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You can prove anything with a good map and a few facts

by Rufus on June 27, 2010

Take a good look at the map below. It is a county-by-county accounting of the 2008 presidential election. The red counties are Republicans; the blue are Democrats. The map is widely available to anyone on the Internet and if you want to dig deeper into the numbers, you can visit the board of elections website [...]

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How health insurance companies gave Obama’s health care reform it’s second wind

by Rufus on March 16, 2010

In November, the Democrats were on the ropes. The GOP had just elected themselves a golden child with Scott Brown and tilted the scales back below sixty votes in the Senate. They had won two gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. The media was calling the Health Care Reform bill dead. Time between now [...]

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WSJ photo change-up

by Rufus on December 2, 2009

I understand regional differences in editorial selection for newspapers and different editions based on a kind of soft “stop the presses,” but really WSJ, are you pandering to us in the “Pro-America” parts of the country? At least we should be grateful the cadet wasn’t reading “Goin’ Rogue”

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