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2010 Elections

Some thoughts about redistricting

Yesterday, the Census released information detailing how the House of Representatives is to be apportioned between the states. To no one’s surprise, Louisiana is slated to lose one of its its seven House districts, due to lower than normal population growth since the 1980s.... (Continue reading)

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2010 Midterm results: Part 6(C) – Another way of looking at U.S. House races

Now that the last House race (a Democratic held seat in New York that narrowly stayed in the Democratic column) has been settled, the House will now have 242 Republicans and 193 Democrats, which means that the GOP gained a... (Continue reading)

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2010 Midterm results: Part 6 – U.S. House races

From the Republicans’ perspective, the “crown jewel” of the 2010 midterm elections was the recapture, by a significant margin, of the U.S. House of Representatives. This house of Congress has been under Democratic control since 2007, and since 1955 has been Democratic controlled... (Continue reading)

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DCCC Head Van Hollen: Nov. 2 Coulda Been Worse

Yeah, sure. You only lost 63 seats. It’s only a flesh wound. Check out Van Hollen at the 3:45 mark… You’ll notice that he continues to spout the same class-warfare drivel the American people took the Democrats to the woodshed for... (Continue reading)

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Hey, Michael Moore! Clinton, Gore and Kerry Lost the ‘White Vote,’ Too

“White America does not like having a black president.” Thus pronounced Michael Moore in an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher.” And Maher agreed, “That is the truth.” “The statistics don’t lie,” Moore plowed ahead. “I’m not talking about... (Continue reading)

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On Mitch McConnell’s Earmark Cave-In…

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the floor to endorse a moratorium on earmarks, representing a surrender of sorts to the Tea Party and others who engineered the GOP’s wipeout of Democrats on Nov. 2. The old guard... (Continue reading)

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Grayson’s Back

Alan Grayson goes on Eric Bolling’s Fox Business Channel and explains why the stupid voters got rid of him – before Bolling gets rid of him as well.... (Continue reading)

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2010 Midterm results: Part 4 – Louisiana Senate race

The seemingly eternal Senate race that started in the summer of 2009 between David Vitter and Charlie Melancon has finally ended, and the verdict of the voters was clear: anything that smacked of President Obama and/or his Democratic policies was... (Continue reading)

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Grabowskis Rule

Former Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints head coach Mike Ditka had a penchant for smash mouth football. To implement it, he recruited what he called his “Grabowskis.” They were big, beefy offensive linemen who would run headlong into a... (Continue reading)

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2010 Midterm results: Part 3 – Louisiana Congressional races

In the previous two articles in the series, we looked at the Senate and Governor’s races across the nation. We would like to shift gears in this article to focus on the Louisiana Congressional races.... (Continue reading)