87% of republicans have negative assessments on moral values in the country.

Gallup poll via PolicyMic

...after the president's supposed worst week ever, with Republicans jumping in glee at the scandals, we find that the president's popularity has inched up, the Democratic Party's popularity is significantly up, and Republicans, at 59 percent unfavorable, are at their highest unpopularity level since CNN started polling the question in 1992.

Via ( Read more... )

We can’t let taxes go up on working people in this country...

(with the implication that he or she may have to vote to raise taxes on the rich)

Poll

NY Times

Percent of Republicans who believe in global warming: 48%.
Percent of Republicans who believe in demonic possession: 68%

From Harper's Index via Daily Kos

... when it comes to Senate Republican primaries, the "people back in the states" are stark raving lunatics.

-- In the context of how Republicans have forfeited a number of Senate seats in the last two elections.

Poll

We got nine national polls for ya (CBS, Gallup tracking, Rasmussen tracking, Ipsos, Democracy Corps, YouGov, PPP, ABC and Tarrance). And the average is... (drumroll)

Obama: 46.4%
Romney: 45.6%

This week's and previous week's dataObama : 46.4 46.7 46.3 47.7 46.8 45.8 46.9 46.0 47.2 46.8 47.4 46.0 46.7 46.3 46.7 44.3 ( Read more... )

Would still be Medicare. But Medicare by Paul Ryan would be... ObamaCare ( Read more... )

Having worked for Congressman Bachman’s campaign for president, I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts.

-- Ed Rollins, Bachmann's Presidential campaign chiefHmmmm. Isn't this even more of an indictment of Ed Rollins? That he would be willing to work to make someone President of the United States who "has difficulty with ( Read more... )

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.

via Andrew SullivanOf ( Read more... )

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... )