I especially love when he admits the Republicans have done nothing for him compared to the “Democrat Party.”
“But you know, the Republican Party, they haven’t done nothing for me, man. Nothing,” he remarked. “So, I’m leaning toward voting for Hillary unless something major comes up. I don’t trust the Republicans anymore because they’re wanting to repeal the Obamacare. And I don’t want them to do that, man, because then I’ll have to go to work again. My life’s already planned out.”
Sam Wang: “Hillary Clinton has massive name recognition. She is as well-known as a sitting President… The best-known Republican, Jeb Bush, matches Hillary Clinton’s unfavorability, but lags her in favorability by 15 points. To match her net favorable-minus-unfavorable number, he would have to win over people who don’t have an opinion by a ratio of 1.7 to 1. That is a huge challenge.”
This chart shows the huge problem for Republicans candidates named Bush, Christie, Paul and Cruz. It is almost impossible for them to catch up to Clinton’s favorability. Rubio and Walker have room to do it though.
Give credit to Republicans in Congress. They’ve discovered, belatedly, that income inequality is a problem, and they’re no longer proposing to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. Now they are proposing to give tax breaks to the wealthiest two-tenths of 1 percent of Americans.
Greg Bluestein at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says Georgia is undergoing a major demographic change that will affect its voting pattern, and we already saw a little of that in the 2014 election:
“I sometimes feel like Georgia flies under the radar,” said Ruy Teixeira of the Center for American Progress. “But things are changing there so quickly.”…The analysis was done by the Center for American Progress, the American Enterprise Institute and William H. Frey from the Brookings Institute…shows that Georgia could become a majority-minority state in 2025 and that minorities could outnumber whites among eligible voters by 2036…A narrow majority of students in Georgia’s public schools are now non-white and the data show that the proportion of white children could diminish to about 30 percent by 2060…”Blacks have more proclivity to vote in one direction than Hispanics or Asians,” said Teixeira. “It’s definitely changing the character. And one thing that will really make a huge difference in Georgia is if white voters vote more liberally. You don’t need much of a shift in the white vote for there to be a tipping point.”
Anne Coulter wants literacy tests to be required for voter registration. She thinks it will prevent minorities from voting. I think it will prevent stupid illiterate white trash, also known as the Republican base, from voting.
A new Bloomberg poll finds Americans “are becoming more optimistic about the country’s economic prospects by several different measures. President Obama’s handling of the economy is being seen more positively than negatively for the first time in more than five years, 49% to 46% — his best number in this poll since September 2009.” But the survey “also reveals that about three-fourths of Democrats and independents, along with a majority of Republicans, say the gap is growing between the rich and everyone else — and a majority of women want the government to intervene to shrink it.”
This is horribly bad news for Republicans.
Kudos to Chief Justice John Roberts for setting a good example and reporting for jury duty. He went through voir dire (a fancy lawyer term for selecting a jury) for a civil personal injury case, but was not selected. I always report for jury duty, and never try to get out of it unless I really do have a conflicting issue (like I have a surgery scheduled, would be out of the state or country, etc.). It is one of the few civic duties you have as a citizen, and everyone should do it without complaining. You should also vote and pay your taxes, but you can complain when doing that.
NEW HAMPSHIRE–PRESIDENT–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY–Public Policy Polling: Walker 24, Cruz 14, Paul 12, Bush 10, Christie 8, Rubio 8, Carson 7 and Huckabee 7.