Wednesday, April 27, 2022

GET ME REWRITE: Welcome to the Henry Olsen Clown Show

 

Headline:  Washington Post, 4/27/2022

No quibble with the headline, but then there's this.

The median House GOP member is not a fire-breathing right-winger such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who attracts a lot of attention; they are quiet, nonideological conservatives most people have never heard of, such as Reps. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina or Michael R. Turner of Ohio.
Here's the 'quiet, nonideological' Virginia Foxx on gay marriage.


Here's the 'quiet, nonideological' Virginia Foxx on climate change.



Original 4/25/2022 post starts here.

Headline:  Washington Post, 4/25/2022
Election results:  Wikipedia (2017, 2022)
France elects its presidents using a two-round system. All candidates must compete in the first round, and the two with the most votes advance to the second round if no one reaches 50 percent. Macron won only 28 percent in the first round, hardly a ringing endorsement.  [emphasis added]

As you can see from the 2017 results, Macron received 24.01% of the vote.  In other words, he boosted his 2022 first-round performance by 4 percentage points. 

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