Thursday, November 15, 2012
In Dixie, the past isn't even past
Posted by Max Brantley on Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM
More on race, President Obama and Dixie, where Arkansas is now a full-fledged card-carrying member of the Solid Republican South. Overall, yes, Barack Obama got 39 percent of the white vote. But Mother Jones drills down a bit:
Overall, Obama won about 46 percent of the white vote outside the South and 27 percent of the white vote in the South. That's a difference of nearly 20 points. In other words: Democrats don't have a white problem. They have a Southern white problem, and that's a whole different thing. The press should be more careful about how they report this.
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May 16, 2013Crazy Davy Carter, the House speaker who is a potential Republican candidate for governor, won headlines all over today for remarks at a legislative conference in Hot Springs that Republicans need to move beyond guns and abortion to focus on issues more important to average Arkies. /more/
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Benghazi, the new Whitewater
May 14, 2013Ernie Dumas this week compares the fulminations about Benghazi, which Republicans are attempting to make an impeachment-worthy scandal of minute differences in post-attack talking points, with the cooked-up Whitewater investigations. /more/
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'Obummer': Maybe that Kenyan ain't so bad after all
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Head Start budget cuts announced
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Tom Cotton's 'odd' argument on terrorism fight
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UPDATE: Arrest 'imminent' in Boston bombings; or maybe not
April 17, 2013CNN reports: A letter to President Obama that was intercepted at an off-site facility has tested positive for ricin, the FBI says. /more/
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House overrides Beebe veto of voter ID bill
April 1, 2013At 2:20 p.m., the House is hearing arguments from Rep. Stephen Meeks to override Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the bill to require a photo ID to vote in Arkansas. /more/
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