Here are some of the latest items from my Twitter feed (follow it!):
-Via Matthew Yglesias, Mark Schmitt has a nice take on how Harold Ford’s campaign is the latest independent/third party fantasy (see also my previous posts on the subject)
-My friend and former grad student colleague Kevin Morrison is featured in a Slate article on game theory and healthcare reform
-Emory’s Alan Abramowitz argues that Congressional popularity doesn’t matter in elections
-Princeton’s Sam Wang on the limits of fMRI studies of political opinion formation (the “new phrenology”)
-Shame on Oprah for giving a talk show to professional vaccine misinformer Jenny McCarthy
-Is there anything more idiotic than making up stories about why politics caused the stock market to do X?
–Best FOIA request ever — all files on UFOs, Roswell, flying saucers, Area 51 or the X-Files in John Podesta’s files from the Clinton White House