Saturday, July 22, 2023

2024 GOP presidential nomination poll: Vivek Ramaswamy is having a moment, Ron DeSantis is not

 
Source:  Real Clear Politics

The shit show otherwise known as the American Mind.


Or perhaps it's just The Trouble with Polling.


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Alberta Jayne Streich Tucker (1925-2023) Warren High School class of 1943

 
1943 Dragon yearbook


Alberta's high-school activities:  

Carnival (2, 3, 4); Chorus (2, 3, 4); Commencement Usher (3),  Dramatic Club (3, 4); Evening of Plays (3); German Club (3, 4); Girls A. A. (3); Girls' Club (3, 4); Latin Club (2), Student Council (4) 

1967 Warren City Directory

  • Streich Florence M (widow Edwin) assistant treasurer Community Consumer Discount h10 Hammond Street
  • Tucker Richard L (Alberta J)  salesman Baltimore Life Insurance h311 Park Avenue

 1983 Warren City Directory
  • Tucker A Jane;  nurse Warren General Hospital h311 Park Avenue


The popularity of Alberta is graphed here.  Let's take a look at granddaughter Sheena.


Sheena spent 4 years near the bottom of the chart in the 1960s and 5 years in the same location in the 1980s.  Sheena Easton gave the name a brief meteoric period of popularity:  two years in the top 100 (1984 and 1985).  She dropped off the chart after 1993.

Other members of the class of '43 (34): 
2022

2021
Frank Lucia.  (6/1)

Doris Veley Barstow.  (6/11)
Dominick Anthony DeMarco.  (1/15)

2019
Dorothy Stites Lauffenburger Hyde.  (4/27)
Betty Nelson Casey.  (4/12)
Dorothy Bimber Farrell.  (4/2)
Marguerite Mader Lasher.  (3/20)

2018
Lillian Fish Dunn.  (11/6)
Mary Denardi Walker.  (7/18)
John Imperial.  (4/4)
Francis Pesko.  (2/8)

2017
William Nuhfer.  (10/26)
Martha Rasmussen Lewis.  (6/17)
Gloria York Salapek.  (6/10)
Louis Rizzardi.  (2/11)

2016
Virginia Anderson Thompson.  (10/17)
Pauline Smith VanVolkinburg.  (8/27)
Joyce Anderson Clark.  (8/24)
Robert Johnson.  (3/31)

2015
Goldie Gelotte Hecei. (12/2)
John Swick.  (11/29)
William Weidert.  (10/16)
Maxine Retterer Young.  (8/15)
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Disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State: Oil City, Pennsylvania


Oil CIty in its prime

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Oil City's 2022 estimated population decreased 1.5% since the 2020 census.  Its population is down 57% since its 1930 peak of 22,075.  The city has fewer residents now than it did in 1890.

Source: Wikipedia

Oil City Derrick, 4/23/2019


Original 2/6/2019 post starts here.

Explore Venango, 6/24/2016
While Mayor William Moon said people are moving to Oil City, Councilman Ron Gustafson said he was not encouraged by the statistics and commented that the council needs to show potential residents that the city is cared for by officials. 
“The more we make repairs, the more we clean up and so forth – those are the tasks at hand that we can do,” Gustafson explained. “We have a responsibility here for the functions of the city…and we need to keep making progress there – waterlines, sewers functioning – if we’re going to attract people back.”

Take a closer look, Mayor.

Source:  Wikipedia

 Oil City's population peaked at 22,075 in 1930.  Its 2016 estimated population is 10,557 -- a drop of 11,518 (52%).


The City of Oil City is located on the Allegheny River in Venango County, 84 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh and 58 miles northeast of Youngstown, Ohio.  The county's population peaked at 65,328 in 1950 and is currently estimated to be 51,762, a drop of 13,566 (21%).


I grew, from the ages of 8 to 18, 50 miles north of here.



Other disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State
Aliquippa.  (1/12/2019)
Ambridge.  (1/17/2019)
Arnold.  (1/18/2019)
Braddock.  (1/19/2019)
Bradford, (1/20/2019)
Carbondale.  (1/21/2019)
Charleroi.  (1/22/2019)
Chester.  (1/23/2019)
Clairton.  (1/24/2019)
Coraopolis.  (1/25/2019)
Dickson City.  (1/26/2019)
Donora.  (1/27/2019)
Duquesne.  (1/28/2019)
Farrell.  (1/29/2019)
Homestead.  (1/30/2019)
Johnstown.  (1/6/2019)
McKees Rocks.  (1/31/2019)
McKeesport.  (2/1/2019)
Monessen.  (2/2/2019)
Nanticoke.  (2/3/2019)
New Castle.  (2/4/2019)
New Kensington.  (2/5/2019)
Pittsburgh.  (1/13/2019)
Scranton.  (1/14/2019)

Other U.S. disappearing cities:
Baltimore, Maryland.  (12/31/2018)
Benton Harbor, Michigan.  (1/15/2019)
Buffalo, New York, (1/8/2019)
Cairo, Illinois.   (1/5/2019)
Cleveland, Ohio (1/2/2019)
Detroit, Michigan.  (1/1/2019)
East St. Louis, Illinois.  (1/11/2019)
Flint, Michigan.  (1/7/2019)
Gary, Indiana.  (1/4/2019)
St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)
Wheeling, West Virginia.  (1/16/2019)
Youngstown, Ohio.  (1/9/2019)

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Disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State: Bradford, Pennsylvania (2020 census update)


Bradford's 2022 estimated population decreased 2% since the 2020 census.  Its population is down 60% since its 1930 peak of 19,306.  The city has fewer residents than it did in 1880.

