 From my Twitter feed (8/24-9/7)Sep 7, 2011 at 6:29 PM |
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Perry has a winning message: “He’s lost >1M jobs while he’s been president. I’ve created 1M jobs since I’ve been the gov” http://j.mp/neSrkR
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 A Campaign Challenge – Defining Obama – NYTimes.com While the president will not directly confront the Republican nominee until 2012, his advisers believe that the next three months are critical to reversing his downward trajectory. |
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| Sep 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM | |
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RT @dandrezner: Today’s edition of “Tom Friedman apparently pays no attention at all to the President of the United State of America” http://t.co/1SYASmW
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| A plain blog about politics: Aarrrrgghhhhh!!!!!!! Tom Friedman approvingly quotes a Singaporean diplomat: There will be no painless solution. ‘Sacrifice’ will be needed, and the American people know this. But no American politician … | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM | |
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Puts lot of stock in Obama holding shaky Dem-leaning states RT @jbouie: http://j.mp/no9T81 Obama at Majority Disapproval; Re-election Likely
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| Obama at Majority Disapproval; Re-election Likely 51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose. | |
| Sep 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM | |
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Good @gregamarx piece on need for horse race coverage during invisible primary http://j.mp/n2EbQY See also me/Sides http://j.mp/qxQeIf (PDF)
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 In Defense of (the Right Kind of) Horse Race Journalism When primaries decide party priorities, voters should be brought in on the conversation Horse race journalism has a bad reputation among press critics. The NYU professor Jay Rosen, in a recent t… |
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| http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyha n/poli-sci-journalism.pdf | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 7:57 PM | |
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The problem of scientific corrections: @ivanoransky of Retraction Watch on @onthemedia http://j.mp/ouHP6m Example: http://j.mp/noyScZ
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| On The Media – Retraction Watch There’s often a really interesting story behind a retraction. That’s what Ivan Oransky told us. He’s a doctor and journalist and founder, along with Adam Marcus, of a blog called Retraction Watc… | |
 Chris Mooney | Why Questionable “Science” Gets Published, Pounced On in the Media, Retracted, Causes Resignations…Rinse and Repeat An editor resigns after a journal publishes a paper that seems to trash the scientific consensus on climate change-but is heavily criticized by top scientists. Where have we heard this kind of s… |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM | |
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RT @ezraklein: I continue to think motivated skepticism is the most important concept for understand today’s policy debates: http://t.co/FMVp5Co
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 Why did the GOP turn against stimulus? Ask a psychologist. – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post Want to know why President Obama is going to have such a hard time persuading Republicans to support his jobs proposals this week? Don’t ask a pundit, or a politician, or a pollster. Ask a psych… |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 1:4 3 PM |
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Recommended: @mattyglesias on how intraparty conflict legitimizes coverage of “facts” that would otherwise go unreported http://j.mp/os3VHC
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 Intraparty Conflict I think Neil Sinhababu is right to think that the media’s disproportionate interest in obviously doomed presidential candidates like Jon Huntsman 2012 or Joe Lieberman 2004 has to do with the ge… |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM | |
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Under the headline “Math tips for the rest of us,” USA Today quotes an expert botching marginal tax rates http://j.mp/r4QfnV
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 USA Today Is Too Dumb for Words When It Comes to Taxes | Beat the Press Arghh!!!!!!!! Don’t you have to know anything to write for a major newspaper these days? USA Today told readers that: “That raise actually might not be as good as it looks. The extra money is ni… |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 1:03 PM | |
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The costs of campaign finance reform: “In 2010… non-party outside spending eclipsed party spending” http://j.mp/qHLBHk
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| Bessette Pitney Text: Campaign Finance Developments | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM | |
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New from University of Chicago Press: my friend Isaac Reed’s “Interpretation and Social Knowledge” (social theory) http://j.mp/pDn4pS
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 Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the Use of Theory in the Human Sciences “This pithy, deeply intellectual account-strongly based in classic sources and contemporary debates-demands the attention of the widest range of scholars in the social and historical disciplines… |
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| Sep 6, 2011 at 11:23 AM | |
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.@jonathanchait on the left’s magical thinking about the course of the Obama presidency http:/bit.ly/owt8QV (via @dankennedy_nu)
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| Sep 4, 2011 at 5:34 PM | |
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Quoted in the WSJ on a new website that lets people make deficit reduction plans http://j.mp/qGXT3X Cool idea, unlikely to resolve anything
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 Crowdsourcing the Budget Can the Internet help balance the budget? Amid the conflict in Washington over how to reduce the deficit, two heavyweight computer scientists in the Bay Area have launched a website that aims to… |
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| Sep 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM | |
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Per @mattyglesias http://j.mp/mU450Q it’s worth reminding everyone that prime-time speeches rarely move numbers http://j.mp/jyZy9n
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| What Do Progressives Want From Obama’s Jobs Plan? The fact that President Obama is requesting a joint session of congress to hear his jobs speech certainly reflects an effort to raise the political stakes around it, despite the considerable evi… |
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 Obama should beware Reagan myths – Brendan Nyhan With all of the coverage of President Obama’s staffing changes, it’s worth noting that he’s also been reading and soliciting outside advice as he prepares for the second half of his term. In par… |
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 7:37 PM | |
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Appropriately subtle RT @jbplainblog: @brendannyhan More on presidential speeches, what they can and cannot do: http://ow.ly/6i0r0
