White House and Environs as Seen From Space

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Trump is underwater by 40 points (28% / 68%) among voters 18-34.

This is an interesting statistic. This is a feel good statistic. But unless the eventual Democratic candidate can get the 18-34 voting population out in numbers similar to the ‘OK Boomers’ in November, it’s a useless statistic.

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And Then Trump Did This

Really??

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Trump’s Support In Wisconsin?

I am not going to go into great detail on who in Wisconsin supports Donald Trump…I’ll let the article speak for itself. It gets into breakdowns of college/non-college, rural/urban, gender, religious/not, etc. So if you are a policy wonk, you’ll love it. Here’s the intro though so you can get…

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Recall Memo: June 5: Know Your Rights!

Know your June 5th Voting Rights.

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Political Ass-ymmetry

Oh look, more evidence that it’s isn’t both sides after all! From the VoteView blog piece Polarization is Real (and Asymmetric): [W]e should be careful not to equate the two parties’ roles in contemporary political polarization: the data are clear that this is a Republican-led phenomenon where very conservative Republicans have replaced…

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How Germany Ate the Eurozone

A chart from Paul Krugman’s latest book, End This Depression Now! which goes a long way towards explaining WTF happened to the Eurozone. It wasn’t profligacy by the Eurozone periphery, it was the massive trade imbalances created by cheap credit in the periphery and the export engine of the Germans.  Germany’s…

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Corporate Profits vs Corporate Taxes

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How Conservatives Decide Which Policies to Support

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Milwaukee: We’re More Fashionable than Buffalo!

Just for fun… I know this will come as a shock, but Milwaukee is not the most fashionable city in America…  But we beat Minneapolis!!!

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