Source:  Wikipedia

Bradford Era, 5/16/2023
“For rural Pennsylvania to increase or sustain its current population, it must rely on in-migration,” the study concluded. 
“While some rural areas did attract new residents through in-migration, most did not.” 
The local region was not in the area where new residents moved in. Those areas were generally located to the northeast, southwest and northwest parts of the state. 
The report noted that rural Pennsylvania’s population is aging. One in five people in rural Pennsylvania are 65 and older. “ 
With an aging population, an increase in deaths is inevitable,” the study concluded. “The bottom line is that the trend of more deaths than births will not change in the near future, and will have implications on school enrollments, workforce participation rates, and volunteerism.”


1/17/2022 update starts here

Wikipedia, U.S. Census Bureau

Downtown Bradford in its heyday


Hollenback-Cahill Funeral Homes


Original 1/20/2019 post starts here

Bradford Era, 1/22/2016
A new in-depth analysis by the National Association of Counties (NACo) reveals that economic recovery accelerated on the ground over the past year, but challenges remain — especially for small, rural counties like McKean County.

Source:  Wikipedia

Bradford's population peaked at 19,306 in 1920.  Its 2016 estimated population is 8,369 -- a drop of 10,937, or nearly 57%


The City of Bradford is located in McKean County in northwestern Pennsylvania, just south of the New York state line.  The county's population peaked at 56,673 in 1940 and has since fallen to 41,330 -- a drop of 27%.


Bradford's main claim to fame.

Related reading:
Bradford oil field history.  (American Refining Group, Inc.)

Other disappearing cities and boroughs of the Keystone State
Aliquippa.  (1/12/2019)
Ambridge.  (1/17/2019)
Arnold.  (1/18/2019)
Braddock.  (1/19/2019)
Johnstown.  (1/6/2019)
Pittsburgh.  (1/13/2019)
Scranton.  (1/14/2019)

Other U.S. disappearing cities:
Baltimore, Maryland.  (12/31/2018)
Benton Harbor, Michigan.  (1/15/2019)
Buffalo, New York, (1/8/2019)
Cairo, Illinois.   (1/5/2019)
Cleveland, Ohio (1/2/2019)
Detroit, Michigan.  (1/1/2019)
East St. Louis, Illinois.  (1/11/2019)
Flint, Michigan.  (1/7/2019)
Gary, Indiana.  (1/4/2019)
St. Louis, Missouri.  (1/2/2019)
Wheeling, West Virginia.  (1/16/2019)
Youngstown, Ohio.  (1/9/2019)


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Welcome to the fantasy factory: Foxconn plans to boost EV production from 6 to 350,000 at Lordstown

 
Screenshot from 2020 video by Retiring Guy
Headline:  Tribune Chronicle, 7/22/2023
Details contained in a draft air pollution permit from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to Foxconn affiliate, Foxconn EV System LLC, state the emissions upgrade would increase vehicle production from 75,000 per year to 350,000. 
“The project will allow Foxconn to produce a variety of vehicles, including electric,” the paperwork states. “Foxconn is making the necessary changes to the existing permitted equipment at the facility to account for the increased production volume.”


The plant is currently idle.


Other Foxconn and Foxconn/Lordstown posts:
2023
July

June

May

January

2022

2021
GET ME REWRITE: Yes, Foxconn's $100 milion pledge to UW-Madison was nothing more than a cynical election ploy by Scott Walker.  (8/11)
The mysteries of Foxconn (season 2).  (5/12)
The collapse of Donald Trump's '8th Wonder of the World'.  (4/20)

2020
GET ME REWRITE: Two gullible guys from Racine County still believe anything Foxconn tells them.  (10/23)

Keeping tabs on Foxconn Place in

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Friday, July 21, 2023

Dear Ron DeSantis, Utah Republicans are not looking for a different shade of orange. Best, Retiring Guy

 
Photo credit:  Babylon Bee
Headline:  CBS News, 7/21/2023
Poll results:  Real Clear Politics
His trip out West comes as he has been working to reset a campaign confronting financial pressures and a static position in the field trailing Trump. The former president has remained a front-runner despite his mounting legal problems, including the possibility of indictment in a special counsel investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 
"The more people see Governor DeSantis and hear his forward-thinking plan for our nation's comeback, the more inspired they become to vote for him for president," campaign spokesperson Andrew Romeo said in a statement.
Andrew, maybe you should talk to GOP voters in New Hampshire.


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2024 GOP presidential nomination poll: Doug Burgum get 1% in Yahoo News poll, boosts average of 0.3%

 
Source:  Real Clear Politics

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GOP continues to boogie its way to doomsday.  (5/2)

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Meet the nut you've never heard of who's gunning for the GOP presidential nomination

 
Headline:  Des Moines Register, 7/20/2023
Poll results:  Real Clear Politics
Johnson, who has never held elective office and knows he's an unfamiliar face in a crowded GOP field, told about a dozen voters last week that he's "pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, anti-woke and anti-China," — and "if you don't like it, well, tough."  
He also touted his "2 cents" plan — a focal point in his campaign that involves slashing 2 cents off every dollar of federal discretionary spending — and pushed to finish building the wall on the southern border. 
Apart from that, he said he loves America and wants to restore the American dream. That he, himself, is living the American dream.

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May 2023
Among West Virginia GOP voters, if you're not Trump, you're nobody.  (5/30)
GOP continues to boogie its way to doomsday.  (5/2)

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