"Real Americans"

centera href="http://www.televisiontunes.com/Green_Acres.html"img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghHSqiq1-_7C_2d40eOm2DMIN2SgpevaHO4at4fCeYe6JnDtqXokn_G1B-j65L-nAasbt-4EYD41UMskPzI3B-bDhiYzKGCHc4IIwxm-UjJml6ivtGPD6MuRIxKUXbyMF90mRI73iV2u0/s400/green-acres.jpg" //a/centerbr /On yesterday's strongemMorning Joe Brewed by Starbucks/em/strong, Mika Brzezinski explained how soon-to-be-former Gov. Sarah Palin connected with "real Americans."br /br /centerobject width="320" height="260"param name="movie" value="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf"param name="flashvars" value="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/07/06/mornjoe-20090706-real.flv"embed src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/07/06/mornjoe-20090706-real.flv" width="320" height="260"/embed/object/centerbr /blockquote[P]eople were coming to those rallies because they agreed with her. Look at the polls out there. Look where people stand on life. Look where strongemreal/em/strong Americans think and you will find that in the, you know -- God, I hate to say it -- but in the cites where there's a little more liberal elite populations you're not going to find what is representative of America./blockquotespan style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"strongF/strong/spanirst Mika, urban America is not just real America, it is the strongvast/strong strongmajority/strong of America as far as where Americans actually live (from the a href="http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm"strong2000 Census/strong/a):br /blockquotecenterstrongU.S. Population Living in Urban vs. Rural Areas/strong/centerbr /Population living in Urban Areas: 79.219%br /Population living in Rural Areas: 20.781br /br /Urbanized Areas over 200,000 population = 58.274%/blockquotespan style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"strongS/strong/spanecond Mika, a href="http://www.pollster.com/blogs/new_gallup_has_pid_tied_yep_it.php"strongthat Gallup poll/strong/a that made the news back in May which supposedly showed more people are now anti abortion than pro choice had respondents identifying as Republicans by 32% and as Democrats by 32%. However a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1207/republican-party-identification-slips-nationwide-pennsylvania-specter-switch"strongnationwide/strong/a, less than a quarter of the population actually identifiy themselves as Republicans while 35% identify as Democrats (this means the Gallup poll was crap as it was unrepresentative of the population).br /br /centera href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-xl_UEWC63itF_DTg2smqC854Uy2uvZz1euNUTIlgfqsRCm9FxpGyJvHGMTFNlmo4jVLLMOLdmRZb9VnBPbvHT9VU2FM1VRkXo5aBPhgSOixPV5SleJguqPXoruqsKJvQmh3Nj89qWo/s1600-h/abort3.PNG"img style="WIDTH: 397px; HEIGHT: 338px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355652755224672258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1-xl_UEWC63itF_DTg2smqC854Uy2uvZz1euNUTIlgfqsRCm9FxpGyJvHGMTFNlmo4jVLLMOLdmRZb9VnBPbvHT9VU2FM1VRkXo5aBPhgSOixPV5SleJguqPXoruqsKJvQmh3Nj89qWo/s400/abort3.PNG" //abr /span style="font-size:85%;"(from /spana href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/is-public-opinion-changing-on-abortion.html"strongemspan style="font-size:85%;"FiveThirtyEight/span/em/strong/aspan style="font-size:85%;")/span/centerbr /span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"strongT/strong/spanhird Mikastrong,/strong obviously enough "real" Americans did not connect with Palin's views:br /br /centera href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaU2wGfwr-vwJmyg1AXD222ZBwsdEnVgdW_e33pIUDCt24kicswQFhS9gaMozfDnEq_aT-67uIKiz91ZeSZ3BiXXi9It5p0umrGznGdcznbsXi6a0BRQ04pMNfzK-5Iv2h43MFYgKOXRk/s1600-h/Final2008USPresidentialElectionMap.jpg"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 336px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355654438129350690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaU2wGfwr-vwJmyg1AXD222ZBwsdEnVgdW_e33pIUDCt24kicswQFhS9gaMozfDnEq_aT-67uIKiz91ZeSZ3BiXXi9It5p0umrGznGdcznbsXi6a0BRQ04pMNfzK-5Iv2h43MFYgKOXRk/s400/Final2008USPresidentialElectionMap.jpg" //abr /br /Adjusted to reflect population:br /a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOR3OxI9A3DTDXTyq7WFM4Ag1btvGfV8PIqdtYmcewUzipRAmZIitzLLZV2Hey-kkYgYyauyKUa1qDITIfUFhdQjTTvQO0NsNFID3vf_BBBH5HVKxtrJLI-RA4PCuO56bDEfDPnWcBaI/s1600-h/statepopredblue512.png"img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 285px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355655123275089170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZOR3OxI9A3DTDXTyq7WFM4Ag1btvGfV8PIqdtYmcewUzipRAmZIitzLLZV2Hey-kkYgYyauyKUa1qDITIfUFhdQjTTvQO0NsNFID3vf_BBBH5HVKxtrJLI-RA4PCuO56bDEfDPnWcBaI/s400/statepopredblue512.png" //a/centerbr /strongemspan style="color:#cc0000;"So naner, naner, naner!br //span/em/strongspan style="color:#ffffff;".br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8213262-3977702681737068541?l=2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com'//div

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