May 21, 2013 - Pensito

Virginia Lawmaker Said Planned Parenthood Worse than the KKK

May 21, 2013 Buck Banks

The Democrat Party has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood, which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions. Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was.

— Virginia Lt. Gov. nominee E.W. Jackson, in a video posted last year, compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and bemoaned black voters’ “slavish devotion” to the Democratic Party, Politico reports.

Republicans Post Big Jump in Unpopularity

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Change in the GOP’s unfavorability ratings, according to a new CNN poll in which 59% of respondents said they have an unfavorable opinion of the Republican party, while 35% were still favorable. The numbers were more even for Democrats, with 52% of those polled saying they view the party favorably and 43% seeing it unfavorably. The response to the tea party movement was, as would be expected, the strangest, with 37% seeing it favorably, 45% unfavorably, an astounding 7% reporting that they never heard of it, and 11% withholding any opinion.

NRA Building War Chest for Midterm Elections

May 21, 2013 Buck Banks

$6,730,272

Amount of cash, as of April 30, that The National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund reported it has on hand. The NRA raised $1,290,539 during April and spent only $27,318, Political Moneyline reports.

Obama’s Popularity Remains Steady, Despite Controversies

May 21, 2013 Buck Banks

51% to 44%

President Obama’s approval rating, which has remained steady “in the face of fresh disclosures about the IRS, the Benghazi attack and the Justice Department’s secret collection of telephone records of Associated Press journalists as part of a leak investigation,” a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.

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Paul Defines ‘Inclusive’ in Republican Terms

May 21, 2013 Buck Banks

We’re going to win when we look like America. We need to be white, we need to be brown, we need to be black, we need to with tattoos, without tattoos, with pony tails, without pony tails, with beards, without.

Day: May 21, 2013

Virginia Lawmaker Said Planned Parenthood Worse than the KKK

— Virginia Lt. Gov. nominee E.W. Jackson, in a video posted last year, compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and bemoaned black voters’ “slavish devotion” to the Democratic Party, Politico reports.

Republicans Post Big Jump in Unpopularity

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NRA Building War Chest for Midterm Elections

$6,730,272

Amount of cash, as of April 30, that The National Rifle Association of America Political Victory Fund reported it has on hand. The NRA raised $1,290,539 during April and spent only $27,318, Political Moneyline reports.

Obama’s Popularity Remains Steady, Despite Controversies

51% to 44%

Paul Defines ‘Inclusive’ in Republican Terms

We’re going to win when we look like America. We need to be white, we need to be brown, we need to be black, we need to with tattoos, without tattoos, with pony tails, without pony tails, with beards, without.

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Poetic Justice

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“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”