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A political/economics blog written from a progressive point of view.
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A political/economics blog written from a progressive point of view.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 16965 )
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Dems & General Public Convinced Clinton Will Be Nominee
This meter chart shows the results of a new Rasmussen Poll -- done on November 15th and 16th of a random national sample of 1,000 likely voters. It has a... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Florida Voters Prefer Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump
These are the results of a new Florida Atlantic University Poll -- done on November 15th and 16th of samples of 297 Democrats and 355 Republicans in Florida. Th... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Governors Pandering To Fear Of Their Bigoted Base
(This caricature of GOP fear is by the inimitable DonkeyHotey.) If there is one thing the Republicans are good at, it's recognizing that tragedy represents a... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Jindal Is Out Of The Race - Others Should Follow Suit
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal finally woke up and read the political writing on the wall. He realized that he had absolutely no chance to win the Republican... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Uses The Politics Of Fear (And Ignores The Facts)
(This image is from the flickr page of user EN2008.) The Republican candidates for president, and their elected cohorts in Congress, have been quick to jump on... Read more
Posted on 18 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Adults Still Playing At War
(This image is from the website Planet Retro.) I bring you another poem from my friend Brian McLaughlin at Beej's Poetry Corner. Read more
Posted on 18 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Majority Of Democrats Say Clinton Won Second Debate
The chart above reflects the opinion of Democrats on the second debate of the Democratic candidates. The CBS News Poll was done after Saturday's debate of 674... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
GOP Governors Ready To Give ISIS What It Wants
The letter displayed above is from Governor Greg Abbott of Texas -- saying he will refuse to accept any Syrian refugees in Texas. He is not the only one. Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Clinton Is Trending Upwards In New Hampshire
The chart above represents the results of a new Gravis Marketing Poll. They queried 214 New Hampshire Democrats on November 11th. The survey has a rather... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Ted Cruz Is An Idiot, A Bigot, Un-American, And Immoral
Ted Cruz has jumped on the Paris attacks as an excuse to inject fear into the presidential race for his own political gain. He knows that many in the... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Leading Candidates On Raising The Minimum Wage
Posted on 16 November 2015
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Republicans Are Embarrassingly Bad At Creating Jobs
(This cart is from Daily Kos.) The Republicans like to claim that they know how to create jobs in this country. They say jobs can be created by cutting taxes... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Clinton/Sanders Supporters Also Like The Other Candidate
The YouGov Poll shows that Democrats have a favorable opinion of both of their leading candidates -- 78% have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton and 63% hav... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Americans Are Still Very Angry With The U.S. Congress
The American public has been very angry with the United States Congress ever since the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2010. Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Religious Terror Strikes Paris
Unless you live in a cave somewhere, then you know about the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night. At least 129 people were killed and over 350 wounded... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
New Polls Show Carson Could Be Losing Ground
I found these two new polls interesting, because they both show a wider gap between Donald Trump and Ben Carson than other polls have been showing. Is Carson's... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Upward Re-Distribution Of Income (& The Rigged Market)
Republicans like to talk about the "re-distribution of income" from the rich to others through taxation as though it was a bad thing. Read more
Posted on 15 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The U.S. Supreme Court Will Decide The Constitutionality Of Texas' Onerous...
(The image above is from the New York Times.) The image on the left shows the number of clinics providing abortions in Texas before the newest abortion... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
New Poll Shows Political Preference Of Texas Voters
All of these charts were made from information contained in a new Texas Tribune / University of Texas Poll. The survey questioned 1200 adults in Texas between... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Warren Responds To Wall Street Attacks On Her And CFPB
The financial moguls of Wall Street have recently funded some ads attacking Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Read more
Posted on 14 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY