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 Big presidential speeches just aren’t that important – The Plum Line – The Washington Post Barack Obama is going to summon a joint session of Congress on September 7 to hear his plans on the economy and jobs. Easy prediction: we’ll now ten days of fuss about what he should say and the… |
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| Sep 1, 2011 at 2:42 AM | |
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RT @SteveKornacki: This history lesson from Beschloss doesn’t make sense — Reagan ’84 as a model for how to win when times are bad? http://t.co/dKmtEfX
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 History lessons for Obama – Ben Smith Time’s Michael Scherer says Obama is hoping to learn a thing or two from past American presidents: Weeks before the debt-limit showdown came to a head, White House chief of staff Bill Daley held… |
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 7:26 PM | |
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RT @BradEngle: @pollsandvotes check out this great blog post on key economic and opinion indicators for 2012: http://t.co/5NWlVAC
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 Introducing the Purple Election Perspective | Purple Strategies Today we introduce the Purple Election Perspective. This monthly snapshot will provide a bipartisan look at key indicators for 2012. In our first edition, we focus on critical economic and opini… |
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 7:25 PM | |
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Interesting study: Estimates white Dem would have received ~3% more in ’08 RT @SimonJackman: How Does Obama Match-Up? http://t.co/diEke3f
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 7:10 PM | |
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Not nec.-world where Perry is nom mght be better for GOP (eg worse econ) MT @RameshPonnuru intrade: Perry stronger gen elec cand than Romney
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 7:04 PM | |
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Matt Miller is looking for billionaires to fund the implausible dream of a successful 3rd-party centrist pres. campaign http://j.mp/oNJ6tr
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 How billionaires could save the country If you think, as I’ve argued repeatedly, that we need a “radically centrist” third-party presidential candidate to shake things up, and to force both political parties to confront the myriad iss… |
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 4:10 PM | |
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Fascinating article on campaigns’ increasing use of highly targeted online video ads from @benpolitico and @emilyrs http://j.mp/rmvinr
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| Targeted Web ads: The next frontier – POLITICO.com Print View If you’re a Republican primary voter living within 100 miles of Ames, Iowa, there’s a pretty good chance that Michele Bachmann spent the summer talking to you out of your computer. But only if y… | |
| Aug 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM | |
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Classic incumbent w/bad economy message: “election…may end up being a referendum on whose vision of America is better” http://j.mp/mTsHaE
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| Aug 31, 2011 at 1:16 PM | |
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A sophisticated, non-magical-thinking critique MT @davidfrum: My answer to Alter’s question, what did Obama do wrong? bit.ly/qYUftx
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| Aug 30, 2011 at 1:44 AM | |
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RT @smotus: Tom Friedman once again fantasizes about a third party that stands for exactly what Dems already stand for. http://t.co/yMbgrb3
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| Enik Rising: Once more, Mr. Friedman Oh, why do I bother ? As for America, we’ve thrived in recent decades with a credit-consumption-led economy, whereby we maintained a middle class by using more steroids (easy credit, subpr… | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM | |
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More Gore-like coverage of Romney: “his hearty ‘Ha! Ha!’ sounds … like someone speaking the sound of laughter” http://t.co/22fag2m
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 On Trail, Casual Friday Versus Boardroom Cool – NYTimes.com Close-up impressions matter for voters who are evaluating presidential candidates. And while Rick Perry seems to relish interaction, Mitt Romney is still struggling to appear at ease. |
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| Aug 29, 2011 at 1:55 PM | |
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Great move by @RWJF_HumanCap (funder of my postdoc) to support the excellent @IncidentalEcon http://j.mp/pFKFUG An academic blog pays off!
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| TIE to be funded, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | The Incidental Economist I’m very pleased to announce that, beginning September 15th, The Incidental Economist will be supported, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This is good news for readers because it … | |
| Aug 29, 2011 at 12:56 PM | |
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Recent episode of @OnPointRadio on the persistence of 9/11 conspiracy theories http://j.mp/otTMRQ
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| Aug 29, 2011 at 12:50 PM | |
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RT @DLeonhardt: The WashPost account of zoo animals sensing the earthquake before humans was a myth — acc. to the WashPost. http://t.co/Kq0seEi
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 Five myths about earthquakes Earthquakes rattle our psyches as well as our structures. We Californians can crack jokes about jumpy East Coast types, but the truth is, our blood pressure also rises precipitously when the Ear… |
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| Aug 28, 2011 at 12:55 PM | |
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My article w/@Student on causal inf w/dynamic soc network data written up in Science: http://j.mp/rfSKxQ (gated). Paper: http://j.mp/mROOg9
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| http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyha n/unfriending.pdf | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 8:47 PM | |
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Sadly, likely to be ineffective as usual RT @nytimes: Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit http://t.co/hBGZr47
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 Vaccine Cleared Again as Autism Culprit – NYTimes.com A report by the Institute of Medicine found that the chickenpox vaccine can cause illness many years later, but that there is no evidence thatthe vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella caus… |
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| Aug 26, 2011 at 1:10 PM | |
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RT @conor64: What if journalists stopped trying to be political insiders? http://t.co/IFNc3hk
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 What If Journalists Stopped Trying to Be Political Insiders? Conor Friedersdorf – Conor Friedersdorf is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of… |
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| Aug 26, 2011 at 1:06 PM | |