pacino wrote:no, it'll probably rebound, but i feel like the only people giving a shit about the NSA stuff are younger people, and that explains the drop.

pacino wrote:polls suck, but a 17 point drop in one demopgrahic is pretty significant

The Nightman Cometh wrote:JH would, but he only debunks pro Obama polls.

TenuredVulture wrote:

pacino wrote:polls suck, but a 17 point drop in one demopgrahic is pretty significant

Whether it's significant or not depends on sample size, and the number of people under 30 included in the sample.

jerseyhoya wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:JH would, but he only debunks pro Obama polls.

Im having internet troubles on the homefront today, but I think there was a good article from Harry Enten in the Guardian a few days ago if anyone wants to post it.

The “SNAP Challenge,” a left-wing publicity stunt intended to make it appear proposed cuts to food stamps would leave families unable to feed themselves, has been debunked this week by the office of Congressman Steve Stockman.

About 30 House Democrats are participating in the “SNAP Challenge” in which someone must feed themselves on $31.50 a week, which Democrats claim is the level of benefits available to a person under the Farm Bill. Democrats have been intentionally buying overpriced food and shopping at high-priced chains to make it appear the cuts go too far.

Donny Ferguson, who serves as Stockman’s communications director and agriculture policy advisor, was able to buy enough food to eat well for a week on just $27.58, almost four dollars less than the $31.50 “SNAP Challenge” figure.

“I wanted to personally experience the effects of the proposed cuts to food stamps. I didn’t plan ahead or buy strategically, I just saw the publicity stunt and made a snap decision to drive down the street and try it myself. I put my money where my mouth is, and the proposed food stamp cuts are still quite filling,” said Ferguson.

“We can cut the proposed benefits by an additional 12.4 percent and still be able to eat for a week,” said Ferguson. “Not only am I feeding myself for less than the SNAP Challenge, I will probably have food left over.”

Ferguson purchased his food at the Dollar Tree and Shopper’s Food Warehouse located in the 6100 block of Little River Turnpike in Alexandria. It is served by Metrobus and within bike and walking distance of public housing.

For $21.55 Ferguson purchased at Dollar Tree:
Two boxes of Honeycomb cereal
Three cans of red beans and rice
Jar of peanut butter
Bottle of grape jelly
Loaf of whole wheat bread
Two cans of refried beans
Box of spaghetti
Large can of pasta sauce
Two liters of root beer
Large box of popsicles
24 servings of Wyler’s fruit drink mix
Eight cups of applesauce
Bag of pinto beans
Bag of rice
Bag of cookies

For $6.03 at the Shoppers Food Warehouse next door Ferguson bought a gallon of milk and a box of maple and brown sugar oatmeal.

Joshua Inglett may have signed a petition seeking to recall Gov. Scott Walker two years ago, but the University of Wisconsin-Platteville engineering student did not vote in the actual recall election.

Inglett, whose appointment Monday by Walker to the UW System's Board of Regents was rescinded after the governor found out Inglett had signed the recall petition, told a Journal Sentinel reporter Thursday that he didn't vote in the recall. A check of voting records Friday confirmed that.

Also Friday, some Republican senators said they would have confirmed Inglett as a regent if Walker still wanted him on the board.

"If the governor had still stood by the appointment, I would have voted for him," Sen. Rick Gudex, R-Fond du Lac, said.

Inglett, 20, on Thursday said he signed the petition outside a department store as a show of support for his mom, who at the time was a substitute teacher.

Inglett did not actually vote in the Walker recall, according to the state's online system providing statewide voter histories and Marie Moe, the city clerk for Inglett's hometown of Portage.

Records list just one election of any kind in which Inglett has voted -- the Aug. 9, 2011, recall election in which Olsen survived a challenge from Rep. Fred Clark, D-Sauk City.

While there are databases of everyone who signed the Walker recall petition, there are not any public ones for the 2011 recalls against nine state senators. That means there is no easy way to check whether Inglett signed the recall petition against Olsen.

Olsen said he didn't know much about Inglett but that he had to live with the ramifications of having signed the Walker recall petition.

"He signed the recall and that seems to be the litmus right now. And he flunked it," Olsen said.

Asked if that was fair, Olsen, did not respond directly. "I have a friend who says, 'Fair is where you take your cattle for show,'" Olsen said.

Gov. Paul LePage made a crude sexual reference about a Democratic state senator in a television interview Thursday and said the lawmaker "has no brains" and "a black heart."

Referring to Assistant Senate Majority Leader Troy Jackson of Allagash, who gave his party's response to the Republican governor's latest budget proposal, LePage said: "Sen. Jackson claims to be for the people, but he's the first one to give it to the people without providing Vaseline."

Later in the interview, LePage said, "Dammit, that comment is not politically correct. But we've got to understand who this man is. This man is a bad person. He not only doesn't have a brain, he has a black heart. And so does the leadership" in the Legislature

Gov. Paul LePage's administration will no longer comment in stories published by the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The new policy follows the newspapers' publication of a three-day series of articles this week examining LePage's top environmental regulator and how her department's actions have benefited her former lobbying clients in private industry.

LePage's spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett, informed a Press Herald reporter of the new policy following a request for the governor's public events calendar. Bennett would not provide the calendar, a public document, and said the administration would no longer participate in stories reported by the three newspapers.

Bennett said MaineToday Media, the newspapers' parent company, "had made it clear that it opposed this administration."

She would not elaborate, saying that responses from the administration could be gleaned from reports by The Associated Press or through document requests using the Freedom of Access Act.

Another Press Herald reporter asked Bennett on Tuesday to comment on a story about Medicaid expansion. Bennett told the reporter she would not speak to the newspaper about the issue.

"Not to the Portland Press Herald," she said.

The no-comment policy does not appear to include all state agencies.

Steve McCausland, communications officer for the Department of Public Safety, said he was not aware of any such directive. He said his department will continue to communicate with the Press Herald and its sister publications.

The new policy in the governor's office follows the newspapers' publication this week of an investigation by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, which found that LePage's environmental protection commissioner, Patricia Aho, a former industrial and corporate lobbyist, has scuttled programs and fought laws that were opposed by many of her former clients in the chemical, drug, oil, and real estate development industries

TenuredVulture wrote:I think Politico is worse than Redstate.