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A political/economics blog written from a progressive point of view.
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Cost Of Drugs Is Now Biggest Health Care Concern
The Kaiser Family Foundation has completed it's latest survey of Americans on their health care concerns. The chart above shows that the cost of drugs is now th... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Happy Halloween
(This image is from gameskinny.com.) I want to wish all of my readers a very Happy Halloween! I hope you get to celebrate this wonderful (although unofficial)... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
New Poll Has Majority For Clinton & Trump/Carson Leading
This is the Reuters / Ipsos Poll. It was done between October 24th and 28th of random national sample of 676 Democrats and 584 Republicans. The margin of error... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Majority Says Gov. Should Regulate Campaign Donations
Ever since the misguided Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United vs FEC case, there has been huge amounts of money flowing into super-PACs and other... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Republican Voters Tell Us Who Won The Last GOP Debate
The media pundits all had their own opinion on who won last Wednesday's GOP debate, but that's not nearly as important as who the Republican voters think won th... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
States With Least Strict Gun Laws Have Most Gun Deaths
The NRA and other gun-nuts like to claim that strict gun laws have nothing to do with less deaths by guns. They love to point to Illinois (where Chicago has... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Texas Is Number One (In The Number Of Uninsured Children)
Texas is number one in another statistic, but it is not one that any Texan should be proud of at all. Texas leads the nation in the number of children that... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Clinton Still Maintains A Large Lead Over Her Opponents
These charts were made from information in the latest YouGov Poll -- done between October 23rd and 27th of a random national sample of 2,000 adults, and has a... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Fiorina Debate Blunder Insures She Will Never Be President
(This caricature of Carly Fiorina is by DonkeyHotey.) It seems that most of the GOP candidates think the path to the White House lies in demonizing the media (a... Read more
Posted on 30 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Boehner's Parting Gift To America -- A Two-Year Budget Deal
The caricature above, by DonkeyHotey, is of the primary architects of the new budget (and debt ceiling bill) -- but I believe one played a more important part... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
North & South Carolina Presidential Polls For Both Parties
Two new state polls have been released on the presidential race. The first is the Public Policy Polling survey -- done between October 23rd and 25th of a... Read more
Posted on 29 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Florida Newspaper Calls For Rubio To Resign From Senate
Recent reports from some individuals close to Marco Rubio (caricatured at left by DonkeyHotey) say he hates his job as a senator. Read more
Posted on 29 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Trump And Carson Each Lead In Dueling National Polls
The top chart is from the CBS News / New York Times Poll -- done between October 21st and 25th of a random national sample of 575 Republican primary voters, wit... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
The Republicans Continue To Lie About Social Security
I am getting sick and tired of Republican officials lying about Social Security. I was watching C-SPAN yesterday, and in an interview, Rep. Read more
Posted on 28 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
New Iowa Poll Shows Hillary Clinton With A Huge Lead
Yesterday, I showed you the Monmouth University Poll for Iowa Republicans -- which showed that Carson is besting Trump in that state. Now Monmouth has released... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Texas Must Fix Its Poor Workers' Compensation Law
The chart above shows the difference between the average payment for loss of a body part due to a work accident in both the United States and Texas. Read more
Posted on 28 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Teabagger Support Has Sharply Declined In Last Five Years
This is a bit of good news for this country. A new poll shows that the teabagger support has significantly declined in the United States. Read more
Posted on 27 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Now Four Polls Show Trump Losing In Iowa To Carson
I previously brought you the results of Iowa polls that showed Ben Carson is now leading Donald Trump in that state -- the Des Moines Register / Bloomberg Poll... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Climate Change Is NOT The Only Problem With Rising CO2
There has been much discussion of the effect of greenhouse gases on global climate change (especially carbon dioxide, which is the primary greenhouse gas). Read more
Posted on 27 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY -
Who Does Public Think Can Win The 2016 General Election ?
We still have a year to go before the 2016 general election, and anything could happen to change things in that year. But I found this poll interesting. Read more
Posted on 26 October 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY
