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Occupy Wall Streeters are Probably In the 1 Percent

March 8, 2012 Buck Banks

1%

Looked at it in a global context, most Occupy Wall Street protesters are members of the 1%. Because the developing world is so poor in comparison with the U.S., the cutoff for the global 1% is an income of about $34,000, according to Foreign Policy magazine.

Republicans Make Obama Look Good to Dems

March 6, 2012 Buck Banks

49%

Of Democrats say that as they learn more about the GOP candidates, their impression of Obama is getting better. That compares to just 36% of Democrats who expressed that view in December.

George W. Romney? Romney Now As Unpopular As Bush Was – Approval Rating Drops to 28%

March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 Jon Ponder

28%

Mitt Romney’s favorable rating, according to the new Wall St. Journal/NBC poll. And there is even worse news for the putative GOP nominee. Among independents, the voters who will likely decide the election in November, Romney’s approval is six points lower — just 22 percent. If something about these disastrously low numbers for a national politician have a ring of familiarity, it may be that they call to mind the approval ratings of George Bush in the final years of his presidency, including his all-time low favorable rating of 25 percent, in 2008, according to Gallup. In fact, George W. Bush was the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling. Now it’s looking like Mitt Romney could become the most unpopular nominee for the presidency in history.

Someone Please Hand Rush Limbaugh a Mirror

March 4, 2012March 4, 2012 Trish

7

Collective number of wives had by Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd noted the double standard by which Limbaugh played in labeling a woman testifying before Congress about employers providing complete women’s health care coverage a slut: “Rush and Newt Gingrich can play the studs, marrying again and again until they find the perfect adoring young wife. But women pressing for health care rights are denigrated as sluts.”

Texas Leads the Nation in Percentage of Uninsured

March 2, 2012 Buck Banks

27.6%

Percentage of Texas residents who lack health insurance — the highest in the country — while Massachusetts continues to have the lowest (4.9%). No state has measurably decreased its percentage of uninsured since 2008, according to Gallup.

Romney, the Financial Genius, Gets Less Bang for His Buck than Santorum

February 29, 2012 Trish

$10.40

What the Mitt Romney campaign and his PAC, Restore Our Future, paid for each vote cast for their guy in Michigan, according to Electablog. Romney’s funding sources poured a total of $4.27 million into the state, while Rick Santorum’s supporters spent $2.27 million, or about $6 per vote. Nine out of ten Romney ads were negative, but they netted him 32,393 more votes than Santorum, or 3%.

Declaration of Independence: More Maine Voters are Undeclared Than Members of Any One Party

February 28, 2012 Trish

335,154

Number of voters in Maine, where Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) announced she will not seek another term, who are registered to vote but are “undeclared” for any party. An additional 294,586 are registered as Democrats, 256,520 as Republicans, and 31,064 are members of the Green party. Snowe was facing a tea party challenger in the Republican primary.

Most Americans Disapprove of Auto Manufacturer Bailout

February 23, 2012 Buck Banks

51% to 44%

Margin by which Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of the federal government’s bailout of U.S. automakers three years ago, according to Gallup. A majority of Democrats, 63%, approve, while a majority of Republicans, 73%, disapprove.

The Rise of Republican Ennui

February 22, 2012 Buck Banks

40%

Of Republicans say they have a great deal of interest in following the Republican presidential race, compared with 48% in December, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. Key findings: Only 23% are strongly satisfied with the field and 40% said they are dissatisfied with the candidates running.

Most GOPers Don’t Want Brokered Convention

February 21, 2012 Buck Banks

66% to 29%

Margin by which Republicans say it would be better if one of the four candidates now running managed to secure enough delegates to clinch the nomination rather than head to a brokered or deadlocked convention. In addition, 57% say the volatile nomination battle isn’t hurting the party.

1%

Looked at it in a global context, most Occupy Wall Street protesters are members of the 1%. Because the developing world is so poor in comparison with the U.S., the cutoff for the global 1% is an income of about $34,000, according to Foreign Policy magazine.

49%

Of Democrats say that as they learn more about the GOP candidates, their impression of Obama is getting better. That compares to just 36% of Democrats who expressed that view in December.

28%

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27.6%

Percentage of Texas residents who lack health insurance — the highest in the country — while Massachusetts continues to have the lowest (4.9%). No state has measurably decreased its percentage of uninsured since 2008, according to Gallup.

$10.40

335,154

51% to 44%

Margin by which Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of the federal government’s bailout of U.S. automakers three years ago, according to Gallup. A majority of Democrats, 63%, approve, while a majority of Republicans, 73%, disapprove.

40%

66% to 29%

Margin by which Republicans say it would be better if one of the four candidates now running managed to secure enough delegates to clinch the nomination rather than head to a brokered or deadlocked convention. In addition, 57% say the volatile nomination battle isn’t hurting the party.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rick Wilson

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

Numerati

$71.1 million to $45.2 million

56% to 37%

270,000

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%