- Michael Tomasky: Fun with maps
I've been looking for this for a few days, and finally I found it. It's a study, by the Urban Institute, of number of uninsured by congressional district.Open it up and have a look, especially Exhibit 1 on page 4 of the pdf (the map in green).Now open up another tab and get this map up on that screen. This is the ever-handy map of presidential results by congressional district.Toggling back and forth between these two you can see the percentage of uninsured in every district, the person who represents that district, how much he/she won by, how long he/she has served, and whether McCain or Obama carried his/her district. That last data point helps us answer the question, is the member under unique political pressure? But remember, it does not dispositively answer it. For that, you should take care to compare the Congress member's margin of victory versus McCain's in that district.So for example, let's look at old Bart Stupak, 1st district of Michigan. Obama won the district 50-49. But Stupak won it 65-33 and has served for nearly 20 years. Meanwhile, over to the green map: somewhere between 25% and 34% of his non-elderly constituents have no private insurance (non-elderly because all seniors have Medicare). So Stupak has, oh, roughly 140,000 adult constituents with no private insurance who may be denied the chance of getting coverage because he needs to make his point about abortions, very few of which ever get reported by women to their insurance companies anyway.Isn't this fun?! Go enjoy.Housekeeping note: This is the last pre-vacation post. I'll be gone for a week but: a, I have a print column coming up in Friday's paper, it seems; b, I will scribble as developments warrant; c, if the House votes, obviously I'll haul myself out of the Closerie de Lilas and make a beel 私はこのため、数日間は、見てきた最終的に私はそれを発見した
- Michael Tomasky: Escape from politics
I was glad that Obama went down to West Virginia for the memorial service for the miners yesterday, and I was especially glad that the event was completely devoid of politics.If you remember the campaign, you'll remember that Obama got slaughtered there by Hillary Clinton. He appeared in the state just once, in the capital of Charleston, flying in and flying out. In the general, John McCain beat him handily. In the county in which Obama appeared yesterday, Raleigh, he received just 36% of the vote in 2008.That was two years ago. In the intervening months, a toxic campaign designed to persuade people like those in Raleigh County that the president isn't even really an American has taken hold. Between that and the general state of the economy and suspicion about Democratic environmental goals, I can't imagine what Obama's approval rating is down there.And yet, West Virginians rose to the occasion and showed him the respect due a president making such a voyage. They were grateful that he came and demonstrated that important people who aren't from the state cared. I hope he learned that those hard-working people are fundamentally good hearted, and I hope they learned that he cares more about them than they thought.The problem in the future will be that the corporate interests that run the state will, after a decent interval of respectfulness, revert to form. Right now, the people of the state want a transparent and honest investigation. There's no reason this administration shouldn't want to give them that. And if it does, and if it finds what many folks suspect it might find, Blankenship and company will start screaming about how Obama is mounting a frontal assault on their livelihood and way of life. It never ends with people like that.But at least it was in cessation for 私は喜んで、オバマ氏がダウンしてウェストバージニア州に鉱山昨日の追悼のために行っていた、と私は特に、イベントが完全にpolitics.Ifを欠いている場合は、キャンペーンを覚えていた喜んでいた場合は、オバマ氏はそこにヒラリーによって虐殺だ覚えてクリントン
- Palin to campaign for McCain's Senate bid
PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain and Sarah Palin plan to campaign together again in March, their first such appearance since their unsuccessful bid as running-mates in the 2008 presidential campaign.The Arizona Republican senator announced... 3月にアリゾナ州フェニックス-ジョンマケイン上院議員とサラパリンを計画するキャンペーンを一緒に再度、実行しているとしての落選以来、初めてのような外観は2008年の大統領campaign.Theアリゾナ州選出共和党上院議員の仲間と発表した...
- McCain Voices Support for Arizona Mine
Sen. John McCain offers support for proposed southern Arizona mining project
John McCain - United States - Politics - Presidential - Candidates ジョンマケイン上院議員-アメリカ合衆国-政治-大統領-候補者を提案アリゾナ州南部マイニングプロジェクトのジョンマケインのサポートを提供しています
- McCain Says Campaign Finance Reform Is Dead
End of a movement: McCain says campaign finance reform is dead after Supreme Court decision
Supreme Court of the United States - Campaign finance reform - Politics - Supreme Court - United States 運動の終了日：マケイン候補の陣営財政改革は死んでいるという後に最高裁の判決が最高裁判所は、アメリカ合衆国の-キャンペーンの財政改革-政治-最高裁-アメリカ合衆国
- African leaders: countries for old men
Robert Mugabe is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to powerLet them eat cake. That is one of the likely headlines after an all-night birthday gala for Robert Mugabe, the autocratic president of Zimbabwe, which was due to finish in the early hours of yesterday. Mugabe, who last week turned 86 in a country where average life expectancy stands at 45, is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to power.But events confronting both Nigerians and Nigeriens in the past week have demonstrated that the next generation of African leaders might find it somewhat harder to crush all comers.President Mamadou Tandja of Niger, who had rewritten the constitution rather than quit when his term expired, paid the penalty when soldiers stormed the presidential palace and spirited him away in a military coup. Diplomats were ambivalent about whether to condemn the means or praise the ends.President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria, who created a power vacuum when he disappeared in November for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, returned at dead of night to a country where politicians, lawyers, media and ordinary citizens have made their demands for accountability and transparency clear. Yar'Adua's deputy, Goodluck Jonathan, remains at the helm while questions linger over the president's health.In recent times, the objections raised to the likes of Menzies Campbell and John McCain in recent British and American election campaigns rarely keep politicians awake here.Africa's club of leaders of pensionable age includes Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, 81, Cameroon's Paul Biya, 77, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, 73, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, believed to be 67, Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, also 67, Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville, thought to b ロバートムガベ大統領の大陸では年齢はほとんどがケーキを食べるpowerLetにバリアされている長男の政治家です
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