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Public Sees Donald Trump As A Race Divider
Donald Trump said he would be a "uniter" if elected to be president. The American public doesn't agree. They see Trump as a divider, who has made race... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Military Defies Trump - Will Allow Transgenders In Military
(The Transgender Pride Flag at left was designed by Johnathan Andrew.) Donald Trump tried to appease his evangelical supporters by banning transgendered... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Votes For Massive Redistribution Of Income To Rich
The Republican Congress made it clear that they don't care about the wishes of the American public yesterday. They rammed a massive tax cut for the rich and... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Shameful Effort By Republicans To Cover For Trump
The latest movement among congressional Republicans has been to attack the integrity of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller (pictured) -- and therefore, his... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump's Job Approval Is NOT Improving
This chart shows the results of the latest CNN / SSRS Poll -- done between December 14th and 17th of a random national sample of 1,001 adults, with a margin of... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
A Republican Explains Why He's Leaving The Party
(This photo of ex-Republican Kurt Bardella is from CNN.) Kurt Bardella has been a life-long Republican, and has worked for several Republicans in Congress --... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Public Still Opposes The Republican's Tax Reform Plan
The Republicans are determined to ram their tax "reform" through Congress this week -- with no compromise with Democrats. The plan gives massive tax cuts for th... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Democrats Have The Largest Electoral Margin Since 2008
These two charts are from a new NBC News / Wall Street Journal Poll -- done between December 13th and 15th of a random national sample of 900 adults, with a... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Majority Trusts Media More Than Trump (Except For Fox)
Donald Trump continues to attack major media outlets as being untrustworthy (i.e., "fake news"). He hopes that those attacks will convince the public that his... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Tax Bill Will Increase Inequality And Stunt Growth
The Republicans claim that their tax plan will spur economic growth, and therefore, be good for all Americans. But we already have a vast inequality in wealth... Read more
Posted on 19 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Most Americans Say Santa Claus Is A Democrat
This poll tossed this rather humorous question into their latest survey. They asked whether their poll's respondents thought Santa Claus was a Republican or a... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Does Donald Trump Have Any Electoral Coattails ?
(This cartoon image is by Steve Sack in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.) According to senior White House aides, Donald Trump is looking forward to traveling all... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Public Not Loving Either Party (But Dislike The GOP More)
These charts use information contained in the newest Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between December 10th and 12th of a random national sample of 1,338... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Donald Trump May Have A Degenerative Brain Disease
(This photo of Donald Trump was found at CNN.com.) I have written before about Trump's psychological problems (and I still believe he has at least some... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
More Devastating Numbers For Donald Trump
Trump loves to claim he is the most popular and most effective president ever. But all those pathetic claims prove is that he has no connection to reality. The... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Has Not Lived Up To His Tough Anti-Immigration Talk
Trump made deportation of undocumented immigrants one of his campaign promises (and the building of a wall to prevent further immigration). Read more
Posted on 17 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Rights Of American Citizens Do NOT Come From God
Right-wing politicians, in an effort to appeal to evangelical voters, love to claim that the rights afforded American citizens come from god. That is simply... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump Has Record Low Job Approval In Average Of Polls
These charts are from RealClearPolitics. They top one shows the average of all recent polls on Donald Trump's job approval. Note that the polls' average... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Lies Told By Presidents (Trump Vs. Obama)
Donald Trump has very little regard for the truth. He has told an enormous amount of lies since assuming office. When the New York Times printed a list of his... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Public At Odds With Trump On Dreamers, Wall, And Abortion
President Obama issued an executive order exempting "Dreamers" (undocumented immigrants brought here as children, and who have served in the military or educate... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY