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    • The Mercatus Center analysis also found that Democratic congressional districts received on average almost double the funding of Republican congressional districts. Republican congressional districts received on average $232 million in stimulus funds while Democratic districts received $439 million on average.

      “We found that there is a correlation [relating to the partisanship of congressional districts],” de Rugy said. Her regression analysis found that stimulus funds are expected to decrease by 24.19 percent if a district is represented by a Republican.

      “During the appropriations process, you're not surprised to see the Democrats are getting more money, but in this case a lot of the money we're looking at is going through HUD [Department of Housing and Urban Development], or Department of Education, Department of Transportation etc. and they're following a formula,” she said. “But the correlation exists, and not only does it exist — when you look at how much money we're talkin

    • Recession-wracked California saw one of the lowest population growth levels in history during the fiscal year that ended June 30, the state Department of Finance reported today.

      California's population grew by less than one percent, adding an estimated 353,000 new residents, during the 12-month period, the department's demographers believe. The only years of lower growth since 1900 were during another period of deep recession, 1994 to 1996, when an estimated million-plus Californians left the state.

      A sharply decreased level of foreign immigration, both legal and illegal, was apparently the major reason for the dropoff in population growth. The department says net migration – those moving into the state minus those that moved out – was just 37,000. It estimates that 179,000 foreign immigrants came to California during the year while 142,000 residents left for elsewhere. But the state's production of babies, its primary source of growth, remained high at 547,000, offset by 231,000 dea

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    • Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) said Thursday he won't vote to advance the Senate healthcare bill unless it's changed.

      Nelson said more stringent restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion must be included in the bill if it is to win his vote.
      "If it's not at the point where I think it needs to be with the improvements that I'm pushing — and they've made a lot of them — then I will not vote for cloture on the motion to end debate," Nelson said in an interview on KLIN radio in Nebraska.

      "There's a lot of improvement on the legislation but the basic question on funding for abortion hasn't been answered yet," he said.

    • Twitter is once again “frozen in time” this morning as users’ timelines fail to display the most recent tweets of those they follow. Instead, users are seeing tweets from about 10 minutes ago, and very few of them at that.

      We’ve been noticing the problem for at least 30 minutes (as of 11 a.m. ET), both on Twitter’s website and in third-party applications. Twitter search, however, seems to be showing at least some tweets as they happen (and you can see all the people complaining about their timelines).

      (tags: Twitter)
    • Campbell’s thinking seems driven by two realities; he doesn’t have enough money to compete in the GOP gubernatorial primary, and the nomination may be worthless anyway as some polling shows Attorney General Jerry Brown poised to win in a landslide.

      But if he shifts to the Senate contest, he will have one huge impact – and it is not his nomination, but that of Assemblyman Chuck Devore. A Campbell candidacy probably finishes off the GOP establishment favorite, businesswoman Carly Fiorina. Her base is among the Silicon Valley GOP types, as is Campbell’s, and with the declining Republican Party in California, there is simply not room for two Silicon Valley Republicans.
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      Three flaws in the analysis:
      1. Carly Fiorina is MORE conservative than Tom Campbell on abortion and gay marriage
      2.In the latest USC poll, Campbell and DeVore derive support from the same base – lower income GOP'ers
      3.Carly Fiorina will have campaign cash to run ads; Campbell, DeVore won't.
      Campbell won't switch.

    • Former eBay honcho Meg Whitman continues to lead the two other Republican candidates for governor next year and trails presumptive Democratic nominee Jerry Brown by only a few points, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California has found.

      Whitman's 32 percent support level among Republican voters is a big lead over either former Rep. Tom Campbell at 12 percent and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner at 8 percent, but the highest proportion, 44 percent, are the undecided Republicans.
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      Steve Poizner is in a dismal third position. Will he withdraw?

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Jimmy Carter

    Day By Day December 17, 2009 – The Body Politic

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Remember a decade ago when the mantra of the Bill Clinton Administration was the “era of big government is over?” And, why was this? How about record inflation, no or very slow economic growth, unemployment.

    After the disastrous Jimmy Carter Administration with stagflation, malaise and foreign policy missteps, President Barack Obama is reinventing the same “BIG GOVERNMENT.”

    Didn’t the LEFT learn anything from Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the remedies of the past?

    Sadly No.

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