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
House Republicans Look to Areas Where Kerry Outperformed Obama
Robert Gibbs caused quite a stir on Sunday when he warned that Republicans could take back the House — a comment very likely meant as warning shot to a Democratic base that is not nearly as fired up and ready to go as their Republican counterparts.
The Democratic base has looked shaky in areas [...]
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.
The Week in Political Geography: Land of Lincoln
Politico’s new election maps page with Governor, Senate and House maps form 2000-2010. Illinois primary results.
Gallup: Only 5 Republican states [Daily Kos]
N.C.’s shifting electoral map [Salisbury Post (N.C.)]
Michigan’s Blueprint for America [National Review Online]
The 2010 Census: New Demographics, New Approach [Ad Age]
Republican 2012 Convention Short List: Tampa, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Houston [The Electoral [...]
The Week in Political Geography:
Politico’s new election maps page with Governor, Senate and House maps form 2000-2010. Illinois primary results.
Gallup: Only 5 Republican states [Daily Kos]
N.C.’s shifting electoral map [Salisbury Post (N.C.)]
Michigan’s Blueprint for America [National Review Online]
The 2010 Census: New Demographics, New Approach [Ad Age]
Republican 2012 Convention Short List: Tampa, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Houston [The Electoral [...]
Who is In Charge of the Map at the NRCC?
The Hampton Roads Daily Press reports that the NRCC sent out a press release on Monday hitting Rep. Glenn Nye, Democrat from Tidewater Virginia, for screwing over the taxpayers of New Mexico:
“If New Mexico taxpayers thoughts they had seen the worst of Glenn Nye’s fiscal recklessness, today’s White House budget proposal makes it clear that [...]
Republican 2012 Convention Short List: Tampa, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and Houston
The RNC’s short list of possible sites for the 2012 convention is down to Tampa, Phoenix and Salt Lake City (UPDATE: Hotline OnCall’s Reid Wilson’s is reporting that Houston is also in the running). The committee will reportedly make a decision in late summer of 2010. Convention committees often look at number of factors in [...]
Attitude and Longitude of the Blue Dogs
The Blue Dogs have been in the news a lot recently mostly because they’re the pivotal voting block on the health care legislation, and they’ve been particularly talked about by the Kos Kidz and all of the liberal blogs who are busting out poll after poll measuring support of the public option in Blue Dog [...]
Democrats Leading Voter Registration in 30 States
Gallup released a new 50 state tracking poll on Monday that found that Democrats are dominating in party identification. Democrats have long had a higher party ID, even through the Reagan and Bush years when the GOP made significant gains, but what’s striking about this poll is the level of dominance. Democrats had a higher [...]
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