Brendan Nyhan

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Brendan Nyhan
Brendan Nyhan
Unusual to see people called out by name: "Conservative pundits like Glenn Beck have questioned Mr. Obama’s Christianity" http://j.mp/9TnyCR
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NYT claims Summers said "women might lack an intrinsic aptitude for math & science" http://j.mp/8YiBBa Misleading – see http://j.mp/dDjeSz
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Palin’s #s among those undecided on Cong. vote: 17% favorable, 65% (!) unfavorable http://j.mp/c1gRbZ See http://j.mp/d6do9Q for more
Public Policy Polling: Looking at the Undecideds Nationally
Is Sarah Palin like Hillary Clinton or Dan Quayle? – Brendan Nyhan
Is Sarah Palin the frontrunner for the 2012 GOP nomination? That’s the claim that’s been made by some prominent commentators (here, here, and here), but it’s wildly premature. There’s a reason t…
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Extremely simplistic post on the midterms by Paul Krugman: "If [Democrats] lose, the fault lies … in themselves" http://j.mp/aQAm4C
Not Over – NYTimes.com
Democrats aren’t doomed, unless they choose to be.
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Legislators with higher net worths more likely to support estate tax cuts controlling for party, tax positions, district http://j.mp/dsriYH
The Monkey Cage: Congressional Wealth and Opposition to the Estate Tax
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RT @ezraklein No NEC director’s communication skills will make the slightest different at the polls. // Or Treasury Sec. or Press Sec., etc.
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RT @JRandomF Stevie Wonder and Books for the Blind : The New Yorker: http://nyr.kr/cLaAPP
The Book Bench: Stevie Wonder and Books for the Blind : The New YorkerThe Book Bench
Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
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Google-produced 2010 election maps using ratings from 4 forecasters (Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call, RealClearPolitics) http://j.mp/bhWsA6
2010 U.S. Election Ratings – Google
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Under-appreciated point by @kdrum — Dems can’t play to the base like GOP b/c so many fewer liberals than conservatives http://j.mp/akMzRS
Obama and the Left | Mother Jones
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As @jbplainblog notes, need to be careful discussing "effects" of Tea Party–just one possible form of conserv. activism http://j.mp/cbYM2J
A plain blog about politics: A Party Networks Perspective on Tea Parties and Republicans