Michelle Bachmann might hail from the Land of the North Star, but most of the members of the Tea Party Caucus that she formed last week represent the southern and western wing of the Republican House delegation.
The geographic center of gravity for the Tea Party Caucus — or the average geographical location of the hometowns [...]
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Tea Party Caucus Officially More Southern and Western
Map of the Day: The Thin Network of Tea Partiers
Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith have a great article today with the traffic-generating headline, “The tea party’s exaggerated importance.” Coincidentally, Dante Chinni at Patchwork Nation has a great map illustrating their claim that tea party numbers are overblown.
Last week I offered a Map of the Day that showed they are geographically balanced. This may be [...]
Map of the Day: Tea Party Movement is Geographically Balanaced
Slate dove into the 575 self-defined Tea Party groups on Meetup.com and produced a heat map of the 5,288 meetings they’ve conduced in the last year. Visit the original post to get the heat over time, but this cumulative map shows that it’s a pretty geographically balanced movement.
On Scranton and San Francisco
Sarah Palin jabbed last night that Obama “talks one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
I love this line — which two cities carry more demographic symbolism than these?
Electoral Map of the Weekend
It’s not actually an electoral map, but it is a map that could have implications for the election.
It looks like Hurricane Gustav will hit the Crescent City this weekend, on the third day of Hurricane Katrina, and hours before President Bush gives his speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Carrying the Banner for the Three Types of Republicans
Over at The Next Right, my NMS colleague Jon Henke has a post tackling the daunting topic of “The Future of the Right” and identifies three different types of Republicans: Progressive Republicans, Goldwater Republicans and Bush Republicans.
Progressive Republicans (aka: Teddy Roosevelt Republicans) are “generally reliable on limited government, but willing to go off on Big [...]
Pundits Whistlin’ Dixie
The Southern Political Report released its report of “Dixie’s Competitive Congressional Districts” on Monday, and according to SPR’s Hastings Wyman, “This year some 21 of the South’s 162 congressional seats are more or less ‘in play,’ 12 of them currently held by Republicans, 9 by Democrats. Due to such factors as a strong tide against [...]
Is it Time to Declare a Democratic Resurgency in the South?
Two special elections looses in the South have some Republicans worrying that their electoral stranglehold on the region may be loosening. Case in point: The Washington Times’ David Lambro, who’s about as right-of-center as any prominent Beltway correspondent, co-authored an article today under the headline, “Democrats again whistling Dixie.”
And J-Mart points to a quote from [...]
Broder Sounds the Alarm for the GOP in the South
… And gives McCain a lot of credit for picking up on early warnings. Broder writes, “McCain for one seems to have grasped that warning. Over the past week, as he toured the South from Selma to Little Rock, he clearly was signaling a shift from the traditional GOP way of courting Dixie voters.”
Florida Primer: Who Will the Sun Shine on Today?
When I flew down to Jacksonville in late October, 2007 for the Florida-Georgia game (affectionately known as the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party), I observed a not only a great football game, but many of the different demographic groups that make up Florida at work.
Jacksonville is the Deep South, and so is the panhandle to [...]
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