terms and limited the terms and the senate was actually made up of members appointed by the state legislatures. they would be appalled by career politicians and you can read their letters. you can read their writings. they expected the people to go home and retain the farms and stay as farmers and business men and so forth. they didn t believe in a permanent legislative class. as a matter of fact, professor rotunda has written that the house of representatives turns over less than the house of lords. you put that in the book. even in 2010. 85%, which was a wave election. we call it a tidal wave election. 85% still re-electedre-elected. some of them didn t run. we re cheering it. whereas, you know, in the 1800s, you had 50% turnover after 2 years. and 80% turnover after 4 years. from 1850 to 1898, in the book, turnover rate of 50.2%.
republicans than in a state like texas. we are showing 38% democrats and 26% republicans. megyn: i want to talk about your past performance. with regard to the 2008 presidential election. fordham political scientists did an analysis of 23 polling estimations. rasmussen and pew were perfectly in agreement with the actual election result. you got it right. in 2010, the congressional mid-terms you predicted the republicans would gain 50 seats in the house. they won 47 in the senate. and same thing back in 2004. you within .5% you projected bush would win 50.2%. he got 57% of the vote. i think you stand by your
mythologically for not giving an accurate as possible picture of what actually poverty in the country looks like and it was sort of arbitrary come up with by civil serve, deep in the democracy. she actually went to my high school randomly enough. they have now come up with supplemental numbers this week. interesting from comparing the poverty numbers, regular calculation and supplemental numbers. first the poverty numbers under the old way of calculating. you have 50.2% poverty rate among african-americans it is 27.5%, really just a stunning number and among hispanics 26.7%. under the new supplemental poverty measure you actually have hispanics are 28.2%, have the highest poverty rate, higher than african-americans. this is the first time we ve seen that. we re also seeing, victoria, not coincidentally a pretty steady
beginning slowly to come down a bit. that is one impact globally. what about in the united states? this is a racial breakdown of people with hiv in america. 50.2%. half of the population is african-american, just shy of 30% white, just shy of 20% latino. that is one way to look at this. here in washington at the national portrait gallery there s an exhibit called hide and seek that features several pieces that shot pain and impact of aids. here s one here. this is a work by artist felix gonzalez torres. it s what it appears to be, pieces of candy. wrapped ed iped in celophane. rep haven ting the weight of the artist s partner before he became sick and ultimately died from aids. another image in the gallery. an unfinished painting. explained to me earlier today by the gallery director martin sullivan. it was chosen for this
how fantastic. so, sister mary beth, when lisa came to you, be honest with me and she said, i want you to do 50 miles in 50 states, did you go, oh, boy, i better start praying for some serious speed right now? it took about two minutes. i did pray for it. i said to her, when we came to america, we went to trenton, new jersey, and then we made the mother house in marstown, new jersey. i said, if we google the distance between trenton and marstown, if it is 50 miles, god wants it. we did it. it was 50.2 miles. 50.2, she said, oh, i guess we have to start .2 up the road. i about fell out of my chair. that s great. the website, we are going to keep this up the whole time. we are going to check in with you on a regular basis. it is runhope.com. the money you are raising goes