Little Rock Professor Christina Bejarano, a Texan now teaching at the University of Kansas, was on the program at the Clinton School of Public Service giving a brief talk on the “Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics,” so I popped in for a minute to see what insights she might offer. The bottom line in …
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Solid Resolutions for the New Year
Ocean Springs Sometimes it can be embarrassing to live in Louisiana. When it’s not the governor making a fool of us in service to ego and ambition or one of the Senators currying to prostitutes and another always turning tricks for oil companies, it’s someone like Phil Robertson, the duck man, leading the hater brigade and …
Big Mistakes on Countrywide and Healthcare Polls
New Orleans Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …