Percent Economically Left-wing by State

The average percentage who answered the left-wing option to 18 economic isidewith.com polls.

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Note: all 18 polls were ECONOMIC issues only. The list would be somewhat different if it included social issues.

Vermont: 67.9%
Oregon: 65.8%
Massachusetts: 63.3%
Hawaii: 63%
New York: 62.6%
Rhode Island: 62%
Washington: 61.6%
Maine: 61.3%
New Jersey: 61%
California: 60.3%
Connecticut: 59.3%
West Virginia: 59.2%
Maryland: 59.1%
Illinois: 58.9%
New Hampshire: 58.8%
Minnesota: 58.7%
Colorado: 58.3%
Wisconsin: 58.2%
Michigan: 57.7%
Delaware: 57.4%
Pennsylvania: 57.2%
Iowa: 56.7%
Georgia: 56.5%
Florida: 55.9%
Indiana: 55.4%
Kentucky: 55.1%
Ohio: 55%
Virginia: 54.9%
Missouri: 54.8%
Tennessee: 54.7%
Kansas: 54.6%
North Carolina: 54.5%
Nebraska: 54.3%
New Mexico: 53.8%
Montana: 53.7%
Nevada: 53.5%
South Dakota: 53.3%
Oklahoma: 52.8%
Arizona: 52.5%
Utah: 52.4%
Arkansas: 52.2%
North Dakota: 52%
Idaho: 51.5%
Texas: 51%
South Carolina: 50.2%
Louisiana: 49.3%
Alaska: 49.6%
Wyoming: 49.9%
Alabama: 47.4%
Mississippi: 47.2%

5 Countries You Didn't Know Had Free Healthcare

5. Mexico

On December 1, 2006, the Mexican government created the Health Insurance for a New Generation. This was followed by a February 16, 2009, announcement by President Felipe Calderon where he stated that at the current rate of progress Mexico would receive Universal Health Coverage by 2011, and a May 28, 2009, announcement in which his administration made public Universal Care Coverage for Pregnant Women. In August 2012 Mexico installed a universal healthcare system.

4.  Russia

The Constitution of the Russian Federation provides all citizens the right to free healthcare under Mandatory Medical Insurance since 1996. In 2008, 621,000 doctors and 1.3 million nurses were employed in Russian healthcare.

3. Hong Kong

Hong Kong has a system of government-operate hospitals, which constitutes the majority of the health care system. People also have the option of a private hospital if they wish. There are more than 50 public hospitals, and twelve private ones.

2. Saudi Arabia

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), healthcare is offered for free to Saudi citizens through more than 2000 primary healthcare centres and 420 hospitals.

1. Iran 

According to the World Health Organization, as of 2000, Iran ranks 58 in healthcare and 93 in health-system performance. In 2013, Bloomberg News ranked Iran 45th most efficient healthcare system ahead of United States and Brazil. The report shows life expectancy in Iran is 73 years and per capita spending on healthcare is $346. The health status of Iranians has improved over the last two decades. Iran has been able to extend public health preventive services through the establishment of an extensive Primary Healthcare Network.

5 Countries With the Highest Rape Rates

5. Swaziland: 77.5 per 100,000

According to a UNICEF report, one in three Swazi girls experience sexual violence before age 18. The country has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world. In 2012, Swaziland banned women from wearing miniskirts and midriff-revealing tops saying they provoke rape.

4. Lesotho: 82.7 per 100,000

Unequal gender relations and belief in the sexual entitlement of men are entrenched in cultural and social norms in Lesotho. In the majority of cases, victims of sexual violence are silenced.

3. Botswana: 92.9 per 100,000

In a 2009 study, 4.9% of 1244 women of 13–24 years reported having been raped in their lifetimes. 10.3% of 654 women reported that they had been raped in their lifetimes in a 2011 study. 4.6% had been raped in the past year. 3.9% of 613 men had been raped in their lifetimes and 4.2% had raped in the past year. Rape victims, said Mbulawa, range from as young as five years to 85 years, while the perpetrators mostly in their youths.

