wars, and are more angry about health-care laws. Obama is no longer the new kid on the block and he isn't going to be the best funded anymore. Inspiring platitudes will not work this year. As the going gets tough, Team Obama will have to think outside of the '08 box or face ignominious defeat.
Elvin Lim is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents' ability to communicate with the public. He also blogs at www.elvinlim.com and his column on politics appears here each week.
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It will take more than an unfortunate choice of words to make Romney look like the man for the job. The difference is that when Obama misspeaks, he corrects himself. Romney's streak of crazy, disconnected-from-reality comments has so far gone uncorrected by him or his spokespeople. Romney, to be blunt, has a mendacity problem, which mainstream journalism is unaccountably reluctant to address. Lazy reporting will do more to help Romney's chances than missteps from the Obama camp.
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"The president isn't out of touch, but out of it."
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I thought it might be helpful for you and other readers to explain: "The president isn't out of touch, but out of it." In this context:
Out of touch = lacking knowledge or information concerning current events and developments; lacking in awareness or sympathy (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/touch)
Out of it = unable to think or react properly (possibly as a result of being drowsy). (http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/out)
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Ten to 15 LYNX Light Rail riders witnessed a bizarre sight last Thursday afternoon as one woman forced another to strip.
The incident happened at the Archdale Light Rail Station around 2 o'clock.
"We don't who it was, what about or anything. It appears they might have been fighting over a boyfriend or maybe a relative," said CMPD Sgt. Charles Rappleyea.
He heads the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Transit Unit.
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"Should not have made her take her clothes off in front of everybody which is kind of degrading," said Clark, who's a frequent rider.
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RAGBRAI draws a diverse array of riders and support vehicle folks.
At just after 9 a.m. Thursday, some of these people were already at the main camp ground on the northwest corner of Oskaloosa, near the Elementary School and Lacey Recreation Complex.
Crystal Thorpe, of Dixon, Ill., arrived as a part of a support vehicle for a team, which have been riding RAGBRAI for six years.
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When asked what she was looking forward to in Oskaloosa, music came to Thorpe's mind.
"You look for a good band," explained Thorpe.
According to the National Weather Service, overnight rain was possible into Friday morning. That didn't bother Thorpe.
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Wendy and Martin Myers, of Kansas City, are riding RAGBRAI for the first time this year. They arrived at the campground on the northwest corner of Oskaloosa early on Thursday, as well.
Martin explained that they grew up in Iowa and RAGBRAI is something they grew up with and simply wanted to do.
So, how's it been so far?
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News Political Reporter Robert J. McCarthy discussed the upcoming election, just over a week away, on WNED-AM 970 during a segment with host Jay Moran:
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October 31, 2011 - 1:13 PM
Video chat previewing county executive race
October 28, 2011 - 12:10 PM
The News' Denise Jewell Gee and Charity Vogel, who have profiled the views of Republican Chris Collins and Democrat Mark C. Poloncarz throughout the week, look ahead to Election Day. Submit your questions about the race in the chat console below.
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Occupy Albany becomes Occupy Capitol -- briefly
October 27, 2011 - 4:24 PM
ALBANY -- Occupy Albany protesters moved their cause inside the Capitol this afternoon to chant just down the hall from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's second-floor office against his opposition to an income tax surcharge on millionaire New Yorkers.
Cuomo could not hear them: He was 150 miles south in Manhattan. The loud demonstration, in the ornate War Room, ended in about a half-hour. Protesters were surrounded by state troopers.
"We'll be back,'' nearly 100 demonstrators chanted as they marched back out of the Capitol.
Like other Occupy movements in other cities, the nearly weeklong one in a park across the street from the Capitol has its many targets: banks, Wall Street, the rich, war and cutbacks in services for the poor. But the Albany one has tried to ratchet up support for extending a 3-year-old income tax surcharge expiring at the end of the year, which will save wealthier New Yorkers about $5 billion next year.
The group included old and young demonstrators, including state university students, members of MoveOn.org, and a few members of the Public Employees Federation, the state workers union battling Cuomo for months over a new collective bargaining agreement.
"This is a call to an emergency,'' Rob Smith, with a group called Interfaith Impact, urged the gathering.
"Cuomo serves the 1 percent,'' one sign said.
The Albany protest has gotten relatively extensive press coverage since it was revealed Cuomo tried -- unsuccessfully -- to get the city's mayor to evict demonstrators last week after an 11 p.m. curfew in the park just across Washington Avenue from the Capitol.
