Thursday, January 29, 2009

Changes

I've added 538.com back to the blogroll. The site was the most accurate in its analysis and projections for the last election than any other source I know.

This graphic is fascinating. It shows the predominance of party registrations in the states in 2008:



Note that there are only two states that have a majority of Republicans outside of the "Mormon belt:" Alaska and Nebraska. 35 states have majority Democratic registrations and ten are toss-ups. Even Texas, supplier of douchebag politicians to the nation, is a toss-up.

The party of Hoover may, for the foreseeable future, be relegated to just being an annoyance on cable news, which, according to Think Progress, have given far more airtime to the Hooverites:

So much for MSNBC being the "liberal network."
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1 comment:

  1. willis1/29/2009 10:31 PM

    "Even Texas, supplier of douchebag politicians to the nation"..

    Man that hurts. Its ture but it hurts. We did provide Bill Moyers, Ann Richard, and Molly Ivins but we have no shortage of far right asshats and we get to kill lots of folks up in Huntsville.

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