“This is consistent with our country’s tradition of being a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.” – Senator John McCain (Press conference announcing new immigration reform push) ISN’T IT amazing what a demographic shellacking can do. Packed room at the press conference announcing the latest effort in immigration reform. A powerful group of [...]
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Top Story — Demographic Shellacking Leads to GOP Immigration Epiphany, Legislation Pending *Updated*
The Sexist Confederate War on Susan Rice
THE CONFEDERACY lives in the 21st century Republican party and segments of the American right, which many progressives have argued for a long time; they may not be the largest contingent, but they’re the loudest and most troublesome for conservatives clawing their way to relevancy in the wake of the 2012 election. The confederate right [...]
Romney Thinks He Lost Because Obama is Oprah
YOU GET a gift, single woman. You get a gift, Hispanic man. And you college kid, you get a gift, too. Oh, and African Americans, you especially always get gifts. As for the rest of America, we got the biggest gift of all, because Mitt Romney isn’t our president. From the New York Times: In [...]
People of Color Come Into Paul Ryan’s View
EARTH TO Rep. Ryan, the loss in 2012 has been baked into the political cake for a very long time. But all of a sudden it’s the “urban vote” that did in the Romney-Ryan ticket: “The surprise was some of the turnout, some of the turnout especially in urban areas, which gave President Obama the [...]
Top Story — It’s the Demographics, Stupid
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy AND BY stupid I mean former Governor Haley Barbour’s assertion that Sandy cost Mitt Romney the presidency. I made the case preemptively that Romney couldn’t blame losing on Sandy, knowing what was bound to come in what I believed (and wrote) would be [...]
Demographics Against Romney, But Enthusiasm for Obama Lower than in ’08 for Key Groups
WHEN YOU hear the Democratic standard bearer talking about his views being the same as Romney on Social Security, then see an email confirming his contention, it’s hard to get excited when both men running for president intend to tinker with the social safety net. Only 73 percent who support Obama say they are “extremely [...]
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