Brendan Nyhan

Twitter roundup

From my Twitter feed:
-Rush Limbaugh claims Obama has created an authoritarian regime
Very bad generic ballot news for Democrats
-GW’s John Sides on how media overstated importance of dramatic campaign events during Obama campaign here and here (see also this post on hype of debates)
-Slate’s Tim Noah debunks some new myths about the health care reform bill
-Media Matters counts Washington Post stories mentioning the “death panel” myth without debunking it
Charles Franklin on the similar approval trajectories of Obama and Reagan
-Ezra Klein has a great piece on the conflict between the partisanship of contemporary politics and the outdated rules of the Senate
Don’t trust the Harris poll on conservatives (see also here
-Even by Michelle Bachmann’s standards, the claim that economy was 100% private before Sept. 2008 and is now 51% public (which she repeated on Face the Nation) is completely nuts