Month: October 2010
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 12, 2010 at 1:36am From my Twitter feed (10/6-10/8) BrendanNyhan Oct 8, 2010 at 11:58am Instead of naming and shaming D’Souza, the Post amplifies his nonsense about Obama and anticolonialism http://j.mp/9k5GMo (via @ggreenwald) Dinesh D’Souza – Why Barack Obama is an anti-colonialist Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 08, 2010 If you want
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 6, 2010 at 8:56pm From my Twitter feed (10/5-10/6) BrendanNyhan Oct 6, 2010 at 6:06pm Rattner says his friend Michael Bloomberg realizes "nobody has ever really gotten anywhere in the third party business" http://j.mp/dias8F Michael Bloomberg and Third Party Dreams – Swampland – TIME.comThomas Friedman’s Sunday Times column about the prospects for
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Twitter roundup
Brendan Nyhan Oct 5, 2010 at 4:33pm From my Twitter feed (9/30-10/5) BrendanNyhan Oct 5, 2010 at 4:23pm Third party post updated with a response to @fivethirtyeight emphasizing theoretical reasons to doubt 3P viability: http://bit.ly/dBFRTV Thomas Friedman’s third party nonsense – Brendan NyhanThe dream of the independent third party presidential candidate shall never die —
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Third party hype 2005-
Los Angeles Times columnist Ron Brownstein (4/25/05): [I]f the two parties continue on their current trajectories, the backdrop for the 2008 election could be massive federal budget deficits, gridlock on problems like controlling healthcare costs, furious fights over ethics and poisonous clashes over social issues and Supreme Court appointments. A lackluster economy that’s squeezing the
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Thomas Friedman’s third party nonsense
The dream of the independent third party presidential candidate shall never die — at least in the columns of elite pundits like Thomas Friedman. In his latest effort, Friedman predicts “a serious third party candidate” for the presidency in 2012: Barring a transformation of the Democratic and Republican Parties, there is going to be a
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The fallacy of insufficient extremism
With a GOP wave seeming increasingly likely in November, liberals are already looking to place blame. One of the targets has been Democrats themselves. To date, most have faulted the White House and the party for ineffective communication strategies (an example of what I call the tactical fallacy). This week, however, Markos Moulitsas, the founder