Here are some of the latest items from my Twitter feed (follow it!):

–More evidence for the social construction of the “Al Gore sighed too much” narrative after the first debate in 2000
-Time to revise my priors downward on Democrats losing control of the House — the current state of the generic ballot is gruesome:

-Ben Smith catches Rep. Darrel Issa’s casual slur of Obama as having a “foreign ideological vision”
-More misguided “Obama’s problem is his staff” hype
-Via Ben Smith, the correction of the month: “[New Yorker editor David Remnick] said the book would not be a ‘pumped up’ version of the article; he did not say that it would not be a ‘pimped out’ version of the article.”
-Jay Rosen on the insanity of the New York Times being agnostic about claims of “impending tyranny” in the US
-Mark Blumenthal’s column on myths about political independents includes a fantastic chart disaggregating Obama’s approval ratings: