Month: June 2015
Public Wants Supremes to Leave Obamacare Alone
55% to 38%
Margin by which more people say the Supreme Court should not take action to block federal subsidies in states that didn’t set up their own exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. “Public opinion on providing subsidies splits in predictably partisan ways — but not overwhelmingly so. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats (65 percent) say the court should not take action to block health insurance subsidies. Fifty-five percent of Republicans say the court should rule against the subsidies. Independents side with keeping subsidies, 57 percent to 36 percent.”
Liberals Wax as Conservatives Wane
26%
Percentage of registered voters who identified themselves as liberals — up from 23% in 2014 — in three national polls conducted so far in 2015, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal. At the same time, the share of voters identifying as conservatives dropped to 33% from 37% in 2014.
Rubio Misquotes JFK
“Asked six decades ago, this nation and that generation chose to embrace a New Frontier. In fact, they took up the challenge of a then young president who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do, ask what you can do for your country.’”
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), while campaigning in Iowa, “presented the 2016 campaign as a generational pivot point, likening his vision for a ‘New American Century’… to Kennedy’s 1960 challenge to the nation to embrace a ‘New Frontier,’” National Journal reports.
Is Scalia a Creationist?
Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.
— Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, quoted by the Washington Post, suggesting he might be a creationist. ThinkProgress notes the earliest Homo sapiens actually lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago.
Jeb ‘Looks Weaker And Weaker’
The Cook Political Report represents the gold standard in political polling and prognosticating. When Charlie Cook or his lieutenants cite a trend, you can take it to the bank. This week one of Cook’s top experts, Amy Walters, published an analysis of Jeb Bush’s all-but-announced presidential campaign that is likely sounding alarms throughout the Republican Party’s establishment wing. The headline, written in neutral Cookspeak, says it all: “Jeb Goes from Fragile Frontrunner to Underdog.”
Bet Chris Christie Wishes He’d Never Suited Up for That Game
Enjoy this awesome pic of the awesome governor of New Jersey, who appears ready to play ball. Yes, just the one ball.
