But is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by tomorrow night. The National Weather Service Warns that widespread impacts are going to happen. Right now i am joined by richard kim, my colleague at the nation magazine. Anna marie cox. The u. S. Version of the guardian. George pack ner, staff writer for the new yorker and author of a fascinating story in next weeks issue about a former lobbyist who has become disillusioned. A we are ten days away from the president ial election. President obama seems to be steadily regaining a narrow lead, a lead he held over mitt romney before the president ial debates began earlier this month. The latest polling averages according to nate silver of the New York Times give president obama 50. 3 with mitt romney 48. 6. President obama has a 74 chance of winning the election based on his Strong Performance in several swing states. The president is hoping to capitalize on the momentum to encourage voters to go to the polls as soon as possible by taking
Capital in this must have pomp and circumstance. President obamas first state of the union since his reelection will be ambitious in his vision and no doubt punctuated. Maybe some of us watching at home will be applauding. If you are near a television, the state of the union will be unavoidable. The networks and cable news will, as always, broadcast walltowall coverage of the speech. The attention given to the president s speech is indicative of everything that falls under the category, very important things required by the constitution. Have you ever noticed how the constitution described the state of the union . You might be surprised to find the founders are vague and sound bored with the whole idea of it. Article two, Section Three reads he shall from timetotime give to the Congress Information of the state of the union. Recommend to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary and expedient. He may. On extraordinary occasions, convene both houses or either of them.
Well, we here at all in can help. Heres our viewers guide to watching obama care coverage. When you see a report about someone being dropped from their insurance and not able to afford a replacement policy youve got millions of people being kicked off their plan. Katherine says she found a plan on the Health Insurance marketplace that would cost them 178 a month, which she still considers a stretch for their budget. The question you should be asking is, does the person in this report qualify for subsidies on the newly created Health Exchange . Someone like deborah cavalaro. Id be paying more for the Exchange Plans that i am currently paying by a wide margin. The report did not mention that deborah qualifies for a hefty federal premium subsidy as reported later by the l. A. Times. If you are watching a report that doesnt say whether or not the subject qualifies for subsidies, the story is incomplete. Next, when you watch a report about someone losing insurance they liked for tens of tho
Stark. Same thing in the president ial race in texas in 2008. It was barack obama running against john mccain. White voters went for the republican by this huge margin. This does not mean that 47 of white people voted republican in texas. It means that white people voted for john mccain by a 47point margin. Black voters picked the democratic candidate for president by a 96point margin. The black vote in 2008 in texas was 982 for barack obama. For latinos it was a similar huge margin for the democrats. The democratic ticket did better than the republican ticket among latino voters in 2008 by a margin of 28 points. There is just a stark, stark racial divide in the voting patterns in texas. Again, this is the 08 president ial race. I would show you the 2012 president ial numbers, too, but, weirdly, texas did not get exit polled in 2012, some sort of costsaving measure or something, so there arent 2012 numbers. But you can see between 2008 and 2010, there is a consistency over time. In the
Much of the media is serving up incomplete reports about the Affordable Care act. Is the flurry of coverage about obama care confusing you . Well, we here at all in can help. Heres our viewers guide to watching obama care coverage. When you see a report about someone being dropped from their insurance and not able to afford a replacement policy youve got millions of people being kicked off their plan. Katherine says she found a plan on the Health Insurance marketplace that would cost them 178 a month, which she still considers a stretch for their budget. The question you should be asking is, does the person in this report qualify for subsidies on the newly created Health Exchange . Someone like deborah cavalaro. Id be paying more for the Exchange Plans that i am currently paying by a wide margin. The report did not mention that deborah qualifies for a hefty federal premium subsidy as reported later by the l. A. Times. If you are watching a report that doesnt say whether or not the subj