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Election ’12, Page 67

Bad news for Dems: Congressional reapportionment data from Census likely to benefit GOP

Remember the heavy push from the Obama administration and other Democrats last year and in the early part of this year to get people to fill out their Census forms – all in the unsaid but nevertheless clearly there hopes that more “minorities” would fill out their forms, thereby increasing the possibility that Democrats would gain more Congressional seats?  Doesn’t look like their hopes will be realized (via Memeorandum):.....   [Read More]

Not my ideal candidate, but…

So, this morning I was scanning blogs that linked to mine the previous day and, at the always worthwhile POWIP, I came across an old-but-interesting post by Enoch Root on the elitist accusations of, well, a lack of intelligence on the part of Sarah Palin. (And it’s been rearing it’s head again, lately.) But it wasn’t the post itself that got me thinking, and thus inspired this post, but an exchange in the comments between two of my Twitter-friends, Dan and Darcy, in which both said, in effect, “She’s not my ideal candidate, but…” and then proceeded to give reasons why they liked or sympathized with her......   [Read More]