Month: September 2011

When did criticizing and taxing the rich become a partisan issue as if the rich were synonymous with “Republican”?

Republicans turned a reliable voting bloc into a hated national enemy by overreacting to 9/11.

Nate Silver did something I’d been meaning to do for the last couple of weeks. He looked at the ratings for the top 2012 GOP candidates on Politifact to measure their relative truthiness. The first and only response I’d expect to the following information from conservatives is to dismiss Politifact as liberally biased, as part […]

Conservatives that dismiss polling results because they don’t like the results are easy to embarrass because of the ease of availability of pollster records online. Public Policy Polling (PPP) is criticized by the right (and no one else) for being associated with the Democratic Party, but the Wall Street Journal found PPP to be the most accurate pollster of the 2008 […]

Despite a negative job approval rating, Barack Obama is in track to easily win reelection against a weak and disliked 2012 GOP field.