By a margin of 46% to 29%, California voters surveyed said they would be more likely to vote for a politician who had supported the health bill. And just over half the voters polled said they believed the country would be better off because of the bill.
By November, health insurance reform will be an issue only for the most rabid government haters, the ever-shrinking Republican party.
Hate groups stayed at record levels — almost 1,000 — despite the total collapse of the second largest neo-Nazi group in America. Furious anti-immigrant vigilante groups soared by nearly 80%, adding some 136 new groups during 2009. And, most remarkably of all, so-called "Patriot" groups — militias and other organizations that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose "one-world government" on liberty-loving Americans — came roaring back after years out of the limelight.
28% of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters break down this way: * Forty-nine percent of Tea Party supporters are Republicans, 43% are independents, and only eight percent are Dems. That means a huge majority — 92% — are Republicans or indys, and again, many of those indys could be former Republicans or lean GOP anyway. * Seventy percent of Tea Party supporters say they’re conservative, and only 22% say they’re moderate. And who knows what they even mean by that word to begin with. * A whopping 79% of Tea Party supporters are non-hispanic whites. Only 65% of Americans were non-hispanic whites as of 2008. * Fifty-five percent of Tea Party supporters make over $50,000 a year.
28% of Americans who identify themselves as Tea Party supporters break down this way:
A leading gay men's health organization is calling for a rewrite of federal regulations on blood donations so that all risky behaviors — gay and heterosexual — are treated the same. And a group of 18 U.S. senators, led by John Kerry, wrote last month to the Food and Drug Administration, the agency that regulates the nation's blood supply, to review what they called "outdated, medically and scientifically unsound deferral criteria" that exclude gay donors. The FDA said it is "actively engaged in re-examining the issue of blood donor deferral" among gay men.
A leading gay men's health organization is calling for a rewrite of federal regulations on blood donations so that all risky behaviors — gay and heterosexual — are treated the same.
And a group of 18 U.S. senators, led by John Kerry, wrote last month to the Food and Drug Administration, the agency that regulates the nation's blood supply, to review what they called "outdated, medically and scientifically unsound deferral criteria" that exclude gay donors.
The FDA said it is "actively engaged in re-examining the issue of blood donor deferral" among gay men.