I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the special election in PA-18. It’s a very red district, R +11 Cook PVI. If there’s a huge Democratic wave in 2018 and the Dems in 40 seats, how many R +11 seats would I expect the Dems to win? Maybe one or two (Dems currently hold …
Election 2012
Make Sure to Save the Date!
Oy vey… OMG. Joe Arpaio will keep the birther bullshit going until Obama leaves office pic.twitter.com/6Aj4ffBEWl — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) December 14, 2016
The value of a ground game
4Chan, Reddit and large rallies are good at building group solidarity and raising money as well as a mob. So far they are not a substitute for a boring, grind it out ground game. North Carolina has some interesting data on early voting: Registered Democrats continue to lead in the accepted ballots numbers, and …
Obamacare is a job killer
Finally, the evidence is in. Obamacare is significantly hurting a segment of the US economy. From Bloomberg: Early evidence suggests that the Affordable Care Act is working — at least in one important respect, according to researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Analysts Nicole Dussault, Maxim Pinkovskiy, and Basit Zafar state that the …
Good news everybody: ACA cost edition
CBO: #ACA subsidies increase 11%, overall costs are 25% less than first projected https://t.co/zqCL17yHa5 — MB (@baxterdc) March 25, 2016 So under budget and on projection for the target uninsured rate even with Chief Justice Roberts enabling sociopaths and assholes to stop Medicaid Expansion in 20 states. Not bad at all…. UPDATE 1: The next …
Good news everybody
Just some more good news: Nice chart from @HHS_ASPE on different measures of the uninsured rate. https://t.co/uGhGn759s6 pic.twitter.com/fi3uij9jqm — Margot Sanger-Katz (@sangerkatz) March 3, 2016 and the good news will probably continue for the first quarter of 2016: expected ++ gains from Exchange ++ Montana and Alaska Medicaid and a decent economy still supporting good …
Time to Show the Chair the Door?
Which is the more competent chair? I think it’s the one on the left: The NYT has the latest on the ongoing kerfluffle between DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other party members over the number of debates: R.T. Rybak, the former mayor of Minneapolis and a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, on …