--Tom Precious
Politics Now expanding as go-to source for political, government news
October 27, 2011 - 4:20 PM
We have a newly revamped blog here at BuffaloNews.com. We are expanding our politics blog, Politics Now.
While we are still keeping our eyes on the ins and outs of Western New York, Albany and Washington politics, we will also be taking a closer look at what the city and county government are doing.
A lot of decisions that affect the daily lives of Western New Yorkers are made in City Hall and the Rath Building. We have reporters on those beats staying on top of the latest city and county news.
County government reporter Denise Jewell Gee and City Hall reporter Aaron Besecker will join political reporter Bob McCarthy, Tom Precious from the Albany bureau and Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Zremski in making Politics Now your go-to source for political and government news about Buffalo and Western New York, as well as on the state and federal levels.
Picnics, credit cards and the race for Erie County executive
October 27, 2011 - 2:10 PM
The candidates for Erie County executive have found all sorts of ways to disagree.
Parking spaces, short-term borrowing and library funding are just a few of the items over which County Executive Chris Collins and County Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz have clashed in the years they've shared the Rath Building.
They even quarreled in 2009 over whether the county should foot the bill for a $416 fridge from Rosa's.
The latest: Who's responsible for implementing an online reservation system that lets people rent a park shelter and pay for it with a credit card.
Collins touted the system as an initiative of the Lean Six Sigma corporate efficiency program he brought to county government in an interview with The News.
"It's a Lean Six Sigma program, which my opponent doesn't think works," Collins told The News. "We know which shelter is being rented. We make sure it's clean."
Poloncarz's spokesman wasted no time in criticizing Collins for taking credit for what he claimed was actually a "collaborative effort" between the Comptroller's Office and the Department of Parks.
"Since this electronic payments program for parks was actually initiated by the Comptroller's Office and not a Six Sigma project, I guess we should take Collins' praise of the program's efficiency as a compliment,"said Poloncarz spokesman Peter Anderson.
So who's right?
It turns out, they both are, sort of.
The reservation system was an early initiative of Collin's Six Sigma program. The News wrote about it in 2008 -- as well as the fact that it didn't work out so well for one picnicking family.
But Poloncarz, whose official responsibilities include collecting money owed to the county, did lead the effort to implement the electronic payment system that finally let county residents pay by credit card.
It was Poloncarz's office that sent out a request for proposals from banks to provide the payment service.
So go ahead and plan your family picnic online -- thanks to your candidates for county executive.
--Denise Jewell Gee
Collins trumpets Slominski endorsement
October 26, 2011 - 4:24 PM
For 18 years now, politicians running for countywide office have sought the blessing of a diminutive but still fiery figure -- former County Comptroller Alfreda W. Slominski.
That proved no different Wednesday when Republican incumbent Chris Collins trumpeted another endorsement for him by Slominski (she also backed him in 2007). Republican Slominski, now 82 years old and retired, has often proven a powerful force, as in 1993 when she endorsed newcomer Republican Nancy A. Naples to succeed her, and in 1995 when she endorsed incumbent Democrat Dennis T. Gorski for re-election as county executive.
Now, Collins has turned the tables on his Democratic opponent -- current Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz -- by quoting Poloncarz's description of Slominski as "the gold standard of elected leaders."
"I can't agree more with Mr. Poloncarz that Alfreda Slominski is the 'gold standard' for office holders." Collins said. "This places an even higher value on her endorsement of my candidacy for Erie County executive."
Collins said he considers the only three endorsements with "real value" in the race to stem from Slominski, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, and the Associated Builders and Contractors.
"I am proud to have all three," he said. "The business community strongly supports me because I am the only candidate who has created private-sector jobs."
The Slominski endorsement also will be carried to the airwaves in a radio ad that begins airing Thursday.
Mark Poloncarz has politicized the independence of the Comptroller's Office to advance his own political career," Slominski says in the ad. "Don't be fooled. In this election, there's only one taxpayer watchdog we can all count on. Chris Collins."
--Robert J. McCarthy
Argument No. 984 against Twitter: Skelos vs. Baldwin
October 26, 2011 - 3:35 PM
ALBANY -- It's not quite your Lincoln-Douglas debates, but raging today in the world that is Twitter is an argument, er, debate, no, let's just say slapfest between Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and actor Alec Baldwin. (Yep, that's not a sentence you write every day in Albany).
Turns out the actor, a Democrat, didn't like the portrayal of him on the Capitol Pressroom radio show Tuesday by Skelos, a Republican, who basically made Baldwin out as a rich guy OK with raising taxes in New York.
