instead, blue cross blue shield will request a 14.1% raise. the company credits new information for the change. blue cross and blue shield is the only insurer offering obamacare policies in 95 of that states 100 counties. they don t call them the dog days of summer for nothing. historic heat in the pacific northwest causing major problems as august begins. further south, they are used to the high temperatures. adam housley has the sweltering details. portland, oregon, police were handing out bottled water. locals sweating it out with temperatures 20 degrees above the average august day and expected to reach 107 in a city where many homes are without air conditioning. it s hotter than i preferred, in oregon, especially but we are don t forget the animals. at the zoo, water cannons, icecaps, missed makers have been
depreciated, da-da-da-da-da. so what he paid, the consensus is, was fair. he paid it 25%, $58 million, $56 million, it was fair. president obama and michelle obama, same year. what we know about them, a bigam book deal involved that impacted some of their income that year. they ended up paying a rate of 32.9% on their taxes.e bill: 7 points higher. even more. if you look back at former president clinton, they were about 31%, the clintons that year. the bushes at 25%. but we also took a look at the romneys for another year we have information for them. p people say, he is a wealthy guy, a wealthy businessman, like trump. in comparison for him, he paid 14.1%. bill: he was a governor back then in 2005? was he not? but romney was hiding money in burundi or someplace. it s a joke! our research does not confirm that. bill: right, we can t confirm. so the bushes were tied with
aging. bill: it is the same thing if you buy an airplane, that can be depreciated, so, what he paid, the consensus is, was fair. he paid it 25%, 58 million, 56 million, it was fair. president obama and michelle obama, same year. what we know about them, a big book deal involved that impacted some of their income that year. they ended up paying a rate of 32.9% on their taxes. bill: seven points higher. even more. if you look back at former president clinton, they were about 31%, the clintons that year. the bushes at 25%. we also took a look at the romney s for another year we have information, people say, he is a wealthy guy, a wealthy businessman, like drum. in comparison for him, he paid 14.1 for you bill: he was a governor back then in 2005? was he not? but romney was hiding money into a run ranji or someplace. it s a joke! are re/max research does nom
so good news, but it even gets better, if you go back to 2008, which is the comparative data we can use in this election with the state of florida, democrats at that time had a 73,000-ballot advantage. now they have a 16,000-ballot deficit. not necessarily good news for democrats when it comes to that. let s look at the racial demographics, too. let s look at the african-american participation rate. 12.3% right now, so far to this date. and look at the hispanic participation rate, about 14.1%. let s go back now to 2008 and look at these numbers. look at the drop-off, the sharp drop-off by about 3%, 3.2% for african-american participation. at the same time, you have hispanic participation really skyrocketing, up by almost about 5%. now, we should know that florida, this is a more diverse electorate than we saw back in 2008, and we also know right now that we have seen the white vote drop off a little bit, but not
two states i want to highlight today, florida and north carolina. they are key to the presidency and winning the presidency. let s start with florida. right now in florida, more than 4.2 million people have cast their ballots. when we look at who is in the lead right now, republicans have about a 16,000 ballot returned edge which isn t very large but if you compare it to 2008, democrats were in the lead and they were in the lead by 73,000 ballots returned. so not good news for democrats. good news for republicans. let s look at the racial demographics of who is participating right now. as you see, white participation about 71%. african-american participation, 12.3%. hispanic participation, 14.1%. let s compare that to 2008. look at how much that has increased just in the raw vote totals, about a million, with white voters but the african-american number right here is troubling for democrats. even though we have seen an increase in the raw number, we have seen a decrease in the