Archive for May 19th, 2009

Gallup: Republicans Are Tanking

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on May 19, 2009 • 49 Comments

There are new poll results out from Gallup about partisan identification, and it’s not good news for Republicans. The decline in Republican Party affiliation among Americans in recent years is well documented, but a Gallup analysis now shows that this movement away from the GOP has occurred among nearly every major demographic subgroup. Since the […]

Secret Government in Session in Dover

Filed in Delaware by El Somnambulo on May 19, 2009 • 36 Comments

Nancy Cook and the Joint Finance Committee began its budget markup yesterday, free, for hopefully the last time, from the disinfectant of sunshine. Virtually all of it took place behind closed doors, according to the News-Journal’s J. L. Miller. Allegedly an ‘Orientation’ session, as if 12 veteran legislators with decades of JFC experience required any […]