Skelos may have started things off in the real world, but Baldwin began his barbs this morning on Twitter. His first entry: "Dean Skelos says I want your taxes to go up and not my own." He followed with a challenge to debate Skelos, and told the senator to bring 10 years' worth of tax returns and his itinerary. Another: "Only a Nassau County Republian tool like Dean Skelos could drag my name into a debate on state income tax."
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First flooding, then unemployment for tiny upstate county
October 25, 2011 - 2:30 PM
ALBANY -- As Cuomo administration officials go back in the field this week to see the impact of Tropical Storm Irene, they need look no further than the new unemployment statistics for battered Schoharie County.
Unemployment figures out today for the state show the rural county west of Albany failed to match the positive trend seen in nearly every other location in the state in September: Its unemployment rate rose rather than fell.
As the state's unemployment rate fell from 8.2 percent in September 2010 to 7.8 percent last month, Schoharie County saw its jobless level jump from 8 percent a year ago to 9.2 percent last month. Nearly everywhere else -- from Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse to New York City and Long Island -- saw modest improvements from the previous September.
Just as Irene swept away houses, farms, animals and businesses from whole sections of Schoharie County, jobs also went missing.
For a county the size of Schoharie, the numbers are relatively small: 1,400 were listed as unemployed last month, up 200 people from the previous September. But a walk through the historic village of Schoharie, where many businesses are shuttered, neighborhoods are missing houses that have been demolished, and places like the local B&B are on the market, questions still remain about ow the state will be able to help it rebuild.
The jobless figures come as some state lawmakers are pushing for new bailout measures for the affected counties in the eastern parts of the state.
-- Tom Precious
Cuomo's public schedule getting a tad less transparent
October 25, 2011 - 11:25 AM
ALBANY – Wasn't that long ago that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's public schedule would at least provide the name of the county in which he was to be located for the day.
But, when he's downstate anyway, there's a new trend: "Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is in the New York City area.''
So states his schedule for today, same as yesterday.
That means, depending on your definition for New York City "area,'' that could have him being in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Westchester County – or maybe across the Hudson in New Jersey or just to the east in Connecticut.
-- Tom Precious
"Gimme Jimmy" tonight at Coca-Cola Field
October 20, 2011 - 9:32 AM
Friends of the late Jim Griffin will gather tonight for one last fund raiser for "the mayor."
A committee hoping to raise funds for a memorial to Buffalo's longest-serving mayor will gather at Pettibone's Grille at Coca-Cola Field at 5:30 p.m. to raise funds for what it hopes will be a permanent memorial to Griffin. He is credited with being the driving force behind the construction of the downtown ball park in 1988, and now his friends and supporters seek to erect the monument outside Coca-Cola Field.
Remaining funds will benefit the James D. Griffin Fund at Dent Neurological Research Institute.
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No matter how hard I try to think of these eel or frogs as appetizing, I just couldn't. But University of Minnesota researchers say that if you take a little time to think about the food you're eating, or perform a little ritual before having it, like singing "happy birthday" before eating cake, it makes it more delicious.
A stupid study? Some think so.
But media writer Jon Friedman says that these studies are sometimes more about the money, publicity or marketing, than the science.
"They do these thing to attract publicity, whether it's newspapers, television, online, they want the publicity," says Friedman.
For instance, there's one study that says drinking a lot of beer is good for you. It was paid for by the Japanese beer company Sapporo. And then there's another study saying that 97% of parents dread long family car trips. That was paid for by a toy company.
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In Jonathan Lethem's novel "Motherless Brooklyn," one character describes the Gowanus Canal as "the only body of water in the world that is 90 percent guns."
The lore of the Gowanus and whatever lies buried beneath its murky waters has long entranced New Yorkers. And though the canal might not be truly filled with guns, suitcases filled with drugs and cash, or Jimmy Hoffa, it does hold secrets to the history of settlement along this critical industrial corridor.
As part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund cleanup, the federal agency has a mandate to identify the archaeologically significant features of the Gowanus Canal and preserve them wherever possible.
The EPA began this work during the initial Remedial Investigation phase of the cleanup, drawing heavily on a 2004 study created by the Army Corps of Engineers that recommended the canal for the National Register of Historic Places. It also commissioned a sonar scan to evaluate the debris lying at the bottom of the canal.
John Vetter, the national EPA expert on archeology and historic preservation, said that the sonar scan turned up a couple of intact barges, as well as a World War II air sea rescue vessel that Vetter describes as having a "checkered history." (It was heavily modified and used as a houseboat before sinking into the Gowanus a few years ago.)
