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Republican Voters Often Have Ignorant and Irrational Views — And so do Democrats
17 hours ago ago from The Volokh Conspiracy
This recent Daily Kos-sponsored poll showing that large proportions of self-identified Republican voters hold irrational and extremist views has gotten a lot of attention recently. In the above-linked post, Markos Moulitsos writes that the results are “startling.” There are some methodological problems with the survey (see here and here ). In my view, the most important is that it probably oversamples the most committed Republicans. ...
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16 hours ago ago from Eye on Williamson
The race for governor: New poll [PDF] . Democrats White 49%, Shami 19%. Republicans Perry 39% (sound familiar), Hutchison 28%, Medina 24%. One caveat the poll has a small sample size (D-400, R-423), and high (margin of error +/- 5%). On the Democratic side there's quite a bit of undecided's they actually came in second (24%). For the GOP there's little good news seeing how both the Republicans numbers are sinking compared to the ...
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21 hours ago ago from Texas Insider
The State Board of Education has become an awfully political animal. Too often, culture-war clashes dominate the board's discussions and drown out legitimate questions about how best to educate kids. To her credit, Geraldine Miller generally tries to steer clear of this fray. Miller, a longtime board member and a Republican, regularly breaks from the social-conservative voting bloc on the board and offers a more moderate view. For ...
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14 hours ago ago from Off the Kuff
The headline and content of this Trib story is about another strong showing by GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina in a poll, this one by Public Policy Polling , but that's not what interests me. I'll get to that in a minute, but this is what caught my eye from the memo: There is less drama on the Democratic side- Bill White leads Farouk Shami 49-19. PPP surveyed 400 likely Democratic primary voters and 423 likely Republican ...
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18 hours ago ago from Another War of Jenkins' Ear
A guy that wants gays executed , yes executed, is one of the leaders in the Alabama Governor's GOP primary race. Of the six candidates vying for the Republican Party's nomination, Roy Execute Gays Moore is currently polling second : According to political consulting firm Public Strategy Associates’ poll that was released on Tuesday, [Bradley] Byrne, the former chancellor of Alabama’s two-year college system, claimed 20 percent of ...
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Craig Becker Blocked: GOP Filibusters Obama Labor Board Nominee
15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
WASHINGTON Senate Democrats on Tuesday failed to push through President Barack Obama's choice of a union lawyer to serve on the National Labor Relations Board after two of their own joined Republicans to block the nomination. By a 52-33 vote, Democrats fell far short of the 60 needed to overcome a GOP filibuster of the nomination of Craig Becker. The vote is a setback for organized labor, which was counting on a strong pro-union voice on ...
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12 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON President Obama and Republican leaders, each eager to show they can put aside partisanship, agreed Wednesday that they had pinpointed a handful of areas most of them related to jobs creation where the two sides might be able to work together. Luke Sharrett/The New York Times President Obama met with Congressional leaders from both parties in an effort to find areas in which the sides can work together. Blog ...
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