From my Twitter feed:
-AP’s attention to fact-checking is generally laudable, but (a) the popularity of those articles is probably driven by opposing partisans and (b) AP’s work (like Factcheck.org and Politifact) often suffers from forcing ambiguous issues into the fact-checking frame
–Video of Gallup event presentation by Temple’s Christopher Wlezien on forecasting midterm election outcomes
-Given Rand Paul’s belief in the mythical NAFTA superhighway, has anyone asked him about related misperceptions like a global currency, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, etc.?
-Sarah Palin says Rachel Maddow was “prejudiced” in her Rand Paul interview — a classic example of reversing civil rights jargon
-Politico analysis of primary results: “old structures that protected incumbent power are weakening” — not implausible, but the change seems to be concentrated in primaries (also, it’s not clear that defeat of party-switching Specter is proof of anything)
-Democrats hire framing guru Drew Westen in another misguided effort to use spin to solve structural problems