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Comment by doone on June 13, 2012 at 10:58am

Jon Stewart Blasts Rick Scott’s Purge Of Florida Voter Rolls

Jon Stewart

Comment by Neal on June 13, 2012 at 8:59am

Would be funny if not true.

Comment by doone on June 13, 2012 at 7:06am

 Krug-Zingers

By Anne Laurie June 13th, 2012

“Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles, Manchurian candidates for I don’t know who, if their real job is to bring down America because they really are doing the best they can.” — May 18, 2012, on MSNBC’s “Martin Bashir,” speaking about House Speaker John Boehner’s and other Republican leaders’ economic policies

Via the Professor Himself, somebody at Politico did a pretty good job of finding appropriate images to illustrate “Krugman’s 13 Best GOP Zingers“...

Comment by zrdm on June 12, 2012 at 4:41pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdh4SiNmZcs

Comment by doone on June 12, 2012 at 12:58pm

Lawmaker's Son Outed in Primary Battle

The Denver Post reports that a GOP primary battle between two Colorado state legislators has gotten so heated that one campaign outed their own candidate's gay son to show that she was more anti-gay than her opponent by voting against civil unions for gays and lesbians.

Said Rep. Marsha Looper (R): "I am disappointed that my campaign manager forwarded an e-mail that would include any member of my family in policy discussions."

Comment by doone on June 12, 2012 at 10:32am

HATE GROUP LEADER COMPARES GAY PRIDE TO ‘ADULTERY PRIDE’ AND ‘DRUNK... | The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins today lambasted the month of June for being Gay Pride Month, arguing that there aren’t pride months for “adultery” or “drunkenness.” He went on to suggest that LGBT equality will have damaging impacts on society because public accommodation laws will compromise “religious freedom,” citing the infamous New Jersey case of a Methodist pavilion that violated its agreement with the state by discriminating against a same-sex couple. Listen to Perkins:

Comment by Neal on June 12, 2012 at 9:52am

I like the way you think. =)

Comment by Chris on June 12, 2012 at 1:57am

Google Trends sounds like an interesting tool.

Conservatives consider homosexuality a choice. Since it's a choice they say it's OK to discriminate against them. Using that logic is it OK to discriminate against people based on their religion, or political viewpoints?

Comment by doone on June 11, 2012 at 3:22pm

Whacko is too kind a word for this guy WHACKO is much Better

Florida Governor Rick Scott Now Less Popular Than Very Unpopular Le...

By Krystal Bonner

 | Posted Friday, June 8, 2012, at 4:59 PM ET

Florida Governor Rick Scott is less popular amongst Floridians than the highly polarizing Miami Heat star LeBron James. 

Photos by Alex Wong/Getty Images (left) and Jim Rogash/Getty Images (right)

A new poll conducted by the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling shows Florida Governor Rick Scott, with a 31 percent approval rating, is less popular amongst Floridians than the highly polarizing Miami Heat star LeBron James, who pips Scott with a 32 percent rating.

If Scott’s poor approval rating wasn’t enough, the new poll also shows he is 12 points behind the first declared Democratic candidate for the 2014 governor’s race, State Senate Minority Leader Nan Rich, who holds a 47 to 35 lead in a hypothetical race. Even worse, Rich has only 14 percent name recognition amongst Floridians, “giving credibility to the theory that literally anyone could beat Scott in 2014,” the report writes.

Comment by doone on June 10, 2012 at 9:19pm

Racists And Obama

Check it out here. Basically, the author tries to figure out whether racism really did suppress Obama's vote in 2008. No one admits to it in polling; other issues completely drown it out in noise; and there were plenty of non-racist reasons people might have voted for McCain or vote for Romney. But Google is an amazing thing:

I performed the somewhat unpleasant task of ranking states and media markets in the United States based on the proportion of their Google searches that included the word “nigger(s).” This word was included in roughly the same number of Google searches as terms like “Lakers,” “Daily Show,” “migraine” and “economist.” ...

The state with the highest racially charged search rate in the country was West Virginia. Other areas with high percentages included western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, upstate New York and southern Mississippi. Once I figured out which parts of the country had the highest racially charged search rates, I could test whether Mr. Obama underperformed in these areas. I predicted how many votes Mr. Obama should have received based on how many votes John Kerry received in 2004 plus the average gain achieved by other 2008 Democratic Congressional candidates.

And guess what?

Add up the totals throughout the country, and racial animus cost Mr. Obama three to five percentage points of the popular vote.

I'd say that is likely to occur in higher numbers this time. But imagine a scenario in which Obama's majority of the popular vote had not been 53 percent but 56. And if McCain had won 43 percent. Given the way the GOP has reacted to Obama, I wouldn't go so far as to say they would have behaved differently in the face of such a landslide. But just a few votes for the stimulus would have changed the dynamic of the past four years of total obstructionism. Too late now, at least. But it's good to be completely realistic about the uphill struggle the president is now in.

It's steep. Without the kind of engagement and enthusiasm he garnered last time, it's close to vertical.

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