"Much of the debris, the bulk of it, is probably the remnants of barges that had been long-forgotten," Vetter explained one recent evening as the archeology committee of the superfund's Community Advisory Group was setting up for a meeting just a few blocks from the contaminated waterway.
Lynn Rakos, an archaeologist with the Army Corps of Engineers, said that the usual process for this work starts with remote sensing and documentary research to identify the types of vessels among the debris. When a structure appears to have some historic significance, maritime archeologists may dive into the water to have a closer look, photographing and recording what they find. They take extensive measurements and create drawings to document the findings, and in some cases end up salvaging the structures and donating them to museums.
But Rakos notes that not all of the vessels found in the canal will merit in-depth study.
"Some of these vessels are very common—or if it's an army vessel or navy vessel, they might have documentation that's down to the bolt. So is looking at it something like that what we should be doing with federal dollars if we already know what this vessel is and how it functioned and how it was made?"
Another troubling point in the archeological operations is the fact that the findings will likely be contaminated. Vetter recently faced a similar challenge in the Hudson River cleanup, when his team uncovered timber from the site of a colonial-era British fort in Upstate New York.
The timbers were heavily contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the EPA initially determined that they should be buried in a landfill. Vetter and his team decided instead to preserve them, but the decontamination and preservation processes have been arduous.
The toxicity of the Gowanus waters also makes diving expeditions rather unpalatable and possibly even dangerous.
"Since we're EPA, we're not anxious to jump into the rivers to get first-hand looks unless we have a real call to do that," Vetter said.
While the canal's history as an industrialized waterway stretches back all the way to the 1840s, the EPA team is unlikely to find anything that disappeared into the canal before the 1960s. That's because during its time as an active navigational channel, the canal bottom was regularly dredged.
And although the sunken vessels may easily capture the public imagination, as far as EPA archeological work goes, it's really the canal itself and its infrastructure that give evidence of the history that Vetter and his team are trying to preserve—or at least document.
"We're not looking at this particular object that might have fallen into the canal, but we're more looking at the process that produced the canal of this configuration, of this design. What service did it provide to the larger city? Because if you alter it and change it, it's hard to reconstruct that story."
One major focus of the EPA group's study has been bulkheads, the retaining walls built to prevent surrounding land from collapsing into the canal water. The bulkheads built along the Gowanus range from timber to steel to concrete and represent well over a century of industrial engineering.
"That kind of historic feature sort of defines the character of an area, if you have steel sheeting, or if you have a poured cement concrete wall versus the wooden constructions that you'll see as you look around the parts of the canal here," Vetter said. "But what's interesting on the Gowanus is you see the full range of designs and technologies. And there's actually accessible an evolution of the technology of bulkhead design, which is a worthy study in itself because it's something that goes on all over the world."
Vetter expects that the Gowanus's historic bulkheads will be affected by the cleanup. The Superfund process has now reached the Feasibility Study phase, during which the EPA will decide exactly how to remove the contaminated sediment from the canal. The job of the archaeologists now is to offer advice on how best to protect these historic features during the remediation, and to document the pieces if they must be destroyed in the cleanup process.
"If we lose a piece of bulkhead—well, let's describe that as we take it apart to replace it with something stronger," Vetter said. "Let's document it thoroughly. Let's photograph it, let's get the information about it. Or find out the history of construction. What sort of people were involved when they worked on it?"
The EPA has enlisted the members of the CAG archaeology committee to help assemble this history, and Vetter said that its members have provided invaluable resources in compiling old photographs, documents, and maps.
Linda Mariano, a CAG member and artist who has lived in Gowanus for more than twenty years, has been thrilled by the opportunity to delve into the history of her surroundings and search for the remnants of old Dutch mills, revolutionary war burial grounds, and sunken ships.
"Something in my gut is interested in our past and the mysteriousness, the undiscovered," said Mariano. "It's like taking off a layer of your own skin and investigating what's in there."


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As usual, the year seems to be moving more swiftly than it ought to. For KRCB North Bay Public Media, that normal swift passage of time seems to be, this year, enhanced by the several simultaneous major projects we have undertaken.
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And March, as you see on page 4, brought acclaimed work on the Big Read, Sonoma County. KRCB and lead partners the Sonoma County Library and Library Foundation were joined by our good friends at Copperfield's Books. Thanks to their efforts Emily Dickinson was everywhere and so was her poetry.
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