Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Reality-BasedTM Political Numbers from Nicholas Beaudrot
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Michael Scanlon, Republican Power Broker and IRC denizen: The New York Times on Former DeLay aide Michael Scanlon:
'In an e-mail message made public by the committee, Mr. Scanlon seemed to lust for wealth, and seemed to see the Indian tribes as easy targets. "I want all their money!!!" he wrote of one tribe in 2002. Referring to the money available from another tribe, he exclaimed, "Weeez gonna be rich!!!"
d000d! L00BBYING 4 treye-ball casinoes iz teh r0xor.
SurveyUSA's latest fifty state job approval poll is out. I'd like you to guess which blue state gives the President the highest job approval rating.
New Hampshire was might close; Kerry won by a scant 9,000 votes. Sure, it's a small state, but that was still only good enough for a 1.4% margin of victory. Even if the President's decline in approval ratings isn't uniformly distributed around the country, the Granite State would still have a leg up on the rest of the country, right? No.
Wisconsin was a razor thin win for Kerry, and other than New Hampshire, the only state Kerry won where polls regularly showed him losing. So if it's not New Hampshire, surely it must be there, right? No again.
Pennsylvania has a large and populous central region that's fairly conservative, and the 2004 results there were pretty close. So that might be it, right? No again! So what state could it possibly be?
Washington. There are now ten red states that give Bush a lower job approval rating than the Evergreen State. I'd be tempted to say that this was just a little float in the polling data, but his second highest approval rating can be found in Oregon. What's even more bizarre is that while the President's approval rating has gone down in the rest of the country, it's gone up in the Pacific Northwest for the past two months.
I have no good explanation for this. I don't even have a bad explanation for this.
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updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 08:22 22 November 2005
