Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Watcher's Council Nominations - The Election Cometh Edition

Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Historically, this is the time, between mid May and Memorial Day, when most Americans begin to perk up their eyes and ears, do a gut check and start to focus on presidential elections.

It's early days, but I don't think it's any accident that a CBS/NY Times poll, no less, shows Mitt Romney slightly ahead of President Obama and ahead among women, a sign that the Democrat's 'War against Women' campaign may have fallen flat.Considering how much polls from the alphabet network and the dinosaur media routinely oversample Democrats, this is an encouraging sign. Especially since Scott Rasmussen, a far more reliable pollster shows a similar result.

Again, the margin's narrow, it's very early days and this could very well be a temporary reaction to President Obama's cynical endorsement of same sex marriage. Or it could be that Governor Romney is starting to pull ahead.Certainly confidence in the Obama economy remains low, and that still appears as though it's going to be the main issue in this election.

Keep in mind that the polls in question might very well have been rigged the other way for an important reason - to scare and energize President Obama's base with the idea he might not be re-elected.

We'll see how things develop.

Council News:

This week, Right Truth, The Pirate's cove, crime Victim's Media Report and Mental Recession took advantage of my generous offer of link whorage and earned honorable mention status with some excellent articles that I recommend to your attention.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

Simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category, and return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week.

It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let's see what we have this week....


Council Submissions



Honorable Mentions




Non-Council Submissions



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1 comment:

Crazy Bald Guy said...

Hiiyas... :-)

I'd like to submit this for an honorable mention if it's not too late: http://ajwink.blogspot.com/2012/05/happiness-index.html

gah... your captcha hates my guts... LOL