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{ Monthly Archives } March 2009

Deep Thought

Obama should have given last night’s talk as a PowerPoint presentation.

2009 03 25 nepharis Politics Comments (0)

The Obama Budget: Accounting

Obama’s budget marks a return to accounting sanity. The Bush administration’s accounting of their budgeting process made liberal use of sleight of hand to obscure the true cost of their proposals. The Bush tax cuts were set to sunset in 2010, which allowed their accountants to limit their projected revenue impact, even though they always [...]

2009 03 10 harveyj Politics Comments (0)

Obama’s Top 10 Margins

This is a bit less interesting. Since Democrats tend to do very well in the biggest cities, large Democratic margins tend to correlate directly with large populations. New York City suffers here as it is split up into five counties. The top Obama margins are: Los Angeles, Cook (Chicago + suburbs), Philadelphia, Wayne (Detroit), [...]

2009 03 07 harveyj Politics Comments (1)

McCain’s top 10 margins

Here are the 10 counties John McCain won by the widest margins. Food for thought. Democrats have a lot of work to do in the Texas suburbs if they want to be competitive statewide.

County
State
McCain Margin
Notable Features

Maricopa
AZ
132,821
Phoenix

Utah
[...]

2009 03 07 harveyj Politics Comments (0)

The Obama Budget: Political Capital

I was planning on writing an omnibus mega-post on the Obama budget, but instead I think I’ll parcel it out over several posts. There’s a lot of ground to cover and I don’t want to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Through the transition and stimulus fight, the one concern I had about [...]

2009 03 07 harveyj Economics
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