Census: Sunbelt Supremacy, Gains for GOP
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 23rd, 2010 5:31 am by HL
Census: Sunbelt Supremacy, Gains for GOP
Walter Shapiro, Politics Daily
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That aphorism — attributed to Mark Twain — has been dramatically repudiated by Tuesday's initial release of statewide population data from the 2010 Census. The quest for mild winters remains the great constant of American demographics. For the first time in history, more than half of the nation's population (308,745,538) resides either in the South or in the warm-weather states of California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Is Obama Staging a Comeback? Probably Not
Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
The latest CNN/Opinion Research poll of national adults finds Barack Obama's job approval split — 48 percent approve and 48 percent disapprove. This is up substantially from September, when the poll found 42 percent of adults approving and 54 percent disapproving The shift was enough to prompt a short item from Politico, with this opening: “President Barack Obama may be staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people .”
Don’t Be Afraid to Say ‘Merry Christmas’
Jamie Katz, Chicago Tribune
A pair of high-spirited teenage girls scurried across a busy Manhattan intersection, braving the crowds and frosty weather to hit one more Fifth Avenue shop before closing time. I was a step behind them as they passed a Salvation Army Santa ringing his bell and a traffic cop in earmuffs.”Merry Christmas!” one of the girls sang out to the policeman, who returned the greeting with a big smile and a wave.
Sorting Out the GOP’s 2012 Pack
Jonah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Will Barbour Fallout Impact 2012 Landscape?
Conroy & McPike, RCP
Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour moved quickly Tuesday to clarify recent remarks he made about the civil rights era that ricocheted around the news media in a way that suggested he could be cast as racially insensitive if he launches a presidential bid.After first praising in an interview with the Weekly Standard the role that segregationist Citizens Councils played in civil rights-era integration in his hometown of Yazoo City, Barbour issued a statement on Tuesday calling the Councils “totally indefensible.” The governor explained that his town rejected the Ku Klux Klan,…
