In the last five elections, those without high school educations and those with post-graduate educations are the only educational-level groups who have always voted Democratic. via exit polling Not sure what that means.

Someone tallied the percentage of statements that Politifact rated as "Pants on Fire" made by Democratic leaders vs. Republican leaders with respect to all statements rated. The result:

Democrats: 2%
Republicans: 9.5%

Democrats had significantly more true and mostly true statements, and less false statements as well.

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It's beyond sad. Unemployment rises from 8.1% to 8.2%. The number of new jobs created just half of what would be necessary to keep up with population growth. Underemployment went from 14.5% to 14.8%.

Three years after the official end of the Great Recession, 12.7 million Americans are officially out of work.And it's beyond sad because there is ( Read more... )

Sort of. It's not that far until June 5th, and my mail-in ballot is beckoning to be filled in and mailed out.

But there's only two ballot initiatives on the ballot, so what fun is that? (Fortunately, we can look forward to many, many more being on the ballot in November, including this oneI will ponder the two intiatiatives soon, but for the nonce ( Read more... )

House Republicans Favorability:

One year ago, January 2011: 43% favorable - 46% unfavorable (-3%)
Currently, January 2012: 29% favorable - 64% unfavorable (-35%)

House (?) Democrats Favorability Currently: 38% favorable - 57% unfavorable (-19%)

No data on House Democrats favorability a year ago.

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A. Entrepeneur walks into the offices of A. Bigbank and asks for half a billion dollars to build a factory using technology X to produce solar energy.  A. Bigbank's loan officer, after evaluating the risk and the return, denies the loan, noting that there is a 50% chance that technology X will be obsolete by the time the factory is built, ( Read more... )

Democrats got trounced. (Aside from the fact that they went six for six in New York State Assembly races ( Read more... )

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the CongressYou might think that there is something, well, constitutional about how the Electoral College works, but you would be mostly wrong. States ( Read more... )

At some point, you have to come to the conclusion that they just don't want to create jobs, and it's as simple as that. By "they" I mean everyone: the Republicans, the Democrats, the House, the Senate, the White House, the Fed, the Wall Street and other business lobbyists that influence them, the banks, and so on.

Hunter

“It’s hard to imagine the Senate Republicans would actually filibuster the nation into default”

-- Senator Chuck Shumer today, yet another person who doesn't have a f***ing clue.

Morons to the Left of me, Birthers and default deniers to the Right, stuck in the middle with someone, anyone?