2. South Africa: 132.4 per 100,000

More than 25 percent of South African men have raped; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person, says a new report by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Of the 27.6 percent of men who had committed rape, "23.2 percent of men said they had raped two to three women, 8.4 percent had raped four to five women, 7.1 percent said they had raped six to 10, and 7.7 percent said they had raped more than 10 women or girls," the report said. 

Asked about their age at the first time they had forced a woman or girl into sex, 9.8 percent said they were under 10 years old, 16.4 percent were 10-14 years old, 46.5 percent were 15-19 years old, 18.6 percent were 20-24 years old, 6.9 percent were 25-29 years old, and 1.9 percent were 30 or older."

For every 25 men accused of rape, only one is convicted of the crime. South Africa also has the world highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS: 5.5 million in a population of about 48 million. 

1. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 774.61 per 100,000

More than 1,100 women are raped every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, making sexual violence against women 26 times more common than previously thought, a study has concluded.

More than 400,000 women and girls between the ages of 15 to 49 were raped in the war-ravaged country in central Africa during a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007, according to the study published in the American Journal of Public Health on Wednesday.

That is 26 times more than the 15,000 women that the United Nations has reported were raped there during the same 12 months.

5 Most Conservative Countries in the World

5. Yemen

Yemen has a very strict Islamic culture and is considered the worst country for gender equality, according to the Gender Equality Index. In Yemeni courts, the testimony of a woman is not considered as seriously as the testimony of a man. Women are recognized as “half a person” in courts of law and, as witnesses, their testimonies are often dismissed completely. The only exception to this is if a case involves a situation in which no men were present, or if a woman’s story is confirmed by a man. Women aren’t even allowed to act as witnesses in cases concerning certain subjects (like adultery), even though they may have in fact witnessed the crime. Most women are forbidden to leave the house without the explicit permission of their husbands. Though they may leave in emergency circumstances, this societal law prevents many women from seeking educational opportunities, jobs and other resources.

4. Vatican City

Vatican City is the last true Christian country in the world. An absolute monarchy and the only country in the world that does not allow women to vote, this tiny dot in Italy is one of the last cultural remnants of medieval Europe. It is also one of only 6 countries that ban abortion completely.

3. Bhutan

Bhutan is a strictly Buddhist nation. Bhutan is one of only a few countries which have never been colonized, and it's also one of the most isolated countries on Earth - it does not have a US embassy. Bhutanese law requires all citizens to wear the national dress in public as formal wear in an effort to protect cultural traits and customs. The country was an absolute monarchy from 1907 to 2008. It is the only country in the world to ban tobacco.

2. Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is one of approximately thirty countries in the world with judicial corporal punishment. In Saudi Arabia's case this includes amputations of hands and feet for robbery, and flogging for lesser crimes such as "sexual deviance" and drunkenness. Saudi Arabia engages in capital punishment, including public executions by beheading. The death penalty can be imposed for a wide range of offences including murder, rape, armed robbery, repeated drug use, apostasy, adultery, homosexuality, witchcraft and sorcery and can be carried out by beheading with a sword stoning or firing squad followed by crucifixion. Single men and women are not allowed to share the same social space. Women cannot travel alone without a specific form or an electronic authorization. This ban is only lifted when a woman turns 45. Women under 45 must either travel with a husband or father or else hold a permission form signed by a male guardian.

1. North Korea

North Korea is arguably the most nationalistic and isolated country on Earth. There are only 28 state-approved hairstyles. The regime encourages citizens to see themselves as a superior people who are envied by the rest of the world. North Korea practices eugenics. No one with a handicap or disability is even permitted to live in the capital city of Pyongyang, even if that disability was acquired through injury or illness. Families with infants born handicapped or disabled are physically removed from the city and relocated to rural areas where they are far less likely to come into contact with others or to be seen by visitors.

