Comments on: The WaPo on Dems Vs. Bloggers

By: Muffin the Cat

Muffin the Cat — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:35:16 +0000

Shall we go into state governorships and state senates and houses also. The last time I looked at these numbers, the Repubs controlled there also. Correct me if I am wrong.

The Democrats gerrymander also. The third district in Kansas all of a sudden juts out to take in Lawrence, which being the location of KU, is a big haven of left wing groups. The third district is represented by a Democrat. I wonder why?

I have become very cynical with newspapers and other forms of print media. I no longer read the Kansas City “Red” Star. I feel it is a joke. I look at it and wonder who paid for what. They have now gone to offering subscriptions for $5 a month.

I will repeat my previous post. “Newspapers do polls to write stories to generate controversy to sell newspapers.”

By: peter

peter — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:33:32 +0000

Not at all. The implication in Muffin’s post is that the polls are inaccurate because otherwise there would be a Democratic majority in the Senate. However, unlike the Senate, the polls reflect national sentiment.

In other words, the fact that there is a Republican majority in the Senate does not indicate that a plurality of Americans want Republican Senators — it only means that a plurality of states want Republican Senators. I’m not suggesting that it should be otherwise — only that you can’t draw the inference from 55 GOP Senators that the US is therefore 55% Republican.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:40:55 +0000

Well, peter, your argument is with the founders, then, who had the foresight to see that the 99.99% of the country’s land mass that doesn’t reside in NYC or the California coast deserves representation, as well…

The Senate is composed that way for a reason…I can only refer you to the Federalist papers, here…

By: peter

peter — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:54:30 +0000

The Republicans have 55 Senators because they are over-represented in smaller states. If Senate seats were distributed in pro-ration to population — e.g., if the four Democratic seats in New York and California were given their proportion of the US population, instead of its existing four percent of Senate seats — then there would be a Democratic majority in the Senate.

The Republican majority in the House is due largely to gerry-mandering and the power of incumbency. The churn rate is virtually non-existent, so change there is glacial.

By: Muffin the Cat

Muffin the Cat — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:09:51 +0000

Peter,

You believe the Post and those polls. If so let me sell you a quit-claim deed to the Golden Gate Bridge. If this is the case, why are there 55 Repubs in the Senate and a majority of Repubs in the House? Newspapers do polls to write stories to generate controversy to sell newspapers.

The only poll that counts is on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November and the last time I looked, the Repubs won. As Whitey Herzog would say, the only time first place counts is on October 1st.

By: peter

peter — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:33:20 +0000

Core Democratic values not shared by the nation? Today’s Washington Post-ABC News poll “shows that the public prefers the direction Democrats in Congress would take the country as opposed to the path set by the president, that Americans trust Democrats over Republicans to address the country’s biggest problems and that they strongly favor Democrats over Republicans in their vote for the House.”

The full story is at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801086.html

By: The Right Nation

The Right Nation — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:54:40 +0000

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By: Stop The ACLU

Stop The ACLU — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:54:05 +0000

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By: Fred Fry

Fred Fry — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:09:27 +0000

I bet the press is sure ot hunt down Murtha for his reaction to Bush’s speech. The Dems are completely blind to the massacre they are marching into with the next election.