Why conservatives are so happy
After all, fewer buses means more traffic, more pollution, more lung disease, more carbon, more hardship for the poor and elderly, more money to the oil companies and the Koch brothers, and more kickbacks...
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Report on Adam Smith's Town Hall at Mercer Island
A mere twenty people or so showed up at Congressman Adam Smith’s Town Hall meeting on Mercer Island on April 23, 2014. I arrived five minutes beforehand and found myself standing alone with Rep....
Why in Oregon, Washington, and California (but not Texas or New York) did poorer counties vote for Romney?
In High poverty counties tend to vote Republican in Washington State, I observed that Washington State counties with a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line tend to vote Republican. In this...
Steve Litzow and Andy Hill benefit from Koch brothers funding
For details see How the Koch Brothers worked to defeat Democrats in Washington State
Regressive taxes are mentioned in the news and opinion pieces about Proposition 1
The issue of regressive taxes is in the news recently and is being raised by both supporters and opponents of Proposition 1. The Seattle Times, in their April 5 editorial against Proposition 1 mentioned...
Computer-generated Bible verse
[The text below was generated statistically, using quadgrams, according the frequency of occurrences after previous words. Words in italics were deterministic: each such word was the only word that appeared anywhere immediately after the...
High poverty counties tend to vote Republican in Washington State
Washington State counties with a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line tend to vote Republican. Poverty is defined as the percentage of residents living below the poverty line, according to the...
Conservative counties in WA are less educated
With the exception of Whitman County (population 44,776), the counties that voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 are less educated than those that voted for Barack Obama, as measured by the percent of citizens...
Guess which counties are the welfare queens
Republicans complain about taxes, but the data show that, with a few exceptions, Republican-leaning counties in Washington State take in more in state revenues than they pay in taxes. The following graph plots conservativeness...