Rick Perry At CPAC - Red States vs. Blue States

Political Realities ^ | 03/08/14 | LD Jackson

[nascarnation]

That’s an interesting option. Very interesting.

[cripplecreek]

Democrats could still win here but they'd have to do it honestly or cheat in GOP held areas where they would draw attention to themselves.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I would like to see mandatory IQ tests for all public school students entering Kindergarten.

Then, when looking later at testing rankings based on test scores for graduating seniors, those original IQ test scores should be taken into account.

In other words, which state did the best job of educating it’s children considering what they were given to work with.

I suspect a state like Maryland would still do very well in the rankings and a state like West Virginia would still do really poorly, but the breakdown in the rest of the states might be altered dramatically.

[Kartographer]

Worse education? Well I think it all depends on the numbers and who is crunching them. Most big blue metro areas their schools are merely warehouses to keep the ‘yutes’ contained for a potion of the day.

[9YearLurker]

I wasn’t talking about as guv, but as prez.

Texas has welcomed being overrun with illegals, has a business community that is disgracefully built on illegal labor, and has close to the lowest level of educational attainment in the country.

I like the low-tax environment, however.

[MuttTheHoople]

It is 27% black, compared to Mississippi being 40% black. Also, aren’t Maryland’s blacks segregated in large cities?

[SunkenCiv]

Is Rick Perry the GOP Dark Horse for 2016?
The American Spectator | 3.7.14 | 9:50PM | Aaron Goldstein
Posted on 3/8/2014 1:47:55 AM by This Just In
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3130920/posts

[Vision Thing]

”From east coast to west coast, no two states have lost more personal income to other states than New York and California,” Perry noted.

these two states control the media, which creates the illusion that they are better off than the red states.

califictional

[Perseverando]

One of the greatest failures of the GOPeunuchs in the past twenty years was allowing the enemy to get away with co-opting the red/blue identifiers.

One of my pet peeves, as well. This switch in the red/blue identities completely negates the old "better dead than red" slogan going back a hundred years.