Month: May 2010
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Radio interview on misperceptions
For those who are interested, I did an in-depth interview about political misperceptions with Robert Pollie of The 7th Avenue Project (KUSP Santa Cruz) that aired on Sunday. It’s now available online as a podcast or via this Flash player: [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
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Bad CBS/NYT poll question on AZ profiling debate
A New York Times article on the latest CBS/NYT poll (PDF) suggests that a majority of Americans believe the new immigration law in Arizona “would result in racial profiling”: [D]espite protests against Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, a majority of Americans support it, even though they say it may lead to racial profiling… [T]the
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Joe Klein’s sedition rhetoric
It’s time to add Time’s Joe Klein to the emerging anti-dissent caucus on the left. Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit busts Klein for his repeated use of “sedition” rhetoric against conservative critics of the Obama administration, as in this clip from the Chris Matthews Show a couple of weeks ago: MATTHEWS: Well, making your point,
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed: -Great questions for journalists covering 2010 Congressional races from John Sides and Jonathan Bernstein -Even by the sad standards of Sunday talk, Bill Maher and Al Sharpton together on ABC’s This Week might be a new low -Rush Limbaugh is promoting the conspiracy theory that the leaking oil rig was sunk