During the entire White House/Fox News feud FOX decided to bolster about their “soaring ratings”. This meme was then picked up by a lot of talking heads in the mainstream media. Media Matters decided to go to the data and see exactly what “soar” meant to FOX: No matter how many times reporters and pundits […]
How about this for some truthiness: Democratic politicians receive a 40% increase in contributions in the 30 days after appearing on the comedy cable show The Colbert Report. In contrast, their Republican counterparts essentially gain nothing. These findings appear to validate anecdotal evidence regarding the political impact of the program, such as the assertions by […]
Obama leads McCain by 15 points (51-36) in the latest Newsweek poll. If this is the “bump” they were saying Obama would see after securing the nomination, then McCain needs to just drop out now. (updated to change from 16 points to 15 points. That’s what I get for doing early morning math!)
In a post by Ben Smith, it looks like this could be the case.
ABC released a new poll in which Bush has received a 32% approval rating – a new low for the ABC poll. The other interesting tidbit in this poll is that Bush is only 2 months away from Truman’s record of 38 months without a majority approval. Whatever happened to the bump he was supposed […]
Since their announcement yesterday of the return of Elizabeth’s cancer, the pundits have taken to the news channels to try and analyze why Edwards is staying in the race. People such as Rush Limbaugh have even gone as far as saying this was some big political stunt and if her cancer doesn’t give him a […]
While we are fighting a war in Iraq and a war on terror, we often forget about the other war that has been going on longer than those two combined. That is the war on drugs. This week it has taken a turn for the worse with a break down in diplomatic relations involving one […]