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Barack Obama may win or lose the election in ten days, but, in either case, he will emerge much diminished by the sort of disgusting, mendacious, fear-mongering, low-life campaign he has run. A new low for the Presidency.

Wilson at Ricochet:

Watching the final debate, the more I considered Barack Obama's deplorably non-presidential affect and attitude; his reliance on corny, crudely-made zingers; and his almost pathological string of lies and distortions, the more it struck me that, at some level, he knows this is over. His speeches since then show an edge that belies the old “No Drama Obama” who was going to heal the bitter partisan divisions of the past.

The aura of a losing campaign is unique...

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Romney is drawing astounding crowds at event after event – Denver's Red Rocks event was at standing-room only and over 25,000 people were turned away. This story is repeated almost daily: Romney is drawing the kind of crowds Barack Obama pulled in 2008. The momentum isn'ta bluff or a headfake; Republicans are lit up in the same way they were in 2010. It's happening in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and all the battleground states.

Obama is largely reduced to trawling college campuses for political jailbait, stroking the shreds of his coalition in the increasingly desperate hope of getting at least a few salvageable video clips out of each day. Big Bird, binders, and bayonets don't comprise a sweeping vision of a second Obama term and it shows. Vice-President Malaprop wanders Ohio diners, touching people's food and getting biker chicks to sit in his lap. It's a campaign in trouble, and they know it.

Mitt Romney: It’s time for real change, America

Romney goes deep - Blasts Bam for ‘dividing and demonizing’

Romney on economy: Obama 'made the problem worse'

Michael Barone Predicts That Romney Will Win 2012 Presidential Race

Walker:

 Over the last four years, Obama’s faithful could and did blame third parties — the banks, the rich, Bush, Congress, Israel, the tea party, the Olympic committee, etc. — for nearly all of the president’s failures. They were fighting for themselves as much as they were fighting for Obama. But many gave up the fight on October 3.

Noonan: When Americans Saw the Real Obama Why the Denver debate changed everything.

About that Obama ad re girls losing their virginity to Obama. Related, The Atlantic blames “old white men” for reaction to Obama virgin voter video

As NYM comments, Voting for Obama is like losing her virginity. She got screwed each time.

Paul Ryan's appeal to America’s heart

Why I Think Obama Is Toast

A Brief History of Obama: How sarcasm and insult took over the Democratic Party:

In 2012, there is just the left. The Democrats are back where they started eight years ago. And this time, Barack Obama cannot save them.

Rubin: The unmaking of a president, 2012

White voters poised to abandon Obama in droves

Over $60,000 in Welfare Spent Per Household in Poverty

Clinton brushes off e-mails, Senate staffers start investigation

Petraeus Throws Obama Under the Bus

Obama Dodges Real Questions from Real Reporter

Whether Obama wins or loses, this will be part of it: A star falls over chicago

Election considerations for Liberals: Melanie Sturm: Think Again - Restoring the last best hope of earth

Mark Steyn: Benghazi bungle requires act of urgent political hygiene

BOMBSHELL: US Security Forces Would Not Have Been Painting Targets on Ground Unless There Was Air Support Overhead – But White House Called It Off