Republican voter enthusiasm down 10 points, Democratic up 6 points

[ProSense]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/polls-republican-voter-enthusism-drops-dems-not-far-behind.php?ref=fpb

[Botany]

1. Mittmentum look @ his crowd in S.C. this AM

thanx to DUer gratuitous for Mittmetum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002179210

[pamela]

7. He really loves those Mom jeans. n/t

[frazzled]

8. Advice to men over 50

If you're going to wear jeans, a couple of suggestions:

1. Wear dark, not faded, and make sure they are neither high-waisted and saggy, nor low-rise and tight enough for a 23-year-old. Straight-leg only, and relatively slim.

2. Don't wear a pressed white shirt and belt (it looks dumb), unless you throw a casual sport jacket or sweater over it (in which case it looks cool).

3. Honestly, jeans are fine for weekends, outdoors stuff, and times you want to look casual, but at your age, and especially if you are Mitt Romney, you just look like you're trying too hard if the context is wrong. If you're rich like Mitt Romney, get a stylist if you can't figure out how to do it right. (This applies to the president, too, whose jeans are sometimes even worse; sometimes, however, it's kind of endearing, like he just isn't even trying at all and doesn't have a clue.)

(Disclosure: Mr. Frazzled wears jeans a lot, even to teach in, and most of the time he does it right; on the occasion that it doesn't come off, I make a face; he doesn't care. I do protest that he is too old to wear baseball caps, however, unless he's at a baseball game.)

[MH1]

2. I'd say that's an effect of the GOP clown show. On both numbers.

It doesn't take much of listening to Santorum for a Dem to be ready to vote for Obama again.

[Scurrilous]

3. Good news.

[cthulu2016]

4. excellent

(No Mister Burns picture handy)

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Well, my take from this is that the biggest threat to Obama's re-election is voter enthusiasm.

He needs to fire people up like 2008, and he did that with a humane, liberal platform. People MUST see him as working to fulfill his promises. That means not only playing up his past successes, but pushing hard to advance the well-being of the 99% in the coming months.

I think he'll win, but it scares me that he may not.

And, as you know, I have taken much exception to his actions and inactions since 1/20/09.

[onehandle]

6. Have they measured at the moment Mittens concedes to the President?

I won't be so much 'enthusiastic' as I will be laughing my ass off.