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Political scientist michael tessler and david sears looked at how racial attitudes affected obamas approval ratings. they found that to a degree it was completely unprecedented among recent presidents. approval of obama was driven by the individuals attitudes on race. this is a set of graphs published in their book, "obamas race." what youre seeing here is presidential approval broken down by racial attitudes. heres approval for reagan. not a straight line, but not seeing a huge difference. here...

Continued after the election too. political scientist michael tessler and david spears looked at how it affected his approval ratings. they found that to a degree it was completely unprecedented among recent presidents. approval of obama was driven by the individuals attitudes on race. this is a set of graphs published in their book "the dream of a post racial america." what youre seeing here is presidential approval broken down by racial attitudes. heres approval for reagan. not a straight line...

Other graph for any other president. they found something else worth remarking on. "president obama continued to be evaluated, not just as an african-american but as someone who is distinctly other." >> i love being in this home in this place where ann and i were raised where both of us were born. anne was born at henry ford hospital i was born at harper hospital. no ones ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know this is the place, that we were born and raised. >> now, i want to stop her...

Line up with support for republicans and disapproval of democratic presidents. but its not a huge gap until you get to obama. that, that is a huge gap. and it doesnt look like any other graph for any other president. they found something else worth remarking on. quote, president obama continued to be evaluated not just as an african-american, but as someone who is distinctly other. which brings us to today. >> i love being in this home in this place where ann and i were raised where both of us w...

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Evidence that this particular congress, the 112th congress is one of the worst of all-time. let us begin with just the simplest measure of how much congress is getting done. congressional productivity. it is the number of laws they have passed, public laws they have passed. this graph shows the number of public laws passed by every congress dating back to the 80th congress in 1947. that was a congress harry truman called the do-nothing congress. as you can see, it varies every year but its gener...

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Not. i wish i was kidding. i am not kidding. so that was congress today. the senate voted on a pair of totally meaningless bills. the house fought about a typo. if any of this comes s as a surprise to you, you probably have not been paying close attention. this is not just a bad congress or even a pretty bad congress. i think the case can, should, and probably must be made that this is one of the worst congresses we have ever had in this country. and i know people say stuff like that all the tim...

Gallup which arent on the graph have show an uptick in gun ownership. we dont kknow if thats a tick blip. this map, which we made with data from the new england journal of medicine compares a number of suicides by gun ownership rates. its four times as high in states with a lot of firearms. even when you factor in suicide by other means. any means at all, states with a high rate of gunopership still experience twice as many suicides. gun ownership and suicide are in the evidence links. and so ar...