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President Joe Biden’s “2024 chances are much stronger than people realize” for three “optimistic” reasons, Democrat strategist Simon Rosenberg wrote Wednesday in an MSNBC op-ed. Rosenberg’s positive opinions run contrary to the general impressions among many Democrats, the establishment media, and pollsters of Biden’s 2024 hopes against likely opponent former President Donald Trump. Rosenberg first argued Biden’s chances are strong because he kept his 2020 campaign promises of ending the pandemic and restoring the economy:

Climate change more than doubled the odds of so-called fire weather, the meteorological conditions that fuel the spread of wildfires, in eastern Canada, according to research published by World Weather Attribution Tuesday. Researchers analyzed the conditions specifically in parts of Quebec that saw some of the worst fires this year, using the Fire Weather Index, a metric that combines factors including humidity, precipitation, temperatures and wind speed. They determined that climate change made the peak fire weather the region experienced in 2023 at least doubly likely. Researchers further determined that climate change made fire season in Quebec from May through...

This according to the Book of Odds- below are more amusing stats, which might be better called 'frequencies', since as 'chances' they can't possibly apply to all people (not everybody uses vending machines, for instance): Odds of any child being born with at least one extra finger or toe? 1-in-500 The odds of any American boy born in 1950 being named 'Robert' are just 21.8-to-1 You're not paranoid if you're Honduran, they really are after you (and odds are pretty good they'll getcha, too): 1 of every 1100 citizens of that Central American country will be murdered there over the course of...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking elected woman in the United States, plunged Wednesday into the heated battle over gender gap politics, arguing that Republicans and their party's presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, have alienated millions of women voters. That helps Democrats' chances of taking back the House of Representatives, Pelosi said at a news conference in San Francisco. "I would have said, two months ago, we had a fifty-fifty chance of winning the House," she said. "Since then, so much changed because women have shifted in large measure to the president and to the Democrats." Pelosi cited GOP budget...

December 20, 2011 Rick Santorum on Iowa Chances Republican presidential candidate on 'Fox & Friends'

The Obama administration has publicly chastised BP America for its handling of the spreading oil gusher, yet a review of the response suggests it may be too simplistic to place all the blame for the unfolding environmental catastrophe on the oil company. The federal government also had opportunities to move more quickly, but did not do so .... The Department of Homeland Security waited until Thursday to declare that the incident was “a spill of national significance,” and then set up a second command center in Mobile, Ala. The actions came only after the estimate of the size of the...

The blood-vessel abnormality that put South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson in the hospital is relatively rare... ...Arteriovenous malformations, or AVMs, are tangles of blood vessels that disrupt the flow of blood and are believed in most cases to be present from birth. An estimated 300,000 Americans have AVMs of the brain or spinal cord, but only about 36,000 show symptoms... ...One of the biggest dangers of AVMs is bleeding in the brain, as Mr. Johnson had. An estimated 5% to 10% of people with AVM ruptures die, said M. Sean Grady... (About half of aneurysm victims die) Judging by the...

WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a California Democrat's plan to allow the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country to remain, work and eventually become Americans, preserving a fragile bipartisan coalition needed to pass the bill. Several lawmakers who voted against the proposal offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record) on Tuesday said they did so reluctantly, but out of necessity to ensure survival of the broader immigration bill. The legislation is expected to win Senate passage Wednesday or Thursday. "This legislation is on the edge of the ledge as it is," said Sen. Arlen Specter (news,...

SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears willing to restore some of the $190 million in programs he cut last week when signing the new state budget. The governor used his line-item veto authority to reduce spending this year by about 0.2 percent, but the state Department of Finance is now sorting through those vetoes to see what can be reversed. "If certain conditions are met, then we'll talk about it," said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance.

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), enormously popular with conservatives, will be key to turning out the Republican base this November. But campaign officials say they will use Cheney to persuade undecided voters as well. Democrats delight in the prospect, saying the vice president is so divisive that they hope swing voters hear his name again and again. Even some delegates to the GOP convention fear that Cheney's personal style and his reputation as a resolute conservative will turn these voters off. The Bush campaign replies that Cheney has the stature and experience to discuss national...

Prosecutors Weigh Chances in Smart Case Monday March 17, 2003 7:20 PM SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Prosecutors on Monday weighed their case against Brian David Mitchell, the self-proclaimed prophet accused of abducting Elizabeth Smart. Mitchell remained in jail with his wife, Wanda Barzee, another suspect in the case. The pair had been expected to face charges of aggravated kidnapping on Monday, but District Attorney David Yocom said no state charges would be filed yet. Conviction on that charge in Utah is punishable by a prison term of six years to life. There was no indication that any federal charges...

Democrat Leadership Should Control Rank-And-File Saddam Apologists WASHINGTON, Sep. 30— House Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts, Jr. (R-Okla.) issued the following statement on the mission to Baghdad by Congressmen David Bonior (D-Mich.), Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) and Mike Thompson (D-Calif.): “It’s one thing to have a civil discourse on the merits of a preemptive strike or war. It’s another to fly to Iraq and take the word of a tyrant over the American president and the American people. “At a time when America is fighting a war on terror, talk like this only helps enemies of freedom. “Instead of lobbying...