July 10, 2024 - Pensito

Post-Debate Poll Finds 94% of Biden Voters Still Support Him

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 Pensito Editors

94%

Percentage of Biden supporters polled before and after the debate who said they still support him. Among Trump supporters, 86 percent said they’ll stand by their man. Polling was conducted by the Northeastern University-led data project CHIP50 using surveys of the same people before and after the debate, a method that produces more precise results, according to CHIP50.

Doomed to Repeat

July 10, 2024 Buck Banks

OK, so Biden’s debate performance was far less than great,
Spurring the usual Democratic hand-wringing and fevered debate.
Amid calls for Biden to throw in
And have an open Democratic Convention,
Somebody needs to remind the Dems what happened back in 1968.

Potential Result of Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban — A Dearth of Doctors
Florida's Republican legislature didn't consider the unintended consequences

July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 Buck Banks

In the wake of the Trump-packed Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that undid 50 years of Roe v. Wade abortion rights protections, the notoriously short-sighted and dim-witted Republican-run Florida legislature passed a law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, which went into effect in May.

Besides being one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country, the ban appears to be affecting the number of medical students applying for residencies in the state and is reducing the number of young physicians who plan to practice in Florida, reports the Tampa Bay Times.

According to an analysis by researchers at the nonprofit Association of American Medical Colleges, in the two residency application cycles following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, states with near-total abortion bans and states with gestational limits, such as Florida, saw larger year-over-year declines in residency applicants compared to states where the procedure is legal.

According to the Tampa Bay Times:
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Jayapal Offers a Not-Resounding Endorsement of Biden’s Run for Prez

July 10, 2024 Buck Banks

Day: July 10, 2024

Post-Debate Poll Finds 94% of Biden Voters Still Support Him

94%

Doomed to Repeat

Potential Result of Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban — A Dearth of Doctors
Florida's Republican legislature didn't consider the unintended consequences

Florida's Republican legislature didn't consider the unintended consequences

Jayapal Offers a Not-Resounding Endorsement of Biden’s Run for Prez

“At the end of the day, he is our nominee right now ‘til he’s not our nominee.”

— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on President Biden.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%