GOP          Dem Clinton Win Sanders win Trump Win               21 9 Trump Lose              3 10 In my post from two weeks ago, I noticed that there were higher levels of hate group activity in states where Trump and Clinton won their primaries.  Does that mean that members of hate groups are more likely to […]

Last March I looked at the concentration of hate groups (adjusted for population, the number of hate groups came from the Southern Poverty Law Center see related posts below for details) in the states where Donald Trump won compared to those where he did not.  Now that the race has been competed with the other […]

2016 Election Map for PA Democratic Primary The headlines from this year’s Pennsylvania Primary were that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have all but clinched the nomination of their respective parties for President with their wins on April 26.  Clinton won Pennsylvania with 55% of the vote while Trump won with 57% carrying all 67 […]

RCP % Avg Facebook Followers FB Engaged Engagement Rate FB Followers Dec FB Gain % chg FB Twitter Followers APR Twitter Dec Twitter gain % chg Twitter Hillary Clinton 46.8  3,163,408    681,093 21.5  2,160,862  1,002,546 46.4  5,940,469  5,049,765     890,704 17.6 Bernie Sanders 45.8  3,882,973 1,064,851 27.4  2,296,730  1,586,243 69.1  1,949,708  1,105,792     843,916 […]

In Dec 2014, I posted the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates for the state of Pennsylvania for the year 2013.  As I am now back in PA I thought I would take a look at the poverty estimates for counties and school districts here for the state to see how things may have changed.  […]

My blogging has been interrupted by relocating from Utah to my hometown of Johnstown, PA.  Bernie Sanders won a resounding victory in red state Utah with almost 80% of the vote to I contributed but did not vote.  Here in Johnstown, there is no volunteer group for Bernie so I have to start from scratch […]

Looking at Juan Cole’s blog Informed Comment I came across this graph showing the preferences of the four major religious groups (Islam, Judaism, Protestant, and Catholic) in the US for the top 5 Presidential candidates from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.  The survey was conducted before Marco Rubio dropped out of the race.  […]

Donald J. Trump and former KKK leader David Duke Last week I posted on how the number of hate groups in the US changed after adjusting for the population in each state.  The Southern Poverty Law Center attributed the increase in hate groups to hateful rhetoric in the 2016 election from Donald Trump including the […]

In 2014 the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) produced the above map showing the location of hate groups that they are tracking with a total of 939 groups nationwide.  The four states with the highest number of groups were California, Florida, Texas, and New York.  As these are the four states with the highest population […]

FB  Followers FB Engaged FB Eng Rate Twitter  Following RCP Avg IOWA Bernie Sanders 19135 22212 1.16 4272 45.3% Hillary Clinton 16661 5918 0.36 21742 45.5% Martin O’Malley 5.0% I received a lot of comments on my post on the Twitter and Facebook primaries and the national polls.  One of them said I did not […]