This is HARD! Stop it?

...and call the worker in the commercial a liar too

and informed workforces.

And I've seen firsthand what the '80's and Republican policies beyond that time did to that state. That ad was a brilliant move by the Obama campaign.

I remember as it was playing out, the pundits were both screaming bloody murder and predicting it would fail. The screeched about how unfair it was, how the Bain stuff wasn't really Romney's fault, and how stuff like Bain is just the way things are in a global economy. They screamed how Obama and the Democratic SuperPACs were being so mean, and it would surely backfire! The wailed about it, and laughed at the Obama campaign for spending so much, so early...would they run out of gas before the Fall?

The pundits - so secure in their neoliberal Beltway fantasies, imagining that people actually agree with the race to the bottom capitalism of the parasite class - missed the brilliance of it completely. This was the Plouffe and Axelrod masterstroke: define Romney as a vulture capitalist in the industrial Midwest. Rustbelt politics. Paint Obama as the friend of the manufacturing sector and the hard hats through the auto bailout and the Recovery Act (still being downplayed by the media: where do you think the factory workers went in PA, OH, and MI? They went to work the roads, and the Recovery Act kept them working through the worst days of the recession). As recently as June, Pennsylvania was still being talked about as a swing state. After the Summer of Bain, that was all over. Ohio looks over - who within 200 miles of the Lordstown Assembly plant could vote for the guy who sends manufacturing jobs to China and says "Let Detroit go bankrupt?" The entire I-80 corridor from the PA border to the Indiana Turnpike tollbooths is dotted with car and car part plants, and the people who work in those places eat at the diners, buy sheetrock from the Home Depots, take their kids to the indoor waterparks. They know what Romney is.

The Republicans nominated a guy whose campaign slogan may as well have been "Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel." The Obama team made them pay dearly for that, and the GOP and the pundits and the Beltway smartguys are still reeling from it, still trying to figure out how it all went so wrong so quickly.

Do you identify them by the pointy hats or what?

holds more sway than Republican bigotry.

in other parts of the country. It was the most devastating ad I've ever seen and I'm old enough to remember "Daisy."