Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport reveals the most Democratic and most Republican states in the country and discusses regional differences in party identification.
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Feb
03
States in East Are Most Democratic; in West, Most Republican
Feb
03
There Are Two Sides to Every Debate
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Feb
03
MSNBC’s Bashir: Why Can’t American Politics Be More “Socialist” Like The NFL…
It takes a rare breed of stupid to make an analogy this asinine. HT: Brian B. via BreitbartTV
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Feb
02
Redstate on Romney Poor People Flub & Horserace
Romney contracted foot in mouth. Redstate analysis is superb.
There are storm clouds on the horizon. A day after Mitt Romney’s massive win in Florida he opened his mouth and promptly told conservatives he was incapable of articulating conservatism.Then Newt Gingrich found a bright line rule in the Republican rules that clearly and precisely states that all delegates awarded before April 1, 2012, must be proportional. There goes giving Romney all fifty delegates from Florida despite what Florida’s GOP Chairman says.
Then National Review and other Romney supporters , taking a bit of comfort in his secure win in Florida, decided they could finally express some buyers remorse, or at least now stop zealously defending him and criticize him some.
Then people really examined the exit polls in Florida. What they found was that turnout fell from 2008. But in counties where turn out was up, Newt Gingrich won. Where turnout from 2008 was down, Romney won. This pattern followed South Carolina. The base remains unexcited about Romney and his comments yesterday about the poor and the social safety net keep the base from getting excited.
Feb
02
BI: Billboard that never dies
Hell hath no fury…
A photo of a billboard in New York—on which scorned wife “Emily” announces to husband “Steven” that she’s leaving him—is making the rounds again on Facebook, five-and-a-half years after the mystery ads first appeared in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Los Angeles and Chicago.The photo of the billboard at 54th Street and 7th Avenue has gotten nearly 10,000 Likes since Monday, showing the weird power social media has to keep things alive for a very, very long time.
Feb
02
BI: Prepare For A Giant New Wave Of US Bank Failures
Forget Europe — the weak U.S. recovery puts more than 750 domestic banks at risk of failure, according to a report from Invictus Consulting Group (via Business Wire).
Invictus, which stress tested all FDIC-insured banks, says 758 lenders could collapse in the next three years, forecasting a new wave of borrower defaults in the absence of a strong economic up-tick.A disaster in Europe would probably make things much worse.
Feb
02
29% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, Jan. 29. That’s the highest level of optimism measured in weekly tracking since May of last year.
The latest finding is up three points from the previous week. From July 25 through December 11 of last year, the number of voters who were confident in the nation’s current course resembled levels measured in the final months of the Bush administration, with voter confidence remaining in the narrow range of 14% to 19%. But that finding has steadily climbed since then.
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The national telephone survey of 3,500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports January 23-29, 2012. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage point with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Feb
02
Fast and Furious: Issa threatens Holder with contempt charges
Criminal.
Letter from Issa says Holder’s DOJ “is actively engaged in a cover-up.”
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