5 Worst US States to Live in

5. Louisiana

Louisiana is still recovering from the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina is 2005. Crime is a major problem. Louisiana has the highest homicide rate in the US - at 10.8 per 100,000. Income inequality and police brutality are also major problems. Louisiana incarcerates more people per capita than anywhere else on Earth - an astonishing 1,082 per 100,000.

4. Alabama

Alabama is both one of the poorest and most dangerous states in the US. The two biggest cities in the state, Birmingham and Montgomery, both have a homicide rate higher than 20 per 100,000. Alabama receives Ds and Fs in all seven topical areas that affect women's lives: political participation, employment, work and family, opportunity, reproductive rights, health and well-being.

3. Kentucky

Kentucky has the highest percentage of smokers of any state - 29%, and, unsurprisingly, the highest cancer rate - 515 per 100,000. Almost 1/5 of the state's population lives below the poverty live. Kentucky is ranked as the 2nd most miserable state in Gallup's well-being index.

2. Mississippi

Mississippi ranks dead last of any US state in many categories. It has the lowest life expectancy in the country. It is the most illiterate, most corrupt, most obese, poorest and least developed state in the US.

1. West Virginia

West Virginia ranks last or next-to-last in every mental health category, including the average number of "mentally unhealthy" days residents have per month and the percentage of people who experience frequent mental distress. Life expectancy is only 75.4 years.

5 Worst European Countries to live in

5. Albania

Albania's life expectancy is 74 and its GDP per capita is lower than the world average - at $11,100. Mafia presence is pervasive and corruption is a problem. It is also one of only two European countries that do not provide universal healthcare to its citizens.

4. Russia

There has been little progress in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Corruption is pervasive, and the Economist Intelligence Unit classifies Russia as an 'authoritarian regime'. Russia has the highest homicide rate of any European country - at 9.0 per 100,000, and life expectancy only 69 years.

3. Belarus

Belarus remains a command economy and a dictatorship despite the collapse of the Soviet Union. President Lukashenko controls all branches of government, and freedom of speech, press, media, movement, association and assembly are restricted. Belarus still celebrates the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and is the only European country to still use the death penalty.

2. Moldova

Moldova is the least developed country in Europe and the only European country with 'medium' human development according to the Human Development Index. Corruption is above average for a developing country, and life expectancy is only 70 years.

1. Ukraine

The civil war has devastated Ukraine. 9,208 people have been killed and 1,414,798 have been internally displaced. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on Earth and ranks below many African and Middle Eastern countries. Property rights are poorly protected and the country ranks 162th out of 178th on the Index of Economic Freedom.

5 Best African Countries to Live in

5. Namibia

Namibia is one of the most Westernised and developed countries in Africa, with a 'medium' Human Development index of 0.628. Namibia is also one of the most peaceful and most stable countries in the region, ranking 48th on the Global Peace Index.

4. Botswana

Botswana has a free-market economy and a functioning democratic political system. It is also one of the few African countries that provides universal healthcare to its citizens. Botswana is the most peaceful country in mainland sub-Saharan Africa and ranks 31st on the Global Peace Index.

3. Cabo Verde

This mediterranian climate island paradise is one of the freest and most socially progressive countries in Africa, despide being only 385 miles off the coast of Mauritania. Cabo Verde ranks 32nd out of 178 countries on the Press Freedom Index and 57th out of 178 countries on the Index of Economic Freedom.

2. Seychelles

This beautiful majority-Hindu island paradise is one of the most developed countries outside of Europe. Seychelles boasts a Human Development Index of 0.772 and a GDP per capita of $26,422. 50.40% of the population has access to the internet.

1. Mauritius

Mauritius is the only African country to rank in the top 20 on the Index of Economic Freedom and be classified as a 'full democracy' on the Democracy Index. Mauritius is also one of the most peaceful countries in the world - ranking 25th on the Global